Border Democrat warns Biden about immigrant fallout

[brooklynite]

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Source: Axios

A Democratic lawmaker representing a border district warned the Biden administration against easing up too much on unauthorized immigrants, citing their impact on his constituents, local hospitals and their potential to spread the coronavirus.

Why it matters: Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) told Axios he supports President Biden. But the moderate said he sees the downsides of efforts to placate pro-immigrant groups, an effort that threatens to blow up on the administration.

"You just can't say, 'Yeah, yeah, let everybody in' — because then we're affected down there at the border," Cuellar told Axios on Saturday.

The big picture: Border crossings are rising. Hospitals in the Rio Grande Valley area are already busy. The Border Patrol has less capacity than normal.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/border-immigration-democrat-cuellar-biden-febc20c6-0db9-4648-8e12-79ff21d83646.html

[Hoyt]

1. Gonna be a tough issue to handle, but at least policies won't be from hatred.

[speak easy]

2. (Cuellar) I knew who it was from the headline.

'Trump's favorite Democrat', who fundraised against his own party, in favor of Republican John Carter.

[LogicFirst]

13. So did I.

[Walleye]

3. Joe is being humane, not placating pro immigration groups

[MichMan]

5. Allowing Covid to spread into border states is not humane

[AZProgressive]

10. Governor Doug Ducey is the one allowing it to spread in Arizona

He has done a horrible job of handling the pandemic. If you want to say he is inhumane then I agree.

[Elessar Zappa]

12. He's not allowing covid to spread in border states.

And it’s certainly not due to immigrants. America has a higher rate than Latin America.

[JI7]

4. This actually happened when Obama was president.

[Trust_Reality]

6. There needs to be safe zones and economic development in their home countries.

Even jointly supported safe zones with economic development in Mexico might be feasible.

[quakerboy]

7. No real worry of that

Which means that there is some other reason this particular politician is trying to grab some press.

[cstanleytech]

8. Any changes to how to deal with illegal immigrates themselves will take time.

Now what could and should have been done for decades but has not been as few wanted to tackle for political reasons as well is cracking down on those hiring illegal immigrants many of whom abuse the hell out of them because they know they can get away with it.

[TomDaisy]

9. I missed where Biden said 'Yeah, yeah, let everybody in'

[Maxheader]

11. central america needs to clean up its drug problems...

Citizens tired of it.... ..migrating north...

Had Hispanic crews put a new roof on the house

and poured a 14' x 16' concrete slab in the pole barn...

Great guys , wish we could take all the worlds oppressed .

But we can't...

[Omaha Steve]

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