I imagine the choice has already be made. The US is in for each points be it the Southern Border or Ukraine..
That is one thing I performed with in February 2024. It was lengthy then and it isn’t shorter at present. I did add two graphs which assist make my level. The US and Mexican borders usually are not open. And with the help of Mexico, the border crossing have turn out to be harder.
Take note one different issue. The Fertility Charge is about 1.62. To take care of a steady inhabitants of substitute, a charge of two.1 ought to be a objective. In any other case, the US might discover itself in a foul predicament as different nations relating to Labor. Not changing individuals as can impression the inhabitants of Labor.
Thom Hartmann poses the query of which challenge ought to be resolved.
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“Should Democrats Trade the Southern Border for Ukraine?” Day by day Take, Radio Persona Thom Hartmann, December 2023
If the GOP’s worth for help for Ukraine and Israel is to cease the movement of immigrants into this nation for 12 months or so, I say pay the ransom…
It might be time for Democrats to have interaction in some good-old-fashioned backroom dealmaking. In the event that they do it proper, they’ll strip Republicans of one in all their most potent electoral points whereas setting the stage for true reform of what has turn out to be a real American disaster.
Russian President Putin pushes Donald Trump to sabotage US help to Ukraine. Trump passes the phrase alongside to Republicans that anyone who doesn’t go together with him will face a main challenger.
Trump simply doubled down on it one weekend in New Hampshire, praising Putin up one facet and down the opposite whereas quoting Orbán and Hitler. Immigration by nonwhite individuals “poisons the blood” of a nation. Republicans plans?
In an try to appease Trump and Putin, Republicans within the Senate declare they’re placing collectively a “security” deal to ship international and navy help to Ukraine and Israel whereas additionally “securing” our southern border from immigrants and asylum seekers.
Democrats first dismissed the proposed “deal” as bad-faith bargaining, mentioning the Republicans have been demanding “poison pill” radical adjustments to our asylum and immigration insurance policies and border safety with out being keen to have interaction in any kind of dialogue about precise reform of our damaged methods.
And damaged they’re. The final profitable try at complete immigration reform, The Immigration Reform and Management Act (IRCA or Simpson–Mazzoli), occurred in 1986. Ever since then, Republicans have opposed or obstructed each good-faith effort by Democrats to provide you with a bipartisan resolution to the disaster on our southern border. And, sure, it’s a disaster.
Republicans don’t need a resolution as a result of having a border disaster involving brown-skinned individuals works out rather well for them, because it has for rightwing governments all the world over.
Earlier than I’m going on, I simply completed this redo of a submit on immigration into the US, who makes it, and who’s rejected. What the Republican mouth items are quoting just isn’t true. My submit and the graphs depict fairly the alternative of what Republicans declare to be an open border. For instance Border enforcement . . .
US Immigration: How many individuals are coming to the US and the place are they coming from? Offended Bear, by USA Info graph.
And unlawful immigrant enforcement . . .
US Immigration: How many individuals are coming to the US and the place are they coming from? Offended Bear, by USA Info graph.
Prior to now such rhetoric labored with the plenty and it’s working within the US. The borders usually are not as open because the Republicans are claiming (see their feedback beneath). However does a false rhetoric give the impression there are bigger than realities points on the border? It seems in order many individuals imagine the Republican noise on immigration.
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Viktor Orbán rose to energy as Hungary’s “soft fascism” dictator by pointing to the brown-skinned Syrian refugees who have been fleeing Putin’s bombing of that nation. He was promising to “build a wall” alongside Hungary’s southern border to maintain them out; it’s a promise he has saved.
Throughout the remainder of Europe, rightwing events are doing as Trump and Orbán did and pointing to brown-skinned immigrants as the biggest and most speedy menace to the “blood and soil” of their nations. They embody the neofascist Brothers of Italy (which now runs that nation) and the Lega get together, the Swiss Folks’s Social gathering (Switzerland’s largest), the Finns Social gathering in Finland, the Nationwide Rally (previously the Nationwide Entrance) within the Netherlands, Different for Deutschland (AfD) in Germany, the United Kingdom Independence Social gathering within the UK, and the Freedom Social gathering in Austria.
In an obvious homage to Ron DeSantis’ transport asylum-seekers to Martha’s Winery and New York, Russian President Putin has been sending brown-skinned immigrants to the Finnish border in such numbers that the Finns have been compelled to shut all of the border crossings they share with Russia (an 832-mile-long stretch).
Russia is seemingly now enjoying the function of human traffickers, serving to these refugees from Kenya, Morocco, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen discover unmonitored locations alongside the border the place they’ll sneak throughout, accurately believing {that a} flood of refugees will politically upset Finland and assist out the pro-Putin rightwing events there.
On this facet of the Atlantic, the problem of the browning of America has been panicking white supremacists for the reason that Reagan administration, when the change to our immigration legal guidelines in 1965 with the Hart-Cellar Act — which ended racial immigration quotas going again to 1921 that have been designed to maintain America white — was changing into apparent. The problem to many?
In 1960, 84 % of all immigrants to the US have been white, because the 1921 legislation required. By 2017, solely 13.2 % of immigrants have been white.
Ought to it then shock anyone that the white supremacists making up the bottom of the GOP are flipping out about immigration? Or that Republican politicians would know this and hammer it at each alternative, whereas refusing to take part in any actual options as a result of the “border crisis” works to their political benefit? The Republican marketed political impression . . .
