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Border Patrol agents didn’t release a single migrant into the US last month — a staggering drop after the Biden administration allowed 62,000 illegal crossers in the country in May 2024.

https://nypost.com/2025/06/17/us-news/border-agents-didnt-release-a-single-illegal-migrant-into-the-us-last-month-border-patrol/

Curiously, this result was achieved without the “bipartisan border bill” we heard so much about.

This suggests three questions:

  1. What other supposedly intractable problems have easy solutions that we aren’t allowed to see? I suggest my preceding post as one possibility.
  2. What is the logic behind believing the politicians and the media who repeated the expression “bipartisan border bill” like parrots about other subjects?
  3. Why are these 62,000 people still in the country? Nobody can reasonably claim that they have put roots and have nowhere to go back to.

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  1. methylethyl Avatar
    methylethyl
    1. Housing. a) Make FHA and other federal-backed mortgage recipients who have been delinquent on payments since 2020 start paying their mortgages again, just like we’re doing with student loans. Why nobody talks about this is a total mystery to me. It might be even bigger than the student loan problem. b) crackdown on mortgage fraud, which is rife. The fed itself estimates that something like a quarter of single family houses sold in some markets since 2020, involve occupancy fraud: i.e. investors buying houses using financing designed to make it easier for people to buy a house to *live in* that stipulates they must reside there for at least a year (sometimes longer)… and then renting the house out, having never lived there at all. These are not very hard to track down, as properties owned, current address, and mortgage stipulations are all public data. Investigations could literally be automated with fairly simple code. But it’s not being done. And that’s not the only type of mortgage fraud going on. c) crack down on section 8 fraud. All these measures would be fairly simple issues of *enforcing existing law* and would make an immediate and dramatic difference in the availability of affordable housing for median-income families.

    2. I have no friggin clue what the logic is. I assume it’s the propaganda machine churning out reams of “Oh, look at this other thing”.

    3. Because somebody with clout wants them here.

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    1. methylethyl Avatar
      methylethyl

      Once again, WP has taken a sane, tidy set of numbered bullet points and made them retarded for no good reason.

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    2. Clarissa Avatar
      Clarissa

      The public space is filled with utterly unnecessary garbage and manufactured drama, and these important concerns don’t get discussed. Now we have walked into this Iran lunacy and in the meantime our own cities look bombed out. Normal families can’t afford to rent, let alone buy.

      Unfortunately, people have been dumbed down to the point where they can’t even understand these arguments. And at the same time, their hubris has been fed to the degree that every 18yo Starbucks barista considers herself a specialist on everything.

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    ed

    “Curiously, this result was achieved without the “bipartisan border bill” we heard so much about.”

    Clear as day Biden and his ilk were lying through their teeth. This is what infuriates me the most, it’s the lying. Just be honest at least and say you just want more immigration, legal or otherwise.

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