One, that was one Republican and not even close to representative of the main party. The supposed party nominee has long been consistent about stopping illegal immigration, even when he was relentlessly attacked for saying it. Second, does the supposed funding help prevent illegal immigration into America, or does it help move processing faster so that more illegal immigrants are allowed to be settled into the country, actually exacerbatimg the very problem?
You should head over to that thread so that we don't rehash the problem here but I'll try to summarize.
First, the majority of your illegal immigrants do not come over the border. Almost 2/3 of them come from visa overstays. Meaning that they entered legally and simply did not leave when they were supposed to. Tracking them down and deporting is as important as deporting the 1/3 that come over the border. To repeat: The border is not the only place where illegal immigrants come from, it's not even the biggest place.
Second, deporting illegal aliens and evaluating asylum claims requires legal processing. A hearing, a judge, a ruling. This takes time. While the process is being carried out, the immigrant cannot be deemed illegal or denied asylum. The deportable conclusions come
after the hearing, not before. The reason is that you cannot risk accidentally deporting a legal resident or denying asylum to someone who should get it.
This creates a problem. The government has to attend to the immigrants while their exact status is being hashed out in the legal system. They have to house them and feed them or they have to let them wander and hope they show up for their hearings. The longer it takes to get them through the system, the bigger the back up.
HERE'S THE IMPORTANT PIECE: Asylum applications are only accepted
within the country or at a port of entry.
Why does the back up matter? Individuals who might be willing to wait for their time to file an asylum application at a port of entry aren't willing to wait indefinitely. This incentivizes them to enter the country illegal and file their applications from within the country where they have to be housed and fed while they wait. This extends the time for processing, increasing the backlog, increasing the benefit of trying to skip the line.
This is why the speed of processing is extremely important. If you have a backlog at processing then you get a backlog at the ports of entry. A backlog at the ports of entry means that people will prefer the other method of application - within the country. They will enter the country illegally because that positions them to file their asylum application and thus forces us to house them.
The faster you get people through the processing system, the faster you reduce the backlog at the ports of entry. Reduction of that backlog reduces the need to enter illegally to file an asylum application.
Got it? So, faster processing doesn't encourage people to come here and it doesn't allow them to be settled here. Faster processing means that you can more quickly deny asylum when appropriate and deport people without increasing the benefit of sneaking in vs. waiting for their hearing on the other side of the border.
I hope you read that because it's an important part of the border problem.
But I fear that too many people are not going to read all of that and not bother to understand why it matters.
And I'm sure that a bunch of people are going to read it and interpret it as somehow arguing for illegal immigration or open borders or some other inane narrative because they refuse to abandon a narrative they're invested in.