Oh the humanity..

[SunsetBengal]

(08-05-2022, 08:16 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: You're right, the situation at the border could not be at all the result of decades of poor policy decisions across our branches and parties. This also does not in any way exculpate the idea of trying to use the trauma of a young girl to score cheap political points.

You want to talk about border policies? Let's do it in a way that isn't connected to this horrible situation. This is worse, IMO, than using the tragedy of a school/mass shooting to push for gun control in the immediate aftermath. Just make sure to bring specific policy decisions by Biden into the thread that point to him being the reason for the surge.

It's more of a party messaging thing, than actual "policy" decisions.  We have one party who is very vocal in the media, speaking out against any and every effort by the other party to stop/reduce the number of illegal aliens crossing into the US.  So much to the point when the party that speaks out against said measures comes back into office, the said illegal aliens are already lined up at the boarder, ready for mass invasion.

What good are any policy decisions when one party runs to the cooperating media that loudly and proudly broadcasts that "The Democrats will let you in and take care of you"?  Seriously, you can trifle, argue, nit-pick and debate until you're blue in the face about "policy", but until the entire congress as a united front makes it clear that people must enter the country by the rules, nothing will change.