The White House statement comes after a week of frantic negotiations in the Senate.

The White House statement comes after a week of frantic negotiations in the Senate.

President Joe Biden on Friday urged Congress to pass a bipartisan bill to address the immigration crisis at the nation’s southern border, saying he would shut down the border the day the bill became law.

“What’s been negotiated would — if passed into law — be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country,” Biden said in a statement. “It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.”

Biden’s Friday evening statement resembles a ramping up in rhetoric for the administration, placing the president philosophically in the camp arguing that the border may hit a point where closure is needed. The White House’s decision to have Biden weigh in also speaks to the delicate nature of the dealmaking, and the urgency facing his administration to take action on the border — particularly during an election year, when Republicans have used the issue to rally their base.

The president is also daring Republicans to reject the deal as it faces a make-or-break moment amid GOP fissures.

  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
    41·
    10 months ago

    You can’t establish a reasonable policy on immigration without asking why people are emigrating. You need to ask why they are coming here long before you consider policy.

    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
      12·
      10 months ago

      i get it , you suffer from some sort of roadblock you cant get past regarding origin. it must be hard being stuck in that place.

      you do you, but i will be pushing for immigration reform at the border regardless of origin.

      we should put this back to our pre-'24 order of allowing all immigrants unless they fail screening criteria, regardless of origin.

      did i say regardless of origin enough? cuz it feels like i didnt point out how incredibly irrelevant that is when theyre standing at the gates.

      • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
        1·
        10 months ago

        Red herring. My question was not “where did they come from”. My question was “why did they come”.

        If they are here because they want to be here, great, the more the merrier.

        If they are here because they aren’t safe where they actually want to be, we should be making them safe where they actually want to be.

        If they are here because they are impoverished where they actually want to be, we should be improving the economies of where they actually want to be.

        You can’t spin this to where it is somehow better to deliberately ignore why they are coming. That question must be asked, and we must also justify any action or inaction we take in light of that answer.

        • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
          04·
          10 months ago

          why is irrelevant. america should be safe harbor for anyone, for any reason in any volume.

          we are also not here to solve the *emigration problem of all other countries. thats just asinine.

          why do you expect the united states to manage all other countries?? wtf

          america is not and should not be the worlds police

          • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
            3·
            10 months ago

            When your neighbor is beating his wife and kids, you don’t just invite them to stay with you. You do something about the abuser as well.

            I reject your assertion that “why” is irrelevant. “why” is the single most important question that must be asked.

            Human Rights aren’t limited to those who manage to make it to our borders. For the same reason why we should be helping immigrants, we should also be helping those similarly situated. Those who want to leave, but are coerced into staying in abusive “relationships”.