Ah yes, the old canard about winding back unfettered powers neccessarily meaning a flood of illegal immigrants and borders “wide open”.
Border security is not a binary state. You can be polite to black Canadians without neccessarily allowing all the Mexicans in without visas or background checks.
I do think that if a country stirs the pot in a foreign country they have a responsibility to take in refugees and allow a path to citizenship. There should be incentives to stay out unless necessary.
> Do you honestly see people advocated for unrestricted open borders?
Absolutely. There are countless articles (mostly fringe) and constant dialogue that vilifies border patrol and ICE agents. The fact that I am getting down voted for not following the herd and group thinking sort of proves my point.
The immigration laws in place are inhumane, racist, classist, and anti-American. ICE is hated for the same reason the DEA is hated. People have no respect for those that enforce such stupid laws.
Your ability for logical reasoning appears to be flawed. Being down-voted is not proof of your point. The existence of shoddy articles by your opponents is not proof of your point.
The existence of bad arguments or bad conduct doesn't prove anything one way or the other. Because for most durably contentious issues, both sides have plenty of crappy advocates.
To contextualise using the issue de jour: There are many good pro-Trump arguments and many bad pro-Trump arguments. There are LOTS of good anti-Trump arguments and LOTS of bad anti-Trump arguments. The solution isn't to point to the bad arguments as evidence for the opposite. All you can do is discount and ignore all the bad arguments and isolate your focus on the good arguments.
hot take: the border patrol is a self selecting group of people and in particular it self selects to be the most fervent traditionalist culture warriors. There's a reason the border patrol union was one of the few professional organizations to back Trump. Trying to police them into doing things like respecting statistics is going to be a game of whack a mole unless you can somehow tare the whole organizational culture down.
The specific policy on how assaults are measured is likely set by a small group or a single individual somewhere in the force's leadership, or possibly even at DHS. So while your idea of agents' background may be right, I doubt it has had an effect here.
Also note that the policy changed with the new administration, while the border patrol's staff is unlikelyto have changed significantly in such a short time.
