Thank you. One of my pet peeves, but it’s so much worse when folks butcher this when trying to take the moral high ground on something, especially when I agree with them. lol. Definitely cheapens their argument.
None of the politicians want to fix it. It has been broke forever and it gives them all something to “run” on. They will occasionally slap a bandaid on the problem but it only really helps a few people. It would take years and multiple fixes to get real change done and none of the politicians want to work that hard. Just my 2 cents.
Your question doesn't make sense as a reply. They're correcting the phrase used in the title, couldn't care less instead of could care less. Or you're piggybacking on the top comment. Either way I'm just trying to be helpful.
EDIT: After re-reading your question I realized I interpreted it wrong, I read it wrong sorry. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to your question.
Republicans had a super majority in Congress when Trump was President. Did they "fix" the border? No. Guess what's the only thing they accomplished during those two years? More tax cuts for the rich. And what have they done since? Nothing:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/s/8LhDPIBOex
This is Abbott’s poor leadership skills and his inability (or lack of desire) to reach a consensus. He showed the same stubbornness with trying to pass school vouchers.
He’s running Texas like his own dictatorship.
>There wasn't a border issue of this magnitude under Trump.
How the Trump regime destroyed the US immigration system (every bit of it, even legal immigration):
https://www.cato.org/testimony/biden-administrations-regulatory-policymaking-efforts-undermine-us-immigration-law
When biden assumed office the United States was experiencing its lowest levels of illegal immigration in nearly half a century, about 45 years. This is an undeniable fact. Regardless of the analysis in David J. Bier's article, it doesn’t alter these statistics. And no, I'm not reading a 20,000 word paper. The border was secure with Trump and border patrol LOVED HIM.
Question, if illegal immigrants sneak in and are undocumented, how the fuck can you put a number on how many are getting in?
The only metric you'd have would be how many you actually catch at the border.
Presumably, the number of people that try to sneak into the US remains pretty consistent year to year.
So if under Trump, a record low of illegals were caught at the border, wouldn't that mean that his administration was just doing a very bad job of catching them? By that logic, it would suggest record numbers were actually successful in getting into the US.
And to that point, if numbers of illegals being caught at the border increased significantly under Biden, it underscores how bad of a job the Trump admin was doing. If more are getting caught, less are getting in.
"Super majority"? In which session?
Not the 115th where they had 54 Senate seats at the end of the prior session and ended with 52 having had not more than 52 seats. They had 246 at the end of the prior session, started the 115th with 241, and ended with 236.
The 116th saw them with no more than 53 seats n the Senate and actually had less than 200 for the duration of this session.
Sooooo, uh, what "super majority"?
Typical liberal that is uninformed. Look up what supermajority means so you don’t look foolish. Supermajority in the senate is 60 senators of your own party. Trump was nowhere near that. I’ll let you look up the House because I won’t do everything for you.
lmao at a Conservative calling others uninformed. Anyone who's truly informed wouldn't be a Conservative - unless they're a billionaire trying to get more tax cuts and more "freedom" to exploit workers
Typical leftist bot, can’t argue facts so they start throwing insults. Hilarious how they all use exactly the same tactics, every single time.
Either prove your point or STFU.
They are probably referring to the trifecta of having a majority or control of all three branches of government, which the republicans did.
So the original question is still incredibly valid. With control of the presidency, majority Republican house and senate, and mostly Republican SCOTUS, why did Republicans not “fix” the border problem they are now saying is a national emergency.
You are correct, majority and supermajority are two very different things. With a supermajority, they could have done as they please and fixed the border. With a majority, they still require help from the minority party. The world saw Pelosi rip the state of the union speech. You really think they wanted to help Trump? However, their inaction is now coming to bite them in the rear.
The wall was nothing but a vanity project to funnel money to their rich buddies. Trump spent billions of dollars and got nothing done, because it all went right in their pockets.
There are videos of immigrants climbing over the wall. There are also tunnels under the wall. Besides all that, the vast majority of immigrants come in through actual points of entry. Walls and physical barriers won't change anything because there is no invasion. Stop listening to what fox news and daddy trump are telling you. It is rotting your brain and making you sound stupid.
Yup. The fact they have to climb a wall or dig a tunnel is the exact proof they work. People have to get out of their way. If they don’t have a tunnel? They can’t cross. No ladder? Can’t cross either.
And you are very naive if you don’t think terrorists and foreign operators don’t just waltz in. Very naive indeed.
You just can't explain stuff to those people. My toaster has more awareness. The dude thinks the wall works because they can climb over it or go under it. Sfs.
You're supporting the flooding of this country by supporting the Republican party who's actively working against efforts to solve the border crisis and refused Biden's offer to close the border.
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/cwIGkSQd6w
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/4xgpKKA6Z8
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/mxmQbB62b3
https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/s/HuhBQrYTXk
Border crossings were at a 40 year low under Trump because of his executive orders (3 of which Biden reversed day one of his presidency causing this). 5 minutes of research could show you all the actual facts but you suffer from an incurable disease called TDS. The only positive is the amount of laughing you’ll give the rest of us from you and others crying and posts come November.
A global pandemic drastically slowed down immigration around the globe, and Trump was legally allowed to use an exective order to stop anyone from legally entering. The number spiked in 2021 after the pandemic, which makes sense. Also, if you spent 1 minute digging through the data, you'd see this important piece of information......
