Democrats resubmit border shutdown bill
Democrats resubmit border shutdown bill
The bipartisan border enforcement compromise, blocked by Republicans in February, is all but certain to be thwarted again. Democrats aim to tag the G.O.P. as the culprit in its failure.
Mr. Biden, whose team helped hammer out the deal, urged support for it on Monday in a statement from Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, that said, “We strongly support this legislation and call on every senator to put partisan politics aside and vote to secure the border.”
Among other changes to immigration law, the measure would make it more difficult to gain asylum in the United States and increase detentions and deportations of those crossing into the country without authorization. It would also effectively close the border altogether if the average number of migrants encountered by immigration officials exceeded a certain threshold — an average of 5,000 over the course of a week or 8,500 on any given day. The bill also would give the president power to close the border unilaterally if migrant encounters reach an average of 4,000 per day over a week.
A cap on asylum is a violation of international law.
Somehow this is totally different than when Trump did it. The main difference is that this guy isn't Trump doing it. That's actually the only difference but somehow the person that does it changes everything.
No more kids in cages?
No! More kids in cages!
So when the actual policy being discussed is mentioned, gone are the days of “kids in cages,” “separating families,” or any mention of the actual human stakes Democratic partisans once referenced when countering the anti-immigrant rhetoric of Trump. Democrats are now, by their own telling, to the right of Republicans, so, in coverage of the issue, not only are the migrant voices of those impacted by the right-wing pivot silenced, but the actual details of this so-called “border deal” remain as anodyne and vague as possible. After all, this is a clever triangulation wedge issue, not a real-world policy that will negatively impact real humans, and actually describing the human stakes would muddy up this fun horse race framing.
To think I once considered voting for Biden in the hopes of him reducing the suffering inflicted on these people. They just view these folks as props in the Punch and Judy show that they put on for capital. I'm glad I never voted for this monster.
This is totally different. The bigots proposing it have blue lawn signs instead of red ones.
BUT THE KIDS IN CAGES THOUGH WE HAVE TO VOTE BIDEN FOR THEM
Libs think 'harm reduction' is doing what conservatives want to do, but waiting 10 years to do it.
In short, the bill would: violate the Refugee Convention by closing the border to people seeking safety after a certain number of people have already arrived; dramatically expand the use of immigration detention to punish those who try to seek asylum with incarceration; exacerbate humanitarian and operational challenges at the border; and make asylum largely un-obtainable for those who are permitted to request it at ports of entry.
You can appeal to the reactionaries as much as you want, they will never support you lmao. ez loss incoming
Real "we gotta get more racist" hours
I thought border bill was red meat for republicans to get money for the dogs of the empire? Now its a separate, still good, idea? fascinating
Good point.
If you don't vote for Biden, Trump will use this bill to do bad things instead of good things.
Democrats aim to tag the G.O.P. as the culprit in its failure.
Oh, I love it.
"Hey look these people aren't being fascist enough!"
"The ultra left communists aren't going far enough to address the immigration problem plaguing our great nation"
Secure the border
Secure it from who Joe, ze Germans?