Trumps Presidency 2025

[GalagaGuy]

Last I checked, I'm not a Republican so it must be more than a talking point from the cult.   

[pfife]

not a republican but choose to come here and cheerlead their most wretched policy 

[pfife]

..... and choosing to come here and blame 2009 Democrats for 2025 Republican policies that you're vocally supporting

[GalagaGuy]

5 minutes ago, pfife said:

not a republican but choose to come here and cheerlead their most wretched policy 

It's not hard to follow immigration laws.  I've managed to go my entire life without being in a country illegally.  

[pfife]

so easy a republican can do it

[pfife]

it still sucks after all these years we're stuck with this crap (that magalagaguy supports) when we could have had taco trucks on every corner

[GalagaGuy]

1 minute ago, pfife said:

it still sucks after all these years we're stuck with this crap (that magalagaguy supports) when we could have had taco trucks on every corner

You should go to bed, it's late and you're not making any sense.   Don't worry, there will be plenty of illegals for you to whine about tomorrow.  

[pfife]

1 minute ago, GalagaGuy said:

You should go to bed, it's late and you're not making any sense.   Don't worry, there will be plenty of illegals for you to whine about tomorrow.  

You voted for the worst border czar ever. Obviously  you're open borders and also a hypocrite 

[pfife]

2009 magagalaguy should havs stopped 2024 magalagagagagaguy from voting for open borders

[GalagaGuy]

Senior citizen acting like a mad teenager.....lol

[pfife]

Says the open borders voter acting like a mad republican 

[Motown Bombers]

7 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

I've met enough people in a liberal outpost like A^2 who support open borders to tell you they are out there and as long as they drive perceptions....

There has always been a gulf between the functional governing Dem party and the public perception of it - that is maybe the Dems single biggest problem.

Because Ann Arbor is the base of the Democratic Party. 

[CMRivdogs]

7 hours ago, GalagaGuy said:

Last I checked, I'm not a Republican so it must be more than a talking point from the cult.   

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck.,..

[CMRivdogs]

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-collapse-of-bipartisan-immigration-reform-a-guide-for-the-perplexed/

The easiest explanation is that Republicans in both the House and Senate yielded to objections from their all-but-certain presidential nominee, former president Donald Trump. Once the House Speaker stated publicly that he would not allow the Senate bill to reach the House floor for a vote, Republican senators were unwilling to run the political risk of supporting a measure that would not become law.

However, there are deeper reasons for the deadlock over immigration. The last comprehensive immigration reform was enacted almost four decades ago, during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. This bill represented a grand bargain between elected officials who sought to extend legal protection to millions of migrants who had entered the U.S. illegally and officials who were most concerned about stemming the flow of such migrants. The bill accomplished the former but had no discernible impact on the latter, leading many conservatives to denounce it as an “amnesty” bill.

Edited 10 hours ago by CMRivdogs

[chasfh]

What even is “open borders”? If open borders is EU-style walk from one country into another without being required to go through customs or a passport/visa check, then we definitely do not have open borders.

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

former but had no discernible impact on the latter, leading many conservatives to denounce it as an “amnesty” bill.

again, because powerful economic interests didn't want a discernible impact on the latter. They want cheap labor.

[Sports_Freak]

Cutting Medicare and Medicaid and claiming only cutting fraud and abuse? Causing the poor to suffer? He's adding to the swamp, how many millions of $$ was the kickback he received? 

[oblong]

My wife is not reactionary and in the medical field with old peoole.  She thinks he has congestive heart failure. 

[LaceyLou]

8 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-collapse-of-bipartisan-immigration-reform-a-guide-for-the-perplexed/

The easiest explanation is that Republicans in both the House and Senate yielded to objections from their all-but-certain presidential nominee, former president Donald Trump. Once the House Speaker stated publicly that he would not allow the Senate bill to reach the House floor for a vote, Republican senators were unwilling to run the political risk of supporting a measure that would not become law.

However, there are deeper reasons for the deadlock over immigration. The last comprehensive immigration reform was enacted almost four decades ago, during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. This bill represented a grand bargain between elected officials who sought to extend legal protection to millions of migrants who had entered the U.S. illegally and officials who were most concerned about stemming the flow of such migrants. The bill accomplished the former but had no discernible impact on the latter, leading many conservatives to denounce it as an “amnesty” bill.

Truth is, a lot of the programs that might help stem the flow of poor migrants, like the Peace Corps and/or USAID programs, are ones that the current regime has cut to the bone. Seems as though the best way to help with the issue is to work with the countries to help combat poverty (for example). 

The cynical side of me is that many of the extreme Republicans secretly want the borders open, not only for cheap labor but so they can continue to use it to rile up their voters.