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More coronavirus links

Tons of graphs that track excess deaths by country, state and city.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/coronavirus-excess-deaths-tracker

JAMA 2020 excess death report

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778361

“Between March 1, 2020, and January 2, 2021, the US experienced 2 801 439 deaths, 22.9% more than expected, representing 522 368 excess deaths”

“The 22.9% increase in all-cause mortality reported here far exceeds annual increases observed in recent years (≤2.5%).”

Covid was the 3rd leading cause of death in 2020

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-usa-mortality-idINKBN2BN2K3 “ Provisional estimates from the CDC, published last month, showed that life expectancy in the U.S. fell by a year in the first half of 2020 - the biggest decline since World War 2 - and stood at the lowest levels since 2006. “

Total Deaths From Other Causes Also Rose Due to Pandemic Conditions

https://news.vcu.edu/article/Total_deaths_recorded_during_the_pandemic_far_exceed_those_attributed

“Some people who never had the virus may have died because of disruptions caused by the pandemic,” said Woolf, VCU’s C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Distinguished Chair in Population Health and Health Equity. “These include people with acute emergencies, chronic diseases like diabetes that were not properly care for, or emotional crises that led to overdoses or suicides.”

For example, the study specifically showed that the entire nation experienced significant increases in deaths from dementia and heart disease. Woolf said deaths from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia increased not only in March and April, when the pandemic began, but again in June and July when the COVID-19 surge in the Sun Belt occurred.”

Suicides are down 5.6 percent

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2778234

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Important links about Covid with actual science to debunk memes

19% of recoveries end up with permanent heart damage

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2763524?resultClick=1

about 1/3 of recoveries end up with long term lung damage 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41413-020-0084-5

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Excess Deaths

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2767980 “the number of deaths due to any cause increased by approximately 122 000 from March 1 to May 30, 2020, which is 28% higher than the reported number of COVID-19 deaths.”

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Efficacy of facemasks

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2#Sec3

 Our findings indicate that surgical masks can efficaciously reduce the emission of influenza virus particles into the environment in respiratory droplets.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00818

“Mandating face mask use in public is associated with a decline in the daily COVID-19 growth rate by 0.9, 1.1, 1.4, 1.7, and 2.0 percentage-points in 1–5, 6–10, 11–15, 16–20, and 21+ days after signing, respectively.“

“The study provides evidence that states in the US mandating use of face masks in public had a greater decline in daily COVID-19 growth rates after issuing these mandates compared to states that did not issue mandates.“ ______________________________________________________________

face masks in countries where it is customary to cover your face.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342198360_Association_of_country-wide_coronavirus_mortality_with_demographics_testing_lockdowns_and_public_wearing_of_masks_Update_June_15_2020

“In countries with cultural norms or government policies supporting public mask-wearing, per-capita coronavirus mortality increased on average by just 7.2% each week, as compared with 55.0% each week in remaining countries.” ______________________________________________________________

Wearing masks does not lower oxygen levels

https://abc13.com/6324845/?ex_cid=TA_KTRK_FB&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A%20New%20Content%20(Feed)&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2LCg3d42EpHD-vnSFRCEwGhisXjlnIIJAio1anVy0RgvPmWpU8OTo_qmA

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High speed camera footage of airborne droplets, mask vs no mask. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Tp0zB904Mc

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This keeps getting deleted from reddit and facebook so I’m posting it here

