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On 2024-10-09, Skeeter <skeeterweed@photonmail.com> wrote:
> In article <ve6oiv$2pdmp$3@dont-email.me>, 
nuh-https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/4455506-breaking-down-the-senate-
border-bill-and-why-it-has-no-chance-of-passing/uh@nope.com says...
>> 
>> On 2024-10-09 05:01, pothead wrote:
>> > On 2024-10-09, NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 10:40:38 -0700, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> On 2024-10-08 10:34, NoBody wrote:
>> >>>> Vice President Kamala Harris was pressed by CBS News' Bill Whitaker
>> >>>> about whether it was a "mistake" for the Biden administration to go
>> >>>> soft on its border policies during a tense exchange on Monday's
>> >>>> special election episode of "60 Minutes."
>> >>>>
>> >>>> "You recently visited the southern border and embraced President
>> >>>> Biden's recent crackdown on asylum seekers, and that crackdown
>> >>>> produced an almost immediate and dramatic decrease in the number of
>> >>>> border crossings," Whitaker said. "If that's the right answer now, why
>> >>>> didn't your administration take those steps in 2021?"
>> >>>>
>> >>>> "The first bill we proposed to Congress was to fix our broken
>> >>>> immigration system, knowing that if you want to actually fix it, we
>> >>>> need Congress to act. It was not taken up," Harris responded. "Fast
>> >>>> forward to a moment when a bipartisan group of members of the United
>> >>>> States Senate, including one of the most conservative members of the
>> >>>> United States Senate, got together, came up with a border security
>> >>>> bill.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> "Well, guess what happened? Donald Trump got word that this bill was
>> >>>> afoot and could be passed, and he wants to run on a problem instead of
>> >>>> fixing a problem. So he told his buddies in Congress, 'Kill the bill,
>> >>>> don't let it move forward.'"
>> >>>>
>> >>>> "I've been covering the border for years, and so I know this is not a
>> >>>> problem that started with your administration," Whitaker said. "But
>> >>>> there was an historic flood of undocumented immigrants coming across
>> >>>> the border the first three years of your administration. As a matter
>> >>>> of fact, arrivals quadrupled from the last year of President Trump."
>> >>>>
>> >>>> "Was it a mistake to loosen the immigration policies as much as you
>> >>>> did?" Whitaker then asked.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> "It's a long-standing problem, and solutions are at hand, and from day
>> >>>> one, literally, we have been offering solutions," Harris responded.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> https://www.foxnews.com/media/60-minutes-asks-harris-whether-mistake-biden-admin-go-soft-border-vp-repeatedly-dodges?fbclid=IwY2xjawFyTABleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHU7b1A3i67zYH1ZuuRcDgOkGCtU25HYve9RL5lNUqEw1DXjdyJOP88WFjg_aem_oRywo9a6LtumpPT67x6Nsw
>> >>>>
>> >>>> No she has not offered solutions.  That bill did nothing to strengthen
>> >>>> the border and repeating the lie doesn't make it true.
>> >>>
>> >>> If the bill did nothing to strengthen the border...
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> ...why did Trump want it killed?
>> >>
>> >> Because it spent a bunch of money that did nothing to address the
>> >> problem?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Duh.
>> > 
>> > That bill would have codified illegal immigration.
>> > It was a disaster and Republicans who were in favor of it obviously did not
>> > read the bill because it was awful.
>> Quote an "awful" provision of that bill.
>
> Money to Ukraine. That's not our border.
>
>
> The border doesn't need funds. They just need to follow the law.

Assuming the libby is capable of reading for comprehension, and I have my 
doubts, here is a breakdown of why this was a disastrous piece of legislation.

<https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/4455506-breaking-down-the-senate-border
-bill-and-why-it-has-no-chance-of-passing/>


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