This bill is insane. Does anyone think asylum officers need a pay raise?
Humiliating border patrol agents further
Giving work permits away like candy
Institutionalizing catch and release thru non detention
Maintains parole standard of case by case basis which Mayorkas has blown wide open
New word salad for asylum which won't change anything
Puts far left DC district court in charge
Neocon giveaway
Here we go. Chamber of Commerce give aways
Locking in future admins into the give aways
Very obviously not a border bill at this point
You will pay for lawyers of illegal aliens
New standard of acceptable illegal immigrants set at 5k/day (around 2 million a year)
Payday for pro illegal immigration NGOs
The bill explicitly calls for the release of illegal aliens, despite being framed as ending catch and release
The bill also appears to enshrine the Flores settlement, a key target of pro-sovereignty law makers
The bill also falsely tries to write @Heritage support in. We do not support ATD for the purposes of mass release. (In case this was not already clear)
We support border security and the rule of law during this massive invasion
Keeps intact the pull factor of child recyling
In clear conflict with the bill text of 5k/day, @SenatorLankford spreads misinformation in his press release that it is 5k/WEEK
This comes after he accused border advocates of lying and @SenatorRounds accused same of being Russian disinformation
@SenatorLankford @SenatorRounds The press release also falsely claims a shift to "detain and deport". The above thread shows that to be a lie
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Machine politics. Algorithms, donor lists, federally and privately funded NGO involvement, corrupt ties with industry, captured media, suppression propaganda, and especially ballot harvesting all unfortunately matter more than a true democracy in which policy is debated.
Some causes for optimism but many more areas for concern. One historical reference could be that Harry Truman (Senator from Pendergrast) was put into the Senate by corrupt machine politics. FDR picked him as his running mate (didn't even really talk to him before or after much)
because his current VP (Wallace) was too obviously a communist. Truman was unable to unwilling to recognize the extent to which communist forces were driving the FDR administration. The consequences of that still hurt us today and color a lot of our FP.