Why repubs don't care about policy?

@wildgrass said
You wrote that Republicans were in favor of tighter border security. Nothing about their actions supports this statement.

Republicans in Congress have constitutional authority to regulate immigration and they've chosen not to. You blame democrats but it's Republicans who were voted in and have authority to do it. They've had this authority for the bulk of the past 20 years.

Why don't they? Are they incompetent? Why do we keep voting for them?

@sonhouse said
@AverageJoe1
Funny, I didn't see a response to my post about the last immigration law to be passed in an election year was NINE YEARS AGO.
So where were your buddies in congress since then? Trump couldn't get it done when he WAS POTUS and OWNED both houses AND the WH.
And about that stupid wall, the wall was shown to be worthless to stop border crossing since a Lowe's sa ...[text shortened]... OT paying for it like your god king said they would. Did you forget THAT statement by your god king?

@AverageJoe1
Are you really that stupid you don't understand what Trump has to do with the wall?

AND using saws to cut through?



https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/smugglers-are-sawing-through-new-sections-of-trumps-border-wall/2019/11/01/25bf8ce0-fa72-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html

Also, here is the first 100 days of republican control of the house:

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2023/04/14/100-days-of-gop-rule--further-progress-required-

@averagejoe1 said
Comprehensive Immigration Reform seems to be higher on their list of things to do, when Average Joe wants a wall and a total stopping of the invasion. Are they sidetracked instead of dealing with the one issue? To send them back home where they belong to fix their own country??
You got me. I have googled it and no one deals with that direct question. Man, do I hat ...[text shortened]... as you do. They are giving away our country. Giving it away. Next you will see signs in Spanish.

@sonhouse said
@AverageJoe1
Are you really that stupid you don't understand what Trump has to do with the wall?

AND using saws to cut through?



https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/smugglers-are-sawing-through-new-sections-of-trumps-border-wall/2019/11/01/25bf8ce0-fa72-11e9-ac8c-8eced29ca6ef_story.html

Also, here is the first 100 days of republican control of the house:

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@wildgrass said
CONGRESS REGULATES IMMIGRATION. IF ITS NOT WORKING RIGHT THEN ITS THEIR JOB TO FIX IT.

jeez. Do your jobs! Idiots.

JJ you are an excuse machine.

@jj-adams said
It's the president's job to enforce the laws congress passes. Congress doesn't have any kind of ability to police the laws they pass, the president does.
Article two of the constitution clearly states it.:
"The president must "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." This clause in the Constitution imposes a duty on the president to enforce the laws of the United S ...[text shortened]... .
We don't need new immigration laws, we just need the senile old fool to enforce the ones we have.

@jj-adams said
It's the president's job to enforce the laws congress passes. Congress doesn't have any kind of ability to police the laws they pass, the president does.
Article two of the constitution clearly states it.:
"The president must "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." This clause in the Constitution imposes a duty on the president to enforce the laws of the United S ...[text shortened]... .
We don't need new immigration laws, we just need the senile old fool to enforce the ones we have.

@wildgrass said
What law are you referring to? Dude we have an invasion on our hands. The border is overwhelmed (it has been that way since before Biden) and yet Congress has not passed any regulation to address it for a decade.

Dude.

Joe posted the link. There's a bill to fund the wall. Has not gone anywhere. They don't care.

@jj-adams said
These laws, there's about a hundred of them, how many more do you want?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_immigration_laws

There are people in the world who just complain, and there are people who do stuff. Republicans are the wrong kind of people.

@averagejoe1 said
wildgrass and friends fail to recognize the nuts and bolts..........The president of the country, if he wants to log timber in Yellowstone Park, he would go to the congress and ask them to pass a bill to do so. "Put it on my desk and I will sign it!!" You have heard that phrase, before ........right??
So, it follows that if Biden wants to stop the border crisi ...[text shortened]... ses of the world, fell free to tie Trump into this scenario , I am dying to see how THAT would read.

@mchill
I think it goes deeper than what they want. I think they just don't give a rats ass about common folk and only interested in how much power they can suck out of the system, as taught by Trump.

@JJ-Adams
It would be way above your paygrade to do something that solves the root problem, gangs in those countries with their citizens seeking asylum, helping out with those countries financial problems would go a long way to slow down the rush to our border but that would be above the ability of magites to even contemplate much less give them a penny.

@averagejoe1 said
I believe that a Wall would stop the invasion. We disagree. I don't get your reference to Trump, though, I see you mention his name.