This kind of thing is just nuts. My understanding is that the father was doing everything by the book. And the outcome of an election just means that just by fiat, it was decided that asylum-seekers are to be treated like criminals.
Remember how the cons just kept saying, yeah, but we are only talking about illegal immigration and how it was liberals that were conflating legal immigration with illegal immigration?
It seems they keep moving the goalposts, at least when it comes to non-white immigrants. They don’t want dreamers. They don’t want anyone seeking asylum. They talk about denaturalizing people and shipping them to a country they’ve never been to. All of this latter stuff is just wildly illegal, but they don’t GAF; they are just racist and want what they want.
For most of them, it’s never been about getting rid of illegal immigrants. It’s been about all immigrants. Which I find ridiculous because if you go back in most people’s history you’ll see that one or more of their ancestors immigrated to the US. Classic pulling up the ladder behind you. Technically, all white people immigrated to the US, but even if you only start counting from the founding of the country what I said is still true.
This is a review of Biden’s border bill from 2024 (https://nipnlg.org/news/real-problem-border):
The Border Bill of 2024 died on arrival to the floor of the Senate, every news outlet having predicted its swift demise. As expected, Republicans rejected the bill after Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee, instructed them to oppose it because he wanted to run on the issue of the border. The bill would have given the executive frightening powers to exclude and expel asylum seekers, poured money into ICE and CBP, vastly expanded ICE detention, and gutted due process within the asylum system. Good riddance; but while the Border Bill is well and truly dead, we could be haunted by its ghost.
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The Border Bill is a failure on every metric. After months of negotiations, its Senate authors pleased no one, angering progressives and leaving conservatives unswayed. It did not even gain a simple majority of votes, let alone clear the filibuster bar. And, most importantly, it abandoned immigrant communities in need of serious and urgent Congressional action. Why then, would anyone celebrate this lead balloon of a bill? Why would it become the new standard, and not simply a regrettable lapse in judgment?
Every thing that is happening now is something the current Democratic leadership supported empowering the executive with in the leadup to the election season of '24. Democrats worked to bring this about. So when you see Jeffries or Schumer calling Trump whatever he thinks is going to get him clicks, but not pushing back on any of the policies beyond the meekest of reforms, remember how we got here.
Here’s the content of the bill, https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4361?overview=closed. The summary leaves out some things, like the increased detention capacity. You’ve got to read the entire bill to find stuff like that.
There looks to be some good things baked into the bill but overall it seems to be a pretty bad bill. And that’s assuming the bill isn’t abused by the president.
Eh, this seems a bit of Murc’s Law here.
You are saying a bill was proposed, didn’t pass, and now that Republicans are going buck-wild, trying to provoke a reaction so they can invoke the Insurrection Act, all because they have both houses, SCOTUS and the White House…this is caused by the Democrats not passing a bill?
What responsibility do the Republicans have in all this? Do they have any agency here? Seems they hold all the reins right now. Why are we blaming Democrats?
Hopefully that’s not what he’s saying. I hope what he’s saying is that the neoliberal Democrats aren’t in opposition to the crazy actions the Republicans are taking, and so anything they’re doing to stop them is purely performative.
Still not quite sure I agree with this, but I’m pretty sure that’s what the OP was arguing.
