Ugh, do we have another year of hearing about that dumbass wall ahead of us?
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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Every single talking point Republicans are using was used in 2016. They offer no solutions and no new ideas. Essentially they are saying, all those promises we failed to follow through on we are making again.
And they won't actually fulfill them. One thing they learned from the abortion thing is that it's bad to actually finish the job, because then your side gets complacent, while the other side gets more energized. It's much better to promise a thing that can never be fully achieved, and then blame the other side when it doesn't happen. That drives the acceptable level of outrage to keep your side continually engaged.
I've always believed overturning Roe v Wade would be the biggest mistake the religious right ever made.
lets hope
yeah abbot literally blamed the deaths of 2 people in the rio grande this week on "Biden's open border policy"
Mind boggling especially considering this is like a 40 yr problem at this point and republicans have done literally 0 to solve it.
They do, however, come up with lots of new crimes and abuses of power.
those talking points resonate with their base though - why change a winning strategy?
Remember when Arrested Development had the GWB stand in guy driving the stairs around a fake wall in the desert?
Do these Republicans know that all that land is privately owned? The Federal Government doesn't have the right to build there. Additionally you don't need a wall since sensors already do a better job.
Also a significant portion of illegal immigration happens through overstaying a visa, not through border crossings.
Also, Republicans don't distinguish between undocumented immigrants and refugees, because they intend to violate the nation's lawful treaty obligations with regards to the latter. Note that the victims of the DeSantis/Abbott felony human-trafficking operation have been refugees.
Republicans don't distinguish between undocumented immigrants and legal residents. Or between Mexico and the rest of central and south America.
They say "come here legally" and then when they do, the republicans are still mad.
Exactly very free cross over illegally. They get in legally on a work visa and then they stay. The Republican party knows this hell they condone it. 99% of the construction, and labor for farms would fail without them.
Just look how it worked out for Florida.
If they were serious about "getting rid of illegal immigration " they would go after the corporations and companies who hire them and the banks.
It just a scapegoat they can point to of why your wages suck. Not the fact that they refuse to up the wage for last 15 years nooo it is those pesky illegal taking all the good paying jobs. Oh and remember thier on welfare too.
Fucking Republican party thrives on hate.
Not even necessarily a work visa. Someone I know met their boyfriend in Mexico and they came back to the states together. He had a travel visa and then just never went back (or at least not for a long time, I've lost touch).
"Party of ideas" my ass.
So another idiot then.
Luckily he has no chance of winning.
If the Republicans pick Trump, the Democrats will pick Biden. This is the real reason why they want Trump in prison. Otherwise we won't have an elected president under 75 until 2032.
Including those child-killing river bouys?
That's already been deemed illegal
Lots of things republicans are doing are illegal, that hasn't really stopped them.
New standards have been set. It's only illegal if you're convicted of doing it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), a GOP presidential candidate, said Friday he’d finish the border wall started during former President Trump’s administration if elected to the White House.
“As president of the United States, I will finish this wall, and I will use the available technology to surveil our border to stop fentanyl from killing another 70,000 Americans in the next 12 months,” Scott said on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom.”
Scott blamed President Biden for illegal crossings and deaths from fentanyl, knocking the administration for not closing the southern border.
Ron DeSantis (R), another Republican White House hopeful, also stopped at the border earlier this summer.
Trump’s call to build a wall at the country’s southern border was a key aspect of his 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump told Newsmax last year, before he’d announced his campaign, that resuming building of the border wall would be a top priority in 2024 if he got back to the Oval Office.
I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Everyone on the Republican side is saying this, Chris Christie said it too. It's the easy answer to how they are "fixing" immigration.
doesnt most of the fentanyl come from China these days?
He'd have to repair some of the new sections first.