This is both a stupid term, and one that doesn’t grasp the basic mean of the word “permissive.”
A question commonly asked by employers in the tech industry is about a person’s resident or citizenship status. That can include: citizen or resident (non-citizen). Residency can include various visas: Student, Green Card, Green Card Dependent, H1B, etc…
Seems to me, “Resident” and “Non-Resident” can be fair status distinctions.
But that’s really not the important part and I don’t see the point of getting bogged down in these kinds of terminology games. It’s how we treat new applicants and non-residents that matters.
Buttegieg, Castro, Gillibrand, Harris, Sanders, Warren, Williamson, and Yang want to abolish ICE and decriminalize entry.
That is, funtionally, open borders.
No, it’s not, and not even close. There’s still customs, and checks.
Yes, once they enter they wont go to a concentration camp.
May also be seen in light of population aging.
ICE got its start in the Bush administration. Did we have “open borders” under the Reagan administration? This is absolutely not “open borders” in any meaningful sense - it just does away with a rather disturbingly powerful government organization that has been doing incredible harm lately.
John Oliver analyzes our present legal-immigration system. Well worth watching.