• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    Because we’ve started mass importing them to make things more streamlined. I’m pretty sure that’s what they tell their supporters.

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      2 months ago

      Because we’ve started mass importing them to make things more streamlined.

      That’s a reasonably accurate description of what’s actually happening. The US opened up access to CBP One and there’s now about 43,000 immigrants a month coming across the southern border legally. Then there’s the CHNV Parole program that’s averaging about 28,000 more people per month from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

      Add those together and its something like 71,000 people per month who are using streamlined processes to legally come into the United States.

      Those are official numbers from US Customs and Border Protection by the way. They’re in the August 2024 monthly update which you can read at this link.

      I’m not complaining about it either. My grandparents got here through Ellis Island and I’ve spent years arguing that US Immigration Policy needs to be much closer to what it was back in the '50s.