What should our border/migrant stance be?

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90. Several things

I think we do need more border wall / barriers for the simple reason that we need to be able to control how many people we want to let in at a time. Right now we are letting in more people than we can support. This strain is being felt and the frustration is being expressed by both democrats and republicans. Mexico is doing nothing to stop the flow of migrants. If suddenly their failure to act meant they had millions more refugees every year I think they would suddenly find they had a lot more motivation on their end.

We need a national system of temporary work permits for specific job categories that they are authorized for as soon as we allow them in. These should be the jobs we are unable to fill, not the jobs Americans want. Farming, dairy work, meatpacking plants, factory work, nursing homes that are unable to staff positions, janitorial positions at schools, food service positions in schools. These positions are going unfilled across the country. Instead of providing hotel rooms and indefinite shelter, we need to provide immediate work permits, up to date information about what factories and dairies are hiring, and the the federal government should be bussing refugees to those areas as soon as they cross the border. Leave them to figure out shelter, just like the undocumented people who cross illegally manage to figure out how to work under the table and figure out their own shelter. I think part of the problem is that the perception now is everyone gets their own hotel room, and the reality is we have completely effed up the work permits process and even when some are eligible, they aren't applying because it's too confusing at that point. The federal government needs to have that streamlined so that you get your work permit handed to you along with your other paperwork as soon as you cross and are granted permission to stay. Then bus them to where labor is needed.

We need to take the money we're spending on hotel rooms and spend it on more judges and more funding to speed up the asylum hearing process. Most of these cases will not be approved. We need to find a way to get most of these hearings through the court system faster.