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We don’t actually want this. This is bad. Stop it.
I have good news! She's not actually doing what the headline says. IDK why the media is so shit when covering this issue but the picture that's being created (where the choices are "nothing" which is fine or "border security" which means cruelty), is wrong in both respects. See my longer top level comment.
Biden’s current border strategy is killing migrants by forcing them into remote areas of the border. They’ve continued trumps bullshit but no one gives a shit because it isn’t Trump.
As an example for a long time, they were keeping migrants in open air detention camps while not feeding or giving water to these migrants. Volunteers were keeping them alive. This is evil and I do not want it.
Good news, Biden tried to fix that, by giving enough funding to ICE so they would have places to put those people, increasing the number of judges so there wouldn't be this massive backlog of 3 million asylum cases to be heard (THREE FUCKING MILLION PEOPLE). Bad news, the Republicans killed it, and none of the left supported him on it either because the media doesn't give a fuck about any of those people in any of those open air detention camps, and so they represented it all wrong, so people thought he was doing cruelty to migrants and opposed his attempt to do anything to fix it. So, nothing happened. They're still in the camps. And ICE is still racist. Biden can't fix that either.
It's a fucking disaster. And now, the left is preemptively shitting on Harris for getting tangentially involved in it, before she's even had a chance to fuck anything up. Sounds like those people better have their supplies of sunscreen and bottled water in place.
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If "tough" means "focused", I'm fairly indifferent. Indiscriminately breaking up families and harrassing people because you're bigoted is not "tough", it's just hateful. It serves no real world functional purpose. And that's the policies of the right. They aren't tough, because they aren't results orientated, beyond punishing "them". I have to assume (hope) Harris is motivated more by real world cost benefit calculations and less by knee jerk stereotypes. Tough could mean fair, if she intends to apply the rules more justly, and less punativatively. If tough means more scrutiny with less prejudice, it sounds more like a better return on investment for border infrastructure.
Words are inaccurate.
It is perfectly possible to be tough on border security without treating people like sub human trash.
You can make a border more difficult to illegally bypass, while also opening the gates to more to ensure that people are documented. Turning potential "illegals" into legal immigrants. This reduces the need to try and get through the border illegally. This is obviously a very basic over view, lacking any kind of thought into policy for supporting them.
Of course, if someone's definition of tougher on border security is "fuck off, we're full", with the border having razor wire and armed guards shooting on sight, then they would disagree with the above.