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Post by onelasttime on Jan 28, 2024 22:03:01 GMT
Tell me again how the Republicans are not trying to tank any immigration reform legislation being passed before the election.
The Hill…
”Oklahoma GOP votes to censure Lankford over Senate border talks”
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Post by morecowbell on Jan 28, 2024 23:27:48 GMT
Tell me again how the Republicans are not trying to tank any immigration reform legislation being passed before the election. The Hill… ”Oklahoma GOP votes to censure Lankford over Senate border talks” If 12 people a day kept illegally entering your home, taking up residence and the police cheif wasn't enforcing the law, but said he'd make you a deal to enforce the law. He said he'd enforce the law once it hit an average of 8 people a day illegally entering your home and taking up residence and you also have to donate to a charity that he champions even though you and everyone in your community already has given them millions. If you said no, do your fucking job, are YOU responsible for tanking the useless "deal"? |
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Post by onelasttime on Jan 29, 2024 1:07:10 GMT
Tell me again how the Republicans are not trying to tank any immigration reform legislation being passed before the election. The Hill… ”Oklahoma GOP votes to censure Lankford over Senate border talks” If 12 people a day kept illegally entering your home, taking up residence and the police cheif wasn't enforcing the law, but said he'd make you a deal to enforce the law. He said he'd enforce the law once it hit an average of 8 people a day illegally entering your home and taking up residence and you also have to donate to a charity that he champions even though you and everyone in your community already has given them millions. If you said no, do your fucking job, are YOU responsible for tanking the useless "deal"? Congratulations you have now reached the point where you are ranting and not making any sense. You might want to take a deep breath and step back for a minute. There are two options. Option #1 Let President Biden do stuff by Executive Order. I have said why I don’t support that. You can read it in the other post because I’m not going to repeat it here Option #2 Which I support. Have Congress do what they are elected to do and that is create legislation to deal with problems in this country. The Senators have done just that. However the House Republicans have said no way, let the President do it by executive order. And here’s why they are saying that. There is no way in hell the President can adequately address all the immigration issues that need to be addressed by Executive Order. And House Republicans know this which means they can continue to use immigration as a weapon against the President and Democrats. Nor do they want any legislation because that would be a combined effort which means they couldn’t seriously criticize it because they help create it. As to the Republicans wanting to sink any legislation, there is a post of trump saying just that. So based on your relentless harping about that “compassion” statement and that trump really meant what he said, you have to believe what he said in the post that I posted in one of the threads that it was ok to blame him for the Republicans sinking immigration reform legislation . That is my opinion on the subject and I’m more than comfortable with it. Agree or disagree that is your choice. However you may want to stop making posts like that rant above every time I post something that I agree with on this subject. It changes nothing and you really are ranting. |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 29, 2024 1:48:27 GMT
Republicans insisted on a border deal to pass aid for Ukraine. Democrats called their bluff and negotiated in good faith. Now House Republicans are refusing any deal because Trump wants to campaign on immigration. Pretty straightforward and easy to place blame squarely where it belongs on House Republicans for tanking a deal. Even Republicans are speaking out against their party for refusing to negotiate. The deal might not be perfect, but that’s the point of a compromise, everyone has to give a little to get a little. Republicans had a chance to pass immigration during Trump’s first 2 years but couldn’t accomplish it then either. Their excuse that the deal isn’t perfect is weak and coming directly from Trump who said no bill is better than a bad bill. This excuse is also a cover for the real reason why Republicans refuse to sign- the former guy wants to campaign on it. And we all know House Republicans just do his bidding. www.politico.com/news/2024/01/27/trump-mike-johnson-border-00138223www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1226883552/bipartisan-border-deal-at-risk-of-collapse-under-pressure-from-trumpwww.axios.com/2024/01/28/immigration-deal-congress-biden-trumpwww.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/28/border-bill-trump-lankford/“So we actually locked arms together and said we’re not going to give you money for this. We want a change in law,” Lankford said. “When we’re finally going to the end, they’re like, ‘Oh, just kidding. I actually don’t want a change in law because it’s a presidential election year.’ We all have an oath to the Constitution and we have a commitment to say we’re going to do whatever we can to be able to secure the border.” |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 29, 2024 1:56:55 GMT
If immigration could simply be solved through executive action alone, why didn’t Trump solve it during his 4 years? Immigration can’t be solved through executive action alone, it requires comprehensive Congressional reform. Our asylum system is outdated and underfunded. Securing the border requires Congressional funding that Republicans have been unwilling to provide during Biden's presidency. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/01/26/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-bipartisan-senate-border-security-negotiations/www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/01/27/biden-immigration-policy-trump/Biden signed more executive orders related to immigration than any other topic on his first day in office. He’s taken more than 500 executive actions since then, already surpassing former president Donald Trump’s four-year total, according to a recent tally by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute (MPI).
One problem for the Biden administration: The success of its policy initiatives relies in part on funding from Congress, and therefore support from at least some Republican lawmakers.
www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/why-the-u-s-immigration-system-is-strained-and-unable-to-handle-record-number-of-migrantsBut the asylum systems were never set up to manage and be responsive to huge humanitarian crises. So we have an asylum system that has worked pretty effectively until about the mid-20 teens. And at that time, across the Southwest border, which had not been a source of asylum seekers until just 10, 15 years ago, we began to see people from this hemisphere.
