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The only way we can get support to give foreign nations more money for weapons of war is by first agreeing to harsher treatment of asylum seekers at home.
Cool. Great. I'm so glad nothing is fundamentally changing.
Well, Biden did say he was good with compromising with Republicans, and it looks like we're going to finally see it.
Republicans get to make the life of asylum seekers that come to America even worse than trump did...
And Israel gets billions of dollars more to continue their genocide.
Now, you could argue that this is a terrible fucking deal and we don't want either of these things.
But that's true the majority of the time moderates and Republicans compromise.
good with compromising with Republicans, and it looks like we're going to finally see it.
What do you mean finally? As always with the DNC leadership, the current administration and Senate start every negotiation with a barely acceptable compromise and then lets Republicans take it far to the right of that whether they need (or have any chance of getting) Republican votes or not.
Now, you could argue that this is a terrible fucking deal and we don't want either of these things.
But that's true the majority of the time moderates and Republicans compromise.
Yup and those times are every time the center right to right wing Dem leadership has any power at all.
Or you could say investing in Ukrainians future, but that won't work with your narrative.
This is my biggest sticking point with the Biden administration. If there was another viable candidate for president, and we didn't have our stupid ass first passed the post system, I'd vote for someone else other than Biden in a heart beat.
Treating refugees like criminals, is fucking criminal.
If there was another viable candidate for president
There's maybe DOZENS of democrats who would win both primaries and the general and do a much better job than Biden, but the corrupt leadership loves him and will use every excuse they can think of to avoid holding primaries.
I'll vote for someone else during the primary, but until we fix our voting system, I don't have a choice bcz I'm certainly not voting for the republican orange man child.
Yeah. He's an evil for sure, but by far the lesser one when the alternative is a literal fascist malignant narcissist with a very tenuous grasp on reality and exactly zero respect for any law that gets in his way..
So, negotiations are unstuck but the timeline remains the same.
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave...
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Washington — The Biden administration on Tuesday indicated to congressional lawmakers that it would be willing to support a new border authority to expel migrants without asylum screenings, as well as a dramatic expansion of immigration detention and deportations, to convince Republicans to back aid to Ukraine, four people familiar with the matter told CBS News.
During a press conference at the White House on Tuesday, Mr. Biden said his team is "working with Senate Democrats and Republicans to try to find a bipartisan compromise, both in terms of changes in policy and [to] provide the resources we need to secure the border."
He said he has "offered compromise already," adding that "holding Ukraine funding hostage in an attempt to force through an extreme Republican partisan agenda on the border is not how it works — we need real solutions."
Administration officials and some Senate Democrats have also previously indicated a willingness to raise the initial screening standard for so-called credible fear interviews that migrants have to pass to avoid being deported under expedited removal.
The Biden administration's willingness to entertain broad, restrictive changes to U.S. asylum and immigration laws, including measures resembling Trump-era policies, may increase the likelihood of Republicans supporting its foreign aid package.
It also included drastic limits on the humanitarian parole authority, which the Biden administration has used to welcome hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants from Afghanistan, certain Latin American countries, Haiti and Ukraine.
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