How serious is the Border issue ?

[JI7]

The problem is more for the people attempting to come here but the right wing makes it seem like the problem is that it's a threat to Americans (they mean just white people though).

The idiot Chuck Todd just pushes right wing racist talking points with the fear mongering. Same goes for others in the infotainment industry. Why don't these fools do some serious reporting on why people put up with all the shit to try to come here without a gaurantee they would even be allowec to stay. The fear , risks, threats etc are what those coming here face. They aren't a threat to us. Scumbags with guns here are the threat to us.

Asian people and other women and minorities face real problems in this country but the media pushes bs. They do this all the time like with the caravans.

As I said, the border issue is a serious issue but not becsuse it's any threat to us.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. I put it right up there with the national debt.

Neither are on list of things that keep me up at night.

ETA: I feel for the families who risk everything to come here! I just don't see them as a threat.

[spanone]

2. K&R

[empedocles]

3. The border issue is trump, and the trumpers, best hope by far.

Biden's political control, or insufficient political control, of the issue, may key the 2022 Election.

A significant influx of immigration is not something welcomed by the majority of voters it seems.
https://www.newsweek.com/dc-gop-blasts-bidens-immigration-policies-poll-shows-majority-americans-also-disapprove-1577473

[PortTack]

9. I think there's some truth in this. But, Newsweek has become such a rt wing rag

I don’t buy anything they say anymore

[GoCubsGo]

16. It wouldn't surprise me if they're the ones feedng lies to those poor people.

A lot of them are saying they heard that Biden welcomes them and has opportunities for them. Gee, I wonder who is feeding that BS to them. It has GOPutin written all over it.

[jcgoldie]

4. Yeah I noticed Todd on MTP today...

Swallowed the GOP "HUGE CRISIS" talking point hook line and sinker.

[doc03]

5. Haven't been watching much of the cable news but it seems that is the top story

on all of them.

[GoCubsGo]

17. Not just on cable.

The broadcast networks also have it high on their headline lists. The mess in Florida/Miami has gotten top billing, along with vaccination news, but it's right behind them.

[Klaralven]

6. Could be significant in 2022 elections if it is not solved

[greenjar_01]

7. 3/10

[liberalmediaaddict]

8. It's not serious in a national security sense

The people arriving at the border desperate for asylum aren't dangerous to America. I'm more scared of domestic terrorists with guns like the seditionists who invaded our capital on January 6th.

The Republicans and Fox News are once again playing the real news outlets like a fiddle. They're not concerned, they're delighted that the surge at the border has blocked out news reports about the insurrection and the success of the American Rescue plan.

In following the news on MSNBC it's clear the Biden administration knows what Republicans are up to and are trying really hard to keep the border situation under control. There's no solving this problem without first passing Biden's immigration legislation but we know Republicans aren't interested in working with Democrats on that.

Democrats are going to have a tough time in the mid-terms regardless of what's happening at our border. With right wing media bashing everything Biden does along with gerrymandering and voter suppression its going to take another huge voter outreach effort for us to hold onto Congress. Every election now is like going to war against the Republicans anti-democratic schemes.

[PortTack]

10. Just watched a CNN rerun from this morning- dana bash was interviewing the HHS sec

She kept repeating qgop talking points. He did a good job, had to turn it off. She’s on my shit list from now on!

[womanofthehills]

11. The Republicans are making this their big issue

because they have nothing else. Suddenly, the Republicans I know see this shit on Fox and comment on it to me. Mostly the big influx is kids without parents and Biden will not turn children away. They are turning adults away because of the pandemic. They need more staff to get these kids to their relatives faster.

[MichMan]

12. If we weren't battling a pandemic, I wouldn't care

My employer requires anyone exposed to the virus or flying in a plane, to quarantine for 10 days without pay before returning to work.

Concerned that anyone able to cross the Southern border is either not caught at all, or put in close proximity with hundreds of others.

[JI7]

13. The threat in dealing with the Pandemic are Republicans and others

who refuse to wear masks or do anything to try to prevent spread of the virus.

[UTUSN]

14. Also, wingnuts pushing the word "crisis." It's serious but any solution has to be long-term.

As usual, wingnuts go for the superficial. They attack based on *instant* results. Crises happen when problems have been ignored, kicked down the road for preceding long periods.

[Hortensis]

15. What "crisis"? Seriously. When kids come we take care of them. nt

[myohmy2]

18. so serious...

...that I would recommend the building of a 500,000+ person shelter/camp in West Virginia...

...Manchin has a good heart and a compassionate soul...

...God would approve...

[jcgoldie]

19. Its easy

Just let everyone in how else are we ever going to get the taco trucks on every corner we were promised by the GOP?

[doc03]

20. Every president has border problems of some

type. Obama was the deporter in chief but Trump
convinced a lot of people we were being invaded. Those caravans. I am 72 and have been hearing about Mexicans crossing the border all my life. Seems like nothing ever changes.