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Trump’s immigration crackdown also targets legal pathways to enter US (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just as a fun little side note for all those people who were citing immigration as a reason not to vote for Kamala Harris:

The Biden administration’s approach was deeply flawed and often inhumane in so many aspects yet it now seems startlingly reasonable and compassionate by comparison. All of those legal pathways are in effect gone, at least for now – and their demise has left many thousands of people who followed US government guidance stranded, hopeless and in danger.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I think there's an argument to be made that with the way it was going we may have ended up in this ballpark either way. For Biden's time in office Democrats were flying rightward on immigration, just accepting the rightwing narrative and saying "yeah but we are hard on immigration too".

Ideally Democrats would learn from this election that it was the incorrect move, then shift more progressive accordingly, and I imagine some folks voted/didn't vote based on this hope. In truth I don't think they learned that and instead will continue to adopt ever more conservative positions, chasing the Republicans to the bottom.

I also don't think it's people who care about immigrants fault that trump won, nor is it productive to dunk on various demographics for holding to their morals or for being duped by poor education and siloed media. When/if we have another election and when/if we have to fight for one, we are going to need everyone who cares to be on board.