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RussBLib

(10,541 posts)
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 02:56 PM Tuesday

Interesting Cato doc from 2021 re Biden immigration

Biden’s Open Border!!!!!! It has become a standard go-to by the Guardians Of Pedophiles.

https://www.cato.org/blog/bidens-border-policy-not-open-borders

Snip

Practically since his first week in office, President Joe Biden has faced repeated criticisms from Republicans and some Democrats that his border policy amounts to “open borders.”This criticism is not simply inaccurate: it is unhinged from reality in a way that distinguishes itself from normal political hyperbole. Indeed, U.S. immigration policy is effectively closed borders, and Biden’s immigration policies and goals are largely the same as those of President Donald Trump.

President Biden has not suddenly ended America’s immigration prohibition and opened up U.S. borders to almost anyone who wants to come (as was largely America’s immigration policy from 1776 to 1924). Instead, he has far more vigorously enforced immigration prohibition than the law requires, narrowing the few exceptions to the universal ban on legal immigration.

For example, one exception is for those facing persecution in their home countries. Biden has undisputed authority under the law to admit as many refugees from abroad as he wants. The president sets the limit and picks whoever he considers “of concern” to the United States. Yet Biden is on pace to admit the fewest refugees in the history of the U.S. refugee program, fewer than 10,000.


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blm

(114,543 posts)
1. I posted that link constantly for 4 years.
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 03:04 PM
Tuesday

I blame the DNC spokespeople for not getting on every TV show to push back on the Republican ‘open border’ narrative with complete command of the facts.

RussBLib

(10,541 posts)
2. ...and now the charge is just a given
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 03:08 PM
Tuesday

…as if no one can dispute it. Sometimes the Dems are frustratingly, agonizingly slow.

It’s not too late.

blm

(114,543 posts)
6. I will for not using every day and every opportunity to counter the lying narrative
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 03:30 PM
Tuesday

And pushing back against those lies as a cohesive strategy on every show they were on.

W_HAMILTON

(10,296 posts)
7. They do, and the fact that you, presumably a Democrat on a Democratic-supporting website, do not know that already....
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 02:47 AM
10 hrs ago

...is not a failure of Democrats, it's the failure of our fascist friendly media that fully exposed themselves to be in the tank for Republicans in the lead-up to the 2024 election and thereafter.

The New York Times, The Washington Post, CBS, CNN, NBC (spinning off MSNNC) ... I need not even mention Fox ... Facebook, Twitter, TikTok -- which of these do you think want Democratic messaging out there?

valleyrogue

(2,662 posts)
4. I would prefer something other than a Koch-created "libertarian" "think tank"
Tue Mar 3, 2026, 03:12 PM
Tuesday

for information on this issue. They might be correct on this, but I wouldn't believe anything coming from them.

Cato is disreputable in my book.

Skittles

(170,924 posts)
8. and that is a sample of the media failing us
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 05:19 AM
7 hrs ago

the repuke "open border" bullshit goes COMPLETELY unchallenged

JI7

(93,480 posts)
9. I think a lot of uncontrolled immigration was under George W Bush
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 06:11 AM
6 hrs ago

It's Republicans that keep causing problems and the same people that keep voting for them and blaming Democrats for what they do.

Just like how they are trying to blame Hillary and some other Democrats for what Trump is doing in Iran right now.

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