The move, expected on Tuesday, would allow the president to temporarily seal the border and suspend longtime protections for asylum seekers in the United States.

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President Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday allowing him to temporarily seal the U.S. border with Mexico to migrants when crossings surge, a move that would suspend longtime protections for asylum seekers in the United States.

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The order would represent the single most restrictive border policy instituted by Mr. Biden, or any modern Democrat, and echoes a 2018 effort by President Donald J. Trump to block migration that was assailed by Democrats and blocked by federal courts.

  • Droplet [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    29 days ago

    I don’t think you (and to be fair, quite a lot of people) are aware of the extent to which the European economy has been devastated since 2022. That was the whole point of starting a war in Ukraine.

    Just like in the early 20th century, it is only a matter of time before desperate people start to flee from economic despair, fascism and war and came all the way to America, risking and leaving everything behind with the hopes of starting a new life.

    America might be bad, but it would be even worse in Europe.

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      28 days ago

      The EU is definitely suffering but please remember that EU social democracy to the extent it still exists, far exceeds the working class privileges of the regular American. It would be a joke to even compare the two. To suggest Europeans are suddenly going to migrate to the US is to ignore American’s own cost of life crisis, don’t we get people constantly complaining about rent and stuff here on HB? Most are not European you know.

      Everything from healthcare, housing and education is still far far more expensive overall in the US than the major EU countries and again, while we can argue whether some German IT guy would work in California/Texas that IT guy is not ever going to be working in a McDonalds in Atlanta or Michigan unless Berlin is firebombed again.

      There is no disagreement that EU economy is not going well, but keeping perspective in mind we are talking about neoliberal mainstream economic terms most of the time, GDP stagnation doesn’t mean a G7 country is suddenly in the same material conditions as some African country overnight.