Border hawks may be cheering the demise of the Senate bill, but they will regret it.

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If the goal was to entice undeserving applicants, you couldn’t design a worse combination of policy and resources. In comparison, the bipartisan proposal is designed to deny more cases at the initial stage and get final decisions on all cases in a matter of months.

For immigration hardliners, the moment of leverage had finally arrived: More enforcement without amnesty. However, instead of seizing this likely once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, House Republicans and former President Trump argued that the bill was not the hardliner wish list they preferred and successfully convinced most Senate Republicans to block the bill.

This one-sided deal that favors Republican enforcement policy is unlikely to ever reappear. There has never been another moment this century when Democrats agreed to enforcement legislation without meaningful legalization provisions. Nor have they ever agreed to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to anywhere near the level needed to locate and deport millions of individuals already in the country illegally.

  • CobblerScholar@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Typical behavior, I don’t know why it’s even news that Republicans shoot themselves in the foot to give them a reason to scream. They are the child that just realized they could break things to get attention and they should be treated the same way.

  • LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Republicans would NEVER want to fix immigration and secure the border. They want those issues to get as messy as possible so that they can run election on those issues.

    Same for healthcare - anyone even cares or can remember “repeal and replace Obamacare” anymore?

    • 5C5C5C@programming.dev
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      8 months ago

      This is exactly what I thought about abortion rights but they really went and plowed ahead on that.

      Now they’ve shifted the culture wars over to trans rights and whatever other kinds of bigotry they can muster up. There’s really no bottom to the depths of horribleness that they’re willing to plumb.

      • BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca
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        8 months ago

        important distinction that it wasn’t the legislature that repealed abortion rights. it was a couple of true believers, unconcerned about reelection, that the party cheated the system to get them onto the supreme court. if they’d known their nominees were lying about their stances on roe, i doubt they’d have been confirmed.

  • TwattyMcTwatterson@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Unfortunately, this has never been about immigration and Republicans don’t give a shit about immigration. All they care about is reelecting the rapist.