Immigration is more of a cultural, identity issue than just an economic issue.
Immigration has been a chronic issue in the USA going back centuries eg discrimination against Chinese railroad workers, Irish and Italian immigrants, restrictions on immigration in the mid-1920s, forced deportation of U.S. citizens of Mexican origin in the 1930s, antisemitism and discrimination against Jewish immigrants.
Whites are projected to be less than 50% of the population in a generation and that will make immigration issue even more challenging to solve.
We are currently working under 50 year old laws which are not up to the current high migration task. Obviously, Republicans don't want to solve this issue, they want to use it as a wedge. So, let's see what Joe's got. But, it's an executive order and only a bandaid.
Replacement theory believes that the factual demographic shift is being done on purpose for some nefarious end and not just because of higher fertility rates in underdeveloped nations.
"Letting in" makes it sound like the goverment has something to do with it rather than the typical paralysis and inaction. Like saying a person in a coma purposefully isn't finding work and getting off of welfare.
When people come in to claim asylum, yeah, that's part of the process.
We intentionally made it so they had to cross the border to claim asylum, take them into custody, arrest and deport them if they have criminal records, then release the others following the process for asylum.
10,337 arrested year to date, compared to 15,267 in all of 2023, 12,028 in all of 2022, and 10,763 in 2021.