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This made me burst out laughing, lol.Bentleyspop said:
He hates white Americansjosevolution said:
I have total confidence in this administration’s plan to treat immigrants way better than the previous Nazi regime, stop your bs he doesn’t hate the immigrants and you know it..PJPOWER said:
Why is Biden trying to build more wall if it is not needed? Why does Biden hate brown people?josevolution said:https://twitter.com/laikenjordahl/status/1380250510750441473?s=21
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Has to be that’s all I can come up with too!Bentleyspop said:
He hates white Americansjosevolution said:
I have total confidence in this administration’s plan to treat immigrants way better than the previous Nazi regime, stop your bs he doesn’t hate the immigrants and you know it..PJPOWER said:
Why is Biden trying to build more wall if it is not needed? Why does Biden hate brown people?josevolution said:https://twitter.com/laikenjordahl/status/1380250510750441473?s=21
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Expensive undertaking to say the least!jesus greets me looks just like me ....0 -
Biden is dragging his feet on getting vetted refugees in to the country. This needs to change. He's actually doing a worse job than Trump. C'mon man.The most anti-refugee president in modern history may not be Donald Trump. Right now, it’s looking like Joe Biden.At least according to the numbers.Halfway through fiscal 2021, the United States has admitted only 2,050 refugees, State Department data show. At the current pace, about 4,100 people would be resettled here this year. That would be the lowest number since the modern refugee resettlement program began in 1980; the previous record low came last year, under Trump alone, at 11,814.
Amazingly, monthly admissions have slowed since Biden took office. To put these numbers in context: Over the previous four decades, refugee admissions averaged about 78,000 annually, or roughly 19 times the total we’re on track for this year.
This is not, presumably, what most Americans thought they were getting when they elected Biden.Biden has spoken warmly of immigrants in general and refugees in particular. He has argued that welcoming the “huddled masses” is an American tradition, humanitarian duty and diplomatic advantage. Shortly after taking office, he announced plans to rebuild the refugee resettlement program, which had been hobbled by years of successively lower refugee admissions ceilings set by Trump. Biden said this process would begin by quadrupling the record-low ceiling that Trump had set for fiscal 2021 (taking it from 15,000 to 62,500).
More significantly, Biden said he would remove discriminatory eligibility criteria that Trump added mere days before the 2020 election. These impossible-to-meet admission categories effectively blocked nearly all refugees from African and Muslim countries from qualifying for resettlement in the United States, whatever the overall ceiling might suggest. These criteria are the main reason admissions have slowed to a trickle.
Biden announced all this in early February. His State Department submitted a detailed report to Congress on the new ceiling and eligibility criteria days later. State Department officials began booking flights for refugees who had been waiting for years — people who had been fully screened for national security and public health concerns and deemed ready to go.Then, astoundingly, Biden blocked his own policy from taking effect.
Without explanation, Biden never signed the paperwork, called a “presidential determination,” legally necessary to lift Trump’s restrictions. So, roughly 715 desperate refugees whose travel arrangements were made by Biden’s own State Department — many of whom had given away their possessions and vacated their homes in anticipation of relocation — had their tickets abruptly canceled.At least one family in a Tanzanian refugee camp was booked on a flight for February and rescheduled for another flight in March, because Biden hadn’t completed his bureaucratic task in time for their original itinerary, according to the International Rescue Committee, the nonprofit resettlement agency assigned to receive them in Idaho. Ultimately, their travel was canceled, a sign that even State Department officials hadn’t anticipated Biden’s repeated and unexplained paperwork delays. Many families had similar experiences during Trump’s presidency, when they were also booked and subsequently unbooked for flights.
Which suggests how little has changed since Trump left office, despite Biden’s warm-and-fuzzy rhetoric.Asked repeatedly (by me and others) what accounts for Biden’s delay, White House officials have struggled to answer. Sometimes they try to blame Trump, complaining that his administration left a system in “disrepair” that requires “rebuilding.” No doubt, Trump wrought a lot of damage upon the immigration system, and more resources would be necessary to reach the much higher refugee admissions that Biden claims he wants for the next fiscal year (125,000); currently, there aren’t enough people sufficiently far along in the refugee-screening pipeline to meet that goal.
But none of this explains why the few thousand already fully vetted and deemed “travel-ready” by the State Department as of early March have not been allowed in. The only thing preventing their entry is Biden — who refuses to do the right thing and sign a simple document.
The only explanation I can fathom for what’s going on is that the White House fears ordinary Americans will confuse the refugee resettlement system with the surge of migrants at the southern border. “Refugees” and “asylum seekers” might sound synonymous, but the groups are subject to different sets of laws, screening procedures and executive authorities. One key difference is that refugees apply from abroad and are screened for eligibility before they arrive; asylum seekers apply from within our borders or at a port of entry.
In other words, refugees are doing precisely what both Biden and Republicans urge those fleeing persecution and violence to do: staying abroad, and not crossing into the United States unlawfully; proving to U.S. and international officials that their lives are indeed in danger, and that they meet the legal requirements for resettlement; enduring extensive screening to prove they don’t threaten national security or public health; and then patiently waiting their turn for admission, a process that usually takes years.
