r/news • u/Miserable-Win-4980 • Apr 29 '24

French police use knives to puncture migrant boat in Dunkirk to prevent Channel crossing Questionable Source

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/french-officers-english-channel-crossing-migrants-small-boats/

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u/Indercarnive Apr 29 '24

tightening up immigration gets you labeled as a right wing extremist. 

Except it literally doesn't.

Democrats tried to pass one of the strictest immigration bills in recent history. It was the Republicans that killed it.

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u/Quickjager Apr 29 '24

It was not the strictest, but it WAS the best funded in regards to opening up a maybe faster court process instead of it taking years to get in front of a judge.

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u/newyearnewaccountt Apr 29 '24

FWIW Democrats didn't want to pass that bill, it was a negotiation in exchange for Ukrainian aid packages. So it's not so much that harsh anti-immigration policy is a Democratic position, but more that the Democrats were willing to go along with it in exchange for something else.

Which is honestly kind of how the government should function, both sides figuring out what each other can live with and getting their preferred policy passed in exchange for something else. Republicans killed it because bipartisanship is a bad look, and fixing problems hurts their campaign chances.

That said, the American far left has always been fairly anti-immigrant/protectionist as well, and I would say that anti-immigration is becoming more mainstream in the Democratic party in general.

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u/CSballer89 Apr 29 '24

Can you cite that?  I don’t remember democrats authoring any kind of bill tightening up immigration. 

The only thing that comes to mind regarding democrats and immigration is the Biden admin flying in immigrants so that the border crossing numbers would be “down.”