Biden invites Trump to work together to lobby Congress on an immigration bill as both candidates visit border
Biden invites Trump to work together to lobby Congress on an immigration bill as both candidates visit border
The president also criticized congressional Republicans, saying they needed to “show a little spine” and take up a bipartisan border agreement in the Senate.
“You know and I know it’s the toughest, most efficient, most effective border security bill this country’s ever seen,” Biden said. “So instead of playing politics with the issue, why don’t we just get together and get it done?”
Biden touted the bipartisan border bill as “a win for the American people,” calling it a “truly bipartisan initiative.” He called on the Senate to reconsider the bill, asking senators to “set politics aside” and for House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to put the bill on the floor.
“We need to act,” Biden said, adding that Republicans in Congress needed to “show a little spine.”
Because Trump wins as long as you don't "get it done". Stop acting like the turnip is a rational actor motivated by what's best for the country. He's not.
Also... we don't need "tough" border control. We need more immigration judges and resources for courts so they can process people faster, get immigrants and migrants seeking asylum processed and legal faster; so they're in and out of the system and productive members. we need a legal and effecient path to citizenship. (or at least, green cards/work visas.)
Regular voters hear headlines like "Millions Illegally Crossed" and "Undocumented Crime Wave"; they naturally blame Biden because he's an incumbent. The recent Gallup polls are alarming.
Biden should have focused American businesses that hired illegals, not punishing migrants for wanting a better life. Trump along with many GOP donors have hired illegals in the past, go after them and you win the debate.
Stop acting like the turnip is a rational actor motivated by what’s best for the country. He’s not.
Isn't that exactly the point Biden makes with that?
Yes, it’s clear as day that he’s trying to illustrate that Trump isn’t interested in actually solving problems. And if he actually takes the bait and does it, it would basically force the GOP’s hand in Congress to pass a bill.
And yet, in the meantime he’s gone so far right on immigration that we’ll take decades to come back from that.
Decades which will only see increased migration across the globe as people try to survive climate change.
Biden agrees with trump, the border is the most pressing issue of our time.
that's a pretty niave take. And to be honest, pretty typically american.
Climate Change is an existential threat to our country. but because it's more than the next election cycle out, it's being treated like it's just going to make for a few hot summers or something. The reality is, as the climate changes it will excacerbate literally every issue we're now facing. (and it will change. we're well past the point of no-change; we're not to the point of total collapse, yet.)
You think the migrant crisis is bad now? just wait until Mexico and Texas start looking like the Sahara. you think food is expensive now? wait until the bees die off. or the bananas start dying out because of a disease... because they're all clones. You think COVID was bad? wait 'till some super bug thaws out of the permafrost.
Which is fucking 2 brain cell, textbook senile xenophobic nonsense. I want fucking healthcare and I already live in a police state, I don't know why anybody thinks gatekeeping migrants from living here is a magical fix to America's problems- a giant wall across mexico just makes us all less free and I fully 100% believe these policies are all about giving the state more control at the end of the day.
Good lord what a dumb move. You are running against an insurrectionist opponent and you give their influence legitimacy.
Neoliberals are probably as responsible for normalizing republicans as Faux News.
To rationalize why they're better than progressives, they have to say Republicans make "some good points".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
Because you clearly do not know what that term means.
Biden would rather appeal to xenophobic reactionaries about the border than address the concerns from his own base on Israel.
No, Biden is showing that there is no interest in solving the issue.
Giving trump any legitimacy is a mistake imho, but that's another subject.
Correct. He's calling the GOP bluff and forcing them to move on from the border issue, by exposing it as a non issue
Biden s comments give trump legitimacy because he's saying it's one of the largest issues facing America...
When it's not.
And the majority of Dem voters understand that.
So this hurts Biden, and doesn't do a damn thing but help trump because it makes it look like Biden agrees with him after Dems just spent 7 years saying Trump was horrible for this and lying about how big of an issue it is.
Some voters may be stupid enough not to put all that together. But they're the ones that show up and vote the same every election with zero thought about it.