And how is Biden rewarding them? The same way Trump did: by slamming the door.It's a hopeless situation...0 -
Biden hates brown people?tbergs said:Biden is dragging his feet on getting vetted refugees in to the country. This needs to change. He's actually doing a worse job than Trump. C'mon man.The most anti-refugee president in modern history may not be Donald Trump. Right now, it’s looking like Joe Biden.At least according to the numbers.Halfway through fiscal 2021, the United States has admitted only 2,050 refugees, State Department data show. At the current pace, about 4,100 people would be resettled here this year. That would be the lowest number since the modern refugee resettlement program began in 1980; the previous record low came last year, under Trump alone, at 11,814.
Amazingly, monthly admissions have slowed since Biden took office. To put these numbers in context: Over the previous four decades, refugee admissions averaged about 78,000 annually, or roughly 19 times the total we’re on track for this year.
This is not, presumably, what most Americans thought they were getting when they elected Biden.Biden has spoken warmly of immigrants in general and refugees in particular. He has argued that welcoming the “huddled masses” is an American tradition, humanitarian duty and diplomatic advantage. Shortly after taking office, he announced plans to rebuild the refugee resettlement program, which had been hobbled by years of successively lower refugee admissions ceilings set by Trump. Biden said this process would begin by quadrupling the record-low ceiling that Trump had set for fiscal 2021 (taking it from 15,000 to 62,500).
More significantly, Biden said he would remove discriminatory eligibility criteria that Trump added mere days before the 2020 election. These impossible-to-meet admission categories effectively blocked nearly all refugees from African and Muslim countries from qualifying for resettlement in the United States, whatever the overall ceiling might suggest. These criteria are the main reason admissions have slowed to a trickle.
Biden announced all this in early February. His State Department submitted a detailed report to Congress on the new ceiling and eligibility criteria days later. State Department officials began booking flights for refugees who had been waiting for years — people who had been fully screened for national security and public health concerns and deemed ready to go.Then, astoundingly, Biden blocked his own policy from taking effect.
Without explanation, Biden never signed the paperwork, called a “presidential determination,” legally necessary to lift Trump’s restrictions. So, roughly 715 desperate refugees whose travel arrangements were made by Biden’s own State Department — many of whom had given away their possessions and vacated their homes in anticipation of relocation — had their tickets abruptly canceled.At least one family in a Tanzanian refugee camp was booked on a flight for February and rescheduled for another flight in March, because Biden hadn’t completed his bureaucratic task in time for their original itinerary, according to the International Rescue Committee, the nonprofit resettlement agency assigned to receive them in Idaho. Ultimately, their travel was canceled, a sign that even State Department officials hadn’t anticipated Biden’s repeated and unexplained paperwork delays. Many families had similar experiences during Trump’s presidency, when they were also booked and subsequently unbooked for flights.
Which suggests how little has changed since Trump left office, despite Biden’s warm-and-fuzzy rhetoric.Asked repeatedly (by me and others) what accounts for Biden’s delay, White House officials have struggled to answer. Sometimes they try to blame Trump, complaining that his administration left a system in “disrepair” that requires “rebuilding.” No doubt, Trump wrought a lot of damage upon the immigration system, and more resources would be necessary to reach the much higher refugee admissions that Biden claims he wants for the next fiscal year (125,000); currently, there aren’t enough people sufficiently far along in the refugee-screening pipeline to meet that goal.
But none of this explains why the few thousand already fully vetted and deemed “travel-ready” by the State Department as of early March have not been allowed in. The only thing preventing their entry is Biden — who refuses to do the right thing and sign a simple document.
The only explanation I can fathom for what’s going on is that the White House fears ordinary Americans will confuse the refugee resettlement system with the surge of migrants at the southern border. “Refugees” and “asylum seekers” might sound synonymous, but the groups are subject to different sets of laws, screening procedures and executive authorities. One key difference is that refugees apply from abroad and are screened for eligibility before they arrive; asylum seekers apply from within our borders or at a port of entry.
In other words, refugees are doing precisely what both Biden and Republicans urge those fleeing persecution and violence to do: staying abroad, and not crossing into the United States unlawfully; proving to U.S. and international officials that their lives are indeed in danger, and that they meet the legal requirements for resettlement; enduring extensive screening to prove they don’t threaten national security or public health; and then patiently waiting their turn for admission, a process that usually takes years.
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Biden hates brown people?tbergs said:Biden is dragging his feet on getting vetted refugees in to the country. This needs to change. He's actually doing a worse job than Trump. C'mon man.The most anti-refugee president in modern history may not be Donald Trump. Right now, it’s looking like Joe Biden.At least according to the numbers.Halfway through fiscal 2021, the United States has admitted only 2,050 refugees, State Department data show. At the current pace, about 4,100 people would be resettled here this year. That would be the lowest number since the modern refugee resettlement program began in 1980; the previous record low came last year, under Trump alone, at 11,814.
