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The "situation sucks" because we don't have the resources budgeted to handle it, or the rules in place to shut things down when the situation gets out of hand. We would have gotten both of those things had the bill passed. It's not the performatively draconian bill the GOP wants, but it would have materially reduced the problem.
Locking in another 1.8M illegals a year...doesn't reduce the problem.
They'll negotiate on tighter border security - but they'll never agree to a bill that doesn't have something for the DREAMERs now that this very unusual political moment has passed.
Again, what was "unusual" about this was that
1. The democrats even admitted there was a problem. How many times have Biden, Harris, Mayorkas et al. said "the border is secure"?
2. The democrats have rarely in their history ever wanted to entertain tighter controls on the border.
The flood of illegals and the rampant importation of fentanyl moved the political needle far enough that the democrats couldn't ignore it any longer. That being said, they immediately jumped on this bill as a way to say wE'rE tOtAlLy SeRiOuS You Guys in the hopes that the media would go along with it. Which they did, until details of this bill leaked out.
but that doesn't change the fact that the Democrats did offer border hawks the best deal they've ever been offered on the border.
So? Again, this doesn't carry the weight that you think it does.
So if a bully says to his victim, "Here's a one time deal. Instead of stuffing you in the locker and leaving you there for hours I'm just going to give you a swirly instead", is that a good deal? Nah, not so much.
Had Trump not intervened, I think the two parties would have gotten to a bill that would have gotten significant GOP support....but that opportunity is lost, now.
Your timeline is off. This bill didn't even rise to the level of DOA as Johnson killed it before Schumer sent it over. That was before Trump even weighed in.
