"most voters want to brutalize desperate minorities from third-world countries" is not a reason to actually do it. the only Dems who are criticizing Biden just don't want to deal with migrants themselves. I want Biden to give a speech like "yeah I hear what you want on immigration, and I'm telling you that is awful and I won't treat human beings that way. grow up, find your compassion, and quit giving in to your basest impulses."

all of which I see as a great thing. people SHOULD be able to seek asylum here bc gangs have overrun their home. we SHOULD be welcoming any migrant coming to find a better life. we've got a gigantic goddamn statue on our largest port of entry that explicitly says so. how the fuck are we gonna claim to be the land of the free while defying the words of the statue of LIBERTY?

oh fuck off. if those policies helped the drug cartels then how did we still manage to seize record amounts of fentanyl at the border? as for the coyotes, you know how you stop human traffickers? you make it so people don't have to resort to using them to get somewhere safe. if we welcome these people and make it easier to come on their own, they won't need to pay smugglers to get them here.

yeah, Biden could have done a lot of things to dick over migrants. BUT HE DOESN'T WANT TO DICK OVER MIGRANTS.

the budgets wouldn't be an issue if we TAXED THE FUCKING RICH and gave cities more funding. the only reason for there to even be a federal law on immigration levels is racism. and again, just because a bunch of voters are racist dickheads doesn't mean they get their way. there are limits on democracy; voters didn't want to integrate schools in the 50s, but we did it anyway bc it was THE RIGHT THING TO DO. democracy should not codify bigotry.

I'm less alarmed and more cynically unsurprised. but again, the majority wanting something awful should not mean giving it to them. what would be the point in beating Trump if we only do so by implementing all his policies? is there not an option B where we CHANGE PEOPLE'S MINDS about immigration?

exactly, so why would we just concede to him on the immigration debate? point this out to people. remind them that we're talking about human beings. remind them of how horrifying his first term treatment of migrants was. and remind them of where this path leads, because we have most definitely been down this road before and it was my understanding that we did not want to go back.

fuck the tories

it's a cult