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Rhiannon12866

(255,576 posts)
Wed Jun 19, 2024, 12:39 AM Jun 2024

Biden defeats Republican stonewall with new immigration policy for spouses of Americans - Alicia Menendez - MSNBC



With Republicans still following Donald Trump's orders and refusing to help address immigration with problem-solving legislation, President Biden announced a new policy to give spouses of Americans a pathway to citizenship, improving the lives of countless American families. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas talks with Alicia Menendez about the details of the new policy. - Aired on 06/18/2024.
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Biden defeats Republican stonewall with new immigration policy for spouses of Americans - Alicia Menendez - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Jun 2024 OP
I thought this was an amazing speech. MontanaMama Jun 2024 #1
I tend to think the same thing every single day, he's the president we need during these perilous times Rhiannon12866 Jun 2024 #3
I hope this works. The thought of people who have been here for years contributing to society Silent Type Jun 2024 #2
Same here! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2024 #4

MontanaMama

(24,722 posts)
1. I thought this was an amazing speech.
Wed Jun 19, 2024, 12:52 AM
Jun 2024

Bold. Well timed and heart felt. Joe IS the President we need right now.

Rhiannon12866

(255,576 posts)
3. I tend to think the same thing every single day, he's the president we need during these perilous times
Wed Jun 19, 2024, 01:02 AM
Jun 2024

The thing is, Joe Biden is certainly the most experienced president in our entire history - with 36 years in the Senate and 8 years in the Executive Branch as VP where he was chosen for his foreign policy experience. I truly don't get this national derangement, people who would vote for a convicted criminal and is inexplicably allowed to run to lead the government he attempted to overthrow!

I'm counting on TFG having lost by even more million votes each time he ran, but I'm still anxious about his constant election denial and whatever plans he's making this time around to incite his deluded "supporters..."

 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
2. I hope this works. The thought of people who have been here for years contributing to society
Wed Jun 19, 2024, 12:56 AM
Jun 2024

being deported, sickens/angers me.

Rhiannon12866

(255,576 posts)
4. Same here!
Wed Jun 19, 2024, 01:10 AM
Jun 2024

And I'm learning a little more about how our immigration/citizenship laws work now. My maternal grandparents were immigrants, both from Poland. And I know that my grandfather, who was a young man at the time, was made a citizen and sent to France to fight for his new country. When he came back he met and married my grandmother, so I never understood why that didn't make her a citizen too. He died young, the same year my mother left for college, so I never met him.

However, I also know that my grandmother eventually became a citizen in time to vote for LBJ and I remember that she had that classic portrait of JFK hanging in her living room.

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