Fix Immigration. Period.

Dirty Moderate with Adam Epstein

Despite our deep partisan fault lines on the issue, America does has a border crisis and solving it must be of the utmost urgency.

Our dysfunctional system allows an unlimited number of people to cross our borders, prohibits them from working, promises free housing, and then leaves them in seven years of legal purgatory before a judge rules on whether they can remain in the country legally.

Mayor Eric Adams last week declared of the 110,00 asylum seekers who are now in New York: “We have a $12 billion deficit that we’re going to have to cut — every service in this city is going to be impacted. All of us.”

Suffice it to say, Mayor Adams isn’t speaking in hyperbole. We are a nation of immigrants. And we should remain as such. But our current system is straining resources and is predicated on unrealistic and broke asylum laws which are neither good for the nation nor for the migrants themselves.

Both parties are responsible for our damaged policies, but Trump’s cruel policies shouldn’t mean that Democrats avoid the issue simply because of the fraught and inherently racial and ethnic politics which attend it, or because they lack the political will to do something.

We are all the children of immigrants. And we should all demand a safer, fairer and more humane way for those that have fought to come here already as well as those who are yet to reach our shores.

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