The sloppy policy was opening the floodgates to Venezuelan and Colombian gangs and millions of others with little to no meaningful verification. That was dangerous and just plain stupid. It's weird taking lectures from the let's open the borders up and see what happens crowd. Pretending there was some neat administrative cleanup on the back end, especially in sanctuary cities, was always wishful thinking. We saw the impact when cities were overwhelmed, and we’ve all watched crime statistics get massaged to downplay what people are experiencing on the ground.
I live in what is probably the most affluent zip code in the state, and we’re dealing with organized South American crews targeting homes. That didn’t come out of nowhere. We’ve also seen enforcement priorities flip in ways that pushed trafficking and criminal activity inland instead of stopping it at the border. Calling concerns about this “feelings based” is projection. What people are reacting to is reality, not cable news narratives. Creating martyrs in Minneapolis to turn immigration policy is feelings based.
I don’t want to live in a country where repeated, preventable failures in immigration enforcement, deaths from people who should not be here, people burning in subways, truckers who should not be licensed plowing into teenagers, and whatever else that keep leading to innocent people being killed. Wanting functional borders and competent enforcement shouldn’t be controversial.