firing something at innocent person on their porch:https://streamable.com/u2jzoocop appearing to be enjoying himself today:https://v.redd.it/jjclrdzp8x151cop shooting something at guy for saying "fuck you":https://v.redd.it/zepg0b43ly151cops breaking supplies for peaceful protestors:https://v.redd.it/v8x8isj0xz151nypd driving into protestors:https://v.redd.it/mztm15kh00251 https://gfycat.com/misguidedrecklesscodcops shoving an old dude to the ground:https://v.redd.it/bluggpblrz151police actively seeking out fights compilation:https://v.redd.it/m82yxl4qh0251cop driving at people aggressively on a campus:https://v.redd.it/ngxvkoro60251cop shooting rubber bullets at people watching from apartment:https://mobile.twitter.com/Sarah_Mojarad/status/1266633046591078400?s=09police shooting the press with rubber bullets:https://v.redd.it/o3v8ps7rat151police arresting a CNN reporter:https://v.redd.it/yce9bpk8mo151police doing a drive-by pepper sprayinghttps://mobile.twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1266193926316228609photographer being pepper sprayed:https://i.redd.it/4ix8f3j6dy151.jpgguy with hands in the air gets his mask ripped off and pepper sprayed:https://v.redd.it/wlx0gyoe21251lady who was coming home with groceries who got a rubber bullet to the head:https://i.redd.it/ns0uj557x0251.jpghttps://mobile.twitter.com/KevinRKrause/status/1266898396339675137reporter blinded by rubber bullets:https://mobile.twitter.com/KillerMartinis/status/1266618525600399361?s=19reporter describes getting tear gassed:https://mobile.twitter.com/mollyhf/status/1266911382613692422couple getting yanked out of their car and tased for violating curfew:https://mobile.twitter.com/GAFollowers/status/1266919104574865410?s=19young woman gets shoved to the ground by officer:https://mobile.twitter.com/whitney_hu/status/1266540710188195843?s=20reporter sheltering in gas station is pepper sprayed: https://twitter.com/MichaelAdams317reporter trying to get home gets window shot out: https://twitter.com/JaredGoyette/status/1266961243476299778cops come at a guy for filming a police car burning:https://twitter.com/johncusack/status/1266953514242228229photographer arrested:https://youtu.be/9wgkGLmphLEColumbus police assaulting protestors:https://twitter.com/KRobPhoto/status/1266796191469252610congresswoman sprayed with pepper spray during protest:https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/30/politics/joyce-beatty-ohio-pepper-sprayed-columbus-protest/index.html7 protesters fired on with rubber bullets:https://v.redd.it/tal1ncha4o151cops pepper spraying a group of protestors without provocation https://v.redd.it/0dxnkso0a1251young child allegedly pepper sprayed:https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/video-shows-milk-poured-over-face-of-child-pepper-sprayed-in-seattle-protesthorse tramples young woman, police investigating: https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2020/05/30/watch-video-captures-moment-police-horse-tramples-woman-during-houston-rally/cop pushes protestor with his bikehttps://twitter.com/ava/status/1266797973834395648?s=20Reuters reporters detail being shot at with rubber bullets:https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-protest-update/reuters-cameraman-hit-by-rubber-bullets-as-police-disperse-protesters-idUSKBN237050if you have anything you'd like to add please link it!

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Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco

In his 1995 essay, Ur-Fascism, Umberto Eco lays out the tenants and principles that define far right-wing movements and attempts to demystify the seemingly nebulous term of fascism. His first-hand experience living under Mussolini provides a chilling backdrop to the piece. He writes: “There was only one Nazism. We cannot label Franco's hyper-Catholic Falangism as Nazism, since Nazism is fundamentally pagan, polytheistic, and anti-Christian. But the fascist game can be played in many forms, and the name of the game does not change. The notion of fascism is not unlike Wittgenstein's notion of a game. A game can be either competitive or not, it can require some special skill or none, it can or cannot involve money. Games are different activities that display only some "family resemblance," as Wittgenstein put it. Consider the following sequence: 1 2 3 4 ABC BCD CDE DEF  Suppose there is a series of political groups in which group one is characterized by the features ABC, group two by the features BCD, and so on. Group two is similar to group one since they have two features in common; for the same reasons three is similar to two and four is similar to three. Notice that three is also similar to one (they have in common the feature c). The most curious case is presented by four, obviously similar to three and two, but with no feature in common with one. However, owing to the uninterrupted series of decreasing similarities between one and four, there remains, by a sort of illusory transitivity, a family resemblance between four and one. Fascism became an all-purpose term because one can eliminate from a fascist regime one or more features, and it will still be recognizable as fascist. Take away imperialism from fascism and you still have Franco and Salazar. Take away colonialism and you still have the Balkan fascism of the Ustashes. Add to the Italian fascism a radical anti-capitalism (which never much fascinated Mussolini) and you have Ezra Pound. Add a cult of Celtic mythology and the Grail mysticism (completely alien to official fascism) and you have one of the most respected fascist gurus, Julius Evola.” Eco reduces the qualities of what he calls “Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism” down to 14 “typical��� features. “These features," writes the novelist and semiotician, "cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.” 

1. The cult of tradition. “One has only to look at the syllabus of every fascist movement to find the major traditionalist thinkers. The Nazi gnosis was nourished by traditionalist, syncretistic, occult elements.” 

2. The rejection of modernism. “The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity. In this sense, Ur-Fascism can be defined as irrationalism.” 

 3. The cult of action for action’s sake. “Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.” 

 4. Disagreement is treason. “The critical spirit makes distinctions, and to distinguish is a sign of modernism. In modern culture, the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge.” 

 5. Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.” 

