mike edwards66 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 14, 2022 3:37 am
Are you saying you wouldn't take Trump's borders right now. Of course, you would.
That would be fine if that were actually reality. But nope. That's just another republican lie because they don't have the facts to back them up in that regard.
Spreading fake outrage does not an argument make.
No, There's No Border Crisis. Republicans Are Perpetuating Another Big Lie
https://www.newsweek.com/no-theres-no-border-crisis-republicans-are-perpetuating-another-big-lie-opinion-1579671
Republicans are outraged—outraged!—at the surge of migrants at the southern border.
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy has declared it a crisis, "created by the presidential policies of this new administration." Arizona congressman Andy Biggs has claimed that "right now is probably the most dramatic [surge] I've seen at the border in my lifetime." In a statement released last Tuesday, Former President Donald Trump was outraged. "Our country is being destroyed!" he proclaimed, blaming the Biden administration for "causing death and human tragedy."
But in fact, despite the surging hysteria from Republican ranks, there is no surge of migrants at the border.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehended 28 percent more migrants from January to February this year than in previous months. But this was largely seasonal. Two years ago, apprehensions increased 31 percent during the same period. Three years ago, it was about 25 percent from February to March.
Migrants start coming when winter ends and the weather gets a bit warmer, then stop coming in the hotter summer months when the desert is deadly.
To be sure, there is a humanitarian crisis of children detained in overcrowded border facilities. And an even worse humanitarian tragedy in the violence and political oppression in Central America, worsened by U.S. policies over the years, that's driving migration in the first place.
But the "surge" has been fabricated by Republicans in order to stoke fear—and, not incidentally, to justify changes in laws they say are necessary to prevent non-citizens from voting.
Republicans continue to allege—without proof—that the 2020 election was rife with fraudulent ballots, many from undocumented immigrants. Over the past six weeks, they've introduced 250 bills in 43 states designed to make it harder for people to vote— especially the young, the poor, Black people, and Hispanic-Americans, all of whom are likely to vote for Democrats—by eliminating mail-in ballots, reducing times for voting, decreasing the number of drop-off boxes, demanding proof of citizenship, and even making it a crime to give water to people waiting in line to vote.
To stop this, Democrats are trying to enact a sweeping voting rights bill called the For the People Act, which protects voting, ends partisan gerrymandering, and keeps dark money out of elections. It already passed the House, but Republicans in the Senate are fighting it with more lies.
On Wednesday, the Texas Republican senator Ted Cruz falsely claimed the new bill would register millions of undocumented immigrants to vote and accused Democrats of wanting the most violent criminals to cast ballots, too.
The core message of the Republican party now consists of lies about a "crisis" of violent immigrants crossing the border, lies that they're voting illegally, and blatantly anti-democratic restrictions on voting to counter these trumped-up crises.
What has happened to the party that once championed lower taxes, smaller government, states' rights and a strong national defense? Donald Trump isn't single-handedly responsible for this transformation, but he demonstrated to the GOP the political potency of bigotry.
