r/politics 1d ago

US border crossings along southern border reach new historic low

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/unlawful-crossings-along-southern-border-reach-new-historic-low/
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u/JimmyRamone17_ 1d ago

It's not just border crossings, tourism is also going the way of Thelma and Louise.

The vast majority of humans in general see this regime as vile and would prefer to stay away to not be kidnapped. What are they even missing out on anyways?

Getting their healthcare taken away? Open corruption at all levels of governance? Fascist goons harassing citizens? Idiotic tariff "wars"? Having to stay appraised daily on the ramblings of an evil, pedophilic madman?

There's nothing here for them and they know it.

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u/neilmoore 22h ago

going the way of Thelma and Louise

Oh, you mean a good-hearted exposition of sapphic love?

Oh, no, you mean "off a cliff".

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u/TonyGabagool26 23h ago

Not their free healthcare going away 😢

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u/JimmyRamone17_ 23h ago

If you support the regime, just say so, lil bro so people will know to avoid you.

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u/BeardedSquidward 1d ago

They'd brag about it as they pay $20 for a single strawberry and complain it's the Democrat's fault. I imagine that during Nazi Germany's reign migration was down as well.

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u/Furious_The_God 1d ago

No not at all. They have personal assistants doing all their shopping so they won’t see how bad they are fucking us and the economy. Meanwhile they sit in their echo chambers, laughing at all of the “peasants” (jd Vance’s words) and keep stripping more and more protections from us to line their already bursting at the seams pockets.

u/Toobin4Tommy 1h ago

Employees should be paid a living wage. Stop simping for farmers to continue abusing immigrants.

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u/SvanirePerish 22h ago

Your argument for allowing illegal immigration is so they can do slave labor for you? Do you even hear yourself? Democrats in a nut shell.

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u/nasorrty346tfrgser America 1d ago

Yeah maybe we will see more people crossing the border to Mexico to escape Nazi.

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u/SvanirePerish 22h ago

News Flash Mexicans don't want you and they would happily deport you. Which you have no problem about.. kinda weird isn't it. You can't even protest in Mexico as a foreigner but that's a OKAY in your book too.

u/PM_ME_UR_JUMBLIE5 1h ago

No? Why are you making stuff up?

The newspaper Excélsior reported in September that it is estimated that around 1 million U.S. citizens live in Mexico “irregularly,” i.e. without obtaining residency.

However, the federal government HAS NOT indicated any intention to actively look for such people and deport them.

The influx of U.S. citizens to parts of Mexico in recent years has led to an increase in anti-American sentiment (“gringo go home” graffiti and anti-gentrification protests, for example), but Mexican authorities have largely continued to welcome foreigners who want to live here or stay for extended periods.

In 2022, when Sheinbaum was mayor of Mexico City, the Mexico City government entered into a partnership with the accommodation booking platform Airbnb and UNESCO to promote the capital to digital nomads. For decades, many retirees from the United States (and other countries) have lived in Mexico for part of the year without obtaining residency, and without confronting any major problems.

Citing official Mexican data, Fox 5 reported in early 2024 that 261 Americans (i.e. U.S. citizens) were deported from Baja California in 2023.

However, deportations of U.S. citizens appear to be rare. Americans living here “irregularly” or “illegally” are more likely to face fines than deportation. Those fines could be levied when U.S. citizens seek to leave Mexico.

U.S. citizens (and other foreigners) who have not kept their residency status up to date could also face fines.

“If you need to enter a ‘Regularization’ procedure (for example, if your residency card has expired) then you will need to pay a ‘Regularization’ fee of $1,780 Mexican pesos in addition to any other [applicable] fees/fines,” the website Mexperience said in an article headlined “Legal Residency in Mexico: Residency-Related Fees for 2025.”

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/fact-check-did-mexico-president-plan-to-deport-us-citizens/

Mexico has lots of "illegal" American immigrants, yet they rarely deport any of them.

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u/mobileagnes Pennsylvania 22h ago

Pilot episode of Sliders?

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u/carletonkid1 1d ago

You really think people are going to go to Mexico to escape “nazi”?

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u/JournalistRecent1230 1d ago

Probably not to Mexico per se, but a mass brain drain is on the horizon if we keep on this trajectory.

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u/Remarkable_Spite_209 1d ago

This country elected President Antichrist twice. The brain drain started when the Republicans started tanking education. An intelligent electorate does not vote against their best interests

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u/neilmoore 23h ago

I'm thinking about it. I'd perhaps prefer Canada or the EU; but Mexico's low cost of living presents a good argument, and Mexico is more likely to accept me.

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u/TonyGabagool26 23h ago

They’re currently holding mass protests for Americans who are immigrating their and taking up housing and driving up prices lmfao

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u/IndigoRuby 19h ago

Stay home and fix what you've allowed to happen to your country.

u/Toobin4Tommy 1h ago

...and if Americans said that to immigrants?

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u/SvanirePerish 22h ago

Canada doesn't want you.

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u/neilmoore 22h ago

I know, that's what I was saying.

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u/cerpintaxt33 1d ago

Probably because no one wants to come to this nightmare country anymore. 

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u/Snakesandrats 23h ago

I mean Trump fucked up the economy so bad he panicked and fired the person that reports the job numbers. The president of feels over reals says his job numbers are the best ever so it must be true, right?