That is, in any case, foundational to the “great replacement theory” Trump, Alex Jones, David Duke, and a number of Republican politicians have been endorsing ever since “very fine people” have been chanting “Jews will not replace us [with Black or Hispanic people]” in Charlottesville.
Republican rhetoric on the problem has turn out to be is so predictable up to now, Richard Haas, usually an inexpensive voice on international coverage points, needed to be corrected on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS present when he stated Democrats favor an “open border policy.”
Certainly, it’s Libertarians who imagine all nations ought to have open borders, or that extra immigrants coming to America is an effective factor as a result of it will increase the provision of low-wage labor. Labor, companies so love. For instance, Rand Paul has sponsored laws rising immigration to the US.
However that hasn’t stopped Republicans from inviting as many individuals as attainable to return to America, by proclaiming
the US border is “wide open”
due to Democratic Social gathering insurance policies. Or, so they are saying.
Whereas no elected Democrat I can discover has ever referred to as for “open borders,” Republicans maintain saying Democrats are for open borders, Democrats have gotten their method, and the southern border is now large open.
Thus, it’s true two elements have pushed a whole lot of migration over the previous few many years (local weather change wiping out farmland, and political dysfunction and gangs attributable to the Reagan administration illegally devastating the governments of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala). The primary driver of would-be immigrants and refugees at present is the Republican Events propaganda itself.
Missing any precise, substantive financial points to run on, the GOP has determined to fall again on a well-recognized ploy. Scare white those who the brown persons are coming for them and/or their jobs. Again within the Nineteen Fifties and Sixties, I keep in mind nicely how the GOP’s pitch to white individuals was Black individuals wished “our” jobs. Now it’s brown individuals from south of the border.
Trump did this in probably the most crude, vulgar, and racist method attainable from his first entrance into the Republican main via the top of his presidency and to at the present time. It frightened sufficient white voters, it obtained him into workplace as soon as. The GOP is hoping they’ll repeat that trick in 2024.
In doing so, they’re enjoying with fireplace. Their lies about American insurance policies are inflicting refugees to place their lives and their households at risk.
The reality is that Joe Biden by no means “opened” our southern border. “Open borders” have by no means been his coverage or the Democratic Social gathering’s coverage or, certainly, the coverage of any elected Democrat or Democratic strategist in post-1921 American historical past. And the above graphs present proof of border restrictions.
All people understands and agrees that for a rustic to operate it should regulate immigration, and its borders should have an inexpensive degree of integrity. All people. However you’d by no means know that from watching Fox “News” or listening to rightwing podcasts or hate radio every time there’s a Democrat within the White Home.
Republicans are enjoying a really harmful recreation right here. By loudly proclaiming “their” lie that Biden has “opened” the southern border and is “welcoming” immigrants and refugees “with open arms.” They’re creating the very drawback they’re pointing to.
Simply google “open border” and “congressman,” “congresswoman,” or “senator” and also you’ll get an inventory of Republican politicians too lengthy to print. These are the quotes that coyotes — human smugglers — print out and distribute to determined individuals in Central and South America as commercials to get individuals to commerce their lives’ financial savings for transportation to the Rio Grande.
On the high of the checklist claiming open borders, you’ll discover the Republican demagogues:
— Ted Cruz needs all people south of our border to know that the “Biden Open Border Policy [is] A Very Craven Political Decision”;
— Rick Scott needs all people to know that “Americans Don’t Want [Biden’s] Open Borders”;
— Marco Rubio says there’s “Nothing Compassionate About Biden’s Open Border Policies”;
— Rand Paul is so excessive he tells us Senator Rubio “is the one for an open border”;
— Josh Hawley says “Biden’s Open Border Policy Has Created a Moral Crisis”;
— Tom Cotton “Insists the Border is Wide Open”;
— Ron Johnson needs the world to know that “Our National Security is at Risk Because Democrats have Turned Border Security into a Partisan Issue”;
— Marjorie Taylor Greene “BLASTS Open Border Hypocrites”;
— Mo Brooks opposes “Socialist Democrats’ Open Border Policies for Helping Kill Americans”;
— Lauren Boebert says the “Root Cause” of the open border disaster “is in the White House”;
— Matt Gaetz “revealed a complex and deceitful agenda by Joe Biden’s Democrat administration to evade our Southern Border law enforcement”;
— Health club Jordan says “Biden’s Deliberate Support of Illegal Immigration Could Lead to Impeachment”;
— Kevin McCarthy says the Biden Administration has “Utterly Failed” to safe the “open border”;
— Elise Stefanik proclaims “Biden’s Open Border Policies have been a Complete Disaster.”
— Tom Cole’s web site options “Biden’s Open Border America”;
— Bob Goode brags about introducing laws named the “Close Biden’s Open Border Act”;
— John Rose “Calls Out Biden’s Open Border Policies”;
— Paul Gosar claims Biden is “Destroying America with His Open Border Policies”;
— Roger Williams complains in regards to the “Democrats’ Open Border Problem”;
— Tom Cole needs the world to know that Biden’s “open border policies have given the green light to migrants and bad actors from around the world…”;
— Gus Bilirakis “Denounces Dangerous Open Border Policies on the House Floor”;
“Should Democrats Trade the Southern Border for Ukraine?” February 2024, Offended Bear
No commerce. Democrats ought to be answering Republicans and trump with the reality about borders. It’s obvious.
