Looking to shore up Latino votes in Nevada and Arizona for his reelection campaign, President Joe Biden is on the verge of soon following up last week’s executive action aimed at curbing border crossings with another move focused on providing legal status for long-term undocumented immigrants marrie...
Looking to shore up Latino votes in Nevada and Arizona for his reelection campaign, President Joe Biden is on the verge of soon following up last week’s executive action aimed at curbing border crossings with another move focused on providing legal status for long-term undocumented immigrants who are married to American citizens.
To tamp down criticism among many leading Latino and immigration advocacy groups over Biden’s executive action cracking down on border crossings, several operatives connected with the president spent days quietly reassuring leaders that more was coming.
Michelle Lujan Grisham, who also flew to Washington to stand with Biden at the White House on Tuesday, said the new moves on the border are extremely important — and that the next steps also will be key to voters in her state and across the Southwest come November.
As the panic among Biden aides about the drop-off in Latino support has been mounting around the reelection campaign, pressure for more policy moves from Democratic lawmakers and immigrant advocacy groups has been growing for months.
Alex Padilla of California, Dick Durbin of Illinois and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada publicly called for protections to be extended to long-term undocumented immigrants in the United States, including the spouses of American citizens and their caregivers.
“This is the first time that I can recall that a Democratic position is, ‘OK, let’s be all for the border and not fight for relief — for DREAMers, for farmers, or anyone who’s a long-term resident of the United States who happens to be undocumented,” Padilla told CNN after Tuesday’s announcement.
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following up last week’s executive action aimed at curbing border crossings with another move focused on providing legal status for long-term undocumented immigrants who are married to American citizens.
So basically codifying pulling the ladder up behind you.
Providing something that should be available already for those already here while deploying downright Trumpian measures to make sure others don't get the chance, in probable violation of international law.
Sounds like he's gambling on the first EO giving him "moderate conservative" xenophobe votes without scaring away anyone who consider asylum seekers human and this one to do the opposite.
He really shouldn't make such risky gambles when the DNC insisting on him has made him the only alternative to fascism.
The first EO is an atrocity and the combination of both are likely to repel more people than it attracts.
Biden is limiting migrant crossings to 2,500 per day in an attempt to keep migrants from being homeless in overcrowded sanctuary cities.
Trump forcibly separated parents from children, deported the parents and detained the children in facilities where they were physically and sexually abused, while outlawing immigration of Muslims and “suspected Muslims.”
in an attempt to keep migrants from being homeless in overcrowded sanctuary cities.
You know that he could have done an EO mandating temporary non-carceral shelter instead, right? Instead of leaving them likely homeless and otherwise suffering on the other side of the border where Mexico is at least as ill-equipped to deal with them currently as US sanctuary cities.
detained the children in facilities where they were physically and sexually abused
Incorrect past tense. Biden is perpetuating that.
Yup. They’re the basically the same thing
I'm saying that arbitrarily limiting all immigration is Trumpian in its combination of xenophobia, lack of positive impact and overabundance of negative consequences. Which it is. It was literally one of the cornerstones of Trump's immigration catastrophe.
"Sanctuary cities are being overrun by immigrants" is literally taken from the GOP propaganda playbook ffs!
What I'm NOT saying is that this makes Biden and Trump otherwise identical, so you can stow that strawman.