Making it harder for migrants to qualify for asylum and deporting more recently arrived migrants are considered “low hanging fruit” and actions that can be taken quickly.
Ffs! This is the OPPOSITE of what they should be doing!
There’s a lot of illegal immigration because doing it legally can take many years and tens of thousands of dollars. Even if your life is literally in danger in your home country or “safe intermediary” or whatever nonsense the racist Trump administration came up with!
Making it harder to even APPLY for asylum and easy for ICE thugs quickly deport those that don’t live up to the new standards are going to cause two things:
1: A shitload of refugees being killed, persecuted and otherwise abused in their country of origin or elsewhere in the region because they got turned away
2: MORE illegal immigration as doing it legally becomes harder without the conditions people are fleeing from (a huge chunk of which are at the very least indirectly caused by US meddling) being resolved.
Yup. DNC is, as always, laser focused on the tiny sliver of the electorate between the most conservative Democrats and the least conservative Republicans while completely disregarding the tens of millions of ideologically disenfranchised potential voters to the left of them. Same as they’ve done since 1992.
It produces ridiculously narrow (considering that the alternatives are always idiots, obviously corrupt, or both) presidential victories and congressional majorities at the best of times, but this time I’m afraid it’s going to cost them the presidency.
And, despite the propaganda from them and their blindly loyal party soldiers, if that happens, it will be THEIR fault, not the fault of the voters who they simultaneously alienate and take for granted.
They always try to appeal to the right while punching left. It’s no wonder liberals are supporting right wing candidates like Biden. They’ve moved so far to the right in their pursuit of right wing voters they’ve become one of them.
If voters actually care about policies and the border is a major issue then it’s a smart political move. You essentially pull the rug out from the republican party and leave them nothing to work with, cause they voted against border policy changes recently.
The issue is that I’m not sure voters care. It’s become so hard to understand if any of this positioning matters or if democrats would just be better off doing what the Republicans do and just try cram through legislation regardless of whether they can actually pass anything.
Ffs! This is the OPPOSITE of what they should be doing!
There’s a lot of illegal immigration because doing it legally can take many years and tens of thousands of dollars. Even if your life is literally in danger in your home country or “safe intermediary” or whatever nonsense the racist Trump administration came up with!
Making it harder to even APPLY for asylum and easy for ICE thugs quickly deport those that don’t live up to the new standards are going to cause two things:
1: A shitload of refugees being killed, persecuted and otherwise abused in their country of origin or elsewhere in the region because they got turned away
2: MORE illegal immigration as doing it legally becomes harder without the conditions people are fleeing from (a huge chunk of which are at the very least indirectly caused by US meddling) being resolved.
Yup. Election year, Biden’s beginning his shift to the right.
Yup. DNC is, as always, laser focused on the tiny sliver of the electorate between the most conservative Democrats and the least conservative Republicans while completely disregarding the tens of millions of ideologically disenfranchised potential voters to the left of them. Same as they’ve done since 1992.
It produces ridiculously narrow (considering that the alternatives are always idiots, obviously corrupt, or both) presidential victories and congressional majorities at the best of times, but this time I’m afraid it’s going to cost them the presidency.
And, despite the propaganda from them and their blindly loyal party soldiers, if that happens, it will be THEIR fault, not the fault of the voters who they simultaneously alienate and take for granted.
They always try to appeal to the right while punching left. It’s no wonder liberals are supporting right wing candidates like Biden. They’ve moved so far to the right in their pursuit of right wing voters they’ve become one of them.
If voters actually care about policies and the border is a major issue then it’s a smart political move. You essentially pull the rug out from the republican party and leave them nothing to work with, cause they voted against border policy changes recently.
The issue is that I’m not sure voters care. It’s become so hard to understand if any of this positioning matters or if democrats would just be better off doing what the Republicans do and just try cram through legislation regardless of whether they can actually pass anything.