Work Visas should be immediately provided for those allowed to cross into the US. A set timeframe would then be established that citizenship could be applied for after establishing they can contribute to society, pay taxes, establish a home, etc. Allowing people in and not allowing them legal access to work and support themselves is asking for them to become dependant on Govt resources.
Absolutely not. “Allowing people in”? No one “allowed” them in, they broke the law and walked in. If you want to work in the U.S., go to a Port of Entry and apply, get in line, and wait for your turn like millions have done before, and hundreds of thousands (estimate) are doing now. So you let these 10 million stay, and what about the next 10 million, or the next? Between 2005 and 2019 we granted over 1 million immigrants legal resident status all but one of those years, and U.S. asylum has fluctuated since records began in 1990 but generally rose, from 8,472 in 1990 to 46,508 in 2019, not the 10+ million we have seen recently.
Maybe you think it is compassionate to let them in because they don’t have it so good. The World Bank’s “Poverty and Inequality Platform” released in Sept 2024 updates global poverty estimates. Depending on the availability of survey data, global and regional poverty data are reported up to 2022. For the first time, PIP also includes survey-level, regional and global poverty nowcasts up to the current year. In 2022, the global poverty headcount ratio at the International Poverty Line ($2.15 per person per day, 2017 PPP) has remained rounded to 9 percent, with a marginal upward revision in the total number of extreme poor from 712 to 713 million. By 2024 this number is expected to decline to about 692 million extreme poor in the world.
10 Countries With the Highest Poverty Rate
South Sudan - 82.3%
Equatorial Guinea - 76.8%
Madagascar - 70.7%
Central African Republic - 68.8%
Burundi - 64.9%
DR Congo - 63.9%
Guatemala - 59.3%
Eswatini - 58.9%
Haiti - 58.5%
Sierra Leone - 56.8%
Should we do something, absolutely YES, but bringing them all here is not the answer. We should be working our tails off helping them where they live now.