“President Biden must use the power of the pen to protect those seeking sanctuary from the coming deportation machine that will crush the human rights of our immigrant neighbors,” said one Amnesty leader.

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    1 day ago

    Why not just really say fuck and pardon anyone for any crimes committed in the act of crossing a border?

    Like, even if Bidens only course of actions is pardons (it’s not, the article gets into options) why isn’t he pardoning more people?

    There are things he could be doing, he’s just not…

    But there’s a very slim chance he might if people make enough noise.

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      any executive order can be undone by another executive order, by design, he can do any damn thing he wants and be immune from prosecution (as long as it can be construed as an official action) by executive order but you have to know that someone, probably the snake Miller, will be tracking them and be writing the order to cancel it asap.

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      22 hours ago

      Crossing the border without going through the proper process is illegal for a reason. Idk if having open borders is a good idea.