President Joe Biden has yet to make good on his promise in February to raise the country’s refugee acceptance cap, which currently sits at a historic low of 15,000 after ex-President Donald Trump gutted the program.
Reprehensible cowardice, Joe.
I will say this much: I’ve been working with the State Department on improving the refugee program and there is progress – immediately with regard to certain locations in Asia but also elsewhere.
I thought Joe had gotten past this. Here’s the problem - they’re going to say he’s a Commie who threw open the borders to those people so that they could take away that fruit picking job that Real Americans™ had their eye on. His actions don’t matter, they will still say that’s what he’s doing.
Because the people that message is targeted at will believe it, and sure as hell aren’t going to go past Fox or Breitbart for “research”.
So why let them control your actions? This kind of thing was my biggest concern about Obama’s VP as President, and up until now he’s done such a good job of resisting that instinct…
Not good policy and likely not good politics. Granted that immigration/border issues are the one area GOPers have clearly managed to get the brain dead media to bite on, so avoiding action even on adjacent issues might seem smart.
But the media’s need to stir the shit using bad faith GOP arguments isn’t going anywhere. Already there’s boo hooing about “bipartisanship,” whatever that’s supposed to mean these days, and BS concerns about inflation.
The right tactic is to punch back. The Republicans refuse to address solutions to immigration issues because they are racist fearmongers who have zero to offer the American people in positive policies.
Presuming, with good reason, that this isn’t based on political cowardice on the part of the Dems., it isn’t clear why they are delaying on this issue. lt would be interesting to hear a solid, fact-based, discussion on this issue. Biden and Co. aren’t doing themselves, or anyone else, any good by not discussing this issue.
In present times, lack of information leaves a vacuum of uncertainty that just begs mischief and misunderstanding.
Thank you.
So according to CNN? Anyone on record any sources cited?
Did I miss something?
I’ll remind all he came around on the AAPI “ultimatum”
I’m gonna wait a few days to see what is announced
I’m not going to throw him under the bus…yet.
Nah, just a recognition that it would be wise to alleviate the influx of asylum-seekers at the southern border before taking action that will result in tens of thousands of other immigrants coming to the country. He’ll get to it in due course.
Well Abbott and Patrick and Paxton are doing their damnedest to make hay out of the situation that exists right now. I’d like to see us get it under control.
A post of mine from another thread (bracketed). The highlighted part is a regret of mine.
["As LBJ (should have) said… “It depends on the dominoes and where they are”
Which ( a mi me gusta mencionar este tema contigo ) leads me to this closer-to-home theme:
The relation between immigration and economic viability for nation states sending the majority of immigrants. The Castro Brothers (NOT the Cuban ones) are quite right on the need for a Marshall Plan of sorts for those nation states.
As it is, though (because of the time-and-effort wasting of tending to Donald Trump’s antics), we are seriously hampered on a number of fronts regarding deeply important tasks before us.
It is as though we are grown-ups fighting off herds of teen-age boys incapable of being grounded for misbehavior"]
Not only is there a burning need to help stabilize the economic ruin and political chaos driving Central American refugees – and not just for the sake of basic human decency, but also for America’s own self interest – but I suspect we’re about to see a historic refugee crisis as unprecedented numbers flee Hong Kong, Afghanistan, and possibly even Taiwan…
Politically expedient for Joe, but lethal for some.
Without taking away from the need to help refugees find a home, it’s a cold fact that there are always financial costs to consider. Canada takes in way more than most counties. There are numerous long term benefits that are obvious to anyone who has looked into it. More then short term and those are the ones that naysayers tend to look at. That happens here as well.
An infusion of money into the social infrastructure of our country is a constant but never enough. There is a tendency for newcomers to gravitate to cities. It happens in overlapping waves causing, for an example, the education system to be overloaded; trying to deal with all the complexities of suddenly having an influx of people who have very individual needs.
Over all I think it’s wise on many levels to not exacerbated the problems of any system of society. Wait sometime and slowly bring in whom ever wishes. I mean, with all its craziness, America is still pretty neat.
If lives are in imminent danger, they should present themselves for asylum, for which they may well be eligible. What we’re talking about with the refugee cap is a different matter – people displaced from their own homes and temporarily resettled in various manners pending admission to another country or return to their original homes. Refugee resettlement has long been a drawn out and deliberative process. Waiting a few months to raise the caps while the southern border thing gets worked out is fine.
Still, he doesn’t (and we don’t) need the xenophobics at Faux News and elsewhere to influence/run his administration.
ETA Is he going to let them dictate asylum for all the Afghani’s who worked with US troops as well? Or follow past “policy” and let them and their families be murdered as soon as we leave, like we did in Vietnam and Iraq?
Small-minded fucks secure in their Business Plans are responsible for dredging up America’s racist past, giving their most avid practitioners all the attention they can crave and watching the dollars roll in.
We should be spending a large chunk of time talking about what Joe is trying to get past Manchin and Sinema in the Senate.
If those two would have played ball already, we would be talking about the same problems we are touching upon right now… instead of the usual oppositional bullshit…it would be in the context of a nation which has enacted policy designed to engage its population…and when a nation is engaged in multiple useful tasks, things happen in tangential areas…Who knows?
Maybe there is something in the Infrastruture Bill which is tangential to what we need to do w/r/t these Central American States.
But as long as we are fucking around with the Trump Wing of the GOP, we might as well be trying to deal with “herds of teenage boys incapable of being grounded for misbehavior”.
Fucking Sleepy Fucking Joe. Sleeping on the job for a full like 85 days now.
Where’s my fucking pony? I was promised a pony, don’t give a shit about covid vaccinations, pandemic relief and stimulus, Russia sanctions and heading off escalation of the war in Ukraine, negotiating an exit from Afghanistan, responding to a border crisis or any of the other shit that Sleepy Joe has been up to.
It’s been 85 days, get me my fucking pony.
As one prominent Democrat observed yesterday, it’s not Fox News that’s responsible here: It’s “vintage Biden.”