chapotraphouse

It's crazy how libs are championing this. /r/politics is calling it masterful 4-d chess, because apparently republicans have to either let the deal through and give Brandon a "win" or block it and give Brandon a talking point on how he's tough on immigration but the republicans aren't.

Bro THEY DON'T CARE. If republican hypocrisy had any negative impact on voters there wouldn't be any elected republicans left.

Love to have the most progressive president since FDR push draconian immigration policy in an attempt to play a game of gotcha with people who don't care in front of voters who don't care

surely becoming 99.5% hitler will win over the "we want 100% hitler" voting bloc

They could literally set up gun turrets on the Rio Grande and Abbott would still talk about how Biden is "weak on the border" and bang the secessionist drum because he refuses to approve a first strike against Mexico City. It doesn't matter what compromise makes, because will always just ask for more. It costs them nothing and their voters don't fucking care. Anyone who says otherwise is a dumb fuck who doesn't understand the first thing about politics.

Normal democrat moment. Scold people for being racist and blaming immigrants for all of the problems caused by rich people. Refuse to point out that rich people are actually the problem. Participate in racially motivated attacks on immigrants.

Edit: Wonder why nobody seems to believe you when you say racism is bad.

This last step requires the dubious assumption that there's a little bit of self criticism happening.

This still isn't going to be enough cruelty for the reactionaries they're trying to cater to. This would be some of the strictest, cruelest border policy in the world and yet it's still not going to be enough. It's going to eventually be extrajudicial killings performed by border patrol against any migrant they see, and I'm pretty sure it already is.

This is evil. I don't have anything else to say about it

The shutdown would not lift until...two weeks of less than 3,750 migrant encounters per day

: "It's the ultimate solution! The worse we make things for South/Central America the less responsibility we have to take for dealing with it! And not only that, it's means tested, so technically it's the migrant's fault when the border is permanently shut down, not ours."

Doesn't this just "shut down" the border in so many words?

Retvrn to a 140 character limit, jesus christ.

I like how this bill literally puts migrants into a prisoner's dilemma type situation. Couldn't just do physical torture, had to throw in a "If I try to cross with my family I could end up shutting down the border for weeks."

Anyway, Texas and other states will say that crossings are enter bullshit number here and never source those to justify never allowing any migrant in.

Children of Men was prophecy.

So essentially they're going to incite midnight mad dashes once that count resets. People are going to try to be the first few thousand, only for them to say "nope, we met our quota already [insert racial slur here] lol!".

Biden should have immediately merced Abbot, this is a pretty massive jump in the ratchet effect. If the this is what the "most progressive president ever" does, the fuck is the point of trying to "stop fascism in America"? Like, the fucking facists won so hard they play their opponents like a fiddle and their opponents think they're fighting back! Hopefully a complete shutdown of the boarder will send the empire into a tailspin and it'll actually collapse.

Don"t ever ever ever have a public conversarion on how our foriegn policy is deliberately driving all these people here.

Based on the comments, this isn't nearly cruel enough for the chuds. Looks like another masterful triangulation on a plan that absolutely everyone except the core demographic hates.

Now tell me the percentage of "illegals" who had gone through the proper paperwork processes and got that shit issued but there's some clerical error, computer error, or the person just stayed in country longer than their permit was originally issued for...

no way I'm reading any of that