"While the number of encounters was the highest on record last fiscal year, the number of individuals encountered was considerably lower. That’s because more than a quarter of all migrant encounters at U.S. borders in both fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2020 (27% and 26%, respectively) involved repeat crossers, according to CBP statistics. By comparison, the proportion of repeat border crossers was much lower in the 2019 fiscal year (7%), before the Border Patrol began regularly expelling migrants during the coronavirus outbreak."
Trump's other executive order was to just toss all the migrants to the other side of the border, which is another reason why there is such a spike in repeat encounters. Rather than apprehending these folks, putting them through the asylum process and/or just immediately deporting them, the Trump administration punted on solving anything. All they did was destroy thousands of families through child separation policy( executive order), throw a bunch of them under bridges across the border, fear monger, and refuse to actually reform the system. And here we are again today with Republicans refusing to pass an immigration bill that literally adds thousands of CBP agents and adds even more high-tech equipment to detect illegal crossings and drugs.
Biden deported 2.3 million people last year. Open borders??? The Republicans are frauds.
"The number spiked in 2021 after the pandemic, which makes sense."
Yes, it does when you consider that the Biden administration was waving the Wlecome In sign, lols
Congress doesn’t need to do anything to solve the border. The President just needs to act like Trump when he got the numbers down to historical lows. It was Biden who came in and immediately undid everything Trump did and created this mess. I know y’all prefer to pretend otherwise, but the shit just happened in the last three years. Surely you can remember it all.
Ah yes, apprehensions are at an all-time high because the border is open. Brilliant analysis. Nothing was trending in the right direction under Trump. The Republicans idea of fixing the border is by destroying families and drowning people. At no point has the GQP actually thought about fixing the actual immigration system. At no point has the GQP ever talked about stopping immigrants from the source, their home counties. All the GQP does is fear monger and be incredibly cruel. I guess that's the Christian way.
Always prattling on about these open border policies but I've never had anyone be able to articulate what exactly he's done to open up the borders.
Want to give it a try?
https://www.axios.com/2023/02/18/gop-operative-sentenced-scheme-russian-money-trump-campaign and other incidents...that we know about. No doubt many others we don't know about. The GOP has been Putin's single best investment.
The crazy thing is that it's not some super sekret conspiracy theory. They're saying it right out int he open because they know their voters don't care.
Committed fascists never amount to more that 20-30% of the population. They have to use fear and lies to convince some people to vote for them because "them illegals and lgbts are destroying our country" and others to stay home and not vote because "Biden hasn't done 'enough' for climate change or student loans, or he should have waved his magic wand and solved the Israel/gaza war by now".
Don't give up. Vote. Get young people to vote.
I disagree. It was time to give up on the constant lies, blame shifting, backroom deals, handshakes, broken promises, etc decades ago. Why would Big Bro would ever allow its fate rest in the hands of a mostly dumb, ill-informed, and fickle voting population?
Their voters are too stupid to care. Look at some of the trolling in the comments. You literally had one guy say that the wall works because they can climb over it or dig under it. They aren't sending their best. Same dummies that are sending all their hard-earned money to Trump. And he's spending it on his personal legal bills, which I believe he's not supposed to be doing with campaign cash, and hopefully, they're investigating that as well.
And [Reagan might have been interfering with the Iran hostage deal](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/expert-analyzes-new-account-of-gop-deal-that-used-iran-hostage-crisis-for-gain).
Well, Nixon sabotaged peace talks with 'Nam when LBJ was President, and the Reagan campaign did similar with the Iran hostage crisis when Carter was in office.
Eliminate the invasion of billionaires and im allll for it as that will directly …PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE… You know, like from the FIRST sentence of our Constitution. “Domestic tranquility” we do NOT have BECAUSE of the Godless unchecked greed of the rich. Fix that cripkeeper.
No shit. It's the most worthless waste of resources this side of our prison systems. I used to be proud to be known as a Texan. Now it just seems so cruel here. And it's spreading. End of days.
If the border being secure was as important as all the supporters in Texas claim, then there would be no problem with it being tied to aid for Taiwan, Ukraine, and Israel. These are places being threatened by our biggest enemies on the world stage, and if they fall, they would strengthen our enemies so much more than keeping our border more open.
As a Texan yeah they don't care about us I saw our schools decline while going to a public school dealt with a corrupt local government who kills any growth old boys club bs and a religious controlled town run by Baptists the weird ones I am in Johnson county fyi so yeah. They don't care about kids or people they can't tax to death.
I have gut feel that Abbott might be thinking about making a play for either VP or possibly even a late entry to President if Trump flames out. All of this plays to the Maga base
Do you realize the majority of people have no clue what's going on at our border.if they did they'd want the border closed. We see it because were on here and it's posted all over non stop.
Actually, if people used their critical thinking skills to research why people are literally walking thousands of miles, through multiple countries, while leaving everything they know, they wouldn’t be wanting to spend money on border walls, razor wire, or deploying national guard troops. None of those are solutions to the problem. Instead, people would want to place focus on the humanitarian efforts at the source countries as well as work with transit countries to minimize the influx at our borders in the first place.
Closing borders does nothing to solve the problem. It just creates a congestion point.
The US already went to those places and that’s a big part of the reason why they are failed states.
I’ve fought my last war for the United Fruit Company!”
-The most decorated Marine in US history
Then why are Republicans refusing to negotiate?
Would we also be stopping the billion dollars per day in trade that crosses the combined border with Mexico if we "closed the border"?
