The Crisis at the US Borders - Compromise in sight but probably will be rejected

Democrat solutions have mostly been to turn illegals into legal immigrants or remove obstacles that slow illegal immigrants down.

7 million illegal immigrants equals about 7 seats in the House of Representatives and 7 members of the electoral college. Democrats fight tooth and nail to keep questions about citizenship OFF US Census forms. The distribution of illegals impact congressional districts and sanctuary jurisdictions are like magnets pulling illegals to Democrat controlled jurisdictions. It's all about politics.

Politics here is ONLY about getting re-elected or getting a party member re-elected. Look at our drug prices - highest in the world. Then look at how much drug companies give to politicians. We’re a joke and it makes me so mad.

The problem was fixed until biden recinded Trumps executive orders.

Getting trump reelected is paramount to the maga cult.
Their preference is for the economy to tank, the market to crash, a hundred million immigrants gain access from the south and 30% of people under 60 should succumb to fentyal poisoning.
That will set the stage for trump to do his maga thing. Or so he would lead the cult to believe...

@Livingwell [quote]
I somewhat agree with your point. Being an engineer, I have seen this. AI is a big threat to programmers. In farming, automation is slow to come because of the high costs of equipment. Farmers can't afford it. So they use migrant labor. I live in a small rural farming area. People buy used and fix everything because competition with large corporate farms is fierce. Locals also support them by buying local farming products. And being a rural area, change is slow. But that means the people are friendly and help one another.[/quote]

I could not respond directly to your comment, because the guy who started the branch blocks me, probably a MAGA. They all block me.

AI is not a threat to programmers. AI cannot program, it relies on large scale models, to suggest ways to solve a problems, but you need to be a programmer to understand it, or modify it.

It does make my life easier though. When I'm writing code, I use it much like you use a word processor today: As you type,, it suggests fixes to typos, and may finish a sentence you started.

I do, however, have an opinion about automation and farming. The latter is now big business, and automation is not new. It's been around for decades, and AI in farming, started at least a couple of decades before the most recent ChatGPT hoopla.

I have interest in this space as a technologist, and the stuff is pretty amazing. This is why farming is now, mostly a corporate thing.

Large Scale weather models, aided by small devices (IoT), distributed throughout the farm, will direct watering equipment, to water only the northeast portion of the field, because this is the part that did not get as much rain.

It also tells the farmers when to "harvest" and how, based on the weather model, using a "micro" prediction system, instead of listening to Channel 4 news.

Planting, harvesting, etc. is all automated, and far more advanced than any other AI application today.

The small farmers, however are not going to disappear. And my programming skills are not going to disappear. We go through this every few years.

Why on earth would the Republicans want to solve a visible, emotionally changed problem in an election year when hardly a single talking point issue is working for them?? The only other point they have other than Joe Bidens age is ""Brown people bad.. Taking our jobs." God forbid they should have to look at the Republican positives..😷

Neither party is really responsible to the voters or even to humanity.
It's as if hatred is above international law and human rights because nationalism is so irresistible to killers with big weapons.

Did you read the entire bill and understand how confusing it is ... it doesn't close the boarder .... it puts into place triggers that may or may not allow people to still enter without papers

[quote]When does a 'victory' in politics get celebrated? Is getting Trump re-elected more important than solving your country's problems one at a time?[/quote]

Of course that's part of it, but it's also that Republicans like illegal immigration. It means cheap labor for them and their donors.

No compromise, close down the borders. Restrict all immigration

8 U.S. Code Chapter 12 - IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY

Apparently, yes.