Amazingly, monthly admissions have slowed since Biden took office. To put these numbers in context: Over the previous four decades, refugee admissions averaged about 78,000 annually, or roughly 19 times the total we’re on track for this year.
This is not, presumably, what most Americans thought they were getting when they elected Biden.Biden has spoken warmly of immigrants in general and refugees in particular. He has argued that welcoming the “huddled masses” is an American tradition, humanitarian duty and diplomatic advantage. Shortly after taking office, he announced plans to rebuild the refugee resettlement program, which had been hobbled by years of successively lower refugee admissions ceilings set by Trump. Biden said this process would begin by quadrupling the record-low ceiling that Trump had set for fiscal 2021 (taking it from 15,000 to 62,500).
More significantly, Biden said he would remove discriminatory eligibility criteria that Trump added mere days before the 2020 election. These impossible-to-meet admission categories effectively blocked nearly all refugees from African and Muslim countries from qualifying for resettlement in the United States, whatever the overall ceiling might suggest. These criteria are the main reason admissions have slowed to a trickle.
Biden announced all this in early February. His State Department submitted a detailed report to Congress on the new ceiling and eligibility criteria days later. State Department officials began booking flights for refugees who had been waiting for years — people who had been fully screened for national security and public health concerns and deemed ready to go.Then, astoundingly, Biden blocked his own policy from taking effect.
Without explanation, Biden never signed the paperwork, called a “presidential determination,” legally necessary to lift Trump’s restrictions. So, roughly 715 desperate refugees whose travel arrangements were made by Biden’s own State Department — many of whom had given away their possessions and vacated their homes in anticipation of relocation — had their tickets abruptly canceled.At least one family in a Tanzanian refugee camp was booked on a flight for February and rescheduled for another flight in March, because Biden hadn’t completed his bureaucratic task in time for their original itinerary, according to the International Rescue Committee, the nonprofit resettlement agency assigned to receive them in Idaho. Ultimately, their travel was canceled, a sign that even State Department officials hadn’t anticipated Biden’s repeated and unexplained paperwork delays. Many families had similar experiences during Trump’s presidency, when they were also booked and subsequently unbooked for flights.
Which suggests how little has changed since Trump left office, despite Biden’s warm-and-fuzzy rhetoric.Asked repeatedly (by me and others) what accounts for Biden’s delay, White House officials have struggled to answer. Sometimes they try to blame Trump, complaining that his administration left a system in “disrepair” that requires “rebuilding.” No doubt, Trump wrought a lot of damage upon the immigration system, and more resources would be necessary to reach the much higher refugee admissions that Biden claims he wants for the next fiscal year (125,000); currently, there aren’t enough people sufficiently far along in the refugee-screening pipeline to meet that goal.
But none of this explains why the few thousand already fully vetted and deemed “travel-ready” by the State Department as of early March have not been allowed in. The only thing preventing their entry is Biden — who refuses to do the right thing and sign a simple document.
The only explanation I can fathom for what’s going on is that the White House fears ordinary Americans will confuse the refugee resettlement system with the surge of migrants at the southern border. “Refugees” and “asylum seekers” might sound synonymous, but the groups are subject to different sets of laws, screening procedures and executive authorities. One key difference is that refugees apply from abroad and are screened for eligibility before they arrive; asylum seekers apply from within our borders or at a port of entry.
In other words, refugees are doing precisely what both Biden and Republicans urge those fleeing persecution and violence to do: staying abroad, and not crossing into the United States unlawfully; proving to U.S. and international officials that their lives are indeed in danger, and that they meet the legal requirements for resettlement; enduring extensive screening to prove they don’t threaten national security or public health; and then patiently waiting their turn for admission, a process that usually takes years.
And how is Biden rewarding them? The same way Trump did: by slamming the door.
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He sure seems to like the smell of their hair...C’mon man!Bentleyspop said:
NoPJPOWER said:
Biden hates brown people?tbergs said:Biden is dragging his feet on getting vetted refugees in to the country. This needs to change. He's actually doing a worse job than Trump. C'mon man.The most anti-refugee president in modern history may not be Donald Trump. Right now, it’s looking like Joe Biden.At least according to the numbers.Halfway through fiscal 2021, the United States has admitted only 2,050 refugees, State Department data show. At the current pace, about 4,100 people would be resettled here this year. That would be the lowest number since the modern refugee resettlement program began in 1980; the previous record low came last year, under Trump alone, at 11,814.
Amazingly, monthly admissions have slowed since Biden took office. To put these numbers in context: Over the previous four decades, refugee admissions averaged about 78,000 annually, or roughly 19 times the total we’re on track for this year.
This is not, presumably, what most Americans thought they were getting when they elected Biden.Biden has spoken warmly of immigrants in general and refugees in particular. He has argued that welcoming the “huddled masses” is an American tradition, humanitarian duty and diplomatic advantage. Shortly after taking office, he announced plans to rebuild the refugee resettlement program, which had been hobbled by years of successively lower refugee admissions ceilings set by Trump. Biden said this process would begin by quadrupling the record-low ceiling that Trump had set for fiscal 2021 (taking it from 15,000 to 62,500).
