Are we talking about "Voter ID"? If so, isn't that being constantly derailed by the democrats? Just like all the issues with illegals and the border wall, which they don't seem to want to fix and make it impossible.
> Just like all the issues with illegals and the border wall, which they don't seem to want to fix and make it impossible.
How do you reconcile that with:
Senate Republicans block border security bill as they campaign on border chaos ( May 24, 2024 )
Nearly every GOP senator, along with six Democrats, voted to filibuster a bipartisan bill designed to crack down on migration and reduce border crossings.
The vote caps a peculiar sequence of events after Senate Republican leaders insisted on a border security agreement last year and signed off on a compromise bill before they knifed it. Democrats, wary of their political vulnerability when it comes to migration, had acceded to a variety of GOP demands to raise the bar for asylum-seekers and tighten border controls.
~ multiple US news outlets.
FWiW I'm not American, and it seems pretty clear that US Republicans vastly overhype the risks associated with the southern border, campaign hard on fear mongering, and tank any efforts by the Democrats to address those problems.
Politically it's a common conservative tactic having been used in Australia, the UK, and elsewhere.
What's curious is how people seem to fall for this and just accept what they're fed w/out looking into details.
That's the bill that would have facilitated illegal immigration, not stopped it. It sounds decent at first, providing a mechanism to lock down the border, but the "average of 4000 encounters" are 4000 who apply for asylum with a hearing at some future date and are released into the country in the meantime.
You really should read the bill. Our bills are never single subject and always have completely unrelated items in them. The title is also arbitrary marketing speak that is no indication of what the bill is intended to do.
Even more so we should use AI and probe the actual contents of these bills seeing as they're all-encompassing. This is like a giant PR that includes changes to 23% of your system, touching everything from every level including config files.
I'll bet money that none of the changes are grouped into any sort of easy-to-digest format with cross-referencing and other mechanisms to make it easy for people to introspect it.
As you are not an American, let me educate on what that bill did.
Much like the "Inflation Reduction Act" which was a clean energy bill that had nothing to do with inflation, the bill did the exact opposite of what it claimed.
- It funded billions of dollars for the NGOs which were aiding illegal immigration
- It normalized and allowed historically high illegal levels of immigration (10x normal)
- It removed the standard process for adjudicating asylum by judges and made it part of the federal ICE
- Required the US to fund lawyers for all people who were charged with illegal immigration (12 million in the last 4 years)
- It gave $60 billion to Ukraine, 3x more than border security [1]
- It gave $14 billion to Israel, $10B to Gaza, $2B for conflicts in the Red Sea, $4B to Taiwan
During this period where 12 million (3.4% of US population) people have crossed the border for residency illegally, many of which have been flown in by the US federal government, the federal government has sued Texas repeatedly while they are trying to build a border wall. They have flown in percentages of whole populations to US swing states to try to build voters. And illegal immigrants count in the census which determines US electoral votes.
The reason the GOP voted against it is because it was a wishlist for the Democratic party. There is nothing more complicated about it than that. If the GOP was such fear mongers, as you say, they'd vote for a bill that ameliorated their concerns.
Not even 3 or 4 months ago, I would have expected the responses to this message to all be 'yassss queen slay', despite the glaring fact that the 'bi-partison' bill just enshrined the current democrat-party policy into law, while ensuring it could only be challenged in a court they control.
I am happy to see that the entirety of responses are effectively 'lol, actually read the law it is a disaster'.
My heart grew 1 size today.
"What's curious is how people seem to fall for this and just accept what they're fed w/out looking into details."
Pot, meet Kettle.