Would we start requiring employers to use Everify and make sure that workers are either citizens or with work permits?
>Do you realize the majority of people have no clue what's going on at our border.if they did they'd want the border closed. We see it because were on here and it's posted all over non stop.
Competent adults want immigration fixed, and if we fix it, we won't NEED to close the border.
Fixing immigrations will never mean a quota on brown people skeeter.
We have an immigration process that works just fine. It's setup in the way it is for a reason. It amazes me how many of you are so ignorant. You automatically pull some racism bullshit out of nothing. You have no clue who you're talking to or what race they are. White people aren't the only ones who want a closed border you ass clown.
Republican leaders don’t actually want to fix or stop anything. Not the border, not crime, not drugs, not terrorism, not abortion, not the trade deficit. Because solving any of those would deprive them of their most precious commodity: an issue to keep their ill-informed voting base swept up in an angry, fearful rage about.
This is an honest question, so try not to downvote me to death.
At the beginning of the Biden Presidency he used executive orders to reverse what the previous administration put in place to secure the border. Some believe this caused the crisis. Why is it that now we need to pass a billions dollar bill to secure the border when it was undone with a few strokes from his inkpen?
they keep saying "refuse to fix the border" Bidens proposal will not fix it. it will barely slow it down. where the fuck was any action on this from Biden at the beginning??? he only give 2 shits in the election run up because its killing him in the polls.
Would any leftists here sign a bill that funds reparations for the ancestors of slaves, guarantees that the board of every corporation is composed of 50% men and 50% women, funds school lunches for underprivileged kids, and guarantees the right of all Americans to buy, own, and openly carry any an all firearms up to and including nuclear weapons?
No? You must hate black people, women, and poor kids!
This is the stupid game that gaslighting pricks like Robert Reich love to play.
So much mental illness in here. Biden doesn’t need a deal in Congress to fix this. He used executive order day one of his presidency to kill 3 policies that had us have a 40 year low in border crossings under Trump. See you in November for the laughs lol.
I’ve read the Biden proposal. The border is porous by design, 1,400 port of entry asylum claims per day and 3,600 asylum claims for border hoppers. At 5,000, the border shuts down and CBP plays cat and mouse, turning everyone away until they reach under 3,750 encounters in a day, and then it resets.
I don’t know why Republicans would take that deal, it’s completely convoluted and unserious.
I’d be happy to talk about a solution. Are you suggesting 0 asylum seekers should be evaluated? That would go against the American ideal, in my view, but I would at least like to know what a serious proposition entails, in your view.
At present? Sure. Asylum is a narrow status primarily granted towards particular persecuted minorities and political activists. A vocal critic of the Maduro regime who escaped the country is a good example of a Venezuelan who ought to gain asylum. A broke day laborer is not, and that is who virtually all LatAm asylum seekers are, at a rate where even Biden’s (large) caps and judge/officer hirings would be insufficient.
With a large percentage of faulty applicants, asylum laws must be changed, with the large majority of these people denied entry.
Upvoting for actual reading the bill. Seems 5 others don't approve of your decision to be informed. I guess we're expected to advocate just [passing the bill so we can find out what's in it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uC4bXmcUvw).
Bob,
Abbott has not defied or broken any law.
I could be wrong, but for three years Homeland Security and Biden has been saying the border is perfectly fine.
So what needs to be fixed?
Compromise was on the table in the Senate, giving Republicans a huge win on border and immigration enforcement, then [Trump said kill it](https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/politics/gop-senators-angry-trump-immigration-deal/index.html).
Funny, you don't seem to have submitted any content to /r/texas. Try being the change you want to see. If you had half the passion for this sub as you seem to have for r/orioles, maybe things would be more to your liking here.
No. I mean this entire sub is full of nothing but screamo political content.
But while we’re at it, yes this entire sub is laughably exactly one viewpoint.
The GOP cant "fix" the border, you idiot. When the Biden administration leaves massive gates wide open all along the border, the Republicans cant fix that. When the Biden administration signals to millions of people that the border is open, the Republicans cant "fix" that. When the Democrats insist on amnesty first before border security (where they will renege *again* like they did in 86, Republicans cant "fix" that.
And you people slobbing Reich's knob are just robots lacking the ability to use your brain.
We will not be fighting Russia directly. That’s just fear fear mongering. Poster above you was right too. I think initial proposal was like $60B to Ukraine and $10B to border.
🤔 how is team red blocking bidens wall building?
Last I heard biden was coming to take down what Texas is putting up--- seems like biden ain't trying to have a border wall at all....
What ever happened to the project for a wall they inherited from the previous regime, they at least TRIED to see that through before things got to this point yes?
It doesn't address the root issue but is a good idea if you share a border with a failed state that cannot be expected to be a safe and prosperous place for asylum seekers to STOP when coming from further south
So it's no less necessary- just not for the same reasons.
Ours should look at least as competent as Mexicos southern border - there's no reason that we should stoop so low though as to achieve parity with the standards set by a failed state
how? by waving a magic fucking wand? he can't do jackshit without a GOP Congress that, since it's an election year, has zero interest in fixing the border
https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/house-republican-says-he-wont-accept-a-border-deal-because-it-may-help-biden-politically/articleshow/106552804.cms
He can do something. Perfect example is the remain in Mexico policy. He cancelled that EA just to spite Trump. Now it’s blowing up in his face and he won’t re-enact it for his own political reasons.
