Only a reckless president would find himself in a situation he himself was about to get himself out of before he listened to his more extreme right-wing supporters who talked him into refusing the Democrat funding proposal.
My husband was on strike for 7 months but at the time he was only 19 and still living at home.
After we were married with a home and two kids he was on strike for 4 months.
I was a stay at home Mom at the time so his income was the only income we had.
The bank where we had our mortgage didn’t want to hear about a strike and neither did the bank where we had our car loans.
We got through the first month or 6 weeks by using our small savings and then we had to start using our credit cards. Unemployment insurance and union payments for picketing didn’t go too far but at least we had that. The Federal workers aren’t getting anything.
It took us YEARS to recover.
Why is it that Republicans have absolutely no compassion for people who are suffering.
I guess the only way you will care is if your social security check stops coming.
For Seventh Consecutive Year Visa Overstays Exceeded Illegal Border Crossings
January 16, 20197:02 PM ET Richard Gonzales
As the Trump administration demands funding for a border wall to stop illegal immigration, a new study finds that for the seventh consecutive year, visa overstays far exceeded unauthorized border crossings.
The report released Wednesday by the Center for Migration Studies of New York finds that from 2016-2017, visa overstayers accounted for 62 percent of the newly undocumented, while 38 percent had crossed a border illegally.
"It is clear from our research that persons who overstay their visas add to the US undocumented population at a higher rate than border crossers. This is not a blip, but a trend which has become the norm," said Donald Kerwin, CMS's executive director in a statement. "As these numbers indicate, construction of hundreds of more miles of border wall would not address the challenge of irregular migration into our country, far from it."
The study also finds that the undocumented population from Mexico fell by almost 400,000 people in 2017 and that since 2010 the number of undocumented from that country fell by 1.3 million.
"We have made tremendous progress since the year 2000 in reducing undocumented immigration into this country," the study's author, CMS senior fellow Robert Warren, told NPR.
Warren was the Director of Statistics at the Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1986 to 1995. He said that both the Bush and Obama administrations had roughly doubled the size of the Border Patrol and the country has seen results.
"In another era, we would be celebrating our success," said Warren.
The study also finds that in 2017, for the first time, the unauthorized population from Mexico constituted less than one-half of all the undocumented people in the U.S.
At the same time, Mexico was the leading country for visa overstays in 2016, "about twice the number from India, China and Venezuela," according to the study. The number of undocumented people coming from Venezuela, which is wracked by political and economic turmoil, increased from 60,000 in 2013 to 145,000 in 2017. Virtually all are visa overstays.
"Since more than one half of all US undocumented residents arrive by air, visa-issuing posts have become the real frontline deterrent to undocumented migration," the study concludes. "This report suggests that more attention and resources should be given to that crucial mission of the US Department of State."
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