More significantly, Biden said he would remove discriminatory eligibility criteria that Trump added mere days before the 2020 election. These impossible-to-meet admission categories effectively blocked nearly all refugees from African and Muslim countries from qualifying for resettlement in the United States, whatever the overall ceiling might suggest. These criteria are the main reason admissions have slowed to a trickle.
Biden announced all this in early February. His State Department submitted a detailed report to Congress on the new ceiling and eligibility criteria days later. State Department officials began booking flights for refugees who had been waiting for years — people who had been fully screened for national security and public health concerns and deemed ready to go.Then, astoundingly, Biden blocked his own policy from taking effect.
Without explanation, Biden never signed the paperwork, called a “presidential determination,” legally necessary to lift Trump’s restrictions. So, roughly 715 desperate refugees whose travel arrangements were made by Biden’s own State Department — many of whom had given away their possessions and vacated their homes in anticipation of relocation — had their tickets abruptly canceled.At least one family in a Tanzanian refugee camp was booked on a flight for February and rescheduled for another flight in March, because Biden hadn’t completed his bureaucratic task in time for their original itinerary, according to the International Rescue Committee, the nonprofit resettlement agency assigned to receive them in Idaho. Ultimately, their travel was canceled, a sign that even State Department officials hadn’t anticipated Biden’s repeated and unexplained paperwork delays. Many families had similar experiences during Trump’s presidency, when they were also booked and subsequently unbooked for flights.
Which suggests how little has changed since Trump left office, despite Biden’s warm-and-fuzzy rhetoric.Asked repeatedly (by me and others) what accounts for Biden’s delay, White House officials have struggled to answer. Sometimes they try to blame Trump, complaining that his administration left a system in “disrepair” that requires “rebuilding.” No doubt, Trump wrought a lot of damage upon the immigration system, and more resources would be necessary to reach the much higher refugee admissions that Biden claims he wants for the next fiscal year (125,000); currently, there aren’t enough people sufficiently far along in the refugee-screening pipeline to meet that goal.
But none of this explains why the few thousand already fully vetted and deemed “travel-ready” by the State Department as of early March have not been allowed in. The only thing preventing their entry is Biden — who refuses to do the right thing and sign a simple document.
The only explanation I can fathom for what’s going on is that the White House fears ordinary Americans will confuse the refugee resettlement system with the surge of migrants at the southern border. “Refugees” and “asylum seekers” might sound synonymous, but the groups are subject to different sets of laws, screening procedures and executive authorities. One key difference is that refugees apply from abroad and are screened for eligibility before they arrive; asylum seekers apply from within our borders or at a port of entry.
In other words, refugees are doing precisely what both Biden and Republicans urge those fleeing persecution and violence to do: staying abroad, and not crossing into the United States unlawfully; proving to U.S. and international officials that their lives are indeed in danger, and that they meet the legal requirements for resettlement; enduring extensive screening to prove they don’t threaten national security or public health; and then patiently waiting their turn for admission, a process that usually takes years.
And how is Biden rewarding them? The same way Trump did: by slamming the door.
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My first President Biden disappointment. To the bolded, does anyone not think that the propaganda and purposeful clouding of the issue has had an effect? The midterms will tell but I'm sure this issue will be hammered on the campaign trail. BOO!
Opinion: The White House must exorcise the ghost of Stephen Miller
Joe Biden is president. So why are Stephen Miller’s views still haunting the U.S. immigration agenda?
On Friday, the White House announced a cowardly decision: Biden would maintain Donald Trump’s record-low refugee admissions ceiling, breaking an earlier promise to quadruple refugee arrivals this fiscal year. To appreciate why, exactly, this decision was so disappointing — beyond the obvious humanitarian reasons — you need to understand the last administration’s anti-immigrant propaganda campaign and how Biden’s decision plays into it.
Trump and his senior adviser Miller wanted Americans to live in perpetual fear of foreign hordes supposedly laying siege to the country — to our economy, our culture, our racial complexion, even our women. According to this worldview, there is (or should be) no such thing as a legal immigrant; deep down, immigrants are all somehow intrinsically illegal and must be treated as such. The barbarians at the gate cannot be contained by good-faith vetting or the traditional rule of law; all foreigners must be beaten back by whatever means necessary.
This was the message of Trump officials’ rhetoric and policy. In addition to building a border wall to deter unlawful entry, the Trump administration foreclosed every legal avenue for immigration. The ruthlessness of foreign invaders — these “aliens,” to use Miller’s preferred term — demanded it.
Trump officials executed this agenda by booby-trapping paperwork and rigging eligibility criteria to keep out foreigners who tried to immigrate legally. Where executive authority allowed, Trump directly ratcheted down entry quotas. That’s what happened with refugees, whose numbers the president has almost plenary power to decide. Trump officials repeatedly declared that refugee admissions had to be reduced because other immigrants were gaining too much ground in their coordinated invasion and were allegedly overwhelming U.S. processing capacity.
