Democrats Clash Over Move to Add Asylum Changes to War Funding Bill
Democrats Clash Over Move to Add Asylum Changes to War Funding Bill
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Democrats Clash Over Move to Add Asylum Changes to War Funding Bill
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In principle, what this means is that if you're queer and there's a country that you are fleeing from because they want to kill you to come to America where it is, at least, legal to be queer (for now)- fuck you. You're going back to die.
The thing almost nobody wants to say that's driving this (imo) - the ruling class sees the writing on the wall for global climate change and knows that lots of poor desperate people are going to be fleeing for their lives over the coming century, and their response is to tighten things down as much as possible so all those people die quietly away from the cameras
Well, of course not. What you'll do is come to America illegally because the legal method won't work.
It's just like how the GOP tries as hard as it can to maximize abortions by limiting access to contraceptives: this is an attempt to maximize illegal immigration by making legal immigration less and less of a real prospect. The GOP would much rather any immigrant be illegal than legal - e.g. because they can then pretend this problem is caused by Biden and use it in their rhetoric.
Of course, it can be argued that it's by design. Hiring undocumented immigrants at far below minimum wage makes companies money and they rarely get significantly penalized for it.
why cant they seek refuge in Mexico? several friends of mine (that are gay) moved down there for that reason. one of them got his Mexican citizenship after 8 years or so just a few months ago. he sure looks a lot happier on his fb posts.