Single Issue Voter: Controlling The Borders

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you who think Trump solved the immigration problem: He knew he wouldn't be in office forever. So what constitutes true success - a solution that is only effective while he is still in office, or a legislative accomplishment that outlasts him?

You solve the immigration problem by following the laws on the books and enforcing them, not like the lawfare the DNC pushes today.

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you who think Trump solved the immigration problem: He knew he wouldn't be in office forever. So what constitutes true success - a solution that is only effective while he is still in office, or a legislative accomplishment that outlasts him?

No one thinks he "solved" the immigration problem. But it is undeniable that illegal immigration under Biden has reached unprecedented highs. Biden reversed and/or ended all of Trump's border initiatives on his first day in office. Surely you can see the connection?

I get that. But here's the point I'm trying to make: Trump tried his best but couldn't repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Why? Because it was passed by Congress and signed into law. If the current immigration laws are so difficult to enforce (and let's be honest, migrants were flooding through the border during Trump's administration too), why couldn't Trump have signed a new law that left no ambiguity?

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you who think Trump solved the immigration problem: He knew he wouldn't be in office forever. So what constitutes true success - a solution that is only effective while he is still in office, or a legislative accomplishment that outlasts him?

No one thinks he "solved" the immigration problem. But it is undeniable that illegal immigration under Biden has reached unprecedented highs. Biden reversed and/or ended all of Trump's border initiatives on his first day in office. Surely you can see the connection?

I get that. But here's the point I'm trying to make: Trump tried his best but couldn't repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Why? Because it was passed by Congress and signed into law. If the current immigration laws are so difficult to enforce (and let's be honest, migrants were flooding through the border during Trump's administration too), why couldn't Trump have signed a new law that left no ambiguity?

One simple reason.
The Democrats insist that any immigration reform includes mass amnesty. And, that is not happening.
That would simply reward law breakers and be a magnet for MORE illegal immigration. Why can't Democrats understand that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you who think Trump solved the immigration problem: He knew he wouldn't be in office forever. So what constitutes true success - a solution that is only effective while he is still in office, or a legislative accomplishment that outlasts him?

No one thinks he "solved" the immigration problem. But it is undeniable that illegal immigration under Biden has reached unprecedented highs. Biden reversed and/or ended all of Trump's border initiatives on his first day in office. Surely you can see the connection?

I get that. But here's the point I'm trying to make: Trump tried his best but couldn't repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Why? Because it was passed by Congress and signed into law. If the current immigration laws are so difficult to enforce (and let's be honest, migrants were flooding through the border during Trump's administration too), why couldn't Trump have signed a new law that left no ambiguity?

One simple reason.
The Democrats insist that any immigration reform includes mass amnesty. And, that is not happening.
That would simply reward law breakers and be a magnet for MORE illegal immigration. Why can't Democrats understand that?

For two years Trump had GOP majorities in both houses of Congress. He could have acted without any help from the Democrats. What legislation did he sign?

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Anonymous wrote:Regardless of my party affiliation/registration, I will vote based on one issue--strict control of our borders.

Other than right to life/abortion issue is anyone else approaching the next presidential election as a single issue voter ?

If other than right to life/abortion, what is that issue ?

Biden has dedicated more money to border control.
He has authorized more drones and other equipment as requested from DHS.
He has more drug recovery than Trump.
He has more human interdictions than Trump.
He has more deportations than Trump.
He has invested more in Central America to address the root issues of people wanting to emigrate.

So to answer your question, you should be voting Democrat.

Uh, no.

Democrats have all 3 branches of government for the past 2 years…this problem got out of control with Biden in charge. So if so lot understand how having open borders and having millions of people cross over will be better by having Democrats staying in control?

Also throwing more money at the problem like more, judges, agents, surveillance won’t fix the issue if another 2million people cross the border next year. How many 100’s of billions of dollars do yo you want to spend on this? How many more crowded schools do you need that can’t get the kids in? How many more hotels in NY will be filled with migrants? Why is there suddenly billions of dollars available for this when we did not have billions of dollars to help our homeless, veterans, minority communities???????

Are you forgetting the Caravans during the Trump years? How short our memory is.

And...the Dems have offered an immigration reform bill that covers a lot of issues, but guess who votes against it? The GOP. Why? Because they want to keep people like you angry, rather than, you know, dealing with the problem.

Also, you say "uh, no" but the facts matter, the current Administration has recovered more drugs, indicted more people, deported more illegal people, etc than the Trump Administration did. Maybe research it a little before commenting next time.

