I mean, we should be criticizing anyone moving forward on a border wall, regardless of party. It’s a laughably stupid idea that will damage or destroy habitats and people will just walk around it or climb it because it turns out ladders have been invented. It did sound a little like they had to move forward because money had been appropriated for it, and I’m willing to revise my opinion of doing it if there’s info I don’t have, but I’m still going to stand by the part where it’s bad and stupid.
Well, their issue is the opposite of what you think it is…
I’m not sure what that means. Like I said, I’m happy to get more info, but I’ve been at work all day and basically had time to skim one article, so I’m not claiming to be an expert at all.
Eta: oh, if you meant the 3 “democrats” in this particular article wanting Biden to build it, they also deserve to be criticized for supporting it. The article I read earlier was critical of building it, from a slightly more left-leaning source.
I knew this would be the spin.
Get bent, corporate news.
Biden is trying to court Republicans and it’s not going to work. Ever. SMH
From another article
In the Oval Office on Thursday, Biden made clear that he was moving forward with wall construction grudgingly, in order to comply with funds appropriated by Congress in 2019. He said he had tried and failed to get Congress to redirect the funding it had allocated for wall construction in south Texas. “The money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get them to reappropriate, to redirect that money. They didn’t. They wouldn’t. In the meantime, there’s nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated for. I can’t stop that,” he said.
Research the damn issues before forming opinions about them people
The reality is you have to have a border even if you’re a Democrat you have to admit that.
Edit: I Hate fucking Trump With a white hot passion, but nonetheless, if illegal immigration hadn’t subsided, we wouldn’t be seeing the Unions making the progress that they have.
Now don’t get me wrong. Most of the reduced inflows are because Mexicans have chosen not to come here, not because the borders have been closed.
Either way, it has been good for American wages.
Ah yes, Unions were just waiting for border security to become established prior to organizing efforts. That makes total sense.
If you start a Union and they can just close and move to a place with excess labor pushing down wages it makes sense to think twice.
They can do that with or without border security.
Right, it’s the people looking to survive who are to blame, not the capitalists and politicians that enable them, who exploit them for starvation wage so that you can be paid the bare legal minimum and not only be grateful, but wilfully ignorant and spiteful enough to blame those worse off than you instead of those actually responsible.
Racist clown.
That has absolutely nothing to do whatsoever with my comment.
I Hate fucking Trump With a white hot passion, but
Was wondering when this was gonna get here.
Meh…
Article list three “democrats” by name:
Enrique Roberto “Henry” Cuella, who unsurprisinfly just goes by Henry.
Claims to fame:
He fired a staffer for being pregnant, was appointed as Texas secretary of state by total shitstain Rick Perry, and recently described himself as a “conservative democrat”, wants abortion to be illegal, and his house was searched by the FBI last year for taking bribes from Azerbaijan…
Eric Adams, I don’t think I need to explain to anyone why he isn’t really a dem.
J.B. Pritzker, stupidly wealthy… like, just an obsence amount of inherited wealth he never earned.
His family has been in the top 10 for Forbes “wealthiest families” since they started reporting that 40 years ago. More importantly he’s on an FBI wiretap talking to the then Gov of Illinois about what political appointment he wanted in exchange for a shit ton of donations. To become the Gov, he spent over $171,500,000 of his own fortune. He’s literally just been using his family wealth to buy his way into power for decades.
I’m far from a fan of Biden, but I don’t care what any of these chucklefucks have to say.
He fired a staffer for being pregnant, was appointed as Texas secretary of state by total shitstain Rick Perry, and recently described himself as a “conservative democrat”, wants abortion to be illegal, and his house was searched by the FBI last year for taking bribes from Azerbaijan…
And the party supported him in a recent primary, ostensibly because he was the incumbent, but really because his opponent was progressive and the party preferred this guy.
Moderate politics always reminds me of a basketball game where half of the players on one team bet they’d win, but not cover the spread
So they end up still trying to beat the other team, but also sabotaging their own team so they don’t win by too much and lose their bet.
Then when they end up losing, they blame the half of their teammates who were just trying to win.
I have an idea, let’s build a big Migrant Processing center close to the border. Staff it and stock it with everything required (ie medical, security, temporary housing), treat people like people. And call it Latin Island.
Giant ‘statue of freedom’. They could use the sombrero from South Of The Border.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
But with tens of thousands of migrants now attempting to settle in blue states and cities around the country, the ground has shifted in the national immigration debate, with Democrats increasingly calling on President Joe Biden to take action on the border.
Late Wednesday, the Biden administration took an extraordinary step of waiving a slew of environmental laws to move forward with construction of a roughly 20-mile stretch of new border wall in southern Texas.
Though the White House says the decision to move forward with new border wall construction was not tied to calls for action from blue state governors, it comes after their agitation grew to a crescendo.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, has lashed out at the Biden administration and the Department of Homeland Security, which in turn criticized his handling as “not an operationally sound effort.”
For its part, the White House has said that it’s deployed 800 new active-duty military personnel to increase enforcement at the border, as well as recently granting Temporary Protected Status to Venezuelan migrants who arrived before July 31, allowing them easier access to work permits.
In an interview, Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas — who has long accused the federal government for not paying enough attention to border communities — said Democratic officials in northern cities like New York and Chicago had underestimated the problem that migrant influxes pose.
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