Vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris rallied thousands of supporters in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday, where she defended her support for harsher immigration and border enforcement policies. Harris compared her record to Donald Trump’s and blamed the Republican presidential nominee for tanking a bipartisan bill that would have further militarized the southern border. Vice President Kamala Harris: “Our administration worked on the most significant border security bill in decades. Some of the most conservative Republicans in Washington, D.C., supported the bill. Even the Border Patrol endorsed it. It was all set to pass, but at the last minute, Trump directed his allies in the Senate to vote it down.” Supporters: “Boo!”  Vice President Kamala Harris: “Right.” Harris has touted recent endorsements by more than a dozen mayors in Arizona, a border state, including that of Republican John Giles of Mesa, who praised Harris’ backing of the failed bipartisan bill. Immigration advocates say the legislation would have further eroded the rights of asylum seekers.
  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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    11 个月前

    Decreasing the funding will make things worse

    Increasing funding for rounding those people up and putting them in more cages will make things worse.

    This isn’t funding for judges, it’s funding for the whole system. You can fund judges without funding the expansion of the camps.

    • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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      11 个月前

      Yes yes, let’s underfund the prisons, instead of anything to directly reduce the amount of people going into them

      What could go wrong, what’s the worst that could happen

      • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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        11 个月前

        This is not reducing the number of people going into the prisons, it is funding the guys who round them up.

        I would have a very different take if this funded judges instead of US marshals and ICE agents.