In political parlance I think this is called “hang it around their neck”
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You think Schumer is going to do this and push for it to be passed…
Then blame Republicans when they can’t pass it without Dems?
And you think voters are dumb enough to believe that?
Like, even if that works, you’re just cool with America committing more human rights violations against asylum seekers for political points?
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I thought that’s why we all agreed republicans were the baddies, but it seems like more and more people just care about the letter by their name and nothing else.
Shit like this hurts Biden with Dem voters, and it will never get trumpets to vote Biden.
It’s political hardball. Republicans use this issue as a wedge. By making them declare on it as a stand alone measure, Democrats remove the issue. It could pass the Senate, but Johnson will never bring it to the floor in the House. The narrative will then be reinforced that Republicans don’t want to solve the problem, they just want to talk about it.
Biden and Schumer have been very open about how changing a Dem Senators mind on anything is impossible…
And it’s a 50/50 split in the Senate…
So what happens if just a single Dem does what Biden has been asking for and votes for this bill?
What happens if it’s a party line vote and the VP uses her tie breaker to do what the president keeps asking for?
Like. You’ve heard the name “Joe Manchin” before…
Haven’t you?
And if it passes the Senate, why wouldn’t the house pass it?
They’re playing with people’s fucking lives for decades in the future to pull some minor political points that won’t change a single vote from R but will decrease Dem turnout.
It makes literally no sense.
The scenario of a split is interesting but very low probability since there are Democraticame Senators who can make sure that doesn’t happen by their vote. I imagine there will be Democratic Senators voting for this bill. It’s not what they do that’s important, it’s what Republicans do. Johnson won’t bring it to the floor for the s reasons he didn’t last time. Trump told him not to.
The scenario of a split is interesting but very low probability since there are Democraticame Senators who can make sure that doesn’t happen by their vote.
How does your math work?
It takes a single D senator cough Joe Manchin cough voting for this for it to pass the Senate, then it will pass the Republican House.
You realize there are consequences for this that will last decades if it’s ever overturned?
This ain’t a fucking game, this effects peoples lives. It effects if people will live…
And playing with them like they’re pawns is something republicans do, Dems joining in hurts their turnout and when turnout is low, republicans win.
If it’s just political.points to show republicans won’t do anything, why not use healthcare?
Why use something that if literally anything goes different than expected, republicans win?
In a perfect world things could pass with a 50 vote + Kamala Harris majority, but the Senate has failed to operate like that since they engaged the filibuster death penalty in 2009 when Obama was elected.
60 votes are needed to proceed on ANYTHING in the Senate and with a 50/50 split, the votes from the other side just aren’t there.
Wasn’t it McConnell who did some shit like this, then when it was actually going to pass he had to filibuster his own bill?
Like 90% sure it was him
you are 100% right and Democrats and their supporters are fucking idiots.
This is the dumbest most raisin brained logic I’ve ever read.
It happens all the time here in Canada, opposition will bring motions doomed to fail just to have them in attack ads.
Idiotic, and people who think this is going to work is also idiotic.
President Joe Biden previously endorsed the border provisions, and while Trump and other Republicans have called it too weak, the bill would have marked a tough change to immigration law and would have given the president far-reaching powers to restrict illegal migrant crossings at the southern border.
The White House and top Democrats have discussed taking more action on the border ahead of the first presidential debate next month, CNN previously reported. Those plans, intended to strengthen the party’s hand on a critical campaign issue ahead of the 2024 election, also potentially include a sweeping executive order limiting migrants’ ability to seek asylum, sources have told CNN.
Biden’s getting protested by his own party for acting too much like Republicans…
So now Dems are going to act even more like Republicans? We can’t address real problems, but we’re working with republicans on “border security”?
If Dem voters always “vote blue no matter who” then the party is going to keep moving right under the misguided idea that trump voters will vote for Biden.