Unfortunately your statistics degree sucks.

Let’s go with the drug issue…

So let’s say Trump was able to capture 20 percent of the drugs crossing the border and Biden was able to capture the same percentage.
Then let’s say under Trump, the illegals crossing the border in year 2000 were 500k and year 2022 were 1 million people.
The. You are capturing more drugs BECAUSE yo I have double the people crossing the border illegally!

The increased investment in South and Central America is not helping as number of crossing are doubled.

There are more interaction because you have double the people crossing illegally.

So quoting that you are collecting more drugs, deporting more people, etc. is not a good thing… it means you have MORE people coming here illegally hence the Increased numbers.

Why are you assuming it's the same %?

Please stop using this offensive phrase.

Human beings are not "illegal." Human beings are not "illegals." (It makes me ill just to type that word.)

It's dehumanizing to characterize a person by one single action they have taken in their life. These people may have crossed the border illegally, but they are parents, and workers and homeowners and many other things as well.

The proper term is "undocumented immigrant." That describes people who have crossed the border without proper authorization.

Different terminology to mean the same thing…it’s eye-rolling. You clutch your pearls for social justice to appear to be a better person but your marketing language falls short.

[Anonymous]

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I have the term innocent - it reeks of emotion- nobody is truly innocent.

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you who think Trump solved the immigration problem: He knew he wouldn't be in office forever. So what constitutes true success - a solution that is only effective while he is still in office, or a legislative accomplishment that outlasts him?

No one thinks he "solved" the immigration problem. But it is undeniable that illegal immigration under Biden has reached unprecedented highs. Biden reversed and/or ended all of Trump's border initiatives on his first day in office. Surely you can see the connection?

I get that. But here's the point I'm trying to make: Trump tried his best but couldn't repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Why? Because it was passed by Congress and signed into law. If the current immigration laws are so difficult to enforce (and let's be honest, migrants were flooding through the border during Trump's administration too), why couldn't Trump have signed a new law that left no ambiguity?

One simple reason.
The Democrats insist that any immigration reform includes mass amnesty. And, that is not happening.
That would simply reward law breakers and be a magnet for MORE illegal immigration. Why can't Democrats understand that?

For two years Trump had GOP majorities in both houses of Congress. He could have acted without any help from the Democrats. What legislation did he sign?

I'll answer that: he signed a tax cut for the wealthy and corporations. And before anybody brings up the filibuster - it's not enshrined in the Constitution, and Republicans abolished the filibuster for SCOTUS nominees because they truly cared about putting Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. If they truly cared about immigration reform they could have abolished the filibuster for that too.

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I have the term innocent - it reeks of emotion- nobody is truly innocent.

The two that were killed in the car crash were innocent..... they were not present illegally and we hit by the human smuggler.
Just two people minding their own business who have become victims of Biden's border policies. Yes, it is emotional. Their children are distraught over their deaths.

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you who think Trump solved the immigration problem: He knew he wouldn't be in office forever. So what constitutes true success - a solution that is only effective while he is still in office, or a legislative accomplishment that outlasts him?

No one thinks he "solved" the immigration problem. But it is undeniable that illegal immigration under Biden has reached unprecedented highs. Biden reversed and/or ended all of Trump's border initiatives on his first day in office. Surely you can see the connection?

I get that. But here's the point I'm trying to make: Trump tried his best but couldn't repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Why? Because it was passed by Congress and signed into law. If the current immigration laws are so difficult to enforce (and let's be honest, migrants were flooding through the border during Trump's administration too), why couldn't Trump have signed a new law that left no ambiguity?

One simple reason.
The Democrats insist that any immigration reform includes mass amnesty. And, that is not happening.
That would simply reward law breakers and be a magnet for MORE illegal immigration. Why can't Democrats understand that?

For two years Trump had GOP majorities in both houses of Congress. He could have acted without any help from the Democrats. What legislation did he sign?

I'll answer that: he signed a tax cut for the wealthy and corporations. And before anybody brings up the filibuster - it's not enshrined in the Constitution, and Republicans abolished the filibuster for SCOTUS nominees because they truly cared about putting Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. If they truly cared about immigration reform they could have abolished the filibuster for that too.

And, you have Harry Reid to thank for that. He got the ball rolling. You leave out that little detail.
And, no.... they are not going to abolish the filibuster for legislation. There is a reason it is in place.
We have seen, over the past 3 years, why eliminating the filibuster would have been disastrous.

