Immigrants are my community. My friends, my neighbors, my coworkers. Am I supposed to just other them while people I care about are fearing for their lives all around me? If you're more upset at people seeing immigrants as part of their community than at what's happening to them something's wrong
I'm upset at Americans who center pro-immigration Americans in this conversation and not immigrants. This is how your country ends up only passing liminalization laws like TPS and DACA that create the machinery allowing a future president to engage in mass deportation, instead of regularization.
DACA was not a law, neither was TPS. It was administrative action because the US senate requires a 3/5 majority to pass anything non-fiscal unless the filibuster gets blown up, which I don’t oppose but try convincing senators who like that veto point.
Yes. In 2017 it became clear that any liminal protection that relied on executive action was a fraud of a promise because it could be undone by executive action. So why did Biden repeat the same strategy?
It is the appearance of doing something. And it does provide temporary protection. Biden had no authority to cancel student loans but even that temporary relief was helpful to the millions that got it.