Comments by "Hobbs" (@hobbso8508) on "Senator calls out GOP for 'chaos' over border bill" video.

  1. Nope. Simply closing the border solves nothing. Trump proved that when his closed border policy resulted in a massive surge of crossings in 2019. You need smart solutions not blunt force.
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  2.  @billc5433  More illegal crossings in the long run, duh.
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  3. Trump literally told them to not vote for it, after Republicans helped draft the initial bill.
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  4. ​ @ACTIONAUTO  I did. The alternative is just encouraging those people to cross elsewhere, making documenting them almost impossible.
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  5. Then why did crossings spike under Trump. Plus his disastrous child separation policy.
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  6. The ignorance from the right is worse.
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  7. It wouldn't help.
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  8.  @noturbizz1  Because crossings will happen anyway. Being able to document and process who is crossing is far better than running around a thousands of miles long border trying to find them.
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  9. Because it wouldn't fix the problem.
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  10. How can we enforce the border without funding that this bill provided? Also, Republicans literally helped write the bill they voted against.
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  11. Sounds good to me. I think what softheads like yourself fail to understand is that it's much better to have people crossing at a port of entry where we can document everyone crossing, rather than trying to police a 1,900 miles long border to catch those same people. It also authorises 18 billion for the border.
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  12. They helped write the bill.
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  13. ​ @aleksandrmelikov308  Ukraine fighting one of our biggest enemies is indeed a national security issue.
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  14. So we can just encourage people crossing hundreds of miles away from ports of entry? Can't wait to watch Congress authorise even more funding just to catch all those people rather than just processing them at a port of entry. Genius.
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  15. ​ @noturbizz1  Crossings spiked under Trump.
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  16. He was racist for his remarks, not for closing the border. Closing the border however is a blunt and ineffective solution to a complex issue. That's why this bill is able to address those issues effectively.
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  17.  @noturbizz1  So you think crossings are high now because the country is doing better?
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  18.  @noturbizz1  Biden has apprehended and deported far more than Trunp ever did. Closing the border won't stop illegal crossings, it will just make them more dangerous for people crossing, and more difficult to find and process migrants.
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  19.  @noturbizz1  1. You can't stop immigration. By "closing the border" all you really do in create a very expensive physical border that people just find a way around, like with ladders et cetera. 2. Those 10 million people would be far easier to process if they had been catalogued on their way into the country, such as through a port of entry, where they can be processed properly. 3. Biden's "open border" has apprehended, deported and returned more migrants than Trump ever did, meanwhile who knows how many crossed miles away from ports of entry and we will never have any record of during Trump's administration.
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  20.  @Buckshot530  Becauae if you look at the full context of Biden's comments you'll see that he was against bussing specifically because he didn't feel it went far enough, and his point on a "racial jungle" was that he wanted to end the remnants of segregation by creating affordable housing in higher income areas for poorer black families to live in, both solving the issue of school funding and allowing for integration of historically black and white communities. That didn't happen, and we continue to have predominantly black and predominantly white areas in towns across America continuing to stoke racial tensions and failing to solve school funding issues.
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  21.  @noturbizz1  Deportations and returns are at an all time high. The ability to actively catalogue and process migrants is vastly superior to losing them in the system.
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  22.  @Buckshot530  Biden's remarks were about the temporary and ineffective solutions of bussing in ending racial school funding disparities, and he instead proposed integration through low-income housing in traditionally richer white communities. He was concerned that schools would continue to be racially divided by both income and location without such a solution. He was right.
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  23.  @Buckshot530  His position and his full speech is there for you to go watch.
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  24.  @Buckshot530  "We have a fundamental disagreement, you and I, I suspect, as to what is needed to insure we do have orderly integration of society. I am not just talking about education, but all of society. I do not know your total position. Mr. Taylor has stated his, as have others. I am anxious to hear from Mr. Flemming of the US Commission of Human Rights. Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions being built so high that it is going to explode at some point. We have got to make a move on this. You say I am throwing the brick. I am not as good at analogies and homilies as all of you are, but I think pushing busing in a way in which it goes beyond the constitutional mandates is like throwing a bus through the civil rights window. I think it has repercussions that are extensive in terms of the ultimate objective of seeing that we get integrated neighborhoods, of seeing that we eventually eliminate job discrimination, of seeing that we change housing patterns, of seeing alterations of the tax structure." He goes on and on, but you get the point. He was pro-integration.
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  25. It does a lot to secure the border actually.
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  26. How will 18 billion for the border help the border?
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  27. You need 60 votes in the Senate.
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  28. ​ @aztecadog  They did that here. Republicans helped draft this bill, then reversed their stance when the vote came.
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  29. ​ @ACTIONAUTO  Then why did illegal crossing spike in 2019?
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  30. That's what they tried to do, GOP blocked them.
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  31. Yet Republicans voted against the bill
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