• Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 months ago

    The prime problem is that the immigration system is untouched by Congress for 33 years and largely operating on a framework dating to 1965. Democrats have offered compromise but Republicans say it doesn’t go far enough. Actually, they dont want to solve the problem as they wish to use it for the election year…

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      10 months ago

      ^ Correct. The Republican party revolves around the shell game of screaming as loudly as possible about issues they claim are going to imminently destroy society in order to whip their voters into a frenzy until they are damn near frothing at the mouth, all while they run out the back door with all the money that they are shoveling into the military industrial complex and the billionaire class.

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        And the crowning proof of the shell game is when Trump was president and they had controll of the House and Senate and couldn’t pass a border wall bill.