Senate to Vote Again on Border Deal as Democrats Seek Political Edge
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The bipartisan border enforcement compromise, blocked by Republicans in February, is all but certain to be thwarted again. Democrats aim to tag the G.O.P. as the culprit in its failure.

Among other changes to immigration law, the measure would make it more difficult to gain asylum in the United States and increase detentions and deportations of those crossing into the country without authorization. It would also effectively close the border altogether if the average number of migrants encountered by immigration officials exceeded a certain threshold — an average of 5,000 over the course of a week or 8,500 on any given day. The bill also would give the president power to close the border unilaterally if migrant encounters reach an average of 4,000 per day over a week.

  • alcoholicornOP
    222·
    13 days ago

    I know a lot of loony leftists are saying things like “this is a violation of international law”, and “Why are you passing Republican policies, do you want Trump to win”, but they don’t understand: if you triangulate yourself to be one iota to the left of Trump, every center-right moderate republican will vote democrat. And everyone left of them has to vote democrat anyway, so you’ll win an overwhelming majority, Just like what happened in 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2022!

    • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      13·
      13 days ago

      I know a lot of loony leftists are saying things like “this is a violation of international law”

      Shitlibs in a nutshell

      Edit: Okay thank goodness you’re being sarcastic.

    • CobblerScholar@lemmy.world
      18·
      13 days ago

      Not only that but they worked the GOP into a corner. Either they take up the deal and pass their golden border bill and it’s no longer something they can screech about for the next 6 months or they do nothing, the bill dies again and the Dems can again prove that the Right doesn’t actually want to fix anything

      • alcoholicornOP
        81·
        13 days ago

        I don’t know how I can make the sarcasm any more obvious.

        This strategy lost Obama the house and senate, same with Biden in 2022. Turns out triangulation doesn’t work. It just demotivates your base while your “moderate republicans” vote for fascism instead of diet-fascism.

        The democrats can produce a river of foreign blood. Republicans will still win the right by promising to double it, and everyone who is horrified by the democrats actions will vote in lower numbers.

        • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          6·
          13 days ago

          I don’t know how I can make the sarcasm any more obvious.

          I mean you could have put the /s at the end. I’m not that good at detecting sarcasm in text.

          But also… shitlibs will actually say stuff like this unironically.

          • alcoholicornOP
            51·
            13 days ago

            OK, but they wouldn’t cite years the dems got massacred in the house or senate in response to democrats trying to appeal to the mythical “moderate republican” instead of the base.