It didn’t matter that refugees are among the most vetted immigrants in the world, waiting years and many rounds of background checks before being allowed to resettle in the United States. Nor that refugees are processed in an entirely different system from those entering U.S. borders without permission. Miller and his fellow xenophobes portrayed even immigrants willing to submit to extensive screening as likely drug-runners, terrorists, rapists and parasites.
Biden campaigned, and won, on a very different message.
He promised to “restore the soul of America,” which he argued included welcoming the stranger. It was a message he had promoted for decades. Upon taking office, he declared plans to roll back the Miller/Trump immigration agenda. Among them: raising the refugee admissions ceiling from 15,000 to 62,500.
Biden’s rationale for this policy was partly moral, partly practical. Unlike their predecessors, Biden and his immigration advisers recognized that creating more pathways for people to come to the United States legally would actually promote “law and order” and alleviate stress on the immigration system. In a February report to Congress, the State Department said one reason to “increase the overall refugee admissions number” was to “facilitate safe and orderly migration and access to international protection and avert a humanitarian crisis at the U.S. southern border.”
Then, inexplicably, Biden got cold feet.
He delayed signing the paperwork necessary to put his policy into effect, leaving hundreds of vetted refugees in limbo. White House spokespeople could not explain the holdup. Reports leaked that Biden worried about the “optics” of letting in more refugees amid a surge of migration at the southern border, even though he knew the two issues were unrelated.
In other words: Biden seemed to concede that Miller’s propaganda had worked and that the public might view all immigrants as a dangerous, undifferentiated horde of intruders the new administration was failing to contain.
Rather than fighting the confusion and fear Miller had sown, Biden caved. Friday’s White House announcement even invoked the same weaselly excuse Trump officials had used to justify their record-low cap — that it was necessitated by the (irrelevant) border surge.
On Twitter, Miller took a victory lap. He urged Biden to reduce refugee admissions to zero, which he declared would be the “most popular” thing to do.
But Biden and Miller both misread the politics. Biden’s announcement drew immediate, widespread backlash. Perhaps unsurprisingly: Despite Team Trump’s relentless smears of refugees and other immigrants, polls show the public has grown more pro-immigrant in recent years — with support reaching record highs.
Within hours of its initial announcement Friday, the White House backtracked, saying a higher refugee ceiling would be forthcoming. Officials refused to specify the new level and will not commit to the 62,500 Biden previously promised. Biden is leaving his options open — perhaps in case Miller’s political assessment turns out to be right.
It’s not clear why Biden has been so timid. As Biden himself has persuasively argued, admitting more refugees is in the country’s moral and national security interests. What’s more, he was elected on a popular mandate to do it. The White House must exorcise the ghost of Stephen Miller and deliver the agenda that our new, soul-restoring president promised.
Opinion | The White House must exorcise the ghost of Stephen Miller - The Washington Post
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I read this one earlier too. I think she also wrote the piece I posted in the immigration thread a few weeks ago. It really does seem Biden is being overly conservative on his, which clearly seems only for political reasons, but how long does he plan to hold out? The midterms are a long way away.Halifax2TheMax said:My first President Biden disappointment. To the bolded, does anyone not think that the propaganda and purposeful clouding of the issue has had an effect? The midterms will tell but I'm sure this issue will be hammered on the campaign trail. BOO!
Opinion: The White House must exorcise the ghost of Stephen Miller
Joe Biden is president. So why are Stephen Miller’s views still haunting the U.S. immigration agenda?
On Friday, the White House announced a cowardly decision: Biden would maintain Donald Trump’s record-low refugee admissions ceiling, breaking an earlier promise to quadruple refugee arrivals this fiscal year. To appreciate why, exactly, this decision was so disappointing — beyond the obvious humanitarian reasons — you need to understand the last administration’s anti-immigrant propaganda campaign and how Biden’s decision plays into it.
Trump and his senior adviser Miller wanted Americans to live in perpetual fear of foreign hordes supposedly laying siege to the country — to our economy, our culture, our racial complexion, even our women. According to this worldview, there is (or should be) no such thing as a legal immigrant; deep down, immigrants are all somehow intrinsically illegal and must be treated as such. The barbarians at the gate cannot be contained by good-faith vetting or the traditional rule of law; all foreigners must be beaten back by whatever means necessary.
This was the message of Trump officials’ rhetoric and policy. In addition to building a border wall to deter unlawful entry, the Trump administration foreclosed every legal avenue for immigration. The ruthlessness of foreign invaders — these “aliens,” to use Miller’s preferred term — demanded it.
Trump officials executed this agenda by booby-trapping paperwork and rigging eligibility criteria to keep out foreigners who tried to immigrate legally. Where executive authority allowed, Trump directly ratcheted down entry quotas. That’s what happened with refugees, whose numbers the president has almost plenary power to decide. Trump officials repeatedly declared that refugee admissions had to be reduced because other immigrants were gaining too much ground in their coordinated invasion and were allegedly overwhelming U.S. processing capacity.
