Biden Threatens to Veto Bill That Would Help Israel but Not Ukraine
nytimes.com
President Biden vowed on Monday to veto a House Republican bill that would provide $17.6 billion in aid to Israel, calling it a “cynical political maneuver” intended to hurt the chances of passage for broader legislation that would provide money for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan and the U.S. border.
House Republicans fiercely oppose the larger bill, which was unveiled by a small, bipartisan group of senators over the weekend. It calls for $118.3 billion in spending and would overhaul some of the nation’s immigration laws to deal with recent surges of migrants at the southern border.
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Yeah, migrants just love to surge come election time.
What a bullshit.
Remember the massive "caravan" of migrants Fox breathlessly talked about as it made its way to the border?
I'll never forget for months them screeching about it, and literally a day after the mid-term elections were over, the "caravans" were literally never mentioned again; until the next election year that is...
They'll do the exact same thing again soon.
They are probably still mad Trump cut aid to the three Mexican countries...
All lies. I don't believe US government numbers any more than I did during COVID. /S
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters
According to these statistics, the same thing happens every year. If you look at the previous years they all start to go up in January then peak around May and start to decline after that. So what's the big deal if this happens every year? It's to be expected.
The conservatives have been trotting out the "southern border crisis" red herring for so long that The Democrats were the first party to do it in the US. They keep doing it because it works. Those of us that live next to the border, like I do, can tell everyone back east that there's no problem, but if one racist asshole starts yelling, there's a whole bunch of racist assholes that live 2000 miles away that get scared and riled up.
what conservatives are upset about is often legal migrants and sometimes tourists. Its more transparent when cons talk about black people as "black culture". They say its the "illegals" they're worried about, but I doubt any rich republican employs less than 6 "Illegals" because I haven't met a rich person that paid a fair wage. Its always been unserious.
Looking at the graph, it's well over 3x what it was in 2021..seems pretty obvious to me why this might be concerning.
During Covid the government enacted title 42 and didn't allow any migrants entry to mitigate the spread of covid. Since covid is over they rescinded title 42, now all the asylum seekers waiting at the boarder are crossing as they would have just been turned away before. This was a predictable outcome and next year the numbers will drop back down.
An interesting point and I would be curious to see if it would pan out.
What do you make of people coming from continents besides South America? Do we owe it to Russian or Chinese citizens to offer them asylum? From my perspective asylum is something you offer your direct neighbors who are fleeing threats on their lives. Offering asylum to literally any citizen of the world seems a bit extreme. If someone in China fears for their life, certainly there are closer and more accessible countries they can flee to.
No shit it was lower during COVID