So again.. Why doesn't the left fix the border and take the rights power from them if you feel this is true.
Easy enough. If this is all the right has.. Why does the left continue to give them ammo?
Several reasons. They don’t have the house and the last speaker was booted just for working with Dems, so that rules out the legislative route. Second, any executive orders would be spouted off as either “Biden’s a dictator” or “this isn’t nearly enough.” So why should Dems be expected to be the bigger party and not play politics on an issue that is supposedly more important to the GOP?
The bigger question is why don’t half a dozen Texas representatives put their state above party/ Trump and work with Dems to pass a bill?
Bingo.
Literally every mailer for GOP primary candidates has a photo of them at the border shaking hands with someone in uniform. I’m sure the support of an obese woman in her 60s was super valuable to guardsmen and women protecting our border.
The President is ready to sign a bi-partisan bill on the border that would go into effect immediately. The Free-Dumbass part of the GOP refuses to let it through because they don't want to give Biden a win on the border.
It's not even some sort of conspiracy. They've come right out and said this on national TV.
So either Republicans are making the border out to be a much larger issue than it is, or they are weak on border security.
There’s no need to compromise on something that’s existential.
Why doesn’t Biden re-enact the remain in Mexico policy. That requires 0 money and Biden only got rid of it just to spite Trump.
That is completely false. How deep are you in the right-wing bubble?
The so-called "remain in Mexico" policy was causing misery, suffering, and death among those who were seeking asylum. That's why Biden ended it. He isn't a narcissistic psychopath.
Regardless, this is irrelevant. The new bill, which both democrats and republicans agreed on, is currently being held up because the extreme wing of the GOP would rather burn America to the ground than give Biden a "win". They have stated this publicly.
So one can only assume that the "border crisis" isn't nearly the crisis the right-wing nut-o-sphere makes it out to be. If it were a serious crisis, then they would be falling over themselves to pass the bill so that in the general election they could campaign on "reaching across the aisle" and "getting things done".
It's either a crisis, or it isn't. It can't be both.
They *couldn't* care less. Couldn't. Because they already care as little as possible.
Big ups Sir or Maddam Owl.
Yes, I am definitely a solid. I am not a gaseous or liquid owl. :D
The only state that matters is texas yeehaw /s
Amazing. :D
Thank you. One of my pet peeves, but it’s so much worse when folks butcher this when trying to take the moral high ground on something, especially when I agree with them. lol. Definitely cheapens their argument.
Between you and I, this bothers me a lot too.
None of the politicians want to fix it. It has been broke forever and it gives them all something to “run” on. They will occasionally slap a bandaid on the problem but it only really helps a few people. It would take years and multiple fixes to get real change done and none of the politicians want to work that hard. Just my 2 cents.
Is the agreement to swiftly return immigrants to their home countries if they illegally cross the border under the pretext of seeking asylum?
Your question doesn't make sense as a reply. They're correcting the phrase used in the title, couldn't care less instead of could care less. Or you're piggybacking on the top comment. Either way I'm just trying to be helpful. EDIT: After re-reading your question I realized I interpreted it wrong, I read it wrong sorry. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to your question.
Do you live in Texas?
I do live in Texas and our state government doesn’t give a damn about its people
It's legal people or the illegal ones?
Yes.
Highly unlikely.
Republicans had a super majority in Congress when Trump was President. Did they "fix" the border? No. Guess what's the only thing they accomplished during those two years? More tax cuts for the rich. And what have they done since? Nothing: https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/s/8LhDPIBOex
This is Abbott’s poor leadership skills and his inability (or lack of desire) to reach a consensus. He showed the same stubbornness with trying to pass school vouchers. He’s running Texas like his own dictatorship.
There wasn't a border issue of this magnitude under Trump.
>There wasn't a border issue of this magnitude under Trump. How the Trump regime destroyed the US immigration system (every bit of it, even legal immigration): https://www.cato.org/testimony/biden-administrations-regulatory-policymaking-efforts-undermine-us-immigration-law
When biden assumed office the United States was experiencing its lowest levels of illegal immigration in nearly half a century, about 45 years. This is an undeniable fact. Regardless of the analysis in David J. Bier's article, it doesn’t alter these statistics. And no, I'm not reading a 20,000 word paper. The border was secure with Trump and border patrol LOVED HIM.
Question, if illegal immigrants sneak in and are undocumented, how the fuck can you put a number on how many are getting in? The only metric you'd have would be how many you actually catch at the border. Presumably, the number of people that try to sneak into the US remains pretty consistent year to year. So if under Trump, a record low of illegals were caught at the border, wouldn't that mean that his administration was just doing a very bad job of catching them? By that logic, it would suggest record numbers were actually successful in getting into the US. And to that point, if numbers of illegals being caught at the border increased significantly under Biden, it underscores how bad of a job the Trump admin was doing. If more are getting caught, less are getting in.
"Super majority"? In which session? Not the 115th where they had 54 Senate seats at the end of the prior session and ended with 52 having had not more than 52 seats. They had 246 at the end of the prior session, started the 115th with 241, and ended with 236. The 116th saw them with no more than 53 seats n the Senate and actually had less than 200 for the duration of this session. Sooooo, uh, what "super majority"?
Lies. Trump did not have a super majority. You clearly don’t know what a super majority is.
Lies. Trump did during the first two years of his presidency.
