Summary

Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law, expanding mandatory detention for undocumented immigrants accused of theft-related crimes and allowing state attorneys general to sue over immigration enforcement.

Despite warnings from civil rights groups and some Democrats about racial profiling and due process violations, the bill received bipartisan support.

Critics like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Cory Booker argue that Democrats who backed it succumbed to conservative fear-mongering, potentially harming immigrants and undermining civil rights.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Democratic politicians and failing at a thing: name a more iconic duo

    To be clear, the GOP is pure evil. But the absolute fecklessness of the “opposition” party beggars belief.

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      Yeah. They stayed with the rules and presented a candidate who supported rights and justice and people and also wasn’t fascist, and lost.

      Totally their fault for assuming people wouldn’t vote for fascists or let others do it. Fuck them.

      The third party effort died, on schedule, soon as Putin didn’t need it anymore. It’s now okay to accept the Dems ran the best candidacy they could and still lost due to nullification and external meddling.

      • toomanypancakes@lemmy.world
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        Yes, it’s their fault for assuming they were entitled to votes while telling the population they’re wrong, the economy is great, we’re going to deport immigrants, support genocide abroad, and fill the cabinet with Republicans like the Cheneys.

        Voting against trump was the obvious correct choice, then the dems did everything they possibly could to fix that beyond just outright dropping out.