Border hawks may be cheering the demise of the Senate bill, but they will regret it.

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If the goal was to entice undeserving applicants, you couldn’t design a worse combination of policy and resources. In comparison, the bipartisan proposal is designed to deny more cases at the initial stage and get final decisions on all cases in a matter of months.

For immigration hardliners, the moment of leverage had finally arrived: More enforcement without amnesty. However, instead of seizing this likely once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, House Republicans and former President Trump argued that the bill was not the hardliner wish list they preferred and successfully convinced most Senate Republicans to block the bill.

This one-sided deal that favors Republican enforcement policy is unlikely to ever reappear. There has never been another moment this century when Democrats agreed to enforcement legislation without meaningful legalization provisions. Nor have they ever agreed to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to anywhere near the level needed to locate and deport millions of individuals already in the country illegally.

  • TheDoozer@lemmy.world
    291·
    11 months ago

    And the abortion rights thing bit them in the ass, because it galvanized a lot of voters.

    I think that dog catching the car moment hit home, and they won’t let it happen again.

    • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      11 months ago

      Part of the problem was it was unexpected, and it shows. If Republicans could have decided, they definitely wouldn’t have had it passed for the reasons that you have indicated.