Biden offers fresh assurances he would shut down border 'right now' if Congress sends him a deal
Biden offers fresh assurances he would shut down border 'right now' if Congress sends him a deal
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“A bipartisan bill would be good for America and help fix our broken immigration system and allow speedy access for those who deserve to be here, and Congress needs to get it done,” Biden said.
He’s loathe to give a win to Biden on an issue that animated the Republican’s successful 2016 campaign and that he wants to use as he seeks to return to the White House.
It was a stark claim from a Democratic president that was met with astonishment and shock from immigrant advocates who have said his policies do not reflect the progressive approach they had expected.
“Voters want to see our elected leaders do the hard work to fix our frayed immigration system,” said Deirdre Schifeling, chief political and advocacy officer at the American Civil Liberties Union.
“President Biden and Congress must abandon these proposals and heed voters’ demands for fair and effective immigration policies that manage the border and treat people seeking safety with dignity.”
Mexicans accounted for 56,236 arrests in December, while Venezuelans were second with 46,937, erasing much of the decline that followed the start of deportation flights to Venezuela in October.
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With respect, bullshit.
"Closing the border" is a meaningless statement where the southern US border is concerned. More than a thousand miles of border, much of it sparsely inhabited, and he's going to secure it all?
Sure.
If request for asylum is not heard and immigration are simply deported, it would be shutting down the border.
I mean the article explains exactly what he meant:
"A bipartisan bill would be good for America and help fix our broken immigration system and allow speedy access for those who deserve to be here, and Congress needs to get it done,” Biden said. “It’ll also give me as president, the emergency authority to shut down the border until it could get back under control. If that bill were the law today, I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly.”
The deal being negotiated in Congress would require the U.S. to shutter the border if roughly 5,000 migrants cross illegally on any given day.
He's just becoming more and more Trump
Truly a disgusting man. He would probably bring back slavery to “own” the right.
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Yes, that definitely sounds like the type of person a black man would choose as his vice president and who chose a black woman as his own vice president.
If we wanna play dumb, we can bring up Biden's stance on "forced bussing".
Seriously though, you're not even saying he can't be racist because he has a black friend, you're saying he can't be racist because he worked with black people? That's a ridiculous take, dude.
I mean, you know Republicans work with Tim Scott so they're basically advocating for reparations, I guess
Uh... I don't agree with that commenter, but that was kind of the reason he was chosen by Obama. He was chosen to be a signal to the racists that Obama was "one of the good ones." Biden was famous for working with racists in the past. Do I think he would go so far as to bring back slavery? Hell no.
Seems like republicans are boxed in. If they block an immigration bill because they want to deny Biden a win their complaining about the border will lose most of it's impact as an issue based on massive hypocrisy. If they pass legislation, it helps Biden. Guess they have to hope for voters short memories. Democrats need a spokesman on republican immigration hypocrisy.
Since when do Republicans care about hypocrisy? Mitch might be acting as the voice of reason today, but he was the one who refused to let Obama's last SC pick even have a vote, because he knew it would pass, while rushing Trump's last pick through before the election.
You'll never explain that to a moderate...
Their ideology stopped making sense decades ago, so by now the supporters who are left can't be rational.
If they were, they wouldn't be "moderates". And their identity is wrapped up in that, so they can't. No matter what a Republican or a progressive says should be done, the modern moderate will declare both are bad and the obvious choice is halfway between them.
The man purposefully sending the fed to cut razer wire at dangerous points; that Texas already had the OK to keep up and so put them back up ... And Biden has now caused just about twenty seven other state governors to back Texas in defending itself against illegals .. Isn't interested in a damn actual deal.
That ""DEAL"" Your Democrats want is solely to fund Ukraine and Israel and, 'diminishes' The entry of illegals down to 5,000 a day. There's no compromise here and it is why the Republicans won't take it.
You lot are severely delusional if you think Biden and least of all the Democratic party, want any sort of actual deal. The hypocrisy lies with the left.
I can't imagine they aren't going to try and send him a bill with some garbage in it.
The Senate made an agreement. In order for the House to pass it, they can't change it much. If they do put garbage in it, it'll never get to the President's desk.
They won't vote for the legislation. Trump told them not to. And the base won't blame them or see any hypocrisy, because it's tied to $ for Ukraine. That's their "reason" and the base is in total agreement that the US shouldn't be funding Ukraine.
Never underestimate the power of right-wing propaganda. We have millions of Americans who now think Putin is a glorious world savior fighting against the evil Nazi Ukrainians.
Voters, and most Americans at large, have very short attention spans.
Dems have plenty of spokespeople. All 50 millionish of us. Grassroots is how we fight.
Otherwise it's just a talking head, or a message from some media org, all of which have lost a great deal of trust. But an individual showing someone something like how to use ground.news to see a bigger picture is a bit of a different story, it's personal. You can see their eyes as you talk to them.
If this is the kind of legislation that gets you to door knock and phone bank I really don't want to know you
e; I mean the harassment of migrants and asylum seekers, I'm 110% on board with giving Ukraine everything they want because fuck Putin
Huh?