Shorter Liberals: Militarizing the Border is Bad When Trump Does It and Good When Biden Does It
BY ERIK LOOMIS / ON JUNE 10, 2024 / AT 8:21 AM / IN GENERAL999 VIEWS
I hate hacks. I hate them with the heat of a 1,000 suns. Unfortunately, as the comment thread on immigration demonstrated the other day, there are a lot of people who comment here who are fine with anything so long as Joe Biden does it, even if they criticized the very same thing when Donald Trump does it.
Well, Nic Kristof is nothing if not a hack and his defense of Biden’s actions is pure, 100% hackwork.
Many of us liberals now find ourselves in an awkward spot on immigration.
For years we have denounced draconian steps by Republicans to bar desperate migrants. But President Biden has now introduced his own tough steps to reduce asylum seekers, not so different from President Donald Trump’s approach.
The new measures may be overturned by the courts, but in the meantime many on the left are whacking Biden. Senator Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, twisted the knife by suggesting that Biden was borrowing from Trump’s playbook: “By reviving Trump’s asylum ban, President Biden has undermined American values.”
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