It didn’t matter that refugees are among the most vetted immigrants in the world, waiting years and many rounds of background checks before being allowed to resettle in the United States. Nor that refugees are processed in an entirely different system from those entering U.S. borders without permission. Miller and his fellow xenophobes portrayed even immigrants willing to submit to extensive screening as likely drug-runners, terrorists, rapists and parasites.
Biden campaigned, and won, on a very different message.
He promised to “restore the soul of America,” which he argued included welcoming the stranger. It was a message he had promoted for decades. Upon taking office, he declared plans to roll back the Miller/Trump immigration agenda. Among them: raising the refugee admissions ceiling from 15,000 to 62,500.
Biden’s rationale for this policy was partly moral, partly practical. Unlike their predecessors, Biden and his immigration advisers recognized that creating more pathways for people to come to the United States legally would actually promote “law and order” and alleviate stress on the immigration system. In a February report to Congress, the State Department said one reason to “increase the overall refugee admissions number” was to “facilitate safe and orderly migration and access to international protection and avert a humanitarian crisis at the U.S. southern border.”
Then, inexplicably, Biden got cold feet.
He delayed signing the paperwork necessary to put his policy into effect, leaving hundreds of vetted refugees in limbo. White House spokespeople could not explain the holdup. Reports leaked that Biden worried about the “optics” of letting in more refugees amid a surge of migration at the southern border, even though he knew the two issues were unrelated.
In other words: Biden seemed to concede that Miller’s propaganda had worked and that the public might view all immigrants as a dangerous, undifferentiated horde of intruders the new administration was failing to contain.
Rather than fighting the confusion and fear Miller had sown, Biden caved. Friday’s White House announcement even invoked the same weaselly excuse Trump officials had used to justify their record-low cap — that it was necessitated by the (irrelevant) border surge.
On Twitter, Miller took a victory lap. He urged Biden to reduce refugee admissions to zero, which he declared would be the “most popular” thing to do.
But Biden and Miller both misread the politics. Biden’s announcement drew immediate, widespread backlash. Perhaps unsurprisingly: Despite Team Trump’s relentless smears of refugees and other immigrants, polls show the public has grown more pro-immigrant in recent years — with support reaching record highs.
Within hours of its initial announcement Friday, the White House backtracked, saying a higher refugee ceiling would be forthcoming. Officials refused to specify the new level and will not commit to the 62,500 Biden previously promised. Biden is leaving his options open — perhaps in case Miller’s political assessment turns out to be right.
It’s not clear why Biden has been so timid. As Biden himself has persuasively argued, admitting more refugees is in the country’s moral and national security interests. What’s more, he was elected on a popular mandate to do it. The White House must exorcise the ghost of Stephen Miller and deliver the agenda that our new, soul-restoring president promised.
Opinion | The White House must exorcise the ghost of Stephen Miller - The Washington Post
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the biggest issue I have with it is the ecological impact. humans should not put fences keeping animals from their natural migration patters.nicknyr15 said:
Great points! Crickets around here on this though.Ledbetterman10 said:
What a racist asshole that Biden is. Afraid of brown people, Joe?PJPOWER said:Snarkiness aside, the wall was the only Trump idea I kinda liked. Not the stupid “Mexico will pay for it” crap, just the idea of a border wall to curb illegal immigration. And if Joe thinks it’s a good idea to continue construction, he should. Sure the political fallout will be annoying (the right celebrating that Biden is admitting Trump was right about something, the left’s heads exploding for the same reason), but a real president, as so many (especially here) say Joe is (unlike Trump), shouldn’t care about that sort of fallout.
the wall was a racist dog whistle that helped get trump elected. the fact of the matter is, arrests at the US/Mexico border for illegal crossers was at a 45 year low.
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How the richest, most powerful, as some would say, nation of 320,000,000 can't absorb 62,500 immigrants and show the world the potential of the American Dream, as some might call it, is beyond me, particularly after the vetting process they go through. They're all a bunch of rapers and murderers and druggie massacreers building bombs, stealing jobs and flying airplanes into buildings, and costing taxpayers money, never contributing a thing to society, ever.tbergs said:
I read this one earlier too. I think she also wrote the piece I posted in the immigration thread a few weeks ago. It really does seem Biden is being overly conservative on his, which clearly seems only for political reasons, but how long does he plan to hold out? The midterms are a long way away.Halifax2TheMax said:My first President Biden disappointment. To the bolded, does anyone not think that the propaganda and purposeful clouding of the issue has had an effect? The midterms will tell but I'm sure this issue will be hammered on the campaign trail. BOO!
Opinion: The White House must exorcise the ghost of Stephen Miller
Joe Biden is president. So why are Stephen Miller’s views still haunting the U.S. immigration agenda?
