Dec 16, 2023

On GOP Fuckery - Immigration

  • In 2013 Dems passed a bi-partisan immigration reform bill in the Senate
  • House Republicans refused to allow it on the floor for debate
  • Obama asked Republicans to propose their own immigration bill
  • Republicans refused
  • Republicans then demanded Obama do something about illegal immigration
  • Obama used Executive Order authority to put some reforms in place
  • Republicans were outraged, and called Obama a tyrant for doing what they demanded of him
Republicans don't want immigration reform - or much of anything else - they want to maintain the problem so they have an "issue" they can use to scare the rubes and tell them who to blame for it.

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