Doesn't matter if it was "bipartisan" or not, it still let in thousands of immigrants daily instead of the proper way. It deserved to get railroaded on that alone.Civilized said:caryking said:Civilized said:barelypure said:
Of course it does. The world economy mirrors our own, with a little lag time. When things are good here they're good in most other places. Same when they're bad. That doesn't negate the fact that prices are still outpacing wages. Or the historical (or even hysterical) increase in prices since Biden became President.
Then there's the view that 60% are living paycheck to paycheck with less than $1000 as an emergency fund. Add to that housing prices being out of reach for most people that's also hampered by high interest rates. That by itself rings the death knell for the American Dream.
No perception is reality for these people and if they're suffering come November a lot of them will vote with their pocketbook, thinking back to the halcyon days of Trump.
Clearly they are just blocking from their memory the period from early 2020 until Trump left office when COVID hit and unemployment spiked from sub-4% to over 14%, or the period from 2018 until COVID hit when southern border crossings were at over 200% what they were 18 months prior. Trump got lucky we shut down for COVID or else he'd be getting blamed for leaving Biden an immigration poopoo platter on his way out of office.
That's their prerogative to ignore those things, and many voters will either know them and not care; have forgotten them; or never knew them in the first place, but the end of Trump's term was not the magic carpet ride people make it out to be from either economic or immigration standpoints.
Civ, listen, I don't care who the President is; however, they have a responsibility to keep the US sovereign. So, who really cares about how bad it has been, for the last (hell, I'll say it) 40 years.
We need to stop the influx of illegal immigrants into this country, regardless of the Presidency. We have people, siting on porches, be called out for collecting welfare, when they really want to work, for a decent wage. That decent wage has been decimated by illegals!
Let's just fix the problem. The House passed HB2 several months ago and the Senate wouldn't pick it up and start the negotiations. This was well before the Senate bill that encompassed other spending. Let's be real, if the Dems wanted to fix the problem, they would have taken HB2 and negotiated things they wanted, regarding immigration.
No, instead of that, they did exactly what Republicans do when the shoe is on the other foot. It appears no one wants to fix this horrible problem!
A bipartisan immigration bill just got torpedoed so that Trump and other Republicans up for election in 2024 can continue catastrophizing the problem to their electoral benefit.
There's no one bill that will fix the problem. We need to accept incremental, bipartisan solutions that are improvements to what we have, and then keep grinding on the problem and creating new, better legislation that improves upon that.
But I agree with your view that there will not be a magical one bill solution. Politicians have gotten to comfortable with the omnibus bill approach for two political purposes:
1) They can squeeze in as much pork as possible to get lost in the weeds.
2) They will put something in that the other party will vote against on party lines, then use that as an excuse to say "Look at the other side, they hate xxxxxx, they voted against xxxxxx".
It's played out and destroying this country. We need single subject, easily interpreted bills that are shared with the public before passage.
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