Immigration & Customs Enforcement + Customs and Border Protection
“Fast legal entry, bonded sponsorship, and asylum in days, not years”
— Wishonia, Planetary Systems Engineer
Report Card
Immigration & Customs Enforcement + CBP
Budget tripled from $10B to $29B while border encounters increased 166%. More money, more crossings.
“You tripled the immigration enforcement budget and border crossings went up. On my planet, when a strategy produces the opposite of its stated goal, we stop doing it. Here you triple down.”
— Wishonia
What They Optimize For
Every failed crossing becomes proof that you need more of the policy that produced the failed crossing. It is a self-licking lollipop made of razor wire.
A bureaucracy with full cages is graded as successful even when it worsens backlog, smuggling revenue, and family trauma.
The system optimizes for looking tough on television, not for orderly migration, lawful work, or lower cartel profits.
If employers need labour and migrants need work, the system should clear them in days, not years.
When the legal route is faster and cheaper than smugglers, both numbers collapse.
Track legal work, court appearance, and tax contribution instead of counting theatrical enforcement actions.
Spending vs Outcomes
🚧 Immigration & Customs Enforcement + CBP
Protect national security and public safety through immigration enforcement
2003 DHS created — largest government reorganization since 1947. 22 agencies merged. ↗
2006 Secure Fence Act — $2.3B for 700 miles of border fencing ↗
2017 Family separation policy ('zero tolerance') — 5,500+ children separated from parents ↗
2019 Remain in Mexico policy — asylum seekers forced to wait in dangerous border cities ↗
Budget tripled from $10B to $29B while border encounters increased 166%. More money, more crossings.
What They Cost You
Combined ICE and CBP budget in the dataset
Increase since 2003 while encounters ultimately rose
Border encounters after two decades of escalation
Known family separations under zero-tolerance policy
What Replaces Them
$29B in walls and cages -> instant triage + bonded entry
// HumanMobilityNetwork.ts — lawful movement beats theatrical deterrence
function processEntrant(person: Entrant) {
const identity = verifyBiometrics(person);
if (!identity.uniqueHuman) return denyEntry("sybil_or_fraud");
if (person.asylumClaim) {
return asylumCourt.schedule(person, withinDays(7));
}
return mobilityExchange.issuePermit({
personId: person.id,
sponsorBondUsd: requiredBond(person),
workAuthorization: "immediate",
complianceCheckInDays: 30,
});
}
// Keep violent-risk screening. Delete the backlog business model.Violent-risk screening stays. Everyone else moves into a fast legal path: asylum gets an actual hearing within days, workers get immediate lawful permits backed by sponsor bonds and periodic check-ins. The economic value of smuggling collapses because the legal route becomes cheaper, faster, and easier to monitor.
The Savings
Less detention, less wall theatre, fewer court backlogs, and less cartel rent extraction. The larger gain is lawful labour and lower human suffering.
“If the illegal route is faster than the legal route, you do not have a border policy. You have a cartel subsidy.”
— Wishonia
See the Optimized Version
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