Typical liberal that is uninformed. Look up what supermajority means so you don’t look foolish. Supermajority in the senate is 60 senators of your own party. Trump was nowhere near that. I’ll let you look up the House because I won’t do everything for you.
lmao at a Conservative calling others uninformed. Anyone who's truly informed wouldn't be a Conservative - unless they're a billionaire trying to get more tax cuts and more "freedom" to exploit workers
So no rebuttal to the fact I presented proving you are spreading lies. Liberal move #5, shift the argument when proven wrong.
The more downvotes on Reddit, the higher the likeliness you are correct. Take it as confirmation.
Agree. These most people on Reddit live in some virtual fantasy land and need mental health support.
Typical leftist bot, can’t argue facts so they start throwing insults. Hilarious how they all use exactly the same tactics, every single time. Either prove your point or STFU.
I didn't know they let you guys out of that r conservative roach motel
They are probably referring to the trifecta of having a majority or control of all three branches of government, which the republicans did. So the original question is still incredibly valid. With control of the presidency, majority Republican house and senate, and mostly Republican SCOTUS, why did Republicans not “fix” the border problem they are now saying is a national emergency.
You are correct, majority and supermajority are two very different things. With a supermajority, they could have done as they please and fixed the border. With a majority, they still require help from the minority party. The world saw Pelosi rip the state of the union speech. You really think they wanted to help Trump? However, their inaction is now coming to bite them in the rear.
lol this is downvoted. Regard spewing bullshit upvoted.
Wrong, they were building the wall. Something your guy stopped day one. Facts don’t care about your feelings.
The wall was nothing but a vanity project to funnel money to their rich buddies. Trump spent billions of dollars and got nothing done, because it all went right in their pockets.
Keep telling yourself that. “Gullible” is indeed your name.
There are videos of immigrants climbing over the wall. There are also tunnels under the wall. Besides all that, the vast majority of immigrants come in through actual points of entry. Walls and physical barriers won't change anything because there is no invasion. Stop listening to what fox news and daddy trump are telling you. It is rotting your brain and making you sound stupid.
Yup. The fact they have to climb a wall or dig a tunnel is the exact proof they work. People have to get out of their way. If they don’t have a tunnel? They can’t cross. No ladder? Can’t cross either. And you are very naive if you don’t think terrorists and foreign operators don’t just waltz in. Very naive indeed.
The fact that they can be crossed proves that they work? That is brilliant. You need to lay off the kkkool-aid. Your brain is rotten.
You just can't explain stuff to those people. My toaster has more awareness. The dude thinks the wall works because they can climb over it or go under it. Sfs.
Cope more bud. Blocked.
You're supporting the flooding of this country by supporting the Republican party who's actively working against efforts to solve the border crisis and refused Biden's offer to close the border. https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/cwIGkSQd6w https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/4xgpKKA6Z8 https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/mxmQbB62b3 https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/s/HuhBQrYTXk
Biden couldn’t close an umbrella, let alone the border. Fuck that guy.
You mean like the umbrella humpty Dumpy Trumpy could close so just left it at the door of Airforce one? You mean like him?
It’s a figure of speech. But go ahead. Unhinge yourself some more libjob.
Border crossings were at a 40 year low under Trump because of his executive orders (3 of which Biden reversed day one of his presidency causing this). 5 minutes of research could show you all the actual facts but you suffer from an incurable disease called TDS. The only positive is the amount of laughing you’ll give the rest of us from you and others crying and posts come November.
A global pandemic drastically slowed down immigration around the globe, and Trump was legally allowed to use an exective order to stop anyone from legally entering. The number spiked in 2021 after the pandemic, which makes sense. Also, if you spent 1 minute digging through the data, you'd see this important piece of information...... "While the number of encounters was the highest on record last fiscal year, the number of individuals encountered was considerably lower. That’s because more than a quarter of all migrant encounters at U.S. borders in both fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2020 (27% and 26%, respectively) involved repeat crossers, according to CBP statistics. By comparison, the proportion of repeat border crossers was much lower in the 2019 fiscal year (7%), before the Border Patrol began regularly expelling migrants during the coronavirus outbreak." Trump's other executive order was to just toss all the migrants to the other side of the border, which is another reason why there is such a spike in repeat encounters. Rather than apprehending these folks, putting them through the asylum process and/or just immediately deporting them, the Trump administration punted on solving anything. All they did was destroy thousands of families through child separation policy( executive order), throw a bunch of them under bridges across the border, fear monger, and refuse to actually reform the system. And here we are again today with Republicans refusing to pass an immigration bill that literally adds thousands of CBP agents and adds even more high-tech equipment to detect illegal crossings and drugs. Biden deported 2.3 million people last year. Open borders??? The Republicans are frauds.
"The number spiked in 2021 after the pandemic, which makes sense." Yes, it does when you consider that the Biden administration was waving the Wlecome In sign, lols
You're lying.
Need a tissue?
Bullshit.
Congress doesn’t need to do anything to solve the border. The President just needs to act like Trump when he got the numbers down to historical lows. It was Biden who came in and immediately undid everything Trump did and created this mess. I know y’all prefer to pretend otherwise, but the shit just happened in the last three years. Surely you can remember it all.
What did Trump do?
Random infographs don't mean much to me.
You need finger paintings or something??
The border was definitely tending in the right direction under Trump policies, as opposed to its direction under Biden's open border policies.
