Steve Benen: Last fall, Democrats wanted to pass a security aid package. Republicans responded that they'd support such a bill, but only if Democrats agreed to add conservative provisions related to immigration and border policy. Democrats agreed to the GOP's demands, negotiated a bipartisan border bill, and packaged the two policies together. Republicans, acting at Donald Trump's behest, killed the compromise plan they demanded. Republican leaders eventually agree to pass a security aid package without immigration and border reforms.
@#8 ... Let's say, for argument's sake, that MAGA only got 80% of what they wanted on the border.
In the end they torpedoed that 80% for a whopping 0%. ...
It wasn't even that they didn't get all they wanted. Yup, they got most of what they wanted. The main negotiator in the Senate was a Republican (Sen Lankford of Oklahoma), and he said the changes to the asylum process were dramatic.
An Analysis of the Senate Border Bill
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org
... Summary
If passed in its current form, the Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act would be the most sweeping immigration bill of the twenty-first century. It would overhaul the process for seeking asylum in the United States"and impose an "emergency authority" that would leave asylum fully out of reach for those crossing between ports of entry for much of the next three years. It would attempt to address issues like work permits and years-long waits for asylum seekers, and also raise the initial standard a person must pass in order to access our asylum system. It would expand additional visas and future green card availability and offer a pathway to citizenship to Afghans, while also significantly increasing detention capacity. It is a mixed bag.
Overall, the bill represents a serious attempt to acknowledge, and solve, some of the key problems with current border and asylum policy, and to address the federal government's failure to manage migration in a way that supports American communities and respects humanitarian needs. In particular, it aims to reduce the frequency with which people wait years for a final outcome on their asylum case. However, its positive steps in this direction are smothered by a new "emergency authority" that repeats mistakes made by the Trump and Biden administrations: making protection much less available for those in need, while failing to send a clear message to future arrivals.
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Fmr Pres Trump gave orders to kill the bill because he wants border security as a political issue, and not as a solution. Indeed, he even said to blame him to the failure of the bill to pass.
You're the ones who are claiming this bill, that Democrats didn't even pass, gave Republicans everything they wanted.
It's incumbent on you to make the case.
#7 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER
The bill was literally crafted by Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma.
Mitch McConnell was backing it.
Everything they wanted? No. A lot of it? Yep. So Republicans CHOSE the status quo and then you blame Dems.
And the House can't even pass a Border Bill right now. www.axios.com
Any other idiotic things you want to say?
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