On Friday, the White House announced a cowardly decision: Biden would maintain Donald Trump’s record-low refugee admissions ceiling, breaking an earlier promise to quadruple refugee arrivals this fiscal year. To appreciate why, exactly, this decision was so disappointing — beyond the obvious humanitarian reasons — you need to understand the last administration’s anti-immigrant propaganda campaign and how Biden’s decision plays into it.
Trump and his senior adviser Miller wanted Americans to live in perpetual fear of foreign hordes supposedly laying siege to the country — to our economy, our culture, our racial complexion, even our women. According to this worldview, there is (or should be) no such thing as a legal immigrant; deep down, immigrants are all somehow intrinsically illegal and must be treated as such. The barbarians at the gate cannot be contained by good-faith vetting or the traditional rule of law; all foreigners must be beaten back by whatever means necessary.
This was the message of Trump officials’ rhetoric and policy. In addition to building a border wall to deter unlawful entry, the Trump administration foreclosed every legal avenue for immigration. The ruthlessness of foreign invaders — these “aliens,” to use Miller’s preferred term — demanded it.
Trump officials executed this agenda by booby-trapping paperwork and rigging eligibility criteria to keep out foreigners who tried to immigrate legally. Where executive authority allowed, Trump directly ratcheted down entry quotas. That’s what happened with refugees, whose numbers the president has almost plenary power to decide. Trump officials repeatedly declared that refugee admissions had to be reduced because other immigrants were gaining too much ground in their coordinated invasion and were allegedly overwhelming U.S. processing capacity.
It didn’t matter that refugees are among the most vetted immigrants in the world, waiting years and many rounds of background checks before being allowed to resettle in the United States. Nor that refugees are processed in an entirely different system from those entering U.S. borders without permission. Miller and his fellow xenophobes portrayed even immigrants willing to submit to extensive screening as likely drug-runners, terrorists, rapists and parasites.
Biden campaigned, and won, on a very different message.
He promised to “restore the soul of America,” which he argued included welcoming the stranger. It was a message he had promoted for decades. Upon taking office, he declared plans to roll back the Miller/Trump immigration agenda. Among them: raising the refugee admissions ceiling from 15,000 to 62,500.
Biden’s rationale for this policy was partly moral, partly practical. Unlike their predecessors, Biden and his immigration advisers recognized that creating more pathways for people to come to the United States legally would actually promote “law and order” and alleviate stress on the immigration system. In a February report to Congress, the State Department said one reason to “increase the overall refugee admissions number” was to “facilitate safe and orderly migration and access to international protection and avert a humanitarian crisis at the U.S. southern border.”
Then, inexplicably, Biden got cold feet.
He delayed signing the paperwork necessary to put his policy into effect, leaving hundreds of vetted refugees in limbo. White House spokespeople could not explain the holdup. Reports leaked that Biden worried about the “optics” of letting in more refugees amid a surge of migration at the southern border, even though he knew the two issues were unrelated.
In other words: Biden seemed to concede that Miller’s propaganda had worked and that the public might view all immigrants as a dangerous, undifferentiated horde of intruders the new administration was failing to contain.
Rather than fighting the confusion and fear Miller had sown, Biden caved. Friday’s White House announcement even invoked the same weaselly excuse Trump officials had used to justify their record-low cap — that it was necessitated by the (irrelevant) border surge.
On Twitter, Miller took a victory lap. He urged Biden to reduce refugee admissions to zero, which he declared would be the “most popular” thing to do.
But Biden and Miller both misread the politics. Biden’s announcement drew immediate, widespread backlash. Perhaps unsurprisingly: Despite Team Trump’s relentless smears of refugees and other immigrants, polls show the public has grown more pro-immigrant in recent years — with support reaching record highs.
Within hours of its initial announcement Friday, the White House backtracked, saying a higher refugee ceiling would be forthcoming. Officials refused to specify the new level and will not commit to the 62,500 Biden previously promised. Biden is leaving his options open — perhaps in case Miller’s political assessment turns out to be right.
It’s not clear why Biden has been so timid. As Biden himself has persuasively argued, admitting more refugees is in the country’s moral and national security interests. What’s more, he was elected on a popular mandate to do it. The White House must exorcise the ghost of Stephen Miller and deliver the agenda that our new, soul-restoring president promised.
Opinion | The White House must exorcise the ghost of Stephen Miller - The Washington Post
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This and its just stupid.HughFreakingDillon said:
the biggest issue I have with it is the ecological impact. humans should not put fences keeping animals from their natural migration patters.nicknyr15 said:
Great points! Crickets around here on this though.Ledbetterman10 said:
What a racist asshole that Biden is. Afraid of brown people, Joe?PJPOWER said:Snarkiness aside, the wall was the only Trump idea I kinda liked. Not the stupid “Mexico will pay for it” crap, just the idea of a border wall to curb illegal immigration. And if Joe thinks it’s a good idea to continue construction, he should. Sure the political fallout will be annoying (the right celebrating that Biden is admitting Trump was right about something, the left’s heads exploding for the same reason), but a real president, as so many (especially here) say Joe is (unlike Trump), shouldn’t care about that sort of fallout.
the wall was a racist dog whistle that helped get trump elected. the fact of the matter is, arrests at the US/Mexico border for illegal crossers was at a 45 year low.
