Pretty accurate.
Republicans got a redder than red firebreather in senator James Lankford to draft what they wanted in a bill, and then were surprised that Democrats simply agreed to implement everything they asked for.
How can you ask 'maybe'? There isn't anyone on either side that doesn't understand that is exactly what is happening. They are desperate for the crisis to persist. After all, it's a useful distraction from the fact that the Republican party has nothing tangible to offer for actual working and middle class voters.
Hey Endymio, Your trying to reason with this "beerfloat" individual who's been groomed. Don't bother.
Exactly. Biden stopped the construction of the border wall, Biden rescinded the catch and release process that Trump had initiated, etc. It's only now that Biden wants to do something about the border situation because even some of his base is getting annoyed with the crap that's happening. This is nothing more than Biden attempting to buy votes during an election year.
So why did the Biden Administration recently reverse course and claim a border wall is essential?
Asylum law is fine. Congress required the burden of proof for such claims to be upon the asylum seeker. Biden, however, passed an executive order allowing any claim from any individual from any country -- no matter how flimsy -- to be sufficient to allow them to be released into the country on their own recognizance. Oh, and he also allows those crossing illegally (which used to mean automatic rejection to claim asylum if they're caught.
Haha, no need to be coy because you already know exactly what happened there. The money for that stretch was appropriated by Congress before Biden took office. They refused to have it re-allocated, so the President had to follow Congress' instructions, despite reiterating that he does not believe the wall is an effective measure. You know, because that's what a normal executive is supposed to do. Maybe you should review civics 101 - Trump certainly does.
Yes, there are several reasons in fact, and I'm not denying asylum policy is one of them, which is why it so desperately needs to be fixed properly. But the most important one by far is the record number of job openings that we now have. By all common measures, Biden's economy is soaring.
They do, though. The biggest category of illegal immigrants over the last 10 years has consistently been visa overstayers, not the wetbacks of the right wing fever dreams. And I think you actually know this to be true. You're not RudyBob or TheRealSCDC after all.
An excellent example of what George Orwell called "DoubleThink": the ability of a zealous adherent's ability to believe in absurd, even contradictory statements to show their loyalty to the cause. Congress didn't make Joe Biden stop wall construction:
Caught lying again:
Yeah, exactly. That's what I said. Congress insisted it be continued and he wanted it stopped. You are the one who is claiming Biden thinks a wall is needed. Reading comprehension?
I specifically mentioned the trend over 10 years, which is what policy makers should have been basing decisions on. But didn't - see the ill-conceived wall.
Oops! New York Times, Oct 2023:
The "trend over 10 years" stopped when Joe Biden took office. Now the vast majority of immigrants are crossing illegally by land, and all your comments that "they come by air and sea" and "most are just visa overstays" are proven misinformation.
Uh right. I guess you have been the land of alternative facts, too, when Biden wanted to do something and negotiated in good faith to do something but then your king orangutan buffoon ordered his serfs to reject Biden's negotiations so the king orangutan buffoon himself could fix it. Good luck with that.
And you guys think you will be further ahead with the king orangutan buffoon. Talk about clueless.
Catch and release. Yet another extremely effective Trump policy - in the land of alternative facts. Haven't you learned your lesson yet?
Hmmm. Let's see. Two whole years of complete "Republican" control - and it wasn't fixed. Ah yes. That's Biden's fault in the land of alternative facts.
Wow! Talk about citing ancient history. A fossilized dinosaur turd, this one is.
Illegal border crossings 2020: 409,000.
Eh? The actions I cited were from Biden's first year in office. Two years ago is "ancient history"?
So you prefer doing absolutely nothing? Kinda what the GOP is doing right now hoping to win votes out of all of this.
No, he didn't "drop" the sanctions, no he didn't give his "pipelines" back. and it is a known fact that Trump would have just let Ukraine fall (he said so himself).
The facts contradict you:
Russia would have never invaded in the first place. Groups like Cato were predicting a full year before the invasion that Biden's policies would lead to all-out war with Russia. The Biden Administration demanded Nato treat Ukraine as a member in all but name only; held Nato 'training exercises' in Ukraine only a few miles from the Russian border; wrote a Nato MAP (membership plan) for Ukraine; and stationed a brigade of US military troops in Ukraine as "trainers and advisors". All this despite past promises that Nato would not expand eastward, and ever-escalating Russian demands for talks on the issue.
Ah, got it, that sanction is what you were talking about. The pipeline would have been built regardless and the sanction was removed to please Germany, not Russia. Biden took advantage of that to mend broken relationships in europe, broken because of Trump.
So your argument is, that since Russia would have "gotten around sanctions" anyway, just lift them all? Biden lifting those sanctions allowed construction to resume and emboldened Russia, almost as much as when Biden went on live TV and green-lighted a "minor incursion" into Ukraine.
Luckily Trump did neither. While Biden advised Obama to send Ukraine nothing but blankets and helmets, Trump was the first US President to approve actual weapons. And the "blackmail" was Trump asking Ukraine to investigate what we now know was an actual crime -- Joe's son being paid millions of dollars to shield Burisma from prosecution. The emails and text messages of Hunter's and Burisma's founder Mykola Zlochevsky make that abudantly clear.
And so 2020 and prior illegal border crossings did not count? Yes? Humpty Trumpty is the one who said a wall was needed yet did little more than put up Renyolds Aluminum Wrap across the border and thought it would stop illegal border crossings. Laughable. OPPPPsies! Humpty Trumpty did jack, and claimed he solved the problem. So typical of Humpty Trumpty just like his ineffective Chinese tariffs that US Citizens were paying. At least Biden has the Chinese sanctions right - its actually hurting the Chinese economy. Instead, some of those here are studying fossilized dinosaur crap.
Actual crime?
Yes, just like all the "evidence" that the GOP claims to have on Joe Biden - that's why they have impeached him. Who's witch hunting who? And I'm Mary Poppins - to borrow the phrase from Kojak.
Fortunately, I think enough people see the BS that the GOP is spewing. I think their "election strategy" will backfire on them.