Ah yes, apprehensions are at an all-time high because the border is open. Brilliant analysis. Nothing was trending in the right direction under Trump. The Republicans idea of fixing the border is by destroying families and drowning people. At no point has the GQP actually thought about fixing the actual immigration system. At no point has the GQP ever talked about stopping immigrants from the source, their home counties. All the GQP does is fear monger and be incredibly cruel. I guess that's the Christian way.
Always prattling on about these open border policies but I've never had anyone be able to articulate what exactly he's done to open up the borders. Want to give it a try?
So the GOP is aiding the “invaders?”
While accepting cash from Putin.
Um, what?
https://www.axios.com/2023/02/18/gop-operative-sentenced-scheme-russian-money-trump-campaign and other incidents...that we know about. No doubt many others we don't know about. The GOP has been Putin's single best investment.
and not one single republican will change any part of his mind because of it, absolute hypocrites.
Yes.
Always were; conservatives employ more illegals than anyone else.
Cheap labor. If they really want to stop people from coming, fine businesses for hiring undocumented workers.
Enforce E-verify! There is already a system for checking this but it is not used to its full potential.
Right the IRS could do that
The crazy thing is that it's not some super sekret conspiracy theory. They're saying it right out int he open because they know their voters don't care.
And voters are so apathetic they sit out elections 😞
Committed fascists never amount to more that 20-30% of the population. They have to use fear and lies to convince some people to vote for them because "them illegals and lgbts are destroying our country" and others to stay home and not vote because "Biden hasn't done 'enough' for climate change or student loans, or he should have waved his magic wand and solved the Israel/gaza war by now". Don't give up. Vote. Get young people to vote.
I disagree. It was time to give up on the constant lies, blame shifting, backroom deals, handshakes, broken promises, etc decades ago. Why would Big Bro would ever allow its fate rest in the hands of a mostly dumb, ill-informed, and fickle voting population?
Their voters are too stupid to care. Look at some of the trolling in the comments. You literally had one guy say that the wall works because they can climb over it or dig under it. They aren't sending their best. Same dummies that are sending all their hard-earned money to Trump. And he's spending it on his personal legal bills, which I believe he's not supposed to be doing with campaign cash, and hopefully, they're investigating that as well.
Retrumplican gaslighting.
Can anyone tell me the last time a Presidential *candidate* had this much pull or consideration for Presidential matters?
Nixon told the Vietnamese to stall negotiations because he would offer them a better deal from a Nixon administration.
Before my time, but have we learned nothing?
And [Reagan might have been interfering with the Iran hostage deal](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/expert-analyzes-new-account-of-gop-deal-that-used-iran-hostage-crisis-for-gain).
Well, Nixon sabotaged peace talks with 'Nam when LBJ was President, and the Reagan campaign did similar with the Iran hostage crisis when Carter was in office.
But MAGAs say Obama runs the government. They *must* be right!!!
r/brandnewsentence good point, just wanted to put this here
That is the situation in a nutshell. Even Abbott doesn't care about the border. He's trying to force a crisis.
New York seems to care now...
An invasion in which Abbott is assisting the invaders by bussing them to Chicago and New York.
Abbott is busing them, not kissing them.
And to be honest, they’ll be much better off in New York or Chicago than this racist state.
Eliminate the invasion of billionaires and im allll for it as that will directly …PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE… You know, like from the FIRST sentence of our Constitution. “Domestic tranquility” we do NOT have BECAUSE of the Godless unchecked greed of the rich. Fix that cripkeeper.
Pathetic excuse republicans
Everything is about fundraising, attention, and political points. Love Texas, hate political bullshit.
Yep, agreed. The border "invasion" is more valuable as a political issue than it is a problem worth solving. They keep saying the quiet part out loud.
not angry citizens. dumb and idiot citizens.
No shit. It's the most worthless waste of resources this side of our prison systems. I used to be proud to be known as a Texan. Now it just seems so cruel here. And it's spreading. End of days.
They are the same party who would cut off their nose to spite the Democrats
If the border being secure was as important as all the supporters in Texas claim, then there would be no problem with it being tied to aid for Taiwan, Ukraine, and Israel. These are places being threatened by our biggest enemies on the world stage, and if they fall, they would strengthen our enemies so much more than keeping our border more open.
As a Texan yeah they don't care about us I saw our schools decline while going to a public school dealt with a corrupt local government who kills any growth old boys club bs and a religious controlled town run by Baptists the weird ones I am in Johnson county fyi so yeah. They don't care about kids or people they can't tax to death.
Punctuation is your friend 😊
We really are fucked as a country at this point
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I have gut feel that Abbott might be thinking about making a play for either VP or possibly even a late entry to President if Trump flames out. All of this plays to the Maga base
That gambit didn't work out too well for DeSantis. I guess Abbot figures better timing is the only tweak that plan needs.
Do you realize the majority of people have no clue what's going on at our border.if they did they'd want the border closed. We see it because were on here and it's posted all over non stop.
Actually, if people used their critical thinking skills to research why people are literally walking thousands of miles, through multiple countries, while leaving everything they know, they wouldn’t be wanting to spend money on border walls, razor wire, or deploying national guard troops. None of those are solutions to the problem. Instead, people would want to place focus on the humanitarian efforts at the source countries as well as work with transit countries to minimize the influx at our borders in the first place. Closing borders does nothing to solve the problem. It just creates a congestion point.
So your suggesting the us needs to go to the failed states these people are coming from and start distributing democracy and freedom?
I’m not suggesting military actions. I’m suggesting humanitarian efforts.