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The angle of that ladder would be very dangerous. I wouldn’t use it.HughFreakingDillon said:
the biggest issue I have with it is the ecological impact. humans should not put fences keeping animals from their natural migration patters.nicknyr15 said:
Great points! Crickets around here on this though.Ledbetterman10 said:
What a racist asshole that Biden is. Afraid of brown people, Joe?PJPOWER said:Snarkiness aside, the wall was the only Trump idea I kinda liked. Not the stupid “Mexico will pay for it” crap, just the idea of a border wall to curb illegal immigration. And if Joe thinks it’s a good idea to continue construction, he should. Sure the political fallout will be annoying (the right celebrating that Biden is admitting Trump was right about something, the left’s heads exploding for the same reason), but a real president, as so many (especially here) say Joe is (unlike Trump), shouldn’t care about that sort of fallout.
the wall was a racist dog whistle that helped get trump elected. the fact of the matter is, arrests at the US/Mexico border for illegal crossers was at a 45 year low.
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4 to 1 rule. 62'-6" ladder and we are talking.mace1229 said:
The angle of that ladder would be very dangerous. I wouldn’t use it.HughFreakingDillon said:
the biggest issue I have with it is the ecological impact. humans should not put fences keeping animals from their natural migration patters.nicknyr15 said:
Great points! Crickets around here on this though.Ledbetterman10 said:
What a racist asshole that Biden is. Afraid of brown people, Joe?PJPOWER said:Snarkiness aside, the wall was the only Trump idea I kinda liked. Not the stupid “Mexico will pay for it” crap, just the idea of a border wall to curb illegal immigration. And if Joe thinks it’s a good idea to continue construction, he should. Sure the political fallout will be annoying (the right celebrating that Biden is admitting Trump was right about something, the left’s heads exploding for the same reason), but a real president, as so many (especially here) say Joe is (unlike Trump), shouldn’t care about that sort of fallout.
the wall was a racist dog whistle that helped get trump elected. the fact of the matter is, arrests at the US/Mexico border for illegal crossers was at a 45 year low.
"show me a 50 foot wall and I'll show you a 51 foot ladder".
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In a more serious note, I don’t understand the argument of walls don’t always work. It reminds me of what I keep seeing in the gun thread. Someone points out how a gun law didn’t work and the response is almost always a sarcastic “it doesn’t work 100% so why even try.” But for a few years we keep seeing that example and pictures being shared of people climbing a border wall.
Rarely is anything 100%. Do you never lock your bike up because it can be cut? Do you not wear a mask because it’s not 100%? But walls do work. I bet most people here have one in their backyard to keep people out and things in. It doesn’t mean it can’t be climbed, but it deters some people from trying. I mean what happened after January 6? They put up a fence around the Capitol.
Environmental concerns and costs are valid points to consider. I’m just not buying the it can be climbed argument.0 -
For people that live in border states, what are your reactions to having the influx of immigrants in your area? My family in California constantly complain about it.
Biggest complaint? The schools and taxes.0 -
I’ve lived in New Mexico and now Texas over the course of the last 16 years. I have had zero problems with this so called influx. I guess I’m either to ignorant to know or too poor to be affected.Scio me nihil scire
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Schools aren't a problem then? My cousin complains about the lack of ESL teachers to help the ever growing populations in the classroom.static111 said:I’ve lived in New Mexico and now Texas over the course of the last 16 years. I have had zero problems with this so called influx. I guess I’m either to ignorant to know or too poor to be affected.0 -
Most people in my daughters schools in Texas and my in laws schools in New Mex speak Spanish. I don’t personally but both my wife and daughter do and they make fun of me frequently for my poor pronunciation of Spanish influenced wordstempo_n_groove said:
Schools aren't a problem then? My cousin complains about the lack of ESL teachers to help the ever growing populations in the classroom.static111 said:I’ve lived in New Mexico and now Texas over the course of the last 16 years. I have had zero problems with this so called influx. I guess I’m either to ignorant to know or too poor to be affected.Scio me nihil scire
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We called a mix Spanglish. Where you can go back and forth between English and Spanish words and have a conversation. I was quite good at it when I lived in Cali. I chose to want to learn. You do have people that have the inability or rather not and that is where the classroom can become a problem with it.static111 said:
Most people in my daughters schools in Texas and my in laws schools in New Mex speak Spanish. I don’t personally but both my wife and daughter do and they make fun of me frequently for my poor pronunciation of Spanish influenced wordstempo_n_groove said:
Schools aren't a problem then? My cousin complains about the lack of ESL teachers to help the ever growing populations in the classroom.static111 said:I’ve lived in New Mexico and now Texas over the course of the last 16 years. I have had zero problems with this so called influx. I guess I’m either to ignorant to know or too poor to be affected.0
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