And they were seeking asylum because of the things that we have been talking about, but also because there aren't any other ways to access the United States for people who are looking for work in the country. So these are mixed flows. They are people that — some have some family members in the United States, are looking for jobs in the United States.
Some of them are eligible for asylum. Most of them are not. But asylum is the only way actually to get access to the U.S. immigration system, because our laws are so out of date.
One of the things that you have to bear in mind is that, when we ratchet up border security, which we have done over the last 25 years really, even before 9/11, we didn't do commensurate funding for the related portions of implementing that kind of policy. We didn't do commensurate spending for the asylum courts, for the immigration judges, for the other kinds of processing centers that are part and parcel of a more extensive border control strategy.
So I think that if we fully funded these other components of the judges, of asylum, of the processing centers, we would be better situated to process these asylum claims.
But I also, in this last moment, want to say, the onus is on Congress. That's where the power resides. The executive branch can only work on the margins. Congress sets these laws and makes these decisions. |
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Post by morecowbell on Jan 29, 2024 2:36:57 GMT
If 12 people a day kept illegally entering your home, taking up residence and the police cheif wasn't enforcing the law, but said he'd make you a deal to enforce the law. He said he'd enforce the law once it hit an average of 8 people a day illegally entering your home and taking up residence and you also have to donate to a charity that he champions even though you and everyone in your community already has given them millions. If you said no, do your fucking job, are YOU responsible for tanking the useless "deal"? Congratulations you have now reached the point where you are ranting and not making any sense. You might want to take a deep breath and step back for a minute. There are two options. Option #1 Let President Biden do stuff by Executive Order. I have said why I don’t support that. You can read it in the other post because I’m not going to repeat it here Option #2 Which I support. Have Congress do what they are elected to do and that is create legislation to deal with problems in this country. The Senators have done just that. However the House Republicans have said no way, let the President do it by executive order. And here’s why they are saying that. There is no way in hell the President can adequately address all the immigration issues that need to be addressed by Executive Order. And House Republicans know this which means they can continue to use immigration as a weapon against the President and Democrats. Nor do they want any legislation because that would be a combined effort which means they couldn’t seriously criticize it because they help create it. As to the Republicans wanting to sink any legislation, there is a post of trump saying just that. So based on your relentless harping about that “compassion” statement and that trump really meant what he said, you have to believe what he said in the post that I posted in one of the threads that it was ok to blame him for the Republicans sinking immigration reform legislation . That is my opinion on the subject and I’m more than comfortable with it. Agree or disagree that is your choice. However you may want to stop making posts like that rant above every time I post something that I agree with on this subject. It changes nothing and you really are ranting. I'm sorry you're having such a hard time with the English language. It is perfectly clear. If you also need to pretend any time someone disagrees with you it is ranting/frothing, or insert any other insult, then "YOU are not operating in good faith" as some of you like to say. Your tactic is so embarrassingly obvious. If you can't have a conversation with someone that does NOT end with you saying your piece and expecting everyone to agree or you try to silence them with personal attacks, then maybe YOU should be stepping back and taking a breath. At the very least. |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 29, 2024 2:40:05 GMT
Trump is bragging about interfering with the border deal www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/27/trump-border-biden/Trump brags about efforts to stymie border talks: ‘Please blame it on me’
The Republican front-runner slams bipartisan talks in the Senate for a deal as Biden calls for emergency authority to address surging crossings
Republican front-runner Donald Trump said he wants to be held responsible for blocking a bipartisan border security bill in the works in the Senate as President Biden seeks emergency authority to rein in a record surge of unauthorized border crossings.
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“As the leader of our party, there is zero chance I will support this horrible open borders betrayal of America,” Trump told a rowdy crowd of supporters at a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday, ahead of the state’s presidential caucus on Feb. 8. “I’ll fight it all the way. A lot of the senators are trying to say, respectfully, they’re blaming it on me. I say, that’s okay. Please blame it on me. Please.” |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 29, 2024 2:45:07 GMT
And the farce of the impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/28/house-republicans-mayorkas-impeachment/“This markup is just more of the same political games from House Homeland Security Committee Republicans,” a Homeland Security official said in response to the articles of impeachment. “They don’t want to fix the problem; they want to campaign on it. That’s why they have undermined efforts to achieve bipartisan solutions and ignored the facts, legal scholars and experts, and even the Constitution itself in their quest to baselessly impeach Secretary Mayorkas.” |
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Post by morecowbell on Jan 29, 2024 2:53:42 GMT
Trump is bragging about interfering with the border deal www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/27/trump-border-biden/Trump brags about efforts to stymie border talks: ‘Please blame it on me’
The Republican front-runner slams bipartisan talks in the Senate for a deal as Biden calls for emergency authority to address surging crossings
Republican front-runner Donald Trump said he wants to be held responsible for blocking a bipartisan border security bill in the works in the Senate as President Biden seeks emergency authority to rein in a record surge of unauthorized border crossings.
