Yes, this is horrific.??
A Republican from my State offered the amendment.?
From a link referenced in the article:
House appropriators voted to extend a Trump-era border policy, adding a six-month extension of Title 42 to the Department of Homeland Security Budget.
The amendment, sponsored by Rep.?(R-Wash.), was passed by voice vote, leaving unclear which Democrats voted in support of the effort.
Biden didn't immediately rescind the Trump policy, it's true.? The pandemic was the first priority.? Trump gutted the immigration "infrastructure."? Check this out:?
The SC is now going to rule and I'm guessing, it will rule contrary to the public good.? From a linked article:
The?administration continued the policy during the first year of its administration but moved in April to rescind the policy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) determined the pandemic conditions that Trump used to justify his emergency order were no longer necessary as the U.S. learns to live with COVID-19.
A federal judge blocked the Biden administration from lifting Title 42, which the administration has appealed.
Biden is not indifferent.??
From the article, here's Abbot's approach:??
In March of last year, Governor Abbott launched Operation Lone Star, a $4 billion political operation that deployed law enforcement and national guard members from all over the state (and a few other states) to flood border communities and arrest migrants with misdemeanor trespassing charges to then be sent to state prisons for up to a year.??through Operation Lone Star since its inception. This is Abbott’s attempt to create his own immigration enforcement and deterrence program.Biden is not indifferent to women's rights.? What he has said is "vote, vote, vote."? This is the long game.? Of course there are things we can do and lawsuits are filed in the states, but ultimately, without a more progressive majority in Congress, we're nationally hamstrung, yes?? Why can't we win in the mid-term elections?? Are we gerrymandered out of fair elections?? Are we apathetic?? In the meantime, according to his comments at the NATO summit, he's looking at what can be done with executive orders.??
He said in his comments from the NATO summit today, that the trip to Saudi Arabia is not, in fact, for the purpose of meeting with the murdering MBS, etc.? There is a broader agenda.? People always think the President has control over the price of gas.? It's complicated.? Just like inflation...complicated.? They're working on it.? Americans appear as uninformed and short-sighted.?
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