We were only mad because we knew deep down that it was true

Yeah, I'll take the L on that one. Sorry.

People where doubting that under Biden trans rights would be dismantled just as under a potential trump second term

he could literally send the tanks into Mexico and the GOP would still whine about fentanyl gangbangers in asylum cities

I think War on Mexico is the next position.

https://twitter.com/davidrkadler/status/1656744706334769159

I’m proud to co-sponsor @RepDanCrenshaw’s legislation to declare WAR on the Mexican cartels.

We must authorize the use of military force to eliminate the thugs who are smuggling drugs and illegal aliens across our southern border, leading to crime and the murder of countless Americans.

While cartel members wait for their fate to be sealed by our great military, we will put a hit on their bank accounts by sanctioning any government that supports or allows cartels to operate.

This legislation will use every tool available from increased federal criminal penalties, bypassing Democrat District Attorneys and prosecutors who refuse to apply existing federal law, and even denaturalization.

There is a war going on that affects every single American, but it’s not in Ukraine or the Middle East, it’s on our Southern border

https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1635730600748261376

Feels like a good time to remind people that the attorney general under Biden argued FOR indefinite detention of migrants to the Supreme Court (and got it)

But hey, thanks to a Biden admin executive order, all those headlines about mass graves on the southern border use the term 'migrants' instead of 'aliens', progress!

When they said FDR, they meant the internment camps part.

Continuing the reactionary policies of his predecessor? Maybe Biden is just like FDR.

Don't look up what happened to Mexican-Americans on the border from 1929 through 1936 (FDR was elected on 1932), worst mistake of my life

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Weird how Biden can all of a sudden legislate with the stroke of a pen on top of existing asylum laws but cannot legislate on top of student loans or anything that doesn't harm people

The first condition to seek asylum under Biden’s proposed policy requires migrants to enter lawfully through a port of entry, with a pre-scheduled appointment managed through the CBP One App. This requirement adds an illegal barrier to asylum that openly disregards and narrows the definition of a refugee under international law.

The legal definition of a refugee does not require asylum-seekers to enter in a “lawful” manner, nor does it require the usage of a scheduling app. Under the terms of the Convention and its Protocol, as long as you have a well-founded fear of persecution due to the five protected grounds enshrined in the Convention, then you are eligible to seek asylum. No humanitarian exemptions are required for the right to seek asylum.

https://opiniojuris.org/2023/03/22/bidens-proposed-asylum-policy-does-not-fulfill-u-s-treaty-obligations/

The Convention is both a status and rights-based instrument and is underpinned by a number of fundamental principles, most notably non-discrimination, non-penalization and non-refoulement. Convention provisions, for example, are to be applied without discrimination as to race, religion or country of origin. Developments in international human rights law also reinforce the principle that the Convention be applied without discrimination as to sex, age, disability, sexuality, or other prohibited grounds of discrimination. The Convention further stipulates that, subject to specific exceptions, refugees should not be penalized for their illegal entry or stay. This recognizes that the seeking of asylum can require refugees to breach immigration rules. Prohibited penalties might include being charged with immigration or criminal offences relating to the seeking of asylum, or being arbitrarily detained purely on the basis of seeking asylum. Importantly, the Convention contains various safeguards against the expulsion of refugees. The principle of non-refoulement is so fundamental that no reservations or derogations may be made to it. It provides that no one shall expel or return (“refouler”) a refugee against his or her will, in any manner whatsoever, to a territory where he or she fears threats to life or freedom.

https://www.unhcr.org/media/28185

That's the change, they're trying to make it so you have to claim asylum before at embassies or online or something

It's preparation for climate change vastly increasing climate migration. Concentration camps and militarised borders is the imperial core's plan.

Likely A. Most legislation out there nowadays seems to come by way of third party groups. And we know there's an obscene amount of Dark Money out there funding all the think tanks and grifters.

Australia introduced mandatory indefinite imprisonment for people arriving without a visa (asylum seekers) in 1992, so this sort of stuff isn't that new for the Anglosphere.

I agree with Awoo that it's about climate change.

A) The work of one particular fash legal group working on both sides of the Atlantic?

I don't know of any particular group but this ramping up has been going on since the 90's at least for this generation of Democrats.

1993: Having passed the North American Free Trade Agreement in Congress, President Bill Clinton immediately started to militarize the border, once again significantly increasing the budget and staff of the Border Patrol and supplying it with ever more technologically advanced equipment: infrared night scopes, thermal-imaging devices, motion detectors, in-ground sensors, and software that allowed biometric scanning of all apprehended migrants. Stadium lights went up, shining into Tijuana. Hundreds of miles of what the Clinton White House refused to call a “wall” went up as well. “We call it a fence,” said one government official. “‘Wall’ has kind of a negative connotation.”

The objective was to close off relatively safe urban border crossings and force migrants to use more treacherous places in their attempts to reach the United States, either the creosote flatlands of South Texas or the gulches and plateaus of the Arizona desert. Trips that used to take days now took weeks on arid sands and under a scorching sun. Clinton’s Immigration and Naturalization Service commissioner, Doris Meissner, claimed “geography” as an “ally”—meaning that desert torments would work wonders as a deterrent.

The Clinton White House was so eager to put up a set of barriers that it barely paid attention to the actual borderline, at one point mistakenly running a section of the structure into Mexico, prompting a protest from that country’s government.

Another stretch, spanning 15 miles from the Pacific Ocean, would be built using Vietnam War–era steel helicopter landing pads stood on end. Their edges were so sharp that migrants trying to climb over them often severed their fingers. As one observer noted, the use of the pads raised “the chilling possibility” that the United States might be able to “wall off the country” with leftover war materiel.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-militarization-of-the-southern-border-is-a-long-standing-american-tradition/

But, on the other side of the aisle, the 1990s were the years of high Clintonism. And so as Republicans discussed ways they might take away citizenship from “anchor babies,” pass English-only laws, pull undocumented children from public schools, and deny access to public hospitals, Bill Clinton used this extremism to sound moderate while pushing his own hard line. “All Americans,” he said in his 1995 State of the Union speech, should be “rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.”

Promising “to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes,” Clinton signed a number of extremely punitive crime, terrorism, and immigration bills into law, which created the deportation regime that exists today. These laws closed down various routes for migrants to obtain legal status, eliminated judicial review, and required detention without bail. Essentially, the whole immigration bureaucracy — its agents, courts, and detention centers — was now geared toward expediting deportations, the numbers of which shot up tremendously. Migrants, including those with legal residency, could now be deported for any infraction, including misdemeanors, even if the transgression was committed decades earlier or the matter had already been settled in court.

The White House saw this anti-migrant campaign as building on Clinton’s various crime bills, which had cut into the Republican advantage on “law and order” issues. His adviser Rahm Emanuel, in a 1996 policy memo, urged him to target migrants in the “workplace,” to set a goal of making certain industries “free of illegal immigrants” and achieving “record deportations of criminal aliens.” “This is Great,” Clinton wrote on the memo’s margin.

Even the legislation Clinton signed ending welfare targeted undocumented migrants, banning them from receiving many social services and prohibiting local jurisdictions from offering “sanctuary” to undocumented residents.

https://jacobin.com/2019/01/immigration-wall-trump-borges

Listen here, buddy, if you don't get your ass to the poles to VOTE then the future of the landscape of America will unravel beneath the desecration of red wave elephant bad.

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