 6. Appeal to social frustration. “One of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups.” 

 7. The obsession with a plot. “The followers must feel besieged. The easiest way to solve the plot is the appeal to xenophobia.” 

 8. The enemy is both strong and weak. “By a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.” 

 9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. “For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle.” 

 10.Contempt for the weak. “Elitism is a typical aspect of any reactionary ideology.” 

 11. Everybody is educated to become a hero. “In Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death.” 

12. Machismo and weaponry. “Machismo implies both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality.” 

13. Selective populism. “There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.” 

14. Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.” https://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg0uTHY9OyQ

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honestly if this talk of walmart unionizing actually becomes something i’m going to lose my fucking mind lmao. 

1% of the usa’s labor force works for walmart. thats fucking huge. this would be a fucking incredible move.

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Immigration facts and figures

This is a growing list of well-sourced articles and studies on how immigration impacts societies. I apologize for any nonworking or outdated links as this post includes information I’ve been gathering over a long time and encompasses a wide range of topics. This information is important. Most of the text is quoted directly from the sources and items in italics are written by me for added context and clarity.

-Some notes- First, like to address off the top that a lot of this information seems to reduce people to numbers, and statistics. This post is in response to rhetoric from disingenuous people who argue in bad faith. It’s an attempt to dismiss myths and demystify the situation. It is not my attempt to justify boiling people down to their value to a capitalist system. Rather it’s a way to dispell the arguments of those that try to do just that. Lastly, as of right now this does not include information regarding the current detention centers operating along the border. Rest assured I’m working on another post with a more granular look at the horrible conditions and specifics of it.  

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ECONOMIC EFFECTS

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The following links and articles demonstrate the net positive effects on the U.S. economy that undocumented immigrants provide in very real tangible terms. 

https://www.epi.org/publication/immigration-facts/

We should regularize the country’s 11.7 million unauthorized immigrants by providing them legal status and a path to citizenship; it would actually be good for the economy and generate jobs. Providing legal status and citizenship enables unauthorized immigrants to produce and earn significantly more than they do when they are working without legal rights or protections and in constant fear of deportation. Their resulting productivity and wage gains ripple through the economy because immigrants are not just workers—they are also consumers and taxpayers. In particular, they will spend their increased earnings on items like food, clothing, housing, cars, and computers. That spending, in turn, will stimulate demand for more goods and services, which will create the need for more workers. In other words, it will create jobs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/05/business/illegal-immigrants-are-bolstering-social-security-with-billions.html

While it has been evident for years that illegal immigrants pay a variety of taxes, the extent of their contributions to Social Security is striking: the money added up to about 10 percent of last year's surplus

-Cost to Healthcare

Commonly, pundits will claim that immigrants are a drain to our healthcare system. This is blatantly incorrect.

https://khn.org/news/immigrants-medicare-health-costs/

“The study found that in 2009, immigrants contributed $33 billion to the trust fund [Medicare Part A], nearly 15 percent of total contributions. They received $19 billion of expenditures, about 8 percent, giving the trust fund a surplus of $14 billion. People born in the United States, on the other hand, contributed $192 billion and received $223 billion, decreasing the trust fund by $31 billion...”

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2012.1223

“Immigrants, particularly noncitizens, heavily subsidize Medicare,” 

“Policies that reduce immigration would almost certainly weaken Medicare’s financial health, while an increasing flow of immigrants might bolster its sustainability.”

-Undocumented Filing Taxes

Another misconception involves the incorrect thought that these people do not pay taxes. Again, this is patently false

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/nyregion/16immig.html?pagewanted=print

“Illegal immigrants do not have Social Security numbers, but the Internal Revenue Service allows them to file taxes by assigning applicants individual taxpayer identification numbers. The numbers were introduced in 1996 to encourage noncitizens with United States income, including foreign investors, to file returns. It is generally accepted that most of the 11 million numbers issued since then have gone to illegal immigrants.”

https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-state-local-tax-contributions-1/#.V-Q4CWWj-lL

“Undocumented immigrants contribute significantly to state and local taxes, collectively paying an estimated $11.64 billion a year. Contributions range from almost $2.2 million in Montana with an estimated undocumented population of 4,000 to more than $3.1 billion in California, home to more than 3 million undocumented immigrants.” “Granting legal status to all undocumented immigrants in the United States as part of a comprehensive immigration reform and allowing them to work legally would increase their state and local tax contributions by an estimated $2.1 billion a year. Their nationwide effective state and local tax rate would increase to 8.6 percent.“