There are no concerns from me on his stance. Let Israel finish the fight..
Biden wants to commit Genocide so badly he's gives up on the left and tries to win over Republican voters
Someone remind him that Republican voters will never vote D
Have a bit of a working hypothesis that current GOP and DNC is built around seeing if America is ready for fascism or not yet. If Trump wins, there you go... But the DNC really is starting to look like how the states viewed the GOP before the upfront radicalization in 2016.
I suspect if Biden wins, the GOP will become irrelevant over the next 4 years, and the DNC will fracture into two parties. One that represents the previous GOP, and one that represents the previous DNC with the status quo not changing.
Takes tinfoil hat off
But that's just unhinged speculation. I'm entirely ready to be wrong in hopes of a more hopeful future.
Same day he threatened muslims with Trump if they didnt vote for him, he was offering deals with the person he claims to vehemently oppose.
Yep, it’s called democracy. Even the guy you oppose gets a vote.
Trump already inserted himself into the process when he got his cronies in Congress to kill the border deal.
All Biden did was step up and ask him to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Knowing of course that Trump has no intention of being part of the solution.
This then gives Biden the opportunity to say later, in a debate, or in an ad campaign:
"Hey Jack, we gave you a chance to do the right thing on the border crisis, you rejected it, that's on you. Get your idiots in congress to stop blocking the progress."
Biden wants every president to be able to unilaterally shut down the border on a moments notice for indefinite periods of time...
What trump did as a temporary measure that everyone was pissed about and weren't even sure was legal, Biden wants to codify.
Not abortion rights or anything the Dem voters want codified.
Biden just want to hand something to Republicans they have wanted for decades with zero in return.
Because he's 81 years old and completely fucking out of touch with not just his voters but reality itself.
You my dude are completely misreading the situation.
Maybe...
I've got this outdated belief that when a president says something, it should be clear and honest.
No matter what happens, for the next five years we'll have to constantly wonder if what the president said was even what he meant to say. Doesn't matter who wins, we won't be able to trust the words coming out of the US presidents mouth. We'll have to wait a day or so for his aides to tell us what he really meant.
It's kinda and of depressing
Well I think that comment is 100% spot on, for one
No. Because he knew the Republicans would move the goal posts. They literally DONT want a secure border. If that happens, they lose the one thing they can campaign on this year.
They have zero policy
They have zero bills they submitted that would help the average American
They have nothing but Hunter Bidens' massive schlong and scary caravans (oooh so spooky! People escaping death squads and starvation!) designed to frighten the boomers who wish it was 1950 again. They are getting close to that goal, measles is back and soon the dumb fuck anti-vaxers will bring back polio.
It moves the discussion further to the right and legitimizes Republican talking points for the majority of people who will only hear a brief soundbite about this, rather than diving deep into the matter.
Besides, the GOP isn't about to run out of bogeymen to trot out just because they could get what they want on the border. They can take it as a compromise and try to push things further down the line. Or they can decide this is good enough for now, and start railing against something else. Union membership rising being a Chinese plot to infiltrate the US and install a Communist dictatorship, so we better write some new laws to enable even more union busting. Free school lunches for kids from poor families turning them gay AND communist by getting them hooked on the government teat early. Woke public libraries turning kids trans by letting them check out books that don't universally demonize it, so better put some sort of draconian funding limits on them. They'll find something else, don't worry.
The way you're framing it and Congressional Democrats approach these things only work if the Republicans aren't completely shameless, above doing things that should completely destroy any remaining vestiges for their voters, but this has been disproven time and time again by the actions of the GOP. If they think they'll have half a chance, they'll wring out even more concessions on this front from the Democrats by pretending to offer something they immediately renege on, just to leave the Democrats going "Aw, shucks, fooled me again. I thought you said you weren't going to do this again."
The fuck are you on about?
Biden is pushing for a law that allows any president to do what Trump got shit for doing a few years ago.
It's weird how often people who support Biden, aren't aware of what Biden is actually saying and doing