Comments by "Scott Farner" (@scottfarner5100) on "Exclusive | Gov. Abbott on Border Crisis: 'This is Not a Texas Issue'" video.

  1. No an executive order can not be made to "close the Border". Tells me how i low informed the Right wing base is. We do not need your dictator Trump using executive orders to undermine existing laws, and any executive order by Biden to try and do what you claim would be challenged in court and reversed and we are back to were we started. Congress needs to pass a border bill, but the far Right won't allow it.
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  2. We had a 11 year decline in southern border crossing to the lowest point in 50 years prior to Trump and his polices. By 2019 Trumps policies doubled the number of people crossing the southern border to 977,000. He only saw a reduction for the first 9 months of 2020 due to covid, before it went back to a 20 year monthly high in October of 2020. It has remained a 20 year high and increasing ever since under Trumps failed policies and Title 42. Title 42 suspended title 8 laws and authority used to deter and penalize illegal border crossing. The Right was using it to undermine legal asylum under 8 US code 1158. It also suspended 8 US code 1325; the misdemeanor that carries a civil penalty for crossing the border illegally. And 8 US code 1326; stiffer penalties for crossing the border after deportation That left out any legal penalty or deterrent for those crossing and stopped legal asylum, with few exceptions under title 42. Makes it difficult to enforce immigration laws when Republicans are fighting in court to undermine our legal enforcement. With title 42 suspending enforcement many immigrants re-crossed multiple times causing apprehension numbers to be inflated. The current rate of multiple returns was about 40% of border crossers.
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  3.  @csmlouis  Yes that is the talking point from the right and then the right passed the funding separately and didn't report it to their puppets.
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