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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: Schumer to reintroduce border bill
Date: 05/20/24 3:08 PM
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You know what Jon Tester likes more than anything? His job.
He'll be voting against Schumer's bill.


He already voted for it once, so I'd be surprised if he changed his vote. The ones who will vote against it are on the party's far left flank, not the center:

tester.senate.gov - Tester statement on vote to secure the southern border

LOL. This bill gives him 5,000 ille-, uh, "Asylum seekers" a day. This bill gives border hawks very little.

The current statutes "give him" an infinite number of asylum seekers a day. This bill changes that, and would make it certain that at least some of the folks that currently are allowed to apply for asylum would instead be summarily rejected - 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.

An enforcement bill with no DREAMER normalization? Had it not been for the once-in-a-generation political circumstances, I wouldn't have thought it possible. But Trump's electoral needs have led the GOP to pass up the chance to negotiate a bill starting from there, with the assent of the Senate Majority Leader and the President. It'll be another generation before border hawks get anything as good as this on the table from the Democrats....
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