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“As the leader of our party, there is zero chance I will support this horrible open borders betrayal of America,” Trump told a rowdy crowd of supporters at a rally in Las Vegas on Saturday, ahead of the state’s presidential caucus on Feb. 8. “I’ll fight it all the way. A lot of the senators are trying to say, respectfully, they’re blaming it on me. I say, that’s okay. Please blame it on me. Please.”It's not a good "deal". |
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Post by morecowbell on Jan 29, 2024 2:59:48 GMT
And the farce of the impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/01/28/house-republicans-mayorkas-impeachment/“This markup is just more of the same political games from House Homeland Security Committee Republicans,” a Homeland Security official said in response to the articles of impeachment. “They don’t want to fix the problem; they want to campaign on it. That’s why they have undermined efforts to achieve bipartisan solutions and ignored the facts, legal scholars and experts, and even the Constitution itself in their quest to baselessly impeach Secretary Mayorkas.”Biden is doing that exactly. He created this crisis. He refuses to do his job in relation to it. He "needs" a deal in order to do his damn job. It's a ridiculous deal that will not secure the border, hence the objection. Biden knows that and he's using the rejection to blame Republicans. It's so absurdly obvious. |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 29, 2024 3:02:02 GMT
On a less serious note, I find it amusing that Trump supporters created this deep conspiracy about Taylor Swift and are clearly triggered by her. Personally, I don't have a strong opinion about her but I do think her relationship with Kelce is sweet.
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Post by morecowbell on Jan 29, 2024 4:12:25 GMT
Heavily-armed troops in Ecuador are now going car-to-car to find gang members. Meanwhile in the US, millions of totally unvetted military-age men from these locations flood the border every year. Twitter |
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Post by morecowbell on Jan 29, 2024 4:30:18 GMT
If immigration could simply be solved through executive action alone, why didn’t Trump solve it during his 4 years? Immigration can’t be solved through executive action alone, it requires comprehensive Congressional reform. Our asylum system is outdated and underfunded. Securing the border requires Congressional funding that Republicans have been unwilling to provide during Biden's presidency. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/01/26/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-bipartisan-senate-border-security-negotiations/www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/01/27/biden-immigration-policy-trump/Biden signed more executive orders related to immigration than any other topic on his first day in office. He’s taken more than 500 executive actions since then, already surpassing former president Donald Trump’s four-year total, according to a recent tally by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute (MPI).
One problem for the Biden administration: The success of its policy initiatives relies in part on funding from Congress, and therefore support from at least some Republican lawmakers.
www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/why-the-u-s-immigration-system-is-strained-and-unable-to-handle-record-number-of-migrantsBut the asylum systems were never set up to manage and be responsive to huge humanitarian crises. So we have an asylum system that has worked pretty effectively until about the mid-20 teens. And at that time, across the Southwest border, which had not been a source of asylum seekers until just 10, 15 years ago, we began to see people from this hemisphere.
And they were seeking asylum because of the things that we have been talking about, but also because there aren't any other ways to access the United States for people who are looking for work in the country. So these are mixed flows. They are people that — some have some family members in the United States, are looking for jobs in the United States.
Some of them are eligible for asylum. Most of them are not. But asylum is the only way actually to get access to the U.S. immigration system, because our laws are so out of date.
One of the things that you have to bear in mind is that, when we ratchet up border security, which we have done over the last 25 years really, even before 9/11, we didn't do commensurate funding for the related portions of implementing that kind of policy. We didn't do commensurate spending for the asylum courts, for the immigration judges, for the other kinds of processing centers that are part and parcel of a more extensive border control strategy.
So I think that if we fully funded these other components of the judges, of asylum, of the processing centers, we would be better situated to process these asylum claims.
But I also, in this last moment, want to say, the onus is on Congress. That's where the power resides. The executive branch can only work on the margins. Congress sets these laws and makes these decisions.Biden shattered the record with historic number of illegal immigrants in December Federal agents recorded 302,034 illegal alien encounters last month, the highest level ever recorded, surpassing the previous record of 269,735 that Biden set in September 2023. At least 19 illegal aliens who were arrested were on the terrorist watchlist.
Former Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf
“Today’s historical border numbers confirm what we already know. The Biden Admin is not using existing authority to secure the border. This continues to be a crisis by design, it’s overwhelming Border Patrol, and overrunning American communities.”
Biden went to court to prevent Texas from stopping this!!! |
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Post by aj2hall on Jan 29, 2024 13:53:02 GMT
The Republicans refusal to send aid to Israel and Ukraine is threatening peace around the world. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-28-2024In The Atlantic, Frum noted that “vital aid to Israel and Ukraine must be delayed and put in further doubt because of a rejected president’s spite and his party’s calculation of electoral advantage. The true outcome of the fiasco in Congress will be the collapse of U.S. credibility all over the world. American allies will seek protection from more trustworthy partners, and America itself will be isolated and weakened.” Rosenberg wrote: “If you are unhappy with Iran today, first thing you should do is come out for funding Ukraine fully. Nothing will embolden Iran more than a Russian victory in Europe.” |
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