[jkubicek]

Man, US immigration has been dysfunctional my entire life and it's only gotten worse during the last 10 years. I can't imagine being trusting enough to fork over a $15k bond to the US government. What are you going to do when you're safely back home in the EU and they refuse your refund? What authority would stand any chance of recovering your money?

[chrneu]

This is very much by design. Republicans, back in the 50s and 60s, basically destroyed US immigration because of mexican farm labor. Lookup the Braseros Program and the series of mass human migrations that used to happen. This goes back to before WW1. The history is pretty fascinating.

They knew that they could make this a campaign issue so they did it. Then democrats realized they could also campaign on this issue without actually doing anything.

Then once a decade or so someone makes a few changes and the system gets fucked up again.

I'm in my late 30s and immigration has always been broken. People have always admitted it's broken. Then nobody does anything to fix it besides posturing/grandstanding for an election cycle.

[kylehotchkiss]

Bounty hunting is legal in US, so I'm more than confident that there will be companies that offer this as a service for 10% and require phone/ankle monitoring.

[ajross]

> US immigration has been dysfunctional my entire life and it's only gotten worse during the last 10 years.

This policy was instituted in August. Pretending that this is just an evolving norm in a pocket along the line of a routine policy spectrum makes you part of the problem, not the solution.