I’m slightly annoyed at the chorus that Trump is responsible for ordering the House to torpedo any legislative solution to the immigration problem so that he can campaign on the crisis. Not that this is untrue, but obstructing solutions to deny Democrats “wins” has been Republican policy long predating Trump, and the gambit’s been so successful–beyond Republicans’ wildest dreams–that it’s become their go-to strategy for everything. Democrats have been feeble in calling this out because of their own diverse opinions on immigration policy (and that feebleness helped bring us Trump in '16) so it’s past time for that to change in a way that makes all Republicans pay for playing cynical politics with immigration and every other fucking thing.
Here’s the problem with that: from their perspective, foreign enemies are women and kids pouring over the border in droves and domestic enemies are Dems and other woke, librul types. They completely believe that they are fulfilling their oath by cheating people of their right to vote and nullify the votes they don’t agree with.
They’ll repeat that oath every morning when they brush their teeth before going out to try stomp down anyone who doesn’t agree with them.
'Tis no time to be squishy, wussy as a gop congresscritter. With any luck, history will barely note and little remember these few, the mumbler bumblers of a political party in advanced decay.
A real crisis would be if long working, cheaply working, obediently working, dangerously working laborers were free to go home for vacation. The razor wire is there to keep our cheap labor in.
I’d be a lot less concerned about November’s election if Biden had won South Dakota in 2020…
It’s time for a Constitutional Amendment: if your “state” can’t muster enough residents to make an actual Congressional Delegation (i.e., at least two Representatives), then you can’t be a state any more. You become a local-governing territory of the United States. You lose your Senators and your Congress critter doesn’t get a vote on legislation any more. (Just like Eleanor Holmes Norton of D.C., or Stacey Plackett from the U.S. Virgin Islands.)
We’ll need to add stars to the flag to represent the territories (including D.C., US Virgin Islands, Northern Marianas Islands) and all the new territories (both Dakotas, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Vermont, and Delaware). Yeah, we lose VT and DE. I’m sorry about that. Maybe we should enlarge the House enough to give VT and DE two districts.
Yes, three months ago there was a bipartisan bill on immigration and the border.
But trump…
And now the Sec. of DHS is gonna be impeached for basically being a Biden hire because he worked with GOP and dem members on a bill that now the GOP needs as a cudgle in the campaign to say dems/Biden have done nothing. That is GOP logic
Blame Sec. Mayorkas for helping the members do what the GOP and dems were after that the GOP is now not after. Cuz reasons.
I get headaches from this shit.
Of course, Donald and his enablers are too dumb to realize they could campaign on being “the ones who DELIVERED their votes FOR ‘the solution’”.
Donald Trump has even effectively tanked a bipartisan Senate immigration bill because solving the “crisis” during an election year would be a “gift” to Democrats.
I live north of the Mexican border. If I get on my roof I can see hills in Sonora. I’ve yet to see “hoards of brown skinned rapist-terrorists from wherever” or caravans containing tens of thousands of slobbering ne’er-do-wells assaulting an empty border. And I’ve been a resident of these borderlands over a half century. Trump shows up for 2-3 hours and considers himself a world expert on immigration and let us not forget his expertise at actually naming types of visas. Most impressive that he can read notes from a page.
(((Lays head on desk)))
I’m so old I remember when Levis’ Jeans had 7 belt loops and not the measely 5 loops of today.
And it was custom for large farms to bus workers who have newly crossed the border at Nogales, AZ to their stands of cotton near Marana, AZ and the fields west of Picacho.
Who picks cotton today? Big tractor/machines or people(who do a better job)?
I know it would be impossible to expand the congressional building to accomodate it, but this false limit on the number of representatives is giving the GOP more power than it deserves. The overall number of Congresspersons should be determined by the least populous state getting 1 rep. Then that value is used to determine the number of reps in the other states.
The cap in law on the # of reps denies the correct proportional representation to more populous states. theoretically the ratio of rep to people uses the same formula, but it’s not accurate and probably gives red states more clout than they deserve.
The 2020 Census gave a US population for the 50 States as about 330M, and the population of Wyoming as 577K. Your suggestion would give a House apportionment of 574, about 150 more than the current number. There is enough office space in DC for 574 representatives.
I prefer my proposal because it knocks off the nonsense that Wyoming, either of the Dakotas, etc. merit anything beyond territorial status. Not that either proposal has the slightest hope of becoming law.
Quality is made up for in quantity at a lower cost per bale. People need (or should have ) a living wage machines just need oil and repair now and then. Or it breaks down, toss it by some deserted road and buy a new one
Kiss my affordable house in Phoenix goodbye, which has more than doubled in value since I moved to Wisconsin in 2012. If I wanted to retire in AZ after I get sick of snow and cold, I’d be halfway to Tombstone before I could find a place I could afford on a fixed income.