Why didn’t Biden do this in 2021? Any guesses?
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Biden’s Illegal Immigration Executive Action
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One lady theory. Seems spot on.
“Why didn’t he do this day one? Why wait until a crisis unfolds and take action 3 years later just ahead of an election?
I recall he invited all immigrants to come here as a campaign promise.
He has walked through millions of illegal immigrants and last week quietly absolved over 300k applications for amnesty.
He also said he couldn’t take any executive action, he needed more congressional authority than he had to take any action.
This all seems like a calculated political movement to me. Sorry Ed. This is a sh!tshow from day 1 of his presidency.”
“Why didn’t he do this day one? Why wait until a crisis unfolds and take action 3 years later just ahead of an election?
I recall he invited all immigrants to come here as a campaign promise.
He has walked through millions of illegal immigrants and last week quietly absolved over 300k applications for amnesty.
He also said he couldn’t take any executive action, he needed more congressional authority than he had to take any action.
This all seems like a calculated political movement to me. Sorry Ed. This is a sh!tshow from day 1 of his presidency.”
Because he mistakenly believed that Rs actually wanted to work toward solving the problem?
I’m sure because of the election mainly. But I would assume he was hoping something would be passed into law as well.
So he has been in politics for 50 years and never got it done, then thought in year 46 it would magically happen? That’s pretty damned dumb if you ask me.
But hey, Democrats got what 10(?) million new dependents to affect consensus numbers, electoral voters, and Federal apportionments.
This was by design.
Why didn’t Obama/Biden get this done in 2009-2010 when they had the Presidency, House, & Senate?
Weird.
Weird.
Same question about Trump's first two years?
I'm guessing it was a ploy to get as many Tesla buyers into the US as possible before the election.
He was busy trying to get a wall built and passed multiple illegal immigration EOs IIRC.
This was very obviously the plan.
And by addressing the border now, he hopes to get the support back from some that have been pissed off about it over the last three years.
The levels politicians are willing to go to…These F’ing games are terrible.
can you really not figure out why immigration wasn't a priority during a national economic disaster that lead to reduced immigration numbers?
you don't know why they didn't choose that time to do the first comprehensive immigration legislation in 30 years?
Like he was busy with infrastructure week and his health insurance overhaul.
i actually agree
trump prioritized a wall and temporary EOs to deal with immigration instead of meaningful legislative changes
i don't think that's an accident. you don't want to fundamentally solve or fix any potential campaign issues. you want to improve them enough to take credit for them, but still have them on the teetering edge so that you can always point to it and say "elect me or all that will change". doing EOs instead of legislation accomplishes just that
in general, trump had very few legislative victories. everything other than the tax cuts was through executive action
Then why did he undo all of trump's executive actions on the southern border on day 1, more than doubling the annual crossings? And why did democrats then lie for 3.5 years and claim there was no crisis? This was repeated routinely. You said there was no crisis but expected republican support in fixing said non-existent crisis? Wat?
So then everyone who said walls don't work were right?
Weird how "illegal immigrants" is a thing again....
Biden feels comfortable over ruling the Supreme Court and paying everyone’s college bills but felt he didn’t feel he had the authority to act on the border. Lol. Smh…..
This was all intentional by the Biden Administration.
The wait.What was? Doing what you've been begging him to do?
What was? Doing what you've been begging him to do?
I didn't beg him to encourage a surge, open up the flood gates and restrict deportations.
This is all of the dems own making.
You're not going to gaslight your way out of this one.
If they don’t apply for asylum at a port of entry they are in the country illegally, no?
I bet you I could break down 90% of the political conversations on this board:
"My side is infallible and everything good that has ever happened is because of us. Your side sucks and everything bad that has ever happened is because of you."
Why do I read it do you ask? I have no idea.
"My side is infallible and everything good that has ever happened is because of us. Your side sucks and everything bad that has ever happened is because of you."
Why do I read it do you ask? I have no idea.
It's a nice first step, but without meaningful border legislation it's unlikely to move the needle in terms of true border security. And republicans have refused to consider border legislation for decades.
Another 4-D chess move by Biden despite being a senile old man. Is he a mastermind, or an empty suit? Tune in next week on Election '24.
You have become such a partisan hack. No president has solved the immigration problem. Republican or Democrat.
It's Congress' job to fix. Not the POTUS.
And turning down an immigration deal that dems and repubs put together
Trump rejects immigration compromise
By Tal Kopan, CNN
WashingtonCNN —
President Donald Trump on Friday morning delivered a potentially fatal blow to a compromise immigration bill under development in the House.
Trump said on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” that he is not planning to sign the negotiated measure.
“I’m looking at both of them. I certainly wouldn’t sign the more moderate one,” Trump said when asked about the two bills teed up for votes next week – the compromise and a conservative-preferred bill. “I need a bill that gives this country tremendous border security. I have to have that. We have to get rid of catch-and-release.”
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Republicans on Capitol Hill were caught off guard by the comment – with many spinning it their own way. Moderates said they expected the White House to clarify the President wasn’t rejecting the compromise, while conservatives hailed it as an indication that the bill needs to move further to the right.
The rejection of the compromise also contradicted messaging from the White House in recent days.
Earlier this week, top White House adviser Stephen Miller, a known hardliner on immigration, was on the Hill telling key conservatives the White House was supportive of the negotiations on the bill, and House Speaker Paul Ryan told his GOP members behind closed doors that he had been in touch with Trump who was “excited” about the process.
But a follow-up tweet from the President later Friday did little to clear up the confusion – repeating a false claim blaming Democrats for criticism of his own policies and demanding any immigration bill contain all of the things that the bill he attacked that morning in fact contains.
“The Democrats are forcing the breakup of families at the Border with their horrible and cruel legislative agenda. Any Immigration Bill MUST HAVE full funding for the Wall, end Catch & Release, Visa Lottery and Chain, and go to Merit Based Immigration. Go for it! WIN!” Trump tweeted.
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The draft bill released Thursday included Trump’s requested $25 billion for his border wall and required much more detention of undocumented immigrants – addressing what Trump calls “catch and release.” It also ends the diversity visa lottery and cuts family-based migration, what Trump refers to as “chain,” and diverts those visas into a merit-based system that DACA recipients could apply for.
Trump also was falsely blaming Democrats for his own administration’s decision to criminally charge every adult immigrant caught crossing the border. It was that decision in May that resulted in a substantial increase in family separations, as children are separated from their parents when the adults are sent into the criminal justice system. Under the previous administration, families were only referred to the immigration courts for deportation proceedings or to have asylum claims heard, and were released with monitoring due to constraints on detention.
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Without Trump’s support, and with a pledge to veto the legislation, it would be almost impossible to pass the legislation in the House, as members across the ideological spectrum are already hesitant to back the legislation on the political third rail issue and many lawmakers have said they are only interested in a bill that can become law.
The draft bill is the product of weeks of negotiations behind closed doors between Republican moderates and conservatives, convened by leadership after dueling rebellions by both flanks.
Though the parties reached a compromise to move forward, they have never promised the bill will have enough votes to pass, and both conservative and moderate members who helped craft the bill said Thursday they were already seeking changes to it before they could pledge support.
CNN’s Donald Judd contributed to this report.
@SI_NYC Will you concede that Biden's messaging and revocation of Trump EOs has caused the worst immigration crisis of any president in the country's history?
