ABBA and Immigration - What's the Connection?

Let's say that you are a HUUUUUGE ABBA fan. You have been waiting for years for them to get back together and have one more concert. You would give just about anything to see that show. One day you find out that indeed there will be an ABBA reunion concert and that, like buying a new Tesla, the wait is years long, and it will cost you a lot of money with no guarantee that you will even get a ticket.

You are depressed. People just don't understand how you feel. You are marginalized. Then you find out that there is a little hack that can get you into the concert quickly and at little cost except for time. Here's the deal: gather up a canned good and make up a great story about how everyone of your friends gave you a hard time about being a hardcore ABBA fan. That's it. Show up at the ticket window, present your can of tuna, tell them your story of woe and you are in. Would you do it?

If you really, really wanted to see ABBA, you would.

This is a simplification of how the immigration situation in the United States is today. People have found out that if you show up at the border as a family with a child and tell the border agent that you want asylum because you are being persecuted in your native country, you will be let in while your case is adjudicated. Because there are so many folks like you asking for asylum and there is no place to house you, you are released into the US on your own recognizance with the promise that you will show up for an asylum hearing at some point in the distant future.

What a country!

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