givesomefucks , 5 months ago

Biden, speaking to reporters at a Las Vegas meeting with members of a culinary union, noted that Congress has not approved his funding requests for more Border Patrol agents and immigration judges to handle the number of migrants. “We need help,” he said. “Why won’t they give me the help?”

Title 42 was a trump era policy that kicked most of them back immediately, and crossing illegally costs money, it’s not people just walking across. They often have to give up their life savings to a coyote.

So during title 42 people stopped trying and saved money. That’s why a month after it ended was when the crossing rate skyrocketed.

nytimes.com/…/illegal-border-crossings-data.html

“Everything in that bipartisan bill gives me control,” Biden said, adding that he was disappointed the border legislation does not address the fate of immigrants who as children entered the U.S. without authorization.

This is the bit where if this passes, a president can unilaterally shut legal crossings down.

The new permanent power pushed by Biden and Senate negotiators is in line with temporary, Covid-era restrictions originally put in place during Trump’s administration, but which lapsed last year on Biden’s watch.

www.cnn.com/2024/01/29/politics/…/index.html

Biden wants to take something trump temporarily did (and was rightly criticized for doing) and give every future president the explicit power to do it indefinitely.

And if he doesn’t get it, Ukraine doesn’t get aid.

That’s not even getting into the fact that title 42 only “worked” because potential crossers expected it to expire.

If this new power goes into effect, and republicans always invoke it, all it’s going to do is make illegal immigration under Democrat presidents a constant issue, unless they always use it.

It’s a terrible fucking idea.