Christina Pascucci Instagram – A couple thoughts on the newly released bipartisan Senate border bill:
✅ It greatly reduces the wait time for processing asylum cases from years to months. It’s a start. Ideally all asylum cases are processed within days or weeks, and before allowing people to enter the U.S.
❌ Less than 20% of the bill is funding the border. We should’ve addressed this long before so the border response isn’t tied to funding of other foreign policy issues.
❌ Some key points are missing, like addressing the beginning of the migration crisis. We can do that by working with other countries to help migrants integrate into the first countries in which they seek refuge.
✅ There is a crisis at the border we need to address now. This is better than the alternative, which is doing nothing.
Thank you for having me @newsnation to discuss. | Posted on 06/Feb/2024 01:59:42