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CRIME STATS

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Even the Koch Brothers’ CATO institute can’t obfuscate the facts. Immigrants, both documented and undocumented, are less likely to commit crimes than their native-born counterparts. https://www.cato.org/publications/immigration-research-policy-brief/their-numbers-demographics-countries-originT

he data show that all immigrants—legal and illegal—are less likely to be incarcerated than native-born Americans relative to their shares of the population. By themselves, illegal immigrants are less likely to be incarcerated than native-born Americans. An estimated 1,955,951 native-born Americans, 117,994 illegal immigrants, and 43,618 legal immigrants were incarcerated in 2016. The incarceration rate for native-born Americans was 1,521 per 100,000, 800 per 100,000 for illegal immigrants, and 325 per 100,000 for legal immigrants in 2016 (Figure 1).

https://www.cato.org/blog/murder-mollie-tibbetts-illegal-immigrant-crime-facts

“To calculate those conviction rates, I used an estimate of the size of the illegal immigrant population in Texas as well as data from the American Community Survey. For the number of native-born Americans and legal immigrants. The conviction rates are per each subpopulation of native-born Americans, illegal immigrants, and legal immigrants. Immigration status makes no difference in the reporting of serious crimes like murder or robbery, so these statistics aren’t likely to be biased.”

-Illegal immigrants are 47 percent less likely to be incarcerated than natives.

Oxford

http://oxfordre.com/criminology/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.001.0001/acrefore-9780190264079-e-93

“Research consistently shows that foreign-born individuals are less likely to commit crime than naturalized citizens in the United States and that immigration status may abate crime within a community.”

-Crime is going down despite rising migrant population

“Arrest, sentencing, and incarceration rates have been changing in the late the 20th and early 21st centuries. Since reaching an all-time high in both violent and property crime in the mid-1990s, the number and rate of violent and property crime in the United States have been steadily declining (Federal Bureau of Investigation,

2015a

) The states with the highest violent and property crime rates neither are the most populous nor house the largest number of immigrants.

Places with the largest increases in population have been associated with the largest decreases in crime rates in the past decade.”

-NPR

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/02/607652253/studies-say-illegal-immigration-does-not-increase-violent-crime

All of this comes as no surprise to Art Acevedo, the police chief in Houston, which has one of largest undocumented populations in the nation. The chief has been publicly critical of the immigration crackdown. "There's no wave of crime being committed by the immigrant community," Acevedo said.

-Drugs

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4450776-Light-Et-Al-AJPH-Published.html

They found that the dramatic influx of undocumented immigrants, similarly, did not drive up rates of drug and alcohol arrests or the number of drug overdoses and DUI deaths. 

I would be remiss if I didn’t also address that the U.S. incarceration rates, something inherently attached to this subject.

“The incarceration rate in the United States is the highest in the world: it is presently 693 inmates per 100,000 people in the population”

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2016.html The American criminal justice system holds almost 2.3 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 109 federal prisons, 1,772 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,163 local jails, and 80 Indian Country jails as well as in military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the U.S. territories. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2019.html ______________________________________________________________________

Effects of Deportation in Alabama (HB56)

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The following is an account of what happened when a community actively set out to perform mass deportations. It clearly shows a negative impact on the economy and industries in the state.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/undocumented-workers-immigration-alabama

“When HB 56 passed, Albertville—where the booming poultry industry had attracted thousands of immigrants from Mexico and Central America—quickly became the national face of the crackdown. From 2000 to 2010, the number of unauthorized immigrants in Alabama jumped from an estimated 25,000 to 120,000, as migrants flocked to jobs in agriculture, meatpacking, and construction. “

“That concern drove Alabama to pass the nation’s toughest legislation but it is not alone in its desire to stem the flow of undocumented workers. At courthouses, simple tasks like renewing one’s vehicle tags now required proof of legal status, which generated long lines for citizens and non-citizens alike. Utilities were unsure whether they needed to cut off service to residents who couldn’t prove citizenship.” The act of attempting such a sweeping measure created a quagmire of bureaucracy and broke down a system unequipped to handle it. The effects of which resulted in an undeniable, measurable economic downturn. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/alabama-tried-a-donald-trump-style-immigration-law-it-failed-in-a-big-way/2015/08/22/2ae239a6-48f2-11e5-846d-02792f854297_story.html?utm_term=.aedce2d6f707 “Business groups blamed the tough measures for scaring away capital and for an exodus of workers that hurt the state’s agriculture industry. Large farms spent millions training new workers. The Byrds conceded that the agriculture sector suffered after some immigrants fled the state. “Most of them left and didn’t come back,” said Terry Darring-Rogers, who works at a Mobile law firm specializing in immigration.”

https://cber.cba.ua.edu/New%20AL%20Immigration%20Law%20-%20Costs%20and%20Benefits.pdf 

“This report presents an initial cost-benefit analysis of HB56, the new Alabama immigration law and finds that the law is rather costly to the state. Economies are demand-driven so any policy, regulation, law, or action that reduces demand will not contribute to economic development no matter how well-intentioned. “ A study by Dr. Samuel Addy of the University of Alabama estimated that HB56 could shrink the state's annual GDP by $11 billion or almost 6%, a result of lost sales and income taxes and fall in demand from lost consumers.

