The White House statement comes after a week of frantic negotiations in the Senate.

The White House statement comes after a week of frantic negotiations in the Senate.

President Joe Biden on Friday urged Congress to pass a bipartisan bill to address the immigration crisis at the nation’s southern border, saying he would shut down the border the day the bill became law.

“What’s been negotiated would — if passed into law — be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country,” Biden said in a statement. “It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.”

Biden’s Friday evening statement resembles a ramping up in rhetoric for the administration, placing the president philosophically in the camp arguing that the border may hit a point where closure is needed. The White House’s decision to have Biden weigh in also speaks to the delicate nature of the dealmaking, and the urgency facing his administration to take action on the border — particularly during an election year, when Republicans have used the issue to rally their base.

The president is also daring Republicans to reject the deal as it faces a make-or-break moment amid GOP fissures.

  • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    10 months ago

    Any ideas of what we can do in the meantime to move toward a better system? Even though you’re right that we’ll both probably be dead before there’s any real change, what can we do right now to help?

    I’ve tried educating people, provided information about evading deportation, and a lot on a personal level, but there’s got to be some way to move things in a way that it can potentially stop this raging hate boner people have for Latin American immigrants.

    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
      42·
      10 months ago

      i wish. im centered in a redneck capital and it blows chunks. most of the people around here are completely ignorant and vote R because they always have, their parents did and its the ‘right thing’… and then they promptly turn their brains off.

      i have taken to new terminology, and it seems to at least cause people pause… ive been using the term ‘humans’ when conversing with moron conservatives.

      it feels like fauxnews and other propoganda is designed to de-humanize…well… everyone. So im working to re-inject it into the argument.

      i had one collage educated woman tell me jesus would not have fed people who didnt have jobs. wut.

      my well of hope is running dry. patience ran out years ago when obama not only did nothing, but worked to prevent Bernie

      obama can eat a bag of dicks. what fucking useless conservative.

      • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        4·
        10 months ago

        Yeah I live in a redneck hellhole as well, and I look like a redneck so people disclose to me their most atrocious opinions. I’ve tried similar things to what you’re describing, and I guess that’s the best thing we can do. Some people are totally lost, but other have just been heavily propagandized to the point that they don’t reflect at all on the opinions they have.