That’s just such a reductive and facile take on this whole issue that it borders on disingenuous. It ignores so many other pieces of this crisis - no matter where you fall on immigration. Personally, I’m very pro-immigration. But let’s also be abundantly clear: these are migrants that will need a lot of safety nets and government assistance in order to establish themselves, and many of our cities are already struggling to keep up with the current homelessness crisis.

We need to establish that this is a different demographic set of immigrants from what we’re used to, as well. In the 2000s, we saw a lot of single men coming over to work. This crowd contains vastly more families and young children. So going off of some study from 2009 isn’t going to necessarily present us with the same picture as today, because a 23 year old Mexican man does not require nor have access to the same social services that a Venezuelan mother with 3 children will.

You can be supportive of immigration without being willfully unaware of the challenges presented by 2.5 million border patrol encounters in one year and how blissfully unprepared our social safety net is for that