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you who think Trump solved the immigration problem: He knew he wouldn't be in office forever. So what constitutes true success - a solution that is only effective while he is still in office, or a legislative accomplishment that outlasts him?

No one thinks he "solved" the immigration problem. But it is undeniable that illegal immigration under Biden has reached unprecedented highs. Biden reversed and/or ended all of Trump's border initiatives on his first day in office. Surely you can see the connection?

I get that. But here's the point I'm trying to make: Trump tried his best but couldn't repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Why? Because it was passed by Congress and signed into law. If the current immigration laws are so difficult to enforce (and let's be honest, migrants were flooding through the border during Trump's administration too), why couldn't Trump have signed a new law that left no ambiguity?

One simple reason.
The Democrats insist that any immigration reform includes mass amnesty. And, that is not happening.
That would simply reward law breakers and be a magnet for MORE illegal immigration. Why can't Democrats understand that?

For two years Trump had GOP majorities in both houses of Congress. He could have acted without any help from the Democrats. What legislation did he sign?

I'll answer that: he signed a tax cut for the wealthy and corporations. And before anybody brings up the filibuster - it's not enshrined in the Constitution, and Republicans abolished the filibuster for SCOTUS nominees because they truly cared about putting Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. If they truly cared about immigration reform they could have abolished the filibuster for that too.

And, you have Harry Reid to thank for that. He got the ball rolling. You leave out that little detail.
And, no.... they are not going to abolish the filibuster for legislation. There is a reason it is in place.
We have seen, over the past 3 years, why eliminating the filibuster would have been disastrous.

You mean to block civil rights legislation?

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you who think Trump solved the immigration problem: He knew he wouldn't be in office forever. So what constitutes true success - a solution that is only effective while he is still in office, or a legislative accomplishment that outlasts him?

No one thinks he "solved" the immigration problem. But it is undeniable that illegal immigration under Biden has reached unprecedented highs. Biden reversed and/or ended all of Trump's border initiatives on his first day in office. Surely you can see the connection?

I get that. But here's the point I'm trying to make: Trump tried his best but couldn't repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Why? Because it was passed by Congress and signed into law. If the current immigration laws are so difficult to enforce (and let's be honest, migrants were flooding through the border during Trump's administration too), why couldn't Trump have signed a new law that left no ambiguity?

One simple reason.
The Democrats insist that any immigration reform includes mass amnesty. And, that is not happening.
That would simply reward law breakers and be a magnet for MORE illegal immigration. Why can't Democrats understand that?

For two years Trump had GOP majorities in both houses of Congress. He could have acted without any help from the Democrats. What legislation did he sign?

I'll answer that: he signed a tax cut for the wealthy and corporations. And before anybody brings up the filibuster - it's not enshrined in the Constitution, and Republicans abolished the filibuster for SCOTUS nominees because they truly cared about putting Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. If they truly cared about immigration reform they could have abolished the filibuster for that too.

They care about keeping immigration as an issue to get their bigoted voters riled up, that’s for sure.

Plus they can count on their voters to repeat whatever garbled nonsense they give them to defend the GOP for not getting legislation passed. Republican voters don’t demand a lot of consistency; they’re pretty happy being mad all the time.

[Anonymous]

It's back. The perennial effort to allow citizens of one country (India) to monopolize the employment green card categories, and reward the companies who replaced US workers with visa workers.

https://x.com/FWDus/status/1725212083699192302?s=20

Go Democrats! Replace as many US workers as you can!

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you who think Trump solved the immigration problem: He knew he wouldn't be in office forever. So what constitutes true success - a solution that is only effective while he is still in office, or a legislative accomplishment that outlasts him?

No one thinks he "solved" the immigration problem. But it is undeniable that illegal immigration under Biden has reached unprecedented highs. Biden reversed and/or ended all of Trump's border initiatives on his first day in office. Surely you can see the connection?

I get that. But here's the point I'm trying to make: Trump tried his best but couldn't repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Why? Because it was passed by Congress and signed into law. If the current immigration laws are so difficult to enforce (and let's be honest, migrants were flooding through the border during Trump's administration too), why couldn't Trump have signed a new law that left no ambiguity?

One simple reason.
The Democrats insist that any immigration reform includes mass amnesty. And, that is not happening.
That would simply reward law breakers and be a magnet for MORE illegal immigration. Why can't Democrats understand that?

