My main gripe is that literally none of these policy proposals address any of the systemic issues with the american immigration system or DHS. Everything proposed here is one GOP trifecta away from getting nuked from orbit which makes the entire debate mute…
I largely did believe the Biden theory of the case that good governance and bipartisanship would break the fever and we all know how that went so why are we doing this all over again on the exact same issues?
It’s why I’m far more open to these types of candidates than I have been in the past, because whatever qualms I have about populism, at least they want systemic change and not *handwaves* whatever the new dems are proposing
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Man ICE/CBP is really trying to beat out frontex for the title of most heinous border enforcement agency
Meanwhile Mexico is enjoying a tourist boom. Not because we improved the safety issues much, but because we seem to be a better destination than USA.
The US is just a pit of fucking monsters now. Jeezus.
what is the man’s policy on gallows
At the end of the day, ending the War on Drugs will have the highest impact on ending immigration from C and S America. Its just hard to know whether saying that out loud, now, will change the debate, or make it worse? Will the Confeds already against drugs be worse ending the war, or accept it?
Our man is pro Ukraine aid and thinks USAID should be restored........so that's something
I'm a firm believer in good governance but also in that you're going to have to shove it down the throat of a decent proportion of the American public and then shout at them the reasons why it's good for them to get even the slightest bit of traction on it
Yeah it seems to me like any plan that doesn't treat the GOP, as it is currently constituted, as a gang of criminals, is just planning to hand the reins back to the gang of criminals...
Yeah, bipartisanship is dead. We need openly partisan Democratic newspapers. We need I've Had It to be full on regime pilled.
To be fair we might very well not be, the new Dems are pretty vestigial
There is no future of the American republic absent significant lustration as soon as possible.
At least you can admit when you're wrong. Dumbass consultants will focus group and poll test their way straight into fascism.
Same. A big part of my militancy is *I thought more of the American people than they deserved and got burned badly by it*. "Good governance" will get you jack and shit and Jack left town
3rd time's the charm? Or something...
Any democratic affiliated organization that tries to sell “bipartisanship” in this day and age needs to be fired out of a cannon… There isn’t a bipartisan bone left in the GOP, and hasn’t been for almost a decade now.
Beats workin' for these chuds.
There is a balance on this, Mr. Secretary. The people yearn for it.
Yeah, definitely my first though upon reading this. I don't think a single person involved in releasing it has learned even one lesson from the last twenty plus years.
Moot.
This is why the main priority with immigration policy should be doing as much irreversible stuff as possible as quickly as possible
Just another brainless remix of what democrats have been saying since Clinton. Bring in skilled immigrants and workers to maximize growth and make politically popular slop out of “more bars and guards” for the border
And they don’t even defend the value or humanity of these people. Just “it polls well and would be good for the chamber of commerce we represent”
This would have been a plan for like 2022 but the frothing at the mouth nativists have enough voice in the Republican Party at this point that there is no point to seek bipartisanship on the issue
Having been intimately acquainted with different waves of immigration, from Cuba to CEE in the 90s to now, unless the goal is making US a shithole, people will always come here to better themselves and at great personal risk. The only workable policy has to meet that demand where it exists.
Can't break the fever of racist "I don't want those neighbor" types. That's been a mainstay since the Exclusion Act. Can only stomp them down.
It’s been my experience that when politicians of any stripe or persuasion say something is “commonsense” it never actually is.
everyone, dems, republicans, military, NGOs, etc, are all just trying to do what they would like to be doing right now, occupying their role and pretending to be in a normal, functioning system. e.g. the new dems want to be Numbers Fuckstein in a normal government, so that's what they're doing.
People are in these positions not because they want to wield power effectively. They are in them because they looked at them, were like "oh it looks kind of fun to be perceived in that particular way," got there, and are just kind of pretending that their pantomiming makes any sense right now
“I know adopting identical policy strategy to the Republicans hasn’t worked since 1996 and arguably not even then, but what if we adopt their framing and policies again! It’s sure to work this time!” -DNC strategist making millions despite not being able to walk and eat a sandwich at the same time
it's incredibly optimistic to assume such a thing would even get past a filibuster
*Moot
It's moo. You know, it's like a cow's opinion. Just doesn't matter.