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I believe I used the word related. Trump is trying to resolve multiple related problems concerning immigration policy and border enforcement. Building a wall is part of a solution meant to stem the flow so that we can ensure we are controlling the numbers making it to a port of entry to inevitably request asylum. By separating the two you are essentially allowing yourself to cherry pick the solutions without accounting for the other. Do you really think those who are denied asylum are just going to give up?

But let's say we get more judges for example (which I am all for happening). What happens when even they are overwhelmed? Just keep getting more? There is no one fix.

You said it yourself here. Republicans are actually willing to add more judges and have advocated doing so. But as you stated, they won't pass the bill without funding for a wall. Seems to me that it is the Democrats that lack the ability to compromise here. After all, the Republicans have in fact offered most of the demands requested by the Democrats. Give Trump the stinking wall and move forward.

Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin If the Republicans were willing compromise they would do this without funding for a wall as politically that's not acceptable to the Democrats. Saying that the other people should give you want you isn't the both sides compromising. It's just both sides being unwilling to compromise and you blaming the other side even though your side isn't willing to give up what they want either.

Generally if you are concerned with too many refugees the solution is to fix the places they are coming from. So doing things say like cutting aid to the places they are coming from and making them worse is just going to increase the number coming and asking for asylum.

The definition of compromise is centered on each side having a list of things they want, which the other side explicitly does not want. From those lists of desires, each side concedes to give the other side some of those things. As far as I've been able to see, the Republicans have agreed to give huge concessions to the Democrats which have not been reciprocated.

You also speak about "fixing the places these people come from". Do you mean like nation building? Didn't a significant number of Democrats and Republicans come out against that? How do you suppose we do that? Bear in mind I've spent a significant time living in the countries where these people are coming from and I served several years at SOUTHCOM (where my father also once worked). The US has been doing more than their share in trying to help "fix" these nations. I will also argue that the so called conditions being reported by the media of those same countries is not quite as dire as they make it out to be.

Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin As far as I can see the Republicans have made no major consessions to the Democrats on immigration. There was such a bill and it included money for physical border barriers. That was shot down by Trump.

What exact consessions do you see being made?