Dan Pfeiffer: “To summarize, Johnson demands a border bill in exchange for passing Ukraine aid; the White House and Senate work on a border bill; Johnson opposes the bill without even seeing it, despite repeatedly declaring that the ‘crisis at the border’ is the House GOP’s top priority.”
“Some commentary suggests that Johnson keeps moving the goalpost to prevent his caucus from having to vote on Ukraine aid, which is vehemently opposed by MAGA Republicans but enthusiastically supported by the Republican establishment and more moderate GOPers. With Johnson in perpetual danger of being McCarthy-ed, I am sure avoiding a tough vote is a factor. However, I think Johnson and the Republicans have another more nefarious reason — they want a crisis at the border to help them in the election.”
Well Canada is a great country also, I’ve been to all the provinces and I spent a couple weeks in Banff and one of the other national parks that I somehow got lost in and had fun finding my way around.
I think Canada is much more independent and well developed than Mexico. My suggestion about Mexico was only in regard to their struggles to be as independent and gain some financial well being as a people.
After all I’m merely making a hypothetical suggestion, and not saying it would be easy or could happen overnight. Frankly I’m just a “world without borders” kind of idiotic optimist. I think we make the immigration situation so much harder by denying people the right to even set foot in another country. I’m sure most Mexican nationals would prefer to stay in Mexico if they had the same economic opportunities (and could live without fear of the cartels).
Yeah I’m also interested in reducing barriers to migration from a human rights perspective.
But I think we need to reduce international disparities in standard of living before open borders would really work.
I think trade penalties against countries with high degrees of wealth concentration and/or without living wage regulations etc might help. Idk.
I agree. I feel that we can reduce those disparities if we have more open congress between us and the people we view as “others.” At any rate, I don’t think building high walls and putting up razor wire is ever going to be a good solution to anything going on in the world.