No. of Recommendations: 2
The current statutes "give him" an infinite number of asylum seekers a day.
The current statutes are giving him a political headache, and so to thread the needle between an angry public that's telling him This Situation Sucks and his desire for more illegal aliens we have these insane, performative compromises.
without getting any of the "goodies" that immigrant advocates have insisted must be part of any bipartisan border bill, such as legalizing the status of the DREAMERS.
Had he traded the Dreamers for the 5,000 he would have gotten it. Shows you what he really wants, doesn't it? The Dreamers are already here; he wants more.
It'll be another generation before border hawks get anything as good as this on the table from the Democrats....
This doesn't carry the heft that you think it does.
democrats are openly saying, "We're the party that lets illegals on it and fentanyl flood in over the border". When you say they'll never negotiate on tighter border security...you're not landing the point you think you're landing.