For two years Trump had GOP majorities in both houses of Congress. He could have acted without any help from the Democrats. What legislation did he sign?

I'll answer that: he signed a tax cut for the wealthy and corporations. And before anybody brings up the filibuster - it's not enshrined in the Constitution, and Republicans abolished the filibuster for SCOTUS nominees because they truly cared about putting Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. If they truly cared about immigration reform they could have abolished the filibuster for that too.

And, you have Harry Reid to thank for that. He got the ball rolling. You leave out that little detail.
And, no.... they are not going to abolish the filibuster for legislation. There is a reason it is in place.
We have seen, over the past 3 years, why eliminating the filibuster would have been disastrous.

You mean to block civil rights legislation?

The only ones who object to civil rights legislation are Democrats. Study some history.

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you who think Trump solved the immigration problem: He knew he wouldn't be in office forever. So what constitutes true success - a solution that is only effective while he is still in office, or a legislative accomplishment that outlasts him?

No one thinks he "solved" the immigration problem. But it is undeniable that illegal immigration under Biden has reached unprecedented highs. Biden reversed and/or ended all of Trump's border initiatives on his first day in office. Surely you can see the connection?

I get that. But here's the point I'm trying to make: Trump tried his best but couldn't repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Why? Because it was passed by Congress and signed into law. If the current immigration laws are so difficult to enforce (and let's be honest, migrants were flooding through the border during Trump's administration too), why couldn't Trump have signed a new law that left no ambiguity?

One simple reason.
The Democrats insist that any immigration reform includes mass amnesty. And, that is not happening.
That would simply reward law breakers and be a magnet for MORE illegal immigration. Why can't Democrats understand that?

For two years Trump had GOP majorities in both houses of Congress. He could have acted without any help from the Democrats. What legislation did he sign?

I'll answer that: he signed a tax cut for the wealthy and corporations. And before anybody brings up the filibuster - it's not enshrined in the Constitution, and Republicans abolished the filibuster for SCOTUS nominees because they truly cared about putting Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. If they truly cared about immigration reform they could have abolished the filibuster for that too.

They care about keeping immigration as an issue to get their bigoted voters riled up, that’s for sure.

Plus they can count on their voters to repeat whatever garbled nonsense they give them to defend the GOP for not getting legislation passed. Republican voters don’t demand a lot of consistency; they’re pretty happy being mad all the time.

The House Republicans passed HR 2, Secure the Border Act of 2023.
Chuck Schumer won't bring it up in the Senate.

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Anonymous wrote:Those of you who think Trump solved the immigration problem: He knew he wouldn't be in office forever. So what constitutes true success - a solution that is only effective while he is still in office, or a legislative accomplishment that outlasts him?

No one thinks he "solved" the immigration problem. But it is undeniable that illegal immigration under Biden has reached unprecedented highs. Biden reversed and/or ended all of Trump's border initiatives on his first day in office. Surely you can see the connection?

I get that. But here's the point I'm trying to make: Trump tried his best but couldn't repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Why? Because it was passed by Congress and signed into law. If the current immigration laws are so difficult to enforce (and let's be honest, migrants were flooding through the border during Trump's administration too), why couldn't Trump have signed a new law that left no ambiguity?

One simple reason.
The Democrats insist that any immigration reform includes mass amnesty. And, that is not happening.
That would simply reward law breakers and be a magnet for MORE illegal immigration. Why can't Democrats understand that?

For two years Trump had GOP majorities in both houses of Congress. He could have acted without any help from the Democrats. What legislation did he sign?

I'll answer that: he signed a tax cut for the wealthy and corporations. And before anybody brings up the filibuster - it's not enshrined in the Constitution, and Republicans abolished the filibuster for SCOTUS nominees because they truly cared about putting Gorsuch on the Supreme Court. If they truly cared about immigration reform they could have abolished the filibuster for that too.

And, you have Harry Reid to thank for that. He got the ball rolling. You leave out that little detail.
And, no.... they are not going to abolish the filibuster for legislation. There is a reason it is in place.
We have seen, over the past 3 years, why eliminating the filibuster would have been disastrous.

You mean to block civil rights legislation?

The only ones who object to civil rights legislation are Democrats. Study some history.

I have, thank you. And I find your use of the present tense interesting. Jesse Helms *was* a Democrat. He switched parties. Same for Strom Thurmond. The ones who object to civil rights legislation are White southern segregationists. Guess which party calls this type home these days.