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Meanwhile er hello, he's

artappraiser — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 02:22:23 +0000

In reply to Biden’s immigration bill lands on the Hill facing bleak odds (on purpose?)

Meanwhile er hello, he's doing executive orders:

Biden revokes Trump’s ban on new immigrants from abroad. https://t.co/WxDtm76L9S pic.twitter.com/3pDSiNONHi
— (((The Alex Nowrasteh))) (@AlexNowrasteh) February 24, 2021

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— (((The Alex Nowrasteh))) (@AlexNowrasteh) February 24, 2021

Trump’s exec orders cut new green cards by 90.5% compared to same period of Obama’s presidency. Biden just undid that.https://t.co/EXKuAWsNzC pic.twitter.com/hA2bjnGtyA
— (((The Alex Nowrasteh))) (@AlexNowrasteh) February 24, 2021

Our guns end up encouraging

artappraiser — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 04:20:49 +0000

In reply to Biden’s immigration bill lands on the Hill facing bleak odds (on purpose?)

Our guns end up encouraging migration: Slow the Iron River of Guns to Mexico

The Biden administration has an opportunity to stem illegal gun trafficking to Mexico and beyond.

By Ioan Grillo @ NYTimes.com, Feb, 11:00 a.m. ET

Mr. Grillo is a contributing opinion writer based in Mexico who has investigated drug trafficking, violence and organized crime in Latin America. He is the author of “Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels.”

MEXICO CITY — In 2008, the U.S. gun maker Colt, based in Hartford, Conn., produced a special edition .38 Super pistol that was engraved by a partner company with an image of the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. In 2017, an assassin used the weapon to shoot dead a prolific Mexican investigative journalist, Miroslava Breach, as she drove her son to school in the city of Chihuahua. It was a cruel irony: An American gun embellished with an image of a Mexican freedom fighter was used to silence Mexico’s freedom of speech.

Last August, Juan Carlos Moreno, a cartel enforcer, was sentenced to 50 years for his participation in the murder of Ms. Breach, and Hugo Amed Shultz, a former mayor from Chihuahua State, was later arrested over his suspected involvement in the killing. Mexico’s gun laws are so strict that in the entire country there is only one store, controlled by the Army, where citizens can legally purchase a gun. Yet a steady flow of guns smuggled south over the Rio Grande find their way into the hands of assassins. From 2007 to 2019, more than 164,000 firearms were seized from criminals here and were traced to gun shops and factories in the United States.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Mexico’s Foreign Ministry estimates that more than 2.5 million guns have flooded over America’s southern border in the last decade. In that time, Mexico has been gripped by violence that terrorizes communities and stifles the nation’s growth. Even the pandemic did little to curb the nation’s murder rate, with more than 34,000 homicides last year.

The Biden administration has a window of opportunity to reduce the traffic of guns to Mexico and beyond. Firearms that are smuggled from the United States make their way across the continent, to Mexico as well as to Central American nations, where violence has sent waves of migrants and refugees fleeing to the United States’ southern border [....]

‘Recipe for disaster’: Dem

artappraiser — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 23:56:37 +0000

In reply to Biden’s immigration bill lands on the Hill facing bleak odds (on purpose?)

‘Recipe for disaster’: Dem fears mount over immigration overhaul

“Biden is going to be dealing with a minority in Congress if he continues down some of these paths,” said one Democratic congressman.

By SABRINA RODRIGUEZ and MARC CAPUTO helpful analysis IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE STORY @ Politico.com, 02/18/2021 04:30 AM EST

Democrats in Texas and other states where immigration has been a lightning rod issue are growing increasingly uneasy that the White House is walking into a political buzz saw in its zeal to unwind hard-line Trump administration policies.

Biden has not yet implemented expansive policy changes. The vast majority of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border are still being turned away. Deportations are still taking place and there’s still no pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

But the softer rhetoric and modest changes announced so far by the Biden administration — such as admitting some migrants who have waited in Mexico for months and announcing he would halt deportations — raise the prospects of a new influx of migrants entering the country. There’s already an uptick in migrants heading to the border and some have crossed and been released in some communities already grappling with the pandemic, a strained health care system and high unemployment.

With the White House and Congress set to release a broad immigration reform bill Thursday, some lawmakers fear the party’s messaging and policy proposals are too much, too soon.

“The way we’re doing it right now is catastrophic and is a recipe for disaster in the middle of a pandemic,” said Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, one of the three Texas Democrats who represents part of the border most affected by spikes in migrant arrests and arrivals.

“Our party should be concerned. If we go off the rails, it’s going to be bad for us,” Gonzalez said. “Biden is going to be dealing with a minority in Congress if he continues down some of these paths.”

The worries are most acute along the Texas-Mexico border, which is ground zero for the decadeslong immigration debate. It’s also an increasingly contested battleground where Republicans are targeting three Democratic House incumbents who represent border districts.

Lawmakers there warn that the Biden administration isn’t going to stop a large number of migrants from entering the country simply by saying “now is not the time to come” — a repeated message in recent weeks — while they roll back former President Donald Trump’s policies. And any perceived crisis at the border could ultimately cost those Democrats’ their seats in 2022 [....]