ShutterGirl: cepson: Somacandra: Isn't trespassing just a local misdemeanor? What would they hope to achieve with small misdemeanors?

As for what they hope to achieve, it's making immigrants miserable by sticking them in a crappy county jail with shiatty food, poor medical care, overworked and underpaid guards, etc. That's what they hope to achieve. Same reason why Trump separated families from children: make immigrants so miserable that coming to the U.S. is worse than staying in Mexico or Central America. The joke's on them, though, because for some people. staying in Mexico or Central America is completely intolerable. Turns out that when things become intolerable in one place, people move from that place to a less intolerable place. You know, like how some people who are persecuted for their religious beliefs might cross an ocean and invade a place that's already inhabited, because it's better than staying in England?

It's pretty much the history of humanity.

I cannot THIS enough, its true, it is easier to do this than actually fix immigration laws

While it may be easier to do this than fix immigration laws*, doing this is completely pointless.  This isn't enough of a deterrent to reduce immigrant numbers.

Now, something like the combination of title 42 and MPP did manage that under Trump (and his family separation plans would have done so as well had he not run out of ICE beds so quickly that he couldn't even do it much, statistically speaking).  That isn't to say I approve of using draconian policies to reduce immigration, merely to contrast how a policy like that can actually achieve it's goal vs something like this which is just going to drain the fark out of a small county's resources.  And for what? Most of those immigrants aren't staying in the asshole of Texas anyway, so it doesn't serve any of the county's needs.


*the problem with saying you want to fix immigration laws is that while a large portion of the population loves to say things like "I'm in favor of legal immigration and not illegal immigration" they also simultaneously want significant limitations on who and how many can legally immigrate.  Then you've got the solid third who vocally doesn't want brown people at all.  How do you fix that law in a country that is not only supposed to be somewhat democratic, but is skewed in favor of the shiatstains via the senate? The answer is that you cannot.  Fixing immigration is a pie in the sky offer that progressives and moderates like to trot out, and they do so in predictably disingenuous ways, using catch phrases that mean all things to all people, and with the secure knowledge they'll never actually be called on to write a bill, much less propose one.

And so we will continue to wild swings in executive policy driving our immigration, and that is going to mean when things get less draconian immigration numbers go up, and vice versa.  Biden's choice to further limit title 42 and slow walk mpp encourages anyone with a brain to try to get in now while the getting is good/better than it may be in a couple more years.  And that's ok. But it is the reality, and there isn't a fix unless a POTUS has the balls to come out and try to offer unlimited refugee status across the board. But I don't see that happening.