Biden fails to dial back Trump's immigration enforcement as promised
Despite campaign promises, Biden hasn’t slowed down former President Trump’s "main engine of deportation."
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Despite campaign promises, Biden hasn’t slowed down former President Trump’s "main engine of deportation."
In their voter suppression and gerrymandering tactics and it puts into starker relief the need for the senate and house to act on comprehensive voting rights reform. chuck schumer announced they're going to vote on the freedom to vote act which is a compromised version that joe manchin says he's going to support. the question is, what are democrats, what is the biden administration going to do after that fails? are they going to press joe manchin and kiersten sinema to reconsider their position. i think frustrations are boiling over in the democratic party right now with the biden administrati...
Immigration advocates and the biden white house. last week dozens of advocates walked out of a virtual meeting, protesting biden's decision to maintain or resurrect trump's policies. one saying, quote, i can't stand one more meeting pretending they give us accolades. advocates and lawyers have long warned the policy increases the risk of migrants being raped, kidnapped and killed. then there's act used to deport haitians. these exist because the political will to reform america's immigration system does not. they have tried passing measures through the reconciliation process, but those efforts...
A lot of advocacy groups are suing to lift article 42. and now of course remain in mexico, which the biden administration has said they are only reimplementing because they were forced to do so by courts. but this culminates in a lot of frustration. it's not just advocates versus the administration. there's actually a real divide within the administration. we know of several dhs officials who have recently left who have told me, you know what? this is an administration at war with itself because it can't decide how progressive it wants to be when it comes to the border. >> one of the things th...
Going to be almost impossible to peel them back, and then democrats are going to, it's going to be easier for the republicans then to went back the house next year. what advice do you have for the legislators right now in the senate? >> my advice for the biden administration is brian, they have to treat this like the emergency that it is, like the existential threat to our democracy that it represents. a couple months back there was a report that said for the infrastructure package, that the administration had had 300 separate meetings with folks on the hill. i want to see the 300 meetings for...