The courts will likely shut much of the EO down, as they have in the past. Pres Biden was forced to make this decision bc of Republicans' threats, disinformation & demands. Political expediency took precedent.
Biden’s migrant order is recipe for chaos at US border: ‘It will only cause suffering’. "In the 40 years since the US created its asylum system, no other Democrat suspended people’s ability to seek refuge in the US – an international right."
It is fundamentally ludicrous when U.S. citizens turn against #immigration. Unless you're 100% Native American, your existence depends upon immigrant ancestors.
Would you have told them to go back where they came from? Called them “scum of the earth?”
Our immigrant ancestors persevered to give us a future in the U.S. Not so that we could turn around and tell others like them that we’re all full up.
Will President Joe Biden’s new border measures be enough to change voters’ minds?
AP reports: "Polls have found immigration and border security to be a top issue this election year and one that has been seized on by former President Donald Trump and his campaign."
Orange Felon 34’s lies about immigration as the cause of violent crime in the U.S. is, surprise, surprise NOT TRUE AT ALL. @NBCNews analysis of some 2024 crime data reveals that cities received the most undocumented people have overall crime DROPPING. https://tinyurl.com/yck3hupm
Biden's new executive order will "bar migrants from being granted asylum when US officials deem that the southern border is overwhelmed [including right now]... migrants who arrive here but do not express fear of returning to their home countries will be subject to immediate removal from the US, within days or even hours. Those migrants would face punishments that could include a five-year bar from reentering the US, as well as potential criminal prosecution" https://apnews.com/article/biden-asylum-migration-immigration-mexico-border-dec5f83b468b5795479bf1f5e49799d5 #immigration
If voters pass the #border enforcement measure in Nov, it would mark a sharp U-turn for a state that has moderated its approach to immigration since an era when Sheriff #JoeArpaio of Maricopa County carried out #raids & traffic stops that critics criticized as #RacialProfiling. not just critics, his policies were [#cruel & #unconstitutional]
Opponents say the #Arizona ballot measure will do nothing to improve #border#security or prevent #asylum seekers from arriving. Instead, they say, it will replicate the paranoia & turmoil that #Latino & #immigrant communities experienced after Gov #JanBrewer signed #SB1070, a divisive state #immigration-enforcement #law passed by #Republicans in 2010 that came to be known as the “show me your papers law.” That law sparked years of protests & litigation, & has since been partially struck down.
The difference in #Arizona is that the fight is playing out not in a solidly #RedState, but in a closely divided battleground. #Political experts say the #immigration enforcement measure could have unpredictable ripple effects on races for president & for control of the #UnitedStates#Senate.
On Tues, the AZ House, which is under #Republican control, is expected to give the proposal final approval for the ballot.
…AZ’s pop is 32% #Latino, & many voters still have searing memories of #SB1070.
Today’s the anniversary of one of the darkest moments in US immigration history, the day that the MS St. Louis, a ship full of German Jewish refugees, was turned back to Germany from Miami. Hundreds of the passengers were killed in Hitler’s death camps.
Today, Joe #Biden blocks asylum seekers from the US
#EU#BorderControl#Bulgaria#Immigration#HumanRights: "The official Independent Monitoring Mechanism in Bulgaria - established between the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, the UNHCR and the Bulgarian Border Police in 2010 - reported 5,268 pushbacks in 2022, affecting 87,467 people, and 9,897 alleged pushbacks in 2023, affecting 174,588 persons.
This was, for the second time, almost a doubling of the figures reported the previous year. Indeed, a recent investigation by a coalition of media outlets revealed violent pushbacks are an “open secret” in Bulgaria.
Strikingly, the Bulgarian authorities continue to deny that these figures are the result of pushbacks. They claim these statistics merely cover "preventions of entry" as a result of increased border surveillance in Turkey."
"Keir Starmer said the net migration figure of 685,000 has ‘got to come down’"
FFS
It makes no sense, especially using those figures, which include foreign students, a huge source of national income. And we need more migrants, not fewer, to do the work that the very people who vote for fewer immigrants won't or can't do.
If he thinks he's going to attract right wing anti-immigration headbangers, they're already voting Reform.
How come #NigelFarage gets to turn up out of nowhere and decree that this is now “the immigration election”‽
Ordinary voter here, and I don’t give a tinker’s toss about #immigration. I’d much prefer this to be “the climate change election”, please. If you agree, give this a RT. ♻️