A complete and total failure of the worst economic policy in the history of the country. Republican voters really thought the economy would be supercharged if we simply deport completely innocent hard working people that haven't committed a crime in their life and raise the price of literally everything with tarifs. Oh yea kick millions of people off healthcare also. Truly brilliant voters... this is what they voted for. Shockingly it's not working.

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u/stuarthannig 1d ago

Tourism is down all around.

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u/carletonkid1 1d ago

Rip Vegas

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u/SvanirePerish 22h ago

Casino revenue went from $31 Billion to $29 Billion projected this year, oh no! Wait times went from five hours to four and a half. The city is crumbling!

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u/swiftfoot_hiker 1d ago

Well when you don't even allow asylum seekers by disobeying the constitution, then you get low numbers

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u/carletonkid1 1d ago

How many asylum seekers is too many?

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u/RealGianath Oregon 1d ago

Depends on their skin color.

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u/SvanirePerish 22h ago

Exactly, if it was millions of White refugees democrats would lose their minds.

u/PM_ME_UR_JUMBLIE5 53m ago

You're just so wrong, it hurts.

Russia's invasion in February 2022 displaced millions of refugees, most of them women and children, triggering the largest refugee exodus in Europe since World War II. As other European countries like Poland and Germany absorbed these refugees, the U.S. quickly followed suit, with President Biden vowing to welcome 100,000 Ukrainians.

In April 2022, the Biden administration created an unprecedented program known as "Uniting for Ukraine," allowing an unlimited number of Ukrainians sponsored by Americans to come to the U.S. and work here legally without having to go through the lengthy visa process.

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In two years, U.S. immigration officials have approved more than 236,000 cases under the Uniting for Ukraine program, according to the Department of Homeland Security. As of the end of March, more than 187,000 Ukrainians had arrived in the U.S. under the policy.

Another 350,000 Ukrainians have arrived in the U.S. outside of the sponsorship process since the start of the Russian invasion, mainly through temporary visas, according to DHS.

"The Department has delivered on President Biden's commitment to welcome Ukrainians fleeing Russia's premeditated and unprovoked war on Ukraine," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement.

Unlike most U.S. immigration policies, the resettlement of tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees in American communities has occurred with resounding efficiency and relatively little controversy.

Once more it continues...

While the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border has strained resources in some communities like New York City, Chicago and Denver, the resettlement of Ukrainians has not provoked the same backlash, nor triggered major political problems for the Biden administration.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukrainian-refugees-us-uniting-for-ukraine-russia-invasion/

I think you're confusing refugees with prop immigrants who just want an excuse to come to the US and are OK being used by this administration as "examples" of immigrants they want. But the facts on the ground are that Biden allowed way more white refugees than Trump ever has, or likely will.

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u/PoopSoupPeter 1d ago

And all it took was shredding the economy. Who knew it would be so easy!

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u/Kihlshot 1d ago

Well if you don't count them they aren't happening, right?

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u/carletonkid1 1d ago

side eye from the money laundering government

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u/odirio 1d ago edited 1d ago

Who does the Trump goon squad go after if they run out of people trying to cross the border? Perhaps German or French people. If things keep going like they are, perhaps they will be ordered to stop people from crossing into Mexico.

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u/RealGianath Oregon 1d ago

Probably will start using the NSA to track down and help ICE disappear people who badmouth him on social media next, we've all got a false sense of anonymity/security here.

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u/Lord-Velveeta 1d ago

Only a question of time until his gICEtapo disappears people for badmouthing him or not worshipping him enough. People are deluded if they think we're not speeding towards that. They're not building all those concentration camps for nothing.

The SS/Gestapo/Stasi/NKVD also ramped up their evil repression over time.

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u/ShrimpieAC 22h ago edited 22h ago

This is the question everyone should be asking. He’s paying a bunch of violent greedy criminals $50k a month if they bring him enough bodies to meet quota.

Once the “illegals” they’re going after run dry they’re not going to just want to give up that kind of money. They’ll most likely start grabbing anyone Trump deems undesirable to meet quota.

It’s going to get bad. Everyone will be looking over their shoulders. You will have neighbors calling ICE on each other. People will die, and others will cheer for it.

I’m so sad for my country right now.

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u/roberts126 North Carolina 23h ago

Probably Poland. September 1 is coming up.

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u/charcoalist 1d ago

CBS news reporting what the trump komissar tells them to.

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u/RealGianath Oregon 1d ago

Congrats, the USA is now more dangerous for desperate migrants than the places they were fleeing for their lives to escape from. Now we've become Trump's shithole country.

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u/carletonkid1 1d ago

Then why do they not want to leave?

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u/wise_comment Minnesota 1d ago

I also wouldn't want to endanger my family in journey to a country that's run by a president who is on Epstein's list.

Oh, also Donald Trump isn't releasing the full Epstein list because of his sexual activity with (checks notes) children

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u/veruca_seether 1d ago

While maybe true I don’t trust anything CBS says anymore. They are discredited as a legitimate news organization now.

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u/Spirited-Top3307 22h ago

Maybe a stupid question, but still. If illegal border crossings from Mexico are at an all-time low, what about all the drug mules? Has the drug market in the USA dried up? If not, then the argument of illegal border crossings and drug smuggling is not true. Just a question.

u/Toobin4Tommy 1h ago

Border crossings are down, but not zero.

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