“Unconscionable”: The potential changes to border enforcement tied to Ukraine aid could bring back Trump-era policies
"We should not be normalizing this type of cruel proposals."
One thing I hate about border security compromises is just that it’s never enough for the right to shut up for even a day. The border could be the most secure anywhere outside of the Korean Peninsula and Republicans would still do ignorant stunts and gin up the rubes with sensationalist coverage. You’re just validating their framing.
One thing I hate about border security compromises is just that it’s never enough for the right to shut up for even a day.
Democrats know this. But they have been given a chance to capitulate, look like they're weak and have no plan, and be complicit in cruelty to the marginalized. They can't resist.
Another issue with the "moderate" viewpoint trying to split the difference.
As Republicans get crazier and crazier, moderates follow them to the right.
It's why in 2024 the two candidates are both ripping off Ronald Reagan's campaign slogans from 40 years ago.
So we see high ranking politicians with a D next to their name, ok with policy that the democratic party said was too conservative decades ago.
The bigger problem is if we don't fund Ukraine, it's a real possibility that NATO countries are next, and that means we are obligated to send troops, not just guns.
I wouldn't be willing to say Biden is okay with this, but Republicans hold the purse strings, so to avoid possible global war, Biden definitely has to compromise.
I do fully agree that the current state of the GOP is at least partly Dems' fault for playing ball with people who will stab you, steal the ball, and say they won fair and square.
The USA isn't the entire world...
If we can't fund Ukraine because of Republicans, that sucks, but it's life. There's lots of other countries (like the entirety of NATO) that can temporarily pick up the slack.
Giving Ukraine a pittance and 10x that to Israel so they can commit a genocide and re-enacring trump era policies that come damn close to America committing a genocide is not a good trade off.
And shows how exceptionally out of touch dem leadership is.
Which brings us full circle to depressed turnout and a risk of trump winning.
Where did you get the impression thr Democrats supported this part of the bill?
The Democrats fought against it being included
Why is Ukraine aid being tied to immigration policy in the first place? I know the political reasons, the right wants tougher boarders and the left wants to support Ukraine and the centrists want both but the issues are mutually exclusive.
Neither side is going to be happy and a compromise is that much harder when tying two things together than are completely separate issues.