01-26-2024, 10:44 PM
(01-26-2024, 09:58 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: And that entire time the haven't been enforcing the laws on the books. Every POTUS you cited here did absolutely nothing about the issue. At one time all of them had the majority to push through changes to immigration law. Yet none of them did it. Ask yourself why that is.
They all made pleas to congress to do their job and pass new laws.
And just like we are witnessing now. Bipartisan efforts ended up falling apart.
Maybe because the broken two party system has a political football they really like kicking around and they don’t want to give it up. Probably why a certain presidential candidate is trying to snuff out the current attempt at a bipartisan solution.
Maybe just maybe Biden’s decades of experience dealing with this headache issue has him willing to make some compromises to finally get a bill done.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-republicans-warn-house-wont-get-better-immigration-deal-trump-rcna134348
“”To those who think that if President Trump wins, which I hope he does, that we can get a better deal — you won’t,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters Wednesday. “You got to get 60 votes in the United States Senate.”
“To my Republican friends: To get this kind of border security without granting a pathway to citizenship is really unheard of. So if you think you’re going to get a better deal next time, in ’25, if President Trump’s president, Democrats will be expecting a pathway to citizenship for that,” he said. “So to my Republican colleagues, this is a historic moment to reform the border.”
Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., echoed Graham's view.
“The Democrats will not give us anything close to this if we have to get 60 votes in the United States Senate in a Republican majority,” Thune said. “We have a unique opportunity here. And the timing is right to do this.””
