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After promising that most K-8 students would be in schools in the first 100 days,  apparently Joe is afraid to lead on this and has drastically scaled back that goal.

Instead, we're shooting for about half to go to school at least one day a week,  by the end of April.

https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2021-02-09/bidens-goal-for-school-reopenings-suddenly-became-more-attainable

 

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Beerman said:

I was wondering what happened.  She simply thought, "what can I do?", for those reasons you said.  And, so then nothing was done.

Thanks for filling me in.

 

That's an interesting summation. 

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toomuchbaloney said:

That's an interesting summation. 

Harris someone it up as well on the official WH website.

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Our immigration system has been broken for decades. That is why President Biden and I have spent the last three years putting forward solutions to fix it and address the root causes of migration.

On the first day of our Administration, we sent a comprehensive immigration reform bill to Congress that included an increase in funding for border security and a pathway to citizenship for immigrants, such as Dreamers who have been here for years.

We have partnered with countries in the Western Hemisphere to address global pressures that are forcing people from their homes, and worked with the private sector to promote investment in Central America. Last October, as part of our national security supplemental request, we asked for $14 billion for border security, which would increase personnel and technology to secure the border and provide assistance to cities to manage the influx of migrants.
 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/04/statement-from-vice-president-kamala-harris-on-the-bipartisan-senate-national-security-agreement/#:~:text=On the first day of,have been here for years.

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Tweety said:

Harris someone it up as well on the official WH website.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/04/statement-from-vice-president-kamala-harris-on-the-bipartisan-senate-national-security-agreement/#:~:text=On the first day of,have been here for years.

Yes, the Pathway to Citizenship bill.  Various ways for those here to stay here.

Also on that day and in the coming weeks, did away with 67 Trump era immigration regulations. 

And, for the next three years maintained there was no problemo at the border. 

In essence, they signaled to the world if you get here now, your chances of staying will never be better.

The House passed a bill last year that the Senate never took up, and Biden promised to veto anyway.

https://rollcall.com/2023/05/11/house-passed-border-bill-may-spark-bipartisan-immigration-talks/

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nursej22 said:

And yet, illegal border crossings are down by 50%. 

Like inflation, you don't get to run up the numbers sky high then take kudos from them going down.

 

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He waited until election season to come up with this one.

I wonder if we'll see a surge in illegal aliens getting married?

"The White House announced the election-year policy Tuesday, framing it as "new action to keep families together.” NBC News reported last week that action protecting the spouses was likely to be announced soon, after urging from immigration advocates and Democratic lawmakers and as the president courts Latino voters in crucial battleground states."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-plans-new-policy-shielding-undocumented-spouses-us-citizens-rcna157604

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Beerman said:

He waited until election season to come up with this one.

I wonder if we'll see a surge in illegal aliens getting married?

"The White House announced the election-year policy Tuesday, framing it as "new action to keep families together.” NBC News reported last week that action protecting the spouses was likely to be announced soon, after urging from immigration advocates and Democratic lawmakers and as the president courts Latino voters in crucial battleground states."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-plans-new-policy-shielding-undocumented-spouses-us-citizens-rcna157604

Maybe there will be a surge in marriages? 

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The new policy would allow noncitizens who have been in the country for at least 10 years and are married to a U.S. citizen, and their children, to apply for permanent residence without leaving the country.

The policy seeks to allow people and their children to remain together, in country, while they navigate our broken and brutally slow immigration system. It is a policy which is designed to stop the separation of family members in immigration cases.  Is it really important to conservatives to break up families in order to deport people? 

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Beerman said:

The House passed a bill last year that the Senate never took up, and Biden promised to veto anyway.

The House passed a wildly partisan bill that had zero chance of getting enough republican votes in the Senate to become law.  Then they refused to support a bipartsan bill from the Senate because the guy who lost the last election and tried to overturn the results told them to.  

 

Beerman said:

Like inflation, you don't get to run up the numbers sky high then take kudos from them going down.

 

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Like inflation, the number of people who flee their countries and the variables which impact that travel, like a pandemic, are not really something under the control of a POTUS, right?  

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Beerman said:

I was wondering what happened.  She simply thought, "what can I do?", for those reasons you said.  And, so then nothing was done.

Thanks for filling me in.

 

Until Ronald Regan's amnesty law is changed, nothing will happen.  Kamala Harris can't do it, Biden can't do it...the Republicans will never allow change to happen until Trump wins.

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Beerman said:

The House passed a bill last year that the Senate never took up, and Biden promised to veto anyway.

https://rollcall.com/2023/05/11/house-passed-border-bill-may-spark-bipartisan-immigration-talks/

There's been another bill, a bipartisan bill, that hasn't passed, that Biden was ready to sign. I don't think it's Biden's fault that it hasn't passed. Perhaps Senator Langford can explain why. 

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subee said:

Until Ronald Regan's amnesty law is changed, nothing will happen.  Kamala Harris can't do it, Biden can't do it...the Republicans will never allow change to happen until Trump wins.

The House passed the Secure the Border Act in 2023.  One of it's provisions was to end amnesty.

The Dem controlled Senate never took it up, and Biden said he would have vetoed it.

nursej22 said:

There's been another bill, a bipartisan bill, that hasn't passed, that Biden was ready to sign. I don't think it's Biden's fault that it hasn't passed. Perhaps Senator Langford canot explain why. 

The Secure the Border Act passed by House Republicans ended amnesty, ended catch and release, provided funding for the Border Patrol, funded border wall and barriers, closed immigration loopholes, among other things.

Senate didn't take it up for debate after Biden said he'd veto it.  

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nursej22 said:

There's been another bill, a bipartisan bill, that hasn't passed, that Biden was ready to sign. I don't think it's Biden's fault that it hasn't passed. Perhaps Senator Langford can explain why. 

He could, but he won't. It wouldn't be politically expedient for him to draw attention to the fact that Trump didn't want a successful immigration bill so he told the Republicans not to pass it and they didn't. 

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There's no doubt that for the most part the Biden policies at the border have been ineffective and the border is in one of he worst conditions it's been in for a while.  It started with the caravans headed our way before his inaugaration.  But the idea that they've ignored it and have done nothing falls flat on me.  It might seem that as the campaign began and it became a bigger and bigger issue with his opponents loud bloviating over the issue that he "suddenly decided to make it a crisis" after trying to reassure people it wasn't crisis mode when he assumed the presidency,  falls flat when they've been working on it all along, some of which was meant with resistance.  

But yes, it's the thorn in his side that can be argued he's failed at the border.  But congress is a part of that failure.  I don't think even republicans cared about the border until Trump demonized immigrants with a "they are sending us their worst so we need to build a wall".  Then elevated that rhetoric when he lost the election.  They went from it barely being a blip to their #1 crisis in America.

 I will admit from the border to the Afghanistan mess, inflation some things haven't gone well.  What Presidency isn't a mess?  Trump had covid.  Obama has the Great Recession with the stimulus package and Obamacare, Bush had 9/11 and the start of the Great Recession (remember our stimulus checks?). But "most things haven't gone well" under Biden doesn't sit well with me either. 

 

 

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