No. of Recommendations: 11
Dope1: Again, you guys can chant this, but literally nobody in the conservosphere was going "Yay! A bipartisan border bill! Wow! How cool!"
Not when the leader of the republican party, now a convicted felon, told republicans to kill it before even reading the bill.
Dope1: The root issue here is that you guys really do believe that this bill was a great thing, don't you?
You have a habit of incorrectly telling people what they think or believe.
Many democrats were unenthused about a bill that did not address the status of Dreamers but were willing to accept considerably less than they would otherwise for a few reasons: 1.) the bill would implement necessary changes to address a chaotic border crisis; 2.) the bill ended the practice of 'catch and release,' a perpetual thorn in their side -- migrants who tried to cross the border illegally would be detained immediately, with their asylum claims decided while they were in detention. People would be removed immediately within 15 days if they failed their asylum claim interviews; and 3.) migrants who come to the U.S. border at official ports of entry would be diverted to a new "removal authority program" in which they would have 90 days to make their initial asylum interviews. Those migrants would not be released into the interior of the U.S., either; they would either be detained or kept under government supervision.
In short, the bill would have made significant improvements at the border, changes endorsed by the National Border Patrol Council, the Chamber of Commerce, and the very conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page.
But the convicted felon Donald Trump wants as much chaos at the border as possible. Like he said at his rally in Las Vegas: "I don't care about you. I just want your vote."
And to stay out of prison.
