The bill in question is the one Biden tried to pass, but was blocked by republicans after Trump called it a bad bill, despite containing only things the republicans want.
It would enable the president to shut down the border and gives billions to ICE, CPB, US Marshals, etc to increase detention capacity, train additional personnel, etc. It also gave billions to Israel and Ukraine.
Kamala gonna have the immigrant vote locked up.
Fucking why?
The Democrats are trying to fight a problem that has been entirely fabricated by the Republican party. There is no migrant crime wave, there is no “invasion” on the southern border, and there is no reason to implement harsher restrictions on the border than to appeal to voters who do not live in our reality.
There are definitely good steps we can make on immigration reform, namely funding for more judges to hear more asylum cases to try and punch through the backlog, but adopting a draconian policy because a propoganda machine has spread a myth is not the way forward. Trying to pass legislation like this just gives the myths made by Fox News more credibility.
so more kids in detention centers?
Conventional wisdom among Democrats since the Clinton administration has been: “if you triangulate yourself to be one iota to the left of the opposition, every center-right moderate republican will vote democrat. And everyone left of them has to vote democrat anyway, so you’ll win a majority as long as you’re right of the majority. If you lose, it’s because you didn’t go far enough to the right.”
This doesn’t actually work, since fascists just vote for the real thing over diet-fascism, and democrats passing right-wing policy decreases their turnout, but pretending it does allows them to justify policies that don’t conflict with their donor’s interests.
Just run as a republican if you want republican voters so bad
