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Feds doing everything possible to make immigration crisis worse

First, pure bureaucractic bungling has caused legal immigration to decline by 17% over the last year, AP reports. Imagine - the one federal policy that might actually reduce illegal immigration, and with all the hoopla, the Department of Homeland Security made things worse.Meanwhile, DHS continues to push forward with the border wall along the Rio Grande, waiving a requirement in the legislation that the agency complete a report on the wall's environmental impact. That seems particularly important considering that the plan would make us the first nation-state on the planet to ever wall off a river and leave the river on the other side.Subtopia links to a slightly dated (one month old) but informative 25-minute clip from Rio Grande Valley Newsline that explains the myriad reasons that's a bad idea...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 04, 2008 (boomark / email).