Hey I agree and I've advocated for those measures. But I'm also merely operating in the current landscape where places with more progressive policies are having a lot of financial issues (NYC and Chicago stand out) and they require more federal funding that they won’t get with the current/incoming legislature/potus.
So I see it like I think you do, I don’t think there’s an appetite to fund Trumps ambitions (surprise) nor desire to fund progressive programs either.
I agree with you. I also agree we should fund the required numbers of judges etc to get the process back into the 180 days it’s supposed to be.
I also agree that we shouldn’t deport people prior to their hearing in most circumstances.
But I think we can agree on two things at play here:
1.) republicans want the system broken
2.) republican donors will benefit from government funds to private prisons for these detentions
And 1 and 2 are the drivers, not any genuine concern about actually improving nor fixing the system.
Circling back to a point I was touching on earlier— I just don’t see Dems blocking this in the senate particularly with the election results and an overall effort to change their perception on the border.
If republicans didn’t block the previous bill we wouldn’t be here and since I haven’t heard calls to block this in favor of that bill, the only realistic end goals I see is making changes to the bill to sure up some of the lawlessness in the original bill.
