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Biden invites Trump to work together to lobby Congress on an immigration bill as both candidates visit border

www.nbcnews.com Biden invites Trump to work together to lobby Congress on an immigration bill as both candidates visit border

The president also criticized congressional Republicans, saying they needed to “show a little spine” and take up a bipartisan border agreement in the Senate.

“You know and I know it’s the toughest, most efficient, most effective border security bill this country’s ever seen,” Biden said. “So instead of playing politics with the issue, why don’t we just get together and get it done?”

Biden touted the bipartisan border bill as “a win for the American people,” calling it a “truly bipartisan initiative.” He called on the Senate to reconsider the bill, asking senators to “set politics aside” and for House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., to put the bill on the floor.

“We need to act,” Biden said, adding that Republicans in Congress needed to “show a little spine.”

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Biden invites Trump to work together to lobby Congress on an immigration bill as both candidates visit border

www.nbcnews.com /politics/2024-election/trump-biden-collide-split-screen-trips-border-immigration-spotlight-rcna140899

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Because Trump wins as long as you don't "get it done". Stop acting like the turnip is a rational actor motivated by what's best for the country. He's not.
Also... we don't need "tough" border control. We need more immigration judges and resources for courts so they can process people faster, get immigrants and migrants seeking asylum processed and legal faster; so they're in and out of the system and productive members. we need a legal and effecient path to citizenship. (or at least, green cards/work visas.)
- Regular voters hear headlines like "Millions Illegally Crossed" and "Undocumented Crime Wave"; they naturally blame Biden because he's an incumbent. The recent Gallup polls are alarming.
  Biden should have focused American businesses that hired illegals, not punishing migrants for wanting a better life. Trump along with many GOP donors have hired illegals in the past, go after them and you win the debate.
- Stop acting like the turnip is a rational actor motivated by what’s best for the country. He’s not.
  Isn't that exactly the point Biden makes with that?
  
  Yes, it’s clear as day that he’s trying to illustrate that Trump isn’t interested in actually solving problems. And if he actually takes the bait and does it, it would basically force the GOP’s hand in Congress to pass a bill.
  
  And yet, in the meantime he’s gone so far right on immigration that we’ll take decades to come back from that.
  Decades which will only see increased migration across the globe as people try to survive climate change.
- Biden agrees with trump, the border is the most pressing issue of our time.
  
  that's a pretty niave take. And to be honest, pretty typically american.
  Climate Change is an existential threat to our country. but because it's more than the next election cycle out, it's being treated like it's just going to make for a few hot summers or something. The reality is, as the climate changes it will excacerbate literally every issue we're now facing. (and it will change. we're well past the point of no-change; we're not to the point of total collapse, yet.)
  You think the migrant crisis is bad now? just wait until Mexico and Texas start looking like the Sahara. you think food is expensive now? wait until the bees die off. or the bananas start dying out because of a disease... because they're all clones. You think COVID was bad? wait 'till some super bug thaws out of the permafrost.
  
  No not at all, I think it was another fatal mistake by Biden and the democratic party. They agree with right wing extremists on the border, then they continue to arm a genocide. I think it's fucking dispicable.
  
  Which is fucking 2 brain cell, textbook senile xenophobic nonsense. I want fucking healthcare and I already live in a police state, I don't know why anybody thinks gatekeeping migrants from living here is a magical fix to America's problems- a giant wall across mexico just makes us all less free and I fully 100% believe these policies are all about giving the state more control at the end of the day.

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