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WASHINGTON – On President Joe Biden’s first day in office, he passed Congress on a legislative plan to modernize the nation’s immigration system.
He went nowhere, like so many beyond attempts at revision.
Meanwhile, the number of migrants illegally crossing the U. S. -Mexico border is slowing down. U. S. and Mexican immigration operations have reached record levels, as has the backlog of instances in the country’s immigration justice system. to finish when the coronavirus pandemic subsided. And Congress couldn’t agree even on undeniable issues, such as whether the U. S. was trying to reach out to the U. S. The U. S. will let in more or fewer people.
Thus, administration officials have been seeking answers outside the United States, trying to offer immigration not as one of America’s most intractable challenges, but as a challenge that the entire Western Hemisphere will need to address.
It was a change of direction that plays with Biden’s religion on the strength of global diplomacy, and it may also hold more promise for breakthroughs, especially as smuggling networks increasingly drive migrant families around the world through the damaging and fatal Darien. Gap between Colombia and Panama.
“No country has this duty alone,” Biden said last year as he convened leaders from 23 countries attending a Summit of the Americas to expand a not unusual plan on migration and security. The future depends on each other. And our safety is related in a way that I don’t think most people in my country fully understand.
If the answers for Biden are international, politics is domestic.
He is running for re-election and the border is a major factor for Republicans who paint him as lenient on security. His involvement in immigration policy before becoming president was relatively sparse. Before this year’s visit, he had only descended for a few hours on the 1,951-mile U. S. -Mexico border averted a crusade in 2008, and he did not play a significant role in efforts beyond reform in the Senate when he served there.
His foreign policy experience, however, goes back decades from his years on Capitol Hill and his two terms as vice president, and that carries weight internationally.
“No other president who has ever sat in the Oval Office has the mileage, the understanding, the commitment that Joe Biden has had in the region. It’s just a fact,” said Arturo Sarukhan, Mexico’s ambassador to the United States from 2007 to 2013. “This is an addition that Biden brings to the table. “
But immigrant advocates worry that the new technique will come at a cost that will likely be paid by immigrants fleeing persecution and poverty in their home countries.
“I think they’re looking to manage migration, to prevent migration,” said Yael Schacher, Americas and Europe director at Refugees International. “But managing migration can also have consequences for human rights, terrible human rights. There is an ethical distancing: the option to clean your hands of a challenge if it is no longer at your door. “
The composition of migrants has changed dramatically in the last two decades, bringing with it new demanding situations.
Those who crossed the border were mostly Mexican men who came to work and could easily be fired. Today, more and more families are arriving from Guatemala, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti, fleeing drought caused by climate change and oppressive regimes.
This reflects a broader trend. UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, estimates that 103 million people are displaced worldwide, more than 1% of the world’s population.
The number of illegal border crossings between the U. S. and Mexico has declined since new regulations were put in place through the Biden administration on May 11, but it’s not yet clear whether the administration’s technique will be effective in the long run or whether it can legalize. challenges and an imaginable management repositioning in 2024.
Under the new rules, migrants cannot apply for asylum if they cross another country into the U. S. If you don’t have U. S. coverage or if you don’t make an appointment to come to the U. S. The U. S. government is based on a new government app. They are barred from returning for five years and face fraud charges if they do.
But up to 30,000 Venezuelans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Cubans per month will be allowed to enter the U. S. U. S. law to paint paintings if they come with sponsors. And up to 100,000 immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Colombia will be allowed to enter if they have family circle members who are U. S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.
Meanwhile, many migrants remain in limbo. Last week, advocates said the new migrant app faced primary problems and that other people couldn’t get permission to cross, some who desperately needed to enter the United States, who were sexually assaulted and beaten by their captors across the border.
“Understand that other people who are terrified of returning to their home country and who are in asylum are so eager to do it the right way that they are waiting for an application that doesn’t work,” said Priscilla Orta, an immigration attorney at Project Corazon. “And it’s a lottery for their lives. “
Only 33 percent of U. S. adults say they approve of President Joe Biden’s control of the economy, and 24 percent say the domestic economic situation is good, according to a new poll.
The recent illness of California Senator-elect Dianne Feinstein shows she is no longer a match to serve in the US Senate, according to a new state poll.
That said, voters doubt the Democratic senator will resign. While more than 40% of those surveyed by Berkeley’s Institute for Government Studies responded that it would be better for her to resign now, more than a quarter said they would end it. own terms. More than 30% did not need to express an opinion on this issue.
Feinstein, who turns 90 next month, returned to the Senate on May 10 after a nearly three-month absence due to shingles and similar complications.
The pressure for her to back down has intensified for weeks without her vote, very important in a Senate divided into 51 members who tend to vote with Democrats and 49 Republicans. His vote was mandatory for Democrats to approve non-Republican judicial hopefuls on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is also narrowly divided.
More than a portion of the electorate that participated on Berkeley’s IGS ballot said they thought his health problems “created serious problems for the Democratic Party’s ability to show judicial candidates and pass the law. “
Two-thirds of the electorate agreed that “Feinstein’s new illness underscores the fact that he is no longer compatible to continue serving in the U. S. Senate. “UU”. Consensus has spread among Democrats, Republicans and voters with no party preference.
The ballot was administered online in English and Spanish between May 17 and 22 among 7465 registered voters in California, 5236 of whom were deemed likely to vote in the March 2024 number one election.
