Pattern Ghost

I have to address one point that I keep reading and hearing mistakenly asserted. People entering the United States at other than an established checkpoint, who claim refugee status and request asylum, are not entering the country illegally. American law grants them the right to enter and remain within the United States until their claim for asylum is reviewed. This is done because people suffering persecution in their home countries are rarely allowed to travel freely to points of entry in potential sanctuary countries.
 
Moreover, asylum seekers who enter the United States between those points of entry can exit custody on payment of a bond, and an immigration judge has the jurisdiction to reduce or even waive the bond if circumstances warrant. OTOH people arriving at a point of entry can't pay a bond -- their disposition is wholly at the discretion of ICE officials. Given the publicized attitude of the current American government toward immigrants, that incentivizes crossing the American border at some other location.

RE: projected year-end numbers, that's a decent possibility (and a good point).  However, my thought is that this higher number of apprehensions has less to do with the number of people crossing the border this year as opposed to prior years, than it does with the onus being put upon the USBP by Trump & company to lock up every possible "potential illegal immigrant" in sight.  Perhaps the net is being cast a little too wide?
 
As to difference in how detainees are being handled, I assumed my reference to Simon's post would refer to "catch & release" short-term detainment vs. "zero tolerance" long-term detainment.  So yes, I would expect that a marked increase in volume - especially long-term detainment - would affect service quality.  That's self-evident. 
 
What you might want to be asking is, Didn't anybody in the administration think that vastly increasing the detainment time and number of arrests, without increasing funding for said detainment, would affect service quality?  Either they didn't think of that beforehand or, as I suspect, they really didn't care all that much if it did.

I'm not speaking for Grailknight, but I'd think a discussion about differences of scale between Obama's and Trump's administrations might benefit from numbers that covered Obama's administration as well. 
 
Here's something from the Department of Homeland Security's annual report for 2017:

 
Toxxus' figure for 2017 apprehensions is the second line in that table, far right column.  It should be pointed out that the 2018 figure of 404,142 is actually *less* than the apprehensions for 2013 and 2014 (both Obama years).  The 2019 YTD number of 598,714 is certainly higher than the highest listed here (486,651 in 2014), by roughly 23%.
 
So I don't think it's really about the volume of detainees being apprehended.  As Simon points out, the big difference is in how the detainees are being handled. 

The volume doesn't excuse it. You take custody of a person, you are responsible for their well-being, full stop, no excuses.

The volume doesn't excuse it. You take custody of a person, you are responsible for their well-being, full stop, no excuses.

The volume doesn't excuse it. You take custody of a person, you are responsible for their well-being, full stop, no excuses.

The volume doesn't excuse it. You take custody of a person, you are responsible for their well-being, full stop, no excuses.

Just saw Captain Marvel from Redbox. I liked it. Flerken was funny. Larson was fine. A bit of obvious on the nose stuff with the girl power and Trump references, but didn't detract from the show nearly as much as the internet whiners let on, IMO.

Just saw Captain Marvel from Redbox. I liked it. Flerken was funny. Larson was fine. A bit of obvious on the nose stuff with the girl power and Trump references, but didn't detract from the show nearly as much as the internet whiners let on, IMO.

Just saw Captain Marvel from Redbox. I liked it. Flerken was funny. Larson was fine. A bit of obvious on the nose stuff with the girl power and Trump references, but didn't detract from the show nearly as much as the internet whiners let on, IMO.

Finally.
 
Right now we're in one of those periods when the jackass who brays the loudest leads the herd. It's past time we start reigning them in.

I found this kind of interesting.
 

Demolition Man, methinks.

I found this kind of interesting.
 

My bladder hates them.

Saw Dark Phoenix. It was one of the better X-films. Very well executed. A solid end to the franchise. No post-credits scene. 

Red Ghost and a moon shot would also allow Doom to be in the background, funding and/or feeding knowledge, in the hopes of ensuring Reed does not get there first.

Maybe if they toss in a shock collar...

If Thanos was the only good villain that Marvel had to pick from in the past 50 years, it might be worth filling his backstory more, but I'd rather see someone else take the screentime.

Runaways was approved for season 3 on March 24.

Yeah, there's getting on a soapbox, then there's whacking the audience over the head with a soapbox. Aside from a couple of cringe-worthy lines, it looks decent though.

Yeah, there's getting on a soapbox, then there's whacking the audience over the head with a soapbox. Aside from a couple of cringe-worthy lines, it looks decent though.

Yeah, there's getting on a soapbox, then there's whacking the audience over the head with a soapbox. Aside from a couple of cringe-worthy lines, it looks decent though.

If we're starting in the 1960s, and their origin is still space-based, I'd suggest Red Ghost and his super-apes as antagonists in the first movie. He and the FF could be competing to reach the Moon, perfect their prototype FTL drives, or whichever variation of the classic plot Marvel Studios wants to use, when both craft are exposed to transformative cosmic radiation. That lets you get into super action immediately, without the need to establish the antagonists in a separate story line.
 
EDIT: Actually, having gone back over the Ghost's history, I realized he would make a fine linking character for a trilogy of movies: the second bringing in the Mole Man, while the third has Doctor Doom coming to the forefront. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ghost