Disclaimer: I grabbed that off of Reddit. I wasn’t able to find that specific post on Elmo’s Twitter feed, but there’s enough other great replacement / racist / xenophobic dreck among his recent traffic that I strongly suspect the image is real.
“The truth is, when you’ve got the situation we have with wide open borders under Biden and Mayorkas.."
Fck, Biden is still president?
But when you have control of the federal government, why pass a bill that fixes the problem when you can kick the can down the road slightly differently?
I have to say, both sides are bad on immigration in different ways. But immigration has been a problem issue since before the Reagan Immigration Amnesty of 1986 and both sides have had super majorities since then and done virtually nothing on the issue but kick it down the road for as long as I can remeber.
And yes if this is #1 issue for Republicans right now they do have the house, senate and Presidency so they sort of can implement what they want if they can get their ducks in a row with their narrow margins. If they are right, and “solve” immigration you’d think they would do well come the next election.
But neither party seems to want to force the “solve” issue for fear of backlash if it doesn’t “solve” the problem.
Real problem is that solutions “solve” the issue for some voters, but make things worse for other voters (voters with families, or voters with threatened jobs), and any politician with only a 5% edge ain’t doing shit to fix it.
Republicans have shown little interest in governing since I became eligible to vote. They will pass on doing anything again this time, just like repeal and replace. Their entire policy is based on doing nothing, on owning nothing, to be accountable for nothing. That way they can use the same arguments again next election. Immigration. Obamacare. Deficit.