The White House statement comes after a week of frantic negotiations in the Senate.

The White House statement comes after a week of frantic negotiations in the Senate.

President Joe Biden on Friday urged Congress to pass a bipartisan bill to address the immigration crisis at the nation’s southern border, saying he would shut down the border the day the bill became law.

“What’s been negotiated would — if passed into law — be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country,” Biden said in a statement. “It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.”

Biden’s Friday evening statement resembles a ramping up in rhetoric for the administration, placing the president philosophically in the camp arguing that the border may hit a point where closure is needed. The White House’s decision to have Biden weigh in also speaks to the delicate nature of the dealmaking, and the urgency facing his administration to take action on the border — particularly during an election year, when Republicans have used the issue to rally their base.

The president is also daring Republicans to reject the deal as it faces a make-or-break moment amid GOP fissures.

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      103·
      11 months ago

      Oh I don’t know…

      When you say you trust Putin’s word over the consensus of your own intelligence agencies, I’d argue enabling Russia’s genocide against Ukraine is one.

      When you buddy up with the North Korean leader, you’re at least endorsing the famine of their people.

      When you undermine peace deals with Iran, you undermine regional stability indirectly leading to further deaths both domestically and externally.

      … Though let’s not forget that neither the UN nor ICJ has formally ruled on genocide charges.

      And sure, let’s just pretend you’re not oversimplifying the situation in order to obviously wedge-drive all the while pretending Trump is some leader of global peace LOL.

      • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
        44·
        11 months ago

        So how many weapons did we send to ACTIVELY engage in genocide?

        Trump was a fucking horrible person but he was way too fucking inept of a moron to pull off anything big.

        Biden fucking tricked us all into thinking he was a fucking good guy.

        Hell he tricked me pretty good.

        • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
          35·
          11 months ago

          Not sure but a reminder that Trump directly killed more civilians from US air strikes in the year of 2017 than Obama and Biden, combined. So there’s that.

          Trump may or may not be a moron, but his cabinet was not. From Richard Spencer to Bill Barr to Pompeo to Homan – It was full of evil fucking psychopaths and if you’re unfamiliar with Project 2025 you best familiarize yourself with it. It’s no different than Bush Jr., and the neocons he was surrounded by.

          Biden is in a tricky spot that I do not envy. While it’s very pleasant to the brain to think in absolutes, there are major consequences to these decisions that can have major implications in the election ahead… Which again, we do not wish to hand the keys to someone who trusts the likes of Putin and kisses Netanyahu’s ass just the same.

          To Biden’s credit his tone has shifted significantly on Israel, going from lockstep support to publicly calling Israel’s attacks, “Indiscriminate Bombing.” He’s already denied them advanced military aid packages like Apache Helicopters, and has met with Netanyahu trying to force them to dial back the conflict. Calling it genocide publicly will do little substantively but to close the door to any diplomacy and influence Biden has with Netanyahu in the first place.

          • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
            34·
            11 months ago

            I am so grateful that he gave them slightly less weapons than they asked for.

            It sure cancels out all the ones he did

            • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
              23·
              11 months ago

              Yeah well, just you wait for what fellow right-wing nationalist Trump – who unlike Biden has not called for mitigating civilian casualties – will give him. And let’s not forget that Trump already vowed to not let any Palestinian refugees into America.

              But yes, please proceed with this totally good faith argument totally not rooted in blatant false equivalence.

              • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
                21·
                11 months ago

                Calling me right wing nationalist won’t work when everyone can look at my post history and see exactly when I changed from supporting him to hating him.

                It started with the railroad strike and completed when he enabled and supported the killing of thousands of innocent children and babies.

                Fuck him and his support of this bullshit, fuck Hamas for starting it, and hopefully Netanyahu and his crewwill suffer being the only survivors of anyone they care about and have to live with the loneliness and guilt of being the only survivor when everyone else is dead.

                Although he would probably just like it

                • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  13·
                  11 months ago

                  Relax, I wasn’t calling you a right wing nationalist, though you’re excelling as a useful wedge-driving pawn for said right-wingers. I was calling Netanyahu and Trump right-wing nationalists.

                  Welcome to the world of reality and gray areas where it’s probably more complicated than you care to comprehend. Be that as it may, Trump would undeniably be worse.

                  And no, it didn’t start with Hamas lol. Laughable ignorance to history to believe this war began on October 7th.

                  • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
                    12·
                    11 months ago

                    I am speaking solely of the latest outbreak.

                    No one can deny Hamas started this one, they might have a leg to stand on if they had only attacked military targets, or even if they had immediately released the children, babies, foreigners, elderly, and infirm.

                    Things can be hectic in an operation, see the Hannibal directive for more information, but they continued to use innocent people as pawns on a game board.

                    They started this round.