Senate immigration negotiators see a ray of hope as clock ticks on Biden's aid package (www.nbcnews.com)

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[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 10 points 9 months ago

There's a thin line where Biden gets helpful money for the border with non-inhumane policy adjustments, gets to brag on the campaign trail about working with Republicans to help the border issue, and also gets money for Ukraine to at least keep them from collapsing before the election.

But I'm intensely concerned there's going to be some horrible and illegal-under-international-law change Republicans demand that gets agreed to because the rest is the above rosy picture for Biden. Republicans "win" politically if none of that happens so I'd expect there's a pound of flesh to be demanded somewhere.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 9 months ago

It's a really terrible situation. We need to fund Ukraine, because if they lose, NATO countries are likely next, which means we'll be obligated to send troops instead of just weapons and water.

But at the same time, the people holding the purse strings are the White Christian Nationalist Xenophobes, and there's no way around that fact; human lives are their political clubs and their amusing playthings, and Biden is forced to play ball with them.

[-] 5in1k@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Headed up by giant piece of shit Sinema.

[-] Rapidcreek@reddthat.com 0 points 9 months ago

She's a player. She won't be back, but she must be serving a purpose.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

WASHINGTON — A flurry of activity in the last 24 hours has injected some fresh hope into Senate immigration negotiations, according to key lawmakers and sources with knowledge of the talks, who also caution that there is still no agreement.

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said both the White House and Republicans have made significant movements in their positions and that the discussions have grown more “productive” because “all the players are at the same table sitting down actually talking through how to solve this.”

Lankford is working with Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., and top White House staff to try and hammer out a solution to toughen asylum laws and restrict parole authorities for immigration cases.

To prove their point, Senate GOP lawmakers unanimously voted to filibuster the funding package last week, and they said Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to Capitol Hill on Tuesday didn't change their mind.

On Wednesday, Sinema briefed lawmakers in the House's bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus on the status of negotiations in her private Senate hideaway, four sources with knowledge of the meeting said.

The movement toward a potential deal has raised hackles among pro-immigration progressives and Hispanic Caucus members, who say they fear the pact would impose harsh conditions on migrants that contradict Biden's campaign promises.

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