No. of Recommendations: 5
Despite any urge to revise it under a Trump admin, any revision can be easily blocked in the Senate, where despite gains in 2024, the repubs won't have 60.
You have three years, a narrowed version of asylum criteria that will be permanent, an increase in border agents that should be permanent, and a much larger, functioning, processing system that reduces the wait to ~6 months, with the narrower criteria. Pretty good.
So pass this now and the burden (to revise) will be on the repubs, where-as the dems get what they want (sunset the caps) by doing nothing. Advantage dems... like I said, shrewd.
Look, there may be no need to revise the way we think now, it could be something totally different. We have to see how it works. It is much much better than doing nothing. Here's what might happen. Trump loses, gets convicted and goes to jail. No money is passed for Ukrain. America loses trust on the world stage and it is reflect by trade partners and allies shoring up agreements with other countries to rely less on the US. America's no longer considered leader of the free world. We still have problems with high encounters, the laws still have never been changed. Historians later say that this was the watershed for American decline, the beginning of America's descent.
But I should also add "naive", if they assumed this solution will be seen as just so gosh darned effective, it will obvious that these new authorities will be unnecessary in a few years, so lets just go ahead and set an expiration date now.
You know what a democracy is? I'm used to never getting what I want, so I just look for some progress. Here it is, take it or leave it, but when you leave it realize America's decline starts with you leaving it.
