Are you applauding the decision to go to the border?kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Thu Jan 05, 2023 10:01 am https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white- ... -rcna64311
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he intends to visit the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time since taking office, after nearly two years of Republicans criticizing his administration over the migrant crisis.
Biden revealed the potential trip while speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One in Kentucky. Asked if he'll be going to the border, Biden said, "That’s my intention, we’re working out the details now."
The president is scheduled to attend the North American Leaders' Summit in Mexico City on Monday and Tuesday.
Republicans have repeatedly ridiculed Biden for not visiting the southern border while also saying the issue of migrants is not a priority for his presidency.
The Biden administration suffered a legal setback on implementing its immigration policies when the Supreme Court decided last month that Title 42 — a Trump-era immigration policy that lets authorities quickly expel asylum-seekers at the border — will remain in effect for now. The administration had sought to end that policy.
A trip to the border would come as House Republicans are poised to ramp up oversight of the Biden administration, with a particular focus on the border.
Or is it just political posturing, just as the ridicule for not doing a photo op there was merely political posturing?
Does the GOP MAGA crew actually have a workable, comprehensive answer to the challenge?
Are they willing to fund a comprehensive answer?
Or do they just want to throw rocks?
Personally, I think it's great that the Biden Admin is going to move this issue up on the list of priorities to address. I understand why it was low on the list, given so many other huge priorities these past two years, but they accomplished many of those, so maybe the timing works now.
Maybe, just maybe, there's realization that we need more workers and thus immigration can be cast not under "replacement" politics but rather on a frame of economic growth, with legalization of workers, getting them on the tax rolls, and with hope for citizenship and the American Dream all part of the "fix". And couple that with much more focus on the most dangerous illegal threats, like fentanyl, and other criminal threats. But make it much easier for people in dire need to achieve a better, safer, more prosperous life to find that here.
Can they get a 'partner' on the other side of the aisle willing to work to real solutions in good faith?
(Perhaps that was what all the show of bi-partisanship was about yesterday, signaling that common sense people can work together across party lines to actually accomplish things.)
I don't know what they can actually get passed legislatively, and certainly the answer isn't without major costs and compromises, but it's gonna get attention regardless of whether they'd prefer to focus elsewhere.
At a minimum I think we may see some real proposals made...which will demand attention from the pols...and let the American voters see who is being recalcitrant and who is actually working to solve the problem.
But the House is gonna be a sh-tshow, so low expectations for results in these 2 years.