Border hawks may be cheering the demise of the Senate bill, but they will regret it.

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If the goal was to entice undeserving applicants, you couldn’t design a worse combination of policy and resources. In comparison, the bipartisan proposal is designed to deny more cases at the initial stage and get final decisions on all cases in a matter of months.

For immigration hardliners, the moment of leverage had finally arrived: More enforcement without amnesty. However, instead of seizing this likely once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, House Republicans and former President Trump argued that the bill was not the hardliner wish list they preferred and successfully convinced most Senate Republicans to block the bill.

This one-sided deal that favors Republican enforcement policy is unlikely to ever reappear. There has never been another moment this century when Democrats agreed to enforcement legislation without meaningful legalization provisions. Nor have they ever agreed to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to anywhere near the level needed to locate and deport millions of individuals already in the country illegally.

  • MonsiuerPatEBrown@reddthat.comEnglish
    42·
    9 months ago

    There are, I believe, at least three US cities that are offering $10,000.00 to move to them.

    Seems like we US Americans are experiencing mass cognitive dissonance when we bribe people to migrate and then imprison the ones actually doing so.

    Honestly that seems kinda rat-fucky.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Sounds like you heard some right wing disinformation. No fucking way are people being paid to come here illegally.

      • Curiousfur@yiffit.net
        3·
        9 months ago

        Typically the offers are to relocate and remote work so that high earners can spend their money in low cost of living areas. The cruel irony is that they are desperate for workers and spending while at the same time the govt is cracking down on immigration, which is people looking to work and contribute to the economy.

    • Ghostface@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Or that could be more cruel depending on the town. Its drying up for a reason. However I do agree there are plenty of other places than NYC hotels to house and revive town that are dying due to population loss