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

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.

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.

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.

This will neither reach nor influence any Trump voters, only potential Biden voters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

Because you clearly do not know what that term means.

Correct. He's calling the GOP bluff and forcing them to move on from the border issue, by exposing it as a non issue

Biden s comments give trump legitimacy because he's saying it's one of the largest issues facing America...

When it's not.

And the majority of Dem voters understand that.

So this hurts Biden, and doesn't do a damn thing but help trump because it makes it look like Biden agrees with him after Dems just spent 7 years saying Trump was horrible for this and lying about how big of an issue it is.

Some voters may be stupid enough not to put all that together. But they're the ones that show up and vote the same every election with zero thought about it.

And who is he trying to show that to?

Maybe...

I've got this outdated belief that when a president says something, it should be clear and honest.

No matter what happens, for the next five years we'll have to constantly wonder if what the president said was even what he meant to say. Doesn't matter who wins, we won't be able to trust the words coming out of the US presidents mouth. We'll have to wait a day or so for his aides to tell us what he really meant.

It's kinda and of depressing

Well I think that comment is 100% spot on, for one

You can't negotiate with a cult leader and his cult.

It moves the discussion further to the right and legitimizes Republican talking points for the majority of people who will only hear a brief soundbite about this, rather than diving deep into the matter.

Besides, the GOP isn't about to run out of bogeymen to trot out just because they could get what they want on the border. They can take it as a compromise and try to push things further down the line. Or they can decide this is good enough for now, and start railing against something else. Union membership rising being a Chinese plot to infiltrate the US and install a Communist dictatorship, so we better write some new laws to enable even more union busting. Free school lunches for kids from poor families turning them gay AND communist by getting them hooked on the government teat early. Woke public libraries turning kids trans by letting them check out books that don't universally demonize it, so better put some sort of draconian funding limits on them. They'll find something else, don't worry.

The way you're framing it and Congressional Democrats approach these things only work if the Republicans aren't completely shameless, above doing things that should completely destroy any remaining vestiges for their voters, but this has been disproven time and time again by the actions of the GOP. If they think they'll have half a chance, they'll wring out even more concessions on this front from the Democrats by pretending to offer something they immediately renege on, just to leave the Democrats going "Aw, shucks, fooled me again. I thought you said you weren't going to do this again."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-promises-shut-border-authority-bipartisan-bill-rcna135980

Biden is pushing for a law that allows any president to do what Trump got shit for doing a few years ago.

It's weird how often people who support Biden, aren't aware of what Biden is actually saying and doing