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Citizen60's avatar

I’m seriously starting the Republicans (Lankford) wrote an excellent bill to start addressing the mess—which the Border Patrol Agents Union full of suicidal agents endorsed—and Trump ordered it defeated.

So, the Republicans wrote a border bill with almost everything they wanted, then they obeyed orders—ignoring the needs/desires of the Border Patrol Agents Union—defeated it. None of that is Biden’s fault.

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Honda Civics's avatar

Why do you believe a special border bill is necessary to enforce existing border laws? It seems that is a common misconception here and in other discussions about this disaster. Enforce what we already have/had (as related by the Border Patrols profiled in this article) and then work on improving these laws.

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Citizen60's avatar

Without additional funds, the Border Patrol cannot hire new agents.

Without a change in the asylum criteria, it's too easy to ask for asylum under the existing statutes

Without additional funds, more judges cannot be assigned to the Border towns for faster turn-around of asylum rejection.

Lankford's Border Bill did all of that -- and funds for fence building

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Theresa Bruno's avatar

“I think everybody cares about the future of the country. President Trump has a bigger picture of a lot of other issues he is looking for. If we have President Biden again, this never gets any better and I think if Trump sees this as a moment that if this gets fixed, then maybe a few people don’t vote, and then we have a whole host of other issues.”

Said by Lankford. Politics really is a very dirty business. They want Biden gone.

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Citizen60's avatar

Republicans always want Democrats gone. Politics is indeed a dirty business.

But there were Democrats who supported Eisenhower's "Wetback Bill" because they saw a need to get something done, which is something Republicans won't do for Biden --or any Democrat--today.

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Theresa Bruno's avatar

Yes and I get it because Biden is such a horrendous disaster they will do anything to get him out of office. I want him gone too. Don't think for one minute that Biden wasn't going to use this every way he could in the election because he came right out and said it.

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Citizen60's avatar

As Biden should. The Republicans tanked what Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell called as good a border bill as they would get.

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Theresa Bruno's avatar

There is no way in hell I would give Biden any credit because he not only created the border crisis we are in, he is going to conveniently use this as a political ploy to try to get reelected and I for one want him out. He is horrible.

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