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On 2024-10-11 05:19, Skeeter wrote:
> In article <ve9ta5$3btbs$8@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
>>
>> On 2024-10-09 15:28, Skeeter wrote:
>>> In article <ve6oiv$2pdmp$3@dont-email.me>, nuh-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.
>>
>> Money for Ukraine was not in the last version of the border bill.
>>
>> You fail.
> 
> Yes it was.

Here's the text of the bill:

<https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4361/text>

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