03-24-2021, 10:58 AM
Biden was elected because he was better than Trump at a wide variety of things. Handling the pandemic, foreign affairs with our allies (making it explicitly clear that he is almost as bad as Trump at foreign relations with Middle Eastern countries and he doesn't appeal to dictators like North Korea the way that Trump does), healthcare (not great, but better than Trump), taxes, human decency, general temperament etc.
But he will not fix the border in terms of the backlog and number of people applying. It wasn't one of his platform positions and, as many people like to mention, the cages were built during Obama's presidency (we weren't systematically separating children from families during the Obama years like Trump did, but we were using them for unaccompanied minors, which is probably the biggest black mark on Obama's border policy overall).
He's still an improvement over Trump. The treatment of illegal border crossing immigrants has improved under Biden, as Republican Senator John Cornyn helpfully pointed out.
I think there's definitely a perception among everyone in the world that someone illegally crossing the border will be treated better now than they would have been when Trump was president. That is almost certainly what is creating this increase in activity at the border.
For better or for worse, the Democrat's "brand" has become "we are good people (better than the Republicans, anyway), even if we suck at actually getting our policies passed." So they will treat southern immigrants more "humanely" as they hold them in detention for indeterminate amounts of time.
I'd love it if we could improve in this area, but I don't see that being a possibility as long as we're locked in this two party system where the establishment is emphasized by both parties at all times with no hope or expectation for progressive change. The truth is, America created many of the crises that have resulted in the instability that these immigrants are fleeing from, so the idea that we destabilized these countries and then are holding their fleeing refugees in detention camps (even if they are "more humane" detention camps) is despicable to me.
But he will not fix the border in terms of the backlog and number of people applying. It wasn't one of his platform positions and, as many people like to mention, the cages were built during Obama's presidency (we weren't systematically separating children from families during the Obama years like Trump did, but we were using them for unaccompanied minors, which is probably the biggest black mark on Obama's border policy overall).
He's still an improvement over Trump. The treatment of illegal border crossing immigrants has improved under Biden, as Republican Senator John Cornyn helpfully pointed out.
President Biden has instead emphasized the humane treatment of immigrants, regardless of their legal status.@nytimes https://t.co/5IuyZTXm6x
— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) March 22, 2021
I think there's definitely a perception among everyone in the world that someone illegally crossing the border will be treated better now than they would have been when Trump was president. That is almost certainly what is creating this increase in activity at the border.
For better or for worse, the Democrat's "brand" has become "we are good people (better than the Republicans, anyway), even if we suck at actually getting our policies passed." So they will treat southern immigrants more "humanely" as they hold them in detention for indeterminate amounts of time.
I'd love it if we could improve in this area, but I don't see that being a possibility as long as we're locked in this two party system where the establishment is emphasized by both parties at all times with no hope or expectation for progressive change. The truth is, America created many of the crises that have resulted in the instability that these immigrants are fleeing from, so the idea that we destabilized these countries and then are holding their fleeing refugees in detention camps (even if they are "more humane" detention camps) is despicable to me.
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