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#POTUS #Biden to meet w/ #Congress leaders over #border & #NationalSecurity funding
(But reality check: #MikeJohnson said he doesn’t want to pass #BorderLegislation because he doesn’t want the Biden admin to be able to take credit for it & because he wants to keep the issue alive for the 2024 #election.)
#immigration #HouseRepublicans #Republicans #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #TheDysfunctionIsThePoint #PublicDisservice
https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/biden-to-meet-with-congressional-leaders-over-border-and-national-security-funding-202058821879
From David Dayen / #AmericanProspect prospect.org:
@ddayen
“The reason is that it’s an #election year, & #Republicans have once again decided that their path to victory goes right through the U.S.-Mexico #border. Inflation & the economy were effective complaints in 2023, but they are starting to recede. Transgender rights have been a disastrously unproductive wedge issue for Republicans. But #immigration is the one area where they’ve put Joe #Biden on the back foot….”
(In)…”the words of Rep #TroyNehls (R)…during the field trip: ‘I’m not willing to do too damn much right now to help a #Democrat & to help Joe #Biden’s approval rating.’ IOW, a deal that #Democrats can accept, even a…restrictionist #border policy, is a deal #HouseRepublicans are unwilling to contemplate. In order to keep the border issue alive in 2024, they’d rather blow up #Senate negotiations. They see this as a win…, bc it keeps #immigration & the general aura of crisis on the front pages.”
@Nonilex the fentanyl! The fentanyl! I saw Brian Kilmeade being *quite* upset this very morning.
@wndlb you know people / media totally skipped over President Biden’s enormous accomplishment re the #UnitedStates’ joint effort w/ President #Xi / #PRC (#China) on #fentanyl.
https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-xi-meet-us-china-military-economic-tensions-grind-2023-11-15/
Link to David Dayen’s (@ddayen) / previously quoted #AmericanProspect prospect.org article:
#Republicans Don’t Want to Win an #Immigration Policy Fight
They just want to sustain the image of an immigration #crisis.
#HouseRepublicans #border #Congress #House #Senate #TheDysfunctionIsThePoint #PublicDisservice
https://prospect.org/politics/2024-01-05-republicans-immigration-policy-fight/
Adding new #PoliticalCartoon by Clay Jones on why #Trump & #Republicans are blocking any #border / #immigration #legislation while #Biden is #POTUS to this thread.
>> a deal that #Democrats can accept, even a…restrictionist #border policy, is a deal #HouseRepublicans are unwilling to contemplate.
It's right up there with 'a deal that #Arabs "can accept, even a…restrictionist #border policy, is a deal" #Netanyahu is unwilling to contemplate.'
Despite persistent attempts by #US, #Bibi snubbed #Biden repeatedly and threw him under the bus in hopes of getting his #FarRight #MAGA buddy #Trump re-elected in #Election2024 
https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111801168710015119
@Nonilex Proof in the pudding: they had control of the House, Senate, and Presidency between 2016 and 2018. They could have solved the problem the way they want it solved. They didn’t. Why? Because this crisis is their go to every national election cycle. They have nothing else that resonates. As an aside, the reason it resonates is because they lie about it: current law, numbers, illegal vs legal, country of origin, “got aways”, you name it, they lie.
@Nonilex I think the fact we are talking about the border and not gun violence IS a win for them.