Can you be more specific about what you mean by “sudden”? The Biden admin has had more encounters, more apprehensions, and more deportations than the last 4 administrations. Conservatives like to claim that his policies have caused a surge but the fact is that nearly 99% of border crossers are detained thanks to technology that we have and, if Biden was as welcoming as they claim, CBP wouldn’t be apprehending these people and sending them back. In fact, CBP claims that most of the border crossers today have had previous encounters from the Trump admin where they weren’t deported properly or had any charges levied against them to keep them from coming back into the US.
TLDR: This is a 2019 law passed by Congress during the baby hands administration. The Biden administration has been pretty careful not to overstep other branches of government(I think as a direct response to how flagrantly and harmfully baby hands used executive action), and while Biden returned wall money taken from the DoD, the rest of the wall money was explicitly designated by Congress for building the border wall in 2019 and Congress will not cancel that legislative order(wall funds), despite Biden asking Congress to cancel the 2019 wall funds law since arriving in office in 2020.
The money is being legally used for a legislatively required purpose and any federal laws are being broken legislatively by Congress as a result of baby hands in 2019, not the Biden administration.
any federal laws are being broken legislatively by Congress as a result of baby hands in 2019, not the Biden administration.
How can congress legally break federal laws? I understand that the money is allocated, but how can the money have even been allocated toward something that was breaking laws in the first place?
The executive branch has to deal with how to execute laws passed, even when they are in conflict with one another. So there is a lot of leeway provided to deal with those conflicts.
It’s hard to say exactly how necessary it is for the DHS to waive these 26 laws, but the argument is that in order to abide by the more pressing matter (the immigration laws and funding), they must ignore the other 26.
I am not as willing to concede that this is entirely out of the Biden administrations control. Instead of waiving all the 26 laws, why not use them to drag out the time and costs? They are mainly be about environmental studies, public feedback, and other measures that soak up funds and take a lot of time. If this administration was truly serious about not wanting to build the wall, they’re basically going against that by fast-tracking it.
I’m much more inclined to think there is a quid pro quo going on and them giving in on the wall - especially in this particular manner - is in exchange for something else. But that’s not something political leaders will be transparent about. We see checkers, but a chess game is happening (out of our vision).
Not a legal expert, but often certain laws have to be broken for others to be enacted.
4th amendment unreasonable search and seizure is waived by the TSA, for example.
To build 20 miles of ineffective wall legally voted for and funded by Congress(by us, though) that disrupts the ecosystem, the Homeland Security Secretary(in the executive branch) has waived the affected envuronmental laws to allow the wall’s legally mandated construction.
Biden could probably write enough executive orders that he could get the funding to go somewhere else, but that would cause innumerable breaches of power and constitutional imbalances, and we didn’t elect a king, we elected a president who is meant to be in charge of only one branch of the government, something cheeto didn’t understand.
Even though Biden has said he doesn’t believe the wall helps with immigration, he’s not going to overstep his role in the executive branch in this case to interfere with Congress, I suspect as a deliberate response to constant cheeto interference in other branches of government during the last administration.
One thing we can do better as opponents of Trump (or anyone else for that matter) is to not go for the low hanging fruit of things the man can't change about himself. Like his hands. Or the alleged size of, well, you know.
His fake tan or hair are better targets, at least he chooses that part of his appearance, but I'd like to think we can do better than that as well. A grey (or brown) area is his alleged incontinence which, if it's real (and I really, really wouldn't want to check that), it's said he ultimately did it to himself. Could be a target, but also probably best avoided.
Now. His policies. His wrong-thinking. Anything that might harm or put people in danger? Sure. Go nuts. Tear the man a new one.
The low-hanging fruit does have the benefit of riling him and his less intelligent advocates, but as the man himself would do in a similar situation, those are the things to bring out at the end of an argument when you feel like you're losing or at least not getting through a thick skull ... metaphorically speaking. And preferably after they've already done the same.
The hands nickname has upset more people than I would have thought, but do his hands even look tiny to you?
I used it here as a reference for him because he doesn’t deserve a proper name, because of his constant body shaming toward others and his apparent insecurity toward his normal-sized hands.
I still personally think equal treatment is more fair than protecting belligerents, but I have agreed to stop using cheeto’s hands nickname in this community at the request of other users here.
Biden and the Democrats are getting wrecked on illegal immigration. Democrat supporters in New York like Eric Adams annd Kathy Hochul are turning on them hard due to the sky high illegal migration and subsequent failing public services, and prospect of enormous tax increases to pay for it. Adams is just one among many. Pritzker in Illinois has been vocal about Biden’s failure.
Which, you know, would probably be enough information to someone who spoke German, but then again if someone spoke German, they probably wouldn’t be asking this question to begin with.
I think this post started it. It’s a quote from “Werner”, an old german cartoon movie. The german word for sturgeon is Stör. But “stören” means to be annoying or disturbing. A lot of sturgeons got posted to c/ich_iel and it got really annoying. Because of that, Stör-memes are not allowed on ich_iel from tomorrow. Mission accomplished I guess.
Edit: Actually, this post started it. It’s a wordplay on the word Erster (first), but written Erstör.
And before that someone complained in a feedback thread that there were no sturgeon memes on !ich_iel. On r/ich_iel, fish memes have a somewhat longer tradition which I think started with someone noticing a fish called “Huso”. Since “Huso” can also be used as an abbreviation of “Hurensohn” and that is of course r/ich_iel’s favorite word, it was exploited quite a bit, giving rise to other fish memes.
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