cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:57 pm
a fan wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:27 pm
cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:15 pm
Funny how you folks are cheering Biden on for a half ass attempt at a border solution.
No one is cheering Biden, Cradle. Biden isn't the one who wrote that bill....it was a group of R's and D's.
It's simple, cradle: was that bill better than what we have now?
The answer is a very hearty "yes".
Trump killed it. R's killed it. It's on them, not the D's.
Was the bill perfect? Nope. Not even close. But the perfect bill doesn't exist. Act accordingly.
Sorry to be redundant but why was this not addressed 3 years ago? I'm too cynical to not believe this sudden urgency to whip up some sort of a politically expedient bipartisanship agreement is simply window dressing to be used for CYA to beat down a political wildfire.
Were the politics conducive 3 years ago?
Maybe. Probably not.
From an executive order standpoint, Biden needed to reverse the family splitting, kids in cages, garbage that the Trump Admin had done. A majority of Americans wanted those reversed.
The one major policy they left in place that actually mattered to slowing immigration was the policy that allowed them to return migrants due to public health emergency but that got struck down by the courts, as would have happened under either President in due course. A whole bunch of Trump orders were reversed as un-Constitutional. You need legislation not Executive orders.
Pretty sure the only thing on most people's minds was the pandemic and its effects. Those effects happened all over the world, a big part of the migration issue...but here in the US we rebounded stronger than any place else in the world...where there's enormous unemployment and sky high inflation, people resort to violence, and those with the means to try to escape for where things are much better...no surprise, The Us was doing the best in the world...still is today.
There are all sorts of priorities the left wanted that they also didn't get accomplished (how about election reform?!), given the politics at the time as well. Can only take on so many priorities at a time, and the result was a rebounded economy, historic and ongoing investments in the infrastructure necessary for increased productivity and competitiveness for decades to come, and a massive investment in technologies and supply chain critical to economic and military competitiveness.
But migration has become an actual burden under the current regime that does not allow migrants to work and support themselves. And we're hugely understaffed to determine whose applications for asylum have merit and whose fail. So, the burden mounts...and migrants turn to undocumented employment.
So, Democrats decided they were willing to invest resources and tougher policies in order to address the problem with largely GOP demands, without demanding pathways for citizenship that they think actually would bring people out of the dark and into taxpaying employment. It's the most GOP friendly bill that has been ever written...and the MAGA nuts rejected it. Worse is good, better is bad. For them.