Democrats polled were more supportive of Feinstein’s resignation, which would mean California Gov. Gavin Newsom would appoint a replacement. Republicans were less likely to agree, wrote Mark DiCamillo, director of the Berkeley IGS Poll, “apparently because it would allow Newsom to nominate his successor. “
More than a portion of the electorate agreed that Newsom would name a successor who would benefit the state. At the same time, more than a portion of the electorate said it would be bad “because the electorate, not the governor, decides on state senators. “
Nearly 60 percent of voters said calls for Feinstein’s resignation were not rooted in sexism and disagreed that it would not be so for a man in the same circumstances. The men interviewed overwhelmingly shared this view. More women agreed than not, albeit by a much narrower margin.
Feinstein has said he will not seek re-election in 2024, but has insisted he will serve the remainder of that term.
NEW YORK – Two years ago, while signing a bill to punish Twitter and other major social media companies, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis called on platforms to “suppress ideas” about the COVID-19 pandemic and silence conservative voices.
What a change!
The new edition of Elon Musk-owned Twitter helped DeSantis launch his bid for the Republican presidential nomination on Wednesday. Although it was spoiled due to technical messes and engulfed by the candidate’s complaints, the forum highlighted Twitter’s undeniable shift to the right under Musk, who bought it for $44 billion and took over in October.
“The fact has been repeatedly censored, and now that Twitter is in the hands of a free speech advocate, I couldn’t back down on this Twitter platform,” DeSantis said at the Twitter Spaces event.
Musk, a co-organizer of the event, responded to the praise by saying, “Twitter is really expensive, but loose speech is priceless. “
While Musk has touted his platform as a haven for free speech, it has been awash in extremist perspectives and hate speech since he bought it and fired or fired about 80% of his staff.
It sounds alarms that Twitter, widely used across applicants and government agencies, adding to those providing voting data, will be an open forum for conspiracy theories, false content and erroneous election data as a bitterly divided country heads into the 2024 presidential election.
Many Republicans have hailed Musk’s takeover of Twitter as creating one of the last mainstream online spaces where they can share their views without worrying about being deleted. They plan to start streaming content on the site.
Meanwhile, Democrats and hate watchdogs say Musk’s partisan comments and policy tweaks have given far-right extremists a megaphone.
Since Musk bought Twitter, he overhauled the site’s verification system, protected against identity theft for some government accounts and political candidates. He also personally engaged in far-right conspiracy theories on the site, reinstated accounts with a history of extremist rhetoric, and eviscerated the team that had been tasked with moderating content circulating on the platform.
That coincided with an avalanche of conspiracy theory rhetoric, according to the Anti-Defamation League, which reported that QAnon hashtags increased 91% on Twitter between May 2022 and May 2023, with about three-quarters of posts published after Musk’s inauguration.
Several proponents of the baseless QAnon theory, centered on the concept that former President Donald Trump is waging covert war against the enemies and pedophiles of the “deep state,” have committed acts of violence, the attack on the U. S. Capitol on January 6. 2021. .
Musk’s resolve to reinstate influential Twitter accounts with a history of spreading extremist perspectives has also created spaces in his tweet reaction threads where users share anti-Semitic tropes, conspiracy theories and other hateful tropes, the ADL reported Wednesday.
The group’s vice president, Yael Eisenstat, who runs its Center for Technology and Society, said Musk’s potential content moderation options have “served to silence marginalized voices” by giving free rein to bullies and trolls.
“It’s one thing to say we need a loose discourse on the platform,” he said. “It’s another thing to say we’re going to allow extremists, conspiracy theorists, to normalize this kind of rhetoric, anti-Semitism and racism. “
Twitter provided comment after repeated requests. Instead, it sent automated responses, as it does for most media queries.
Musk’s rhetoric about free speech has also attracted conservatives who have been knocked off the platforms — or fired, in Carlson’s case.
Shortly after his expulsion, Carlson took to Twitter on May 9 to announce that he would make an edition of his exhibition on that platform. It is not yet clear what this would entail or when it would begin.
“There remained many platforms that allow free speech,” Carlson said in a two-minute post that has been viewed more than 132 million times. “The last big one left in the world, the only one, is Twitter, where we are now. “
However, loose speech and facts are the same, and Carlson had been accused of spreading false facts on his Fox show, most recently about the Jan. 6 Capitol uprising.
DeSantis has been a regular guest on Fox News, and on the night of his presidential campaign announcement, he gave the impression of an interview on the network, following the Twitter event.
Although DeSantis’ launch on Twitter has been seriously delayed with site glitches and overloaded servers, his decision to launch his crusade on the platform illustrates that Fox will have more festivals as a Republican kingmaker. His crusade said he generated $1 million online within the first hour of the announcement. Fox’s ratings fell sharply in its 20 hours. Eastern time, which Carlson filled.
The Daily Wire, whose podcast hosts come with popular conservative influencers like Ben Shapiro and Candace Owens, said Tuesday it would stream its performances on Twitter starting next week.
At the same time, Wednesday’s failed live event with DeSantis questions the truth of Musk’s ambitions to turn Twitter into a destination for politicians, companies and others to make big announcements. For one thing, only a portion of a million people listened to DeSantis. Webcast. A similar TV ad would appeal to millions of other people.
According to the Pew Research Center, less than a quarter of American adults use Twitter, and most of them rarely tweet. electorate directly, without the mainstream media as intermediaries.
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