What are your objections to (or praises of) Biden's immigration bill?

It doesn't enforce the law. Period. And frick Ukraine

It won’t change anything. We don’t enforce what we have on the books now. Until that changes this is all just politics and fluff.


And around the bowl we go.

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Is Trump's objection mostly an issue of not wanting Biden to have a victory here, or is there a real gap this doesn't address?

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Nothing wrong with that argument.

Democrats simply ignore laws.

Why strengthen the bad guys by giving them this meaningless victory?

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It's not perfect, but I'm surprised how much it does address issues that I thought he was denying.

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I have not done a lot of reading on this, clearly, but I came across it this morning and decided to at least look at it.

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So what does it say?

I think the point is that we have immigration laws that the federal government isn’t enforcing already, Biden revoked Trump’s EO on DAY ONE he was in office, there’s a lot more than just the border in the bill, and we have been told that the border is secure but suddenly during an election year, the democrats want to fix it. Not coherent at all.

Texas had 76k+ illegal crossings in December. In January, that number dropped to 17k+. This is a very fixable issue clearly.

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So what does it say?

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Doesn't matter in the least what it says.

If Biden and the Democrats are FOR it, it is without argument, TERRIBLE for America.

Giving money to the border to process illegals faster is horrible

Did not read it, did you? Please include excerpts of anything outside of immigration into the USA.

So, most of the replies seem to be saying the bill does nothing that is not already there.

This piece in The Hill says:

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Key features of the bill under consideration would make it harder for migrants to claim asylum, expand detention capacity and expedite the expulsion of migrants who lack lawful reasons to stay in the country. The plan would also add staff to the Border Patrol and those tasked with processing migrants. It also includes a mechanism to shut down migrant intake when it exceeds more than 5,000 daily border encounters.

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Is this not true, or does it not make a difference?

Trump said "if we get a great bill, we should do it." he is not obstructing

but a bill is not necessary to secure the border. in fact Republicans should insist that the Biden admin secure the border first before agreeing to any terms in any proposed bill.

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Did not read it, did you?

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I think I made that pretty clear. Is this supposed to be some sort of gotcha?

I absolutely agree it should be decoupled with any other issue, especially Ukraine. If THAT is the objection, fine. It doesn't seem to be what Trump is saying, though.

Johnson's pledge to cut down these intertwined bills is something that should be a MUCH bigger deal, but neither side seems to be buying into it.