Biden’s ultimatum: under what conditions will the US Congress approve funding for Ukraine

by D-R-AZ

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  1. Excerpt:

    Border of discord

    What concessions the Republicans demand from the Joe Biden administration?

    First of all, steps to strengthen control over the 3145-kilometer US border with Mexico.

    The problem of the southern border haunts the Biden administration not the first month. And it worsens!

    In particular, between September 2022 and 2023, the number of asylum seekers on the southern border increased to almost 2.5 million people, which is a record in recent years.

    Thousands or even more than ten thousand illegal migrants arrive in the United States every day.

    In particular, in September 2023 they had a record more than 260 thousand.

    Temporary detention centers for arrivals at the border filled. There are no places in the accommodation centers of asylum seekers who have been allowed to enter the United States and are waiting for permission to legalize, in the states – primarily led by Democrats. Which are also not ashamed. відкрито критикувати Білий дім за це.

    The Joe Biden administration has decided to fight the surge in migration on the border with Mexico on two tracks.

    The first is to increase measures against illegal migrants, in particular to increase the number of border guards and migrant workers at the border, as well as renewal of deportations arrived from some countries.

    Biden in October even allowed construction of a wall on the border in Texas – part of the same “Trump wall” that the Democratic president froze in 2021 due to “inefficiency”. And such inconsistency was swept by both Trump and the Democrats.

    The second track is to expand the ways for asylum seekers in the United States to do so legally. The idea of the Biden administration is that migration is growing globally, and it is impossible to stop it by deporting or closing the border – but it is possible to make this process more orderly.

    For example, by arranging more accommodation for migrants in Mexico itself.

    What Republicans say? Democrats are accused of announcing an “open border” policy between the United States and Mexico.

    They believe that the Democrats’ proposal to address the root causes of migration to the United States does not work immediately and is more expensive. And it is necessary to simply limit the possibility of crossing the border in principle.

    In part, Republicans are really right. Migrants on the border with Mexico confess journalists, waiting for approval of permission to enter the United States is a very long time, and so many choose a faster and riskier way – to try to cross the border illegally and hope that everything will work out.

    Instead, Republicans are proposing to make it difficult for migrants to enter the United States.

    To do this, it is proposed to raise the threshold of the so-called “plausible fear” (credible Fear) that asylum seekers at home are in danger.

    Second, limit the use by the Biden administration of humanitarian exceptions (humanitarian parole), which allow the temporary admission of arrivals from individual countries with an unstable security situation in the United States.

    In short, it is within the humanitarian parole that the United for Ukraine program also operates, which allows them to stay in the States for up to two years with the right to employment.

    According to Republicans, asylum seekers in the United States often use this scheme to gain the right to live temporarily and work in the country.

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    Kyiv has become a hostage to the southern border in the United States.

    Thus, the White House’s proposed additional funding package also contains almost billion to strengthen border security. This is both an increase in the number of border guards and migration workers, and funds for local authorities to keep newcomers, and to strengthen infrastructure at the border, and to combat smuggling.

    But Republicans are demanding not so much money as a revision of current US migration policy. Because, in their opinion, it is the Democrats and Biden who are to blame for the fact that in recent months asylum seekers have arrived at the border with Mexico in record numbers.

    As of now, the compromise on the migration issue depends on what prospects in the war against Russia Ukraine will enter in 2024. Whether it will be achieved in the coming days is a question that is still open.

  2. I don’t think it matters what concessions are made. The fascist Pootin cock suckers aka the Republican Party have decided to abandon Ukraine. My hope is that each and every one of them burn in Hell for this decision.

  3. None. You idiot.

    It’s a bait and switch, like they always do. Delaying it until it dies is the same as stopping it altogether.

    If you think you can negotiate with these FSB assets, you may be as stupid as they say you are.

    If actually winning this war is important to Biden, and he doesn’t want to be the 21st century Neville Chamberlain that failed to act to stop Hitler, then find a fucking way to get around these lying traitors.

    The vulgar talking yam would ram things through via dark arts and cheating. That’s who you’re dealing with – his lying lieutenant goblins who still take their orders from the Kremlin.

    Playing nice to try and frame this support as an election issue next year isn’t going to change the mind of anyone – people’s minds are already made up on Ukraine. It’s an act of faith for the GOP to oppose it and let Russia win. Stop bringing a banana to a gun fight.

    Find a way. Now.

  4. Rather than calling out these Republicans for what they are, traitors beholden to a foreign adversary, he’s asking what concessions they want to not be traitors.

    Weak and pathetic.

  5. I really don’t see why Biden doesn’t just ship the weapons the USA already has. If the Republicans don’t want to pay to have those weapons replaced, who gives a shit. The weapons were built for a purpose. Use them!

    Biden has already started using that approach with Israel. Start using it with Ukraine!

  6. I wonder, could Biden reintroduce the lend- lease deal?

    Does anyone here know?

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