A similar situation was recorded in california in 2015. Unfortunately, there is less information on this incident.

https://www.independent.com/news/2017/jun/22/labor-shortage-leaves-13-million-crops-rot-fields/

“[in California] An estimated $13 million of strawberries, broccoli, leafy greens, and other unharvested produce were plowed under last year [2015], up from five years ago..,”

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Cost of Deportation Study (285 billion)

The following section is in regards to the enormous cost that mass deportation would entail.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/reports/2010/03/19/7470/the-costs-of-mass-deportation/

“$285 billion total cost to deport the undocumented immigrant population and continue border interdiction and interior enforcement efforts over a five-year period (in 2008 dollars).” There is little to no evidence that any of the money we currently pour into these programs and institutions are doing anything to combat the perceived issue. “While the federal government was doubling down on enforcement efforts over a five-year period, it wasn’t even able to halt growth in the size of the undocumented immigrant population. In other words, the current ICE and CBP budgets (plus a massive recession) were almost sufficient to prevent a net increase in undocumented immigrants but insufficient to diminish it. (pg. 16 figure 6)”

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Wall

This is an absurd solution to a problem that doesn’t exist in the first place. At best it’s expensive and ineffective, at worst it will lead to loss of human life and exacerbate environmental problems for the region.

cost of the wall (21.6 - 70 Billion)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-wall-exclusive-idUSKBN15O2ZN

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/us/politics/senate-democrats-border-wall-cost-trump.html

Walls Don’t Work

Simply put the majority of illegal immigrants will not be deterred by a wall, and in fact, it could lead to an increase. Because--

They Come by Air

https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/sep/08/jorge-ramos/ramos-40-undocumented-immigrants-come-air/

They overstay their visas

http://www.pewhispanic.org/2006/05/22/modes-of-entry-for-the-unauthorized-migrant-population/

It Prevents them from Going back to Mexico

https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/18/donald-trump-immigration-border/

“estimates indicate that 86 percent of undocumented entries were offset by departures, and the undocumented population grew slowly, rising to just under 3 million over two decades. “

Most do not intend to stay here but increasing the difficulty in crossing the border makes them more likely to not attempt a return.

Building a wall increases the cost of detaining immigrants by forcing agents into more remote areas and the increase in deaths along the border

“Enforcement was further buttressed by the launching of Operation Blockade in El Paso, Texas, in 1993 and Operation Gatekeeper in San Diego, California, in 1994. These operations, led by the U.S. Border Patrol, erected a literal wall of enforcement resources at the two busiest U.S.-Mexico border crossings. They also diverted migratory flows away from these regions, through the Sonoran Desert, and into Arizona. This diversion greatly increased the costs and risks of undocumented border crossing: Since 1986, more than 7,000 migrants have died along the border, and the average cost of crossing has risen from $600 to $4,500, according to estimates from the Mexican Migration Project, which I co-direct.”

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The Legal Battle

Our immigration courts are ill-equipped to handle the numbers. We should be investing in more public defenders and judges to process more people. The system is broken as it exists is broken.

https://www.justice.gov/eoir/office-of-the-chief-immigration-judge

The Office of the Chief Immigration Judge (OCIJ) is led by the chief immigration judge, who establishes operating policies and oversees policy implementation for the immigration courts. OCIJ provides overall program direction and establishes priorities for approximately 400 immigration judges located in 62 immigration courts throughout the Nation.

This means that there are over 1 million back logged cases

http://trac.syr.edu/whatsnew/email.181106.html http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/536/

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MULTI SOURCES AND NON TEXT SOURCES Science Vs Podcast https://www.gimletmedia.com/science-vs/immigration Adam Ruins Everything https://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/blog/adams-sources/adam-ruins-immigration.html WNYC Podcast https://www.wnyc.org/story/bnch-migration-doug-massey/ Ammon Bundy Denouncing Rhetoric https://www.newsweek.com/right-wing-militia-leader-blasts-trump-migrant-rhetoric-1235095

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