Trump is blocking a border deal in the Senate
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Anonymous
Said someone who CLEARLY hasn't read the Senate bill, which was negotiated by the most conservative immigration Senate in the body. |
Anonymous
The amount of cope among right wingers on this thread still astonishes me somehow. First, immigration has been a hair on fire issue, one that dozens (or a few determined) pps have said is why they can never ever vote for Biden. Then a week ago, we made it all up that Trump was blocking anything. Now it’s dead because Trump told his winged monkeys to kill it and that’s a good thing because it was the weakest bill ever? Republicans are deranged. |
Anonymous
You know what is hilarious? Democrats attempting to cast blame on Republicans for the last 3 years of absolute bedlam at the border. We all witnessed Biden's rhetoric during the campaign inviting migrants to surge the border. We all witnessed the 90+ EO's that Biden overturned regarding border security in his first few days in office. We all witnessed Biden and Mayorkas ordering border agents that just being present in the country illegally is not a reason to arrest. We have all witnessed the record encounters at the border, the record number people on the terrorist watch list coming in, the record number of got aways, the record number of migrant deaths, the record number of migrants paroled by Biden, the record amount of fentanyl coming in, the record number of migrants released into our country..... We also know that Jeh Johnson has said that 1000 daily encounters at the border is a crisis. So, permitting anything above that is insane. We don't need anyone to tell us that the border deal is not a "deal" at all. We also know that Biden has the tools - and has had them all along - to make our border more secure. He has chosen not to use those tools. |
Anonymous
I am pp you quoted and I did actually read it. It adds a couple thousand more detention capacity, does not end catch and release— in fact it codifies that migrants put into the newly created protection proceedings be released on “alternative to detentions”. Attempts to speed up the process by “to the greatest extent possible completing interviews in 90 days”.. yeah law currently says “to the greatest extent possible proceedings should be completed in 180 days”. With no consequences for the government not doing so except granting migrants automatic work authorization. Changes “significant possibility of persecution” to “reasonable possibility”. Which is apparently (counterintuitively) a tougher standard—but still EXTREMELY subjective. And the interviews done by asylum officers will be non-adversarial. It doesn’t codify the most OBVIOUS fix which would be explicitly stating generalized violence, domestic abuse, and being afraid of gang violence are NOT valid claims of asylum. The “emergency border closure” is even more pitiful because it still will offer “withholding of removal”, which also means being released on alternative to detention into the country. Regardless of if one crosses the border illegally. Also still requires a minimum amount of migrants being processed (released) into the country every day despite the border being closed. I read the bill, I had been waiting on the edge of my seat for them to release the bill so I could read it. I read it and came to these conclusions before news outlets were putting their own spins on it. I hold no love for the GOP, I’d be pissed if they actually blocked a *good* bill simply for political reasons. But this was not a good bill at all. And actually just reinforced my view that many GOP members of congress are acting in bad faith to subvert Trump and their base. Because otherwise they’d have never “negotiated” such a horrible “bipartisan bill” in the first place. Because most people wont take the time out to actually read 300+ pages of legislative text to see how horrible it is. Instead they’re just seeing headlines that accuse the GOP of playing politics. Which they are, but not for gains. This was obviously an attempt to hurt Trump. Many would rather have Biden. |
Anonymous
What is not hilarious at all is the cynical destruction of the border bill to keep solutions away from the border to try to make Biden look bad. GOP seriously misjudged that. They look like petty, unserious fools that need to be replaced with some actual problem solvers. |
Anonymous
Once again for those in the back...... BIDEN HAS WHAT HE NEEDS TO SECURE THE BORDER BUT CHOOSES NOT TO USE THOSE TOOLS. |
Anonymous
The GOP looks bad on this one. Big political mistake. |
Anonymous
+1 You guys look like the unserious hacks you are, beholden to a disgraced former reality star. And you’re still carrying water for him. |
Anonymous
No, he doesn't. He won't flaunt the law like Trump did, which means the GOP needs to put their big boy pants on and pass a law that will allow Biden to do what Trump did. You can SHOUT it all you want, but you are wrong. |
Anonymous
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The Russian cause instability in Central American and force the same kind of migration crisis taking place in eastern europe with the Ukrainians and southern Europe with the Syrians.
Same playbook except now the Russians have the GOP and Fox News to hype up the rhetoric and anger. And people, who one would normally consider "smart" fall for it hook, line and sinker. |
Anonymous
Nope. The public knows where the blame lies for this catastrophe at the border. Six in 10 voters in swing states place the blame on President Biden for the migrant surge at the U.S. southern border, according to polling released Wednesday. Sixty-one percent of voters in swing states said Biden bears at least some of the responsibility for the increase in migrant crossings, compared to 38 percent who say Republicans in Congress are somewhat responsible for it and only 30 percent who say former President Trump is somewhat responsible, according to the Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4439418-swing-state-voters-biden-responsibility-migrant-surge-survey/ |
Anonymous
That info is from before the colossal screw up of destroying the border bill. |
Anonymous
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Biden said he would undo Trump's asylum policies. Now people want to claim this bill makes things better, when the problem is Biden.
The only bill that would help is one that would somehow force Biden to act opposite of how he wants to act. Instead, the current bill codifies what Biden is doing and legalizes the illegals. Same as every immigration reform bill of the last 40 years, the proponents claim it fixes the problem and provides tough enforcement. but it really just pushes open borders as wanted by most elected Democrats and Republicans. Bernie Sanders "Open borders. That's a Koch brothers proposal." |
Anonymous
Check the polling in a month when they ask the question again but the GOP has killed the bill. |