I'm interested in the immigration conversation. I'm also wary of putting this issue in the 'Biden-Harris Administration Thread' because the complexities and disfunction (dysfunction???) of our immigration policies have a long history. For this thread, my preference is we comment on Biden's policies. I'll put a couple of articles here, to that end.
We haven't had new immigration policy since ... some time in the 1990s. That's across 3 republican administrations, 3 democratic administrations. I don't favor going back to the t----ian era, where cruelty was the point and real damage was done to children, torn from their parents. Since we're heading back into a presidential election season in only a few months' time, I favor taking care in remembering what we're implicitly comparing in our denigration of Biden's policy.
Over Decades, Congress Failed Repeatedly to Address Immigration Dysfunction [NYTimes; 5.14.23]
So, rather than discussing the topic of immigration here, I'm heading over to the 'hodgepodge' thread or have we created an immigration thread? The NYTimes has a feature on immigration right now. Unfortunately, I'm running out of '10 gift articles per month'.
Here's a press briefing from the Biden Administration, 5.11.2023, on the topic of immigration and the end of Title 42 (the device the T---- admin used to turn people away at the border during the covid crisis):
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre And Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas [The White House;5.11.23]
Here's a bit of perspective on measures Biden has chosen when confronted with difficult realities.
Biden Said He'd Veer From Trump on Immigration. The Reality Is More Complicated. [NYTimes;5.8.23]
I'd also say, I have reservations about NY Times coverage, especially when it comes to politics. They have some great reporting and they're also prone to the many failures of political coverage in this fraught time we're living in.
