Matthew Yglesias had a piece today about comprehensive v.
by wpkirish (2024-02-19 14:32:29)
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In reply to: One thing is sure; we must stop doing immigration  posted by shillelaghhugger

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incremental.

He talked about the repeated failure of comprehensive bills and the fact this bill is primarily focused on asylum and tries to improve that issue. I think this quote matches your thought. I have linked the whole piece below but it may be paywalled.

The actual large concession that Murphy made in negotiating this deal, though, isn’t about the substance of immigration policy — it’s about the groups’ desire for comprehensiveness. This is a non-comprehensive immigration proposal designed to address a discrete set of problems rather than using those problems as leverage to address other problems. And from Lankford’s side, the concession is to actually try and address the problem rather than just whine and complain about Joe Biden. Which is to say that to the limited extent you can set the politics aside, this is a good bill that would have improved the asylum process.



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