I truly wish it didn’t take abstaining from the vote to get the message across, I don’t even know if that will work honestly. But it’s clear they don’t give a fuck about protests when they’re in power to do something.
I’ve watched the party pull to the right for 30 years now. Shutting up and voting for the lesser of two evils isn’t sustainable long term. The party needs to move back to the left, but they never will if we keep blindly voting for Dems that agree with Republicans on this stupid shit.
Ma dude, you’re just ranting in this thread and not making much of a coherent argument or thought in context with the article. Politics is shitty. We get it.
Politics is shitty. We get it.
It doesn’t have to be, but the reason it is shitty, is people just accept that we can’t have anything more.
You get that right?
It’s not like there’s something magical about America that prevents decent politicians from fixing things.
It’s just money in politics keeping it this way. And both parties like that money.
That’s why BVF can coordinate with the party and Biden’s campaign while taking up to a million a year from each donor.
Republicans have been manufacturing outrage at the border to score political points on a regular basis, like that migrant caravan which convenes every four years like a Fox News political convention.
However, this recent crisis is a bit different, as we have numbers that show that there have been an increase in asylum claims at the border vs. before the Pandemic, which is overwhelming the courts that handle this sort of thing. If someone makes it over the border and claims asylum, it can take years to get a hearing, and in the meantime they can live and work here. That was not the intent behind the asylum process.
Some Senators on both sides realized this, and used the opportunity to try and fix the asylum process. Yes, it also reduces the types of people who could claim asylum. But it also addresses critical staffing shortages in CBP and other agencies who have to deal with the influx of migrants on a daily basis.
So, this is an evidence-based attempt to make things better. So, of course, Trump is against it, because using immigration as a campaign plank matters more to him than fixing the problem. As much as he complains about it, having the problem to talk about is more valuable to him than fixing it.
So, this is an evidence-based attempt to make things better
Just because Republicans keep saying something doesn’t make it “evidence”…
If that was true, Joe Biden would be a Communist that’s more progressive than AOC, whose trying to pass strict gun laws, tax the rich, fight climate change, and get universal healthcare.
I’d love for that to be true, but it’s not. And republicans repeating it over and over again won’t suddenly make it try.
Just because Republicans keep saying something doesn’t make it “evidence”…
Maybe this does:
A Sober Assessment of the Growing U.S. Asylum Backlog
At the end of FY 2012, over 100,000 asylum cases were pending in the Immigration Court’s backlog. A decade later, the backlog had grown over 7-fold to over 750,000 cases in September at the end of FY 2022. Since then, in just the first two months of FY 2023 (October-November 2022), the asylum backlog jumped by over 30,000 new cases and now totals 787,882. See Figure 1.
What?
You think the existence of a large backlog of asylum seekers… Means we should deny all asylum seekers?
I don’t understand any of that logic…
Wouldn’t the fix be to process all those applications?
You don’t think people waiting years for asylum are going to try and cross illegally out of desperation?
I appreciate you linking that to show an actual problem with the border, but I have zero idea how you think this makes it better instead of worse.
Like, at all, unless I’m confused and you’ve been agreeing with me this whole time, I don’t understand why you would link something so harmful to your own argument
You think the existence of a large backlog of asylum seekers… Means we should deny all asylum seekers?
I never said that, and that’s not what this bill does. If you are going to lie about stuff, then there is no point to argue with you.
So what does the bill that’s a “compromise” with republicans do to clear the backlog of asylum seekers?
Quite a bit. Have you read the bill? Section I is doing a lot of hiring and training changes for border personnel. Section II is entirely centered on enhancements to the asylum review process. It’s mostly minutiae like streamlining certain bars for entry and such. There is also the contentious 5k/day (likely to be 4k under an R admin since it’s discretionary) threshold in Section III that triggers a full stop to entry until some of the backlog is cleared. Not sure I fully agree with that one but it will indisputably have an impact on the backlog.
Democrats don’t seem to be interested whatsoever in the will of.thwir voters.
