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by NtochkaNzvanova
871 days ago
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Joe Biden has the executive power to address the border crisis without any action by Congress. Instead of doing that, he and the Democratic leadership in Congress decided to tie border security (though if you actually read it, the bill doesn't even improve border security) to funding for Ukraine and Israel. If the bill passes, they get what they want (borders that remain open, and funding for more war); if the bill fails, they score political points since they can now claim that Republicans don't actually want to fix the border and are Putin's stooges. Win/win for Democrats. |
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I hate a lot of things the Republicans do. But on NPR (!!) there was a program where they described how Biden restricted asylum in ways where Trump had failed. i think they had interviewed someone who worked in a border facility.
Trump tried to block asylum applications (struck down as unconstitutional), the Biden administration merely found ways to block acceptance instead.
I kept waiting for the catch that explained why it wasn’t as bad as they portrayed — there was none. They didn’t seem biased, there was just no redeeming factor here.
I’m not going to claim then border crossing crowding issue is easy to solve or simple in any way.
However, it does start to feel like a lot of sensitive political issues are just chess pieces…
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2023/02/21/fact-sheet-notice-propos...