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In reply to the discussion: FWIW - How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans' Faith in Immigration (NYT) [View all]LuvLoogie
(8,819 posts)22. Like 2013?
Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013 (S. 744)
Republicans in the House wouldn't even take up a vote after it passed in the Senate.
You're blaming America's racist immigration policies on Biden's inaction. On failure to persuade racist xenophobes and fascists that the border was secure. Fuck that. they're arresting people in line for their citizenship ceremony while trump calls their home countries shitholes.
Fuck trump. Fuck American racism and apologies for it. Border security my ass.
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FWIW - How Biden Ignored Warnings and Lost Americans' Faith in Immigration (NYT) [View all]
dalton99a
Dec 2025
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Those immigration bills were voted down in early to mid 2024, 3+ years into Biden's term.
Celerity
Dec 2025
#4
The lesson is that he probably should have been a little more aggressive in using executive authority
In It to Win It
Dec 2025
#9
Be more aggressive to placate the racists or to apply justice to the immigration process?
LuvLoogie
Dec 2025
#11
He had to convince the racists and white hegemony that he was preserving their supremacy?
In It to Win It
Dec 2025
#12
The republicans intentionally stymied Biden's attempt to reform immigration policy.
PSPS
Dec 2025
#5
"Although some of the most conservative Republicans had helped draft a bipartisan bill with the toughest
betsuni
Dec 2025
#6
Having observed Biden's political career for over 30 years prior to him becoming president, I think a younger Biden
Midwestern Democrat
Dec 2025
#18
In the beginning, Biden pushed Eve aside, and chomped down on the fruit, ushering in the fall of Mankind.
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
Dec 2025
#19