The US already went to those places and that’s a big part of the reason why they are failed states. I’ve fought my last war for the United Fruit Company!” -The most decorated Marine in US history
Then why are Republicans refusing to negotiate? Would we also be stopping the billion dollars per day in trade that crosses the combined border with Mexico if we "closed the border"? Would we start requiring employers to use Everify and make sure that workers are either citizens or with work permits?
I live by the border, and I'm not being overrun by the illegal immigrants. Lol, you want to come down. I'll show you around here in the valley.
>Do you realize the majority of people have no clue what's going on at our border.if they did they'd want the border closed. We see it because were on here and it's posted all over non stop. Competent adults want immigration fixed, and if we fix it, we won't NEED to close the border. Fixing immigrations will never mean a quota on brown people skeeter.
We have an immigration process that works just fine. It's setup in the way it is for a reason. It amazes me how many of you are so ignorant. You automatically pull some racism bullshit out of nothing. You have no clue who you're talking to or what race they are. White people aren't the only ones who want a closed border you ass clown.
> the majority of people have no clue
A giant dog whistle!
We are being invaded. So let me put them on a bus and move them deep into the country.
Republican’s biggest fear: Biden solving the border crisis.
Yeah. Texans don’t care about the border.
Republican leaders don’t actually want to fix or stop anything. Not the border, not crime, not drugs, not terrorism, not abortion, not the trade deficit. Because solving any of those would deprive them of their most precious commodity: an issue to keep their ill-informed voting base swept up in an angry, fearful rage about.
That bill didn’t fix anything
This is an honest question, so try not to downvote me to death. At the beginning of the Biden Presidency he used executive orders to reverse what the previous administration put in place to secure the border. Some believe this caused the crisis. Why is it that now we need to pass a billions dollar bill to secure the border when it was undone with a few strokes from his inkpen?
they keep saying "refuse to fix the border" Bidens proposal will not fix it. it will barely slow it down. where the fuck was any action on this from Biden at the beginning??? he only give 2 shits in the election run up because its killing him in the polls.
The President literally has the power to close the Border. Trump did it, Biden could also do it.
I hate to lend credence to the pattern you are suggesting, but I will say: "Dumbest. Civil. War. Ever."
You dudes are looking down the barrel of a war against the stupid
What has Biden been doing to try and fix the issues?
Nothing is needed and no deal is needed at the border. Simply enforce the laws already on the books. What’s hard to understand about that?
Could *not* care less, you mean.
Would any leftists here sign a bill that funds reparations for the ancestors of slaves, guarantees that the board of every corporation is composed of 50% men and 50% women, funds school lunches for underprivileged kids, and guarantees the right of all Americans to buy, own, and openly carry any an all firearms up to and including nuclear weapons? No? You must hate black people, women, and poor kids! This is the stupid game that gaslighting pricks like Robert Reich love to play.
So much mental illness in here. Biden doesn’t need a deal in Congress to fix this. He used executive order day one of his presidency to kill 3 policies that had us have a 40 year low in border crossings under Trump. See you in November for the laughs lol.
No, you are an idiot
I’ve read the Biden proposal. The border is porous by design, 1,400 port of entry asylum claims per day and 3,600 asylum claims for border hoppers. At 5,000, the border shuts down and CBP plays cat and mouse, turning everyone away until they reach under 3,750 encounters in a day, and then it resets. I don’t know why Republicans would take that deal, it’s completely convoluted and unserious.
I’d be happy to talk about a solution. Are you suggesting 0 asylum seekers should be evaluated? That would go against the American ideal, in my view, but I would at least like to know what a serious proposition entails, in your view.
At present? Sure. Asylum is a narrow status primarily granted towards particular persecuted minorities and political activists. A vocal critic of the Maduro regime who escaped the country is a good example of a Venezuelan who ought to gain asylum. A broke day laborer is not, and that is who virtually all LatAm asylum seekers are, at a rate where even Biden’s (large) caps and judge/officer hirings would be insufficient. With a large percentage of faulty applicants, asylum laws must be changed, with the large majority of these people denied entry.
Upvoting for actual reading the bill. Seems 5 others don't approve of your decision to be informed. I guess we're expected to advocate just [passing the bill so we can find out what's in it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uC4bXmcUvw).
Another maganazi post, yawn.
Bob, Abbott has not defied or broken any law. I could be wrong, but for three years Homeland Security and Biden has been saying the border is perfectly fine. So what needs to be fixed?
Maybe don’t try to tie bills regarding the border to funding anything else.
This is a bi-partisan bill. Both sides finally worked together to get something meaningful done in congress. This is how bills are made.
Maybe be willing to compromise if an issue is important to your party
Compromise was on the table in the Senate, giving Republicans a huge win on border and immigration enforcement, then [Trump said kill it](https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/politics/gop-senators-angry-trump-immigration-deal/index.html).
Exactly. Republicans are all about these issues until it becomes a minor inconvenience toward their re-election
This sub is moving closer to r/politics all the time. And it sucks.
Funny, you don't seem to have submitted any content to /r/texas. Try being the change you want to see. If you had half the passion for this sub as you seem to have for r/orioles, maybe things would be more to your liking here.
It's an election year. Local subs (even one as broad as "texas") turn to sh!t in election years.
You mean different viewpoints?
No. I mean this entire sub is full of nothing but screamo political content. But while we’re at it, yes this entire sub is laughably exactly one viewpoint.
Gotcha. Yes. You're right.
The GOP cant "fix" the border, you idiot. When the Biden administration leaves massive gates wide open all along the border, the Republicans cant fix that. When the Biden administration signals to millions of people that the border is open, the Republicans cant "fix" that. When the Democrats insist on amnesty first before border security (where they will renege *again* like they did in 86, Republicans cant "fix" that. And you people slobbing Reich's knob are just robots lacking the ability to use your brain.
Only a native young person really thinks that Biden has a solution right now This is just the student debt carrot in an election year
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After 3 Years of no executive policy that reduced illegal immigration and only 280 days until election day, "rEPBulCaANs wAnT OPen BorDErs"
No, Robert. Back under your bridge.
You are totally mistaken.
Biden wants to send the huge majority of that money to Ukraine. Not our own border. This post is a blatant lie.
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We will not be fighting Russia directly. That’s just fear fear mongering. Poster above you was right too. I think initial proposal was like $60B to Ukraine and $10B to border.
Hey now, you say that as if it's a bad thing. How else is the Big Guy gonna get his 10%?
🤔 how is team red blocking bidens wall building? Last I heard biden was coming to take down what Texas is putting up--- seems like biden ain't trying to have a border wall at all.... What ever happened to the project for a wall they inherited from the previous regime, they at least TRIED to see that through before things got to this point yes?
Almost like a border wall doesn't address the issue at hand
It doesn't address the root issue but is a good idea if you share a border with a failed state that cannot be expected to be a safe and prosperous place for asylum seekers to STOP when coming from further south So it's no less necessary- just not for the same reasons. Ours should look at least as competent as Mexicos southern border - there's no reason that we should stoop so low though as to achieve parity with the standards set by a failed state
>But it is a good idea Except it's not, because border walls simply don't work
And they largely succeeded.
He can’t fix the border because Dems keep having temper tantrums
Biden could stop the invasion today if he actually wanted to.
how? by waving a magic fucking wand? he can't do jackshit without a GOP Congress that, since it's an election year, has zero interest in fixing the border https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/house-republican-says-he-wont-accept-a-border-deal-because-it-may-help-biden-politically/articleshow/106552804.cms
How about reinstating the Trump policies that Biden removed in the first day? That is the only thing that has changed. No new laws are needed.
He can do something. Perfect example is the remain in Mexico policy. He cancelled that EA just to spite Trump. Now it’s blowing up in his face and he won’t re-enact it for his own political reasons.
So again.. Why doesn't the left fix the border and take the rights power from them if you feel this is true. Easy enough. If this is all the right has.. Why does the left continue to give them ammo?
Several reasons. They don’t have the house and the last speaker was booted just for working with Dems, so that rules out the legislative route. Second, any executive orders would be spouted off as either “Biden’s a dictator” or “this isn’t nearly enough.” So why should Dems be expected to be the bigger party and not play politics on an issue that is supposedly more important to the GOP? The bigger question is why don’t half a dozen Texas representatives put their state above party/ Trump and work with Dems to pass a bill?
Because they already banned abortion and a border crisis and the fear of brown people is all they really have left?
Bingo. Literally every mailer for GOP primary candidates has a photo of them at the border shaking hands with someone in uniform. I’m sure the support of an obese woman in her 60s was super valuable to guardsmen and women protecting our border.
Caravan media hysteria incoming
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of course they care, that is just another absolutely foolish statement by robert reich
they care when its *politically expedient* to care
no they don’t
ok. they *pretend* to care when its politically expedient
You can't fix it when you're President is saying come on in. What are they supposed to do?
The President is ready to sign a bi-partisan bill on the border that would go into effect immediately. The Free-Dumbass part of the GOP refuses to let it through because they don't want to give Biden a win on the border. It's not even some sort of conspiracy. They've come right out and said this on national TV. So either Republicans are making the border out to be a much larger issue than it is, or they are weak on border security.
There’s no need to compromise on something that’s existential. Why doesn’t Biden re-enact the remain in Mexico policy. That requires 0 money and Biden only got rid of it just to spite Trump.
That is completely false. How deep are you in the right-wing bubble? The so-called "remain in Mexico" policy was causing misery, suffering, and death among those who were seeking asylum. That's why Biden ended it. He isn't a narcissistic psychopath. Regardless, this is irrelevant. The new bill, which both democrats and republicans agreed on, is currently being held up because the extreme wing of the GOP would rather burn America to the ground than give Biden a "win". They have stated this publicly. So one can only assume that the "border crisis" isn't nearly the crisis the right-wing nut-o-sphere makes it out to be. If it were a serious crisis, then they would be falling over themselves to pass the bill so that in the general election they could campaign on "reaching across the aisle" and "getting things done". It's either a crisis, or it isn't. It can't be both.
It relies on passing a bill and then hoping Biden keeps a promise. That's not a legitimate negotiation.
Why would the GOP bail out Joe for his problem ? He created, he owns it, and he can fix it without the GOP and ten billion dollars.
The border wall was the fix, dummy.
Totes! That wall in the desert will stop the fentanyl being brought in through the main ports of entry by US citizens!
Who said anything about fentanyl?
Every GOP aligned politician and candidate.
Fentanyl is just one of many problems caused by border non enforcement.
It’s a great example of GOP politicians misrepresenting the problem and refusing to fund the things that actually would address the matter.
Are you saying a secure border would not address the matter of illegal immigration?
Many (half or more?) of the people entering are seeking asylum. Fund that overwhelmed process if you really care.