Ricketts, 19 other governors ramp up pressure on Biden administration to act on southern border

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Chris Dunker

Gov. Pete Ricketts signed onto a letter with 19 other Republican governors asking President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to take action to close the U.S. border with Mexico.

The letter comes after unauthorized crossings at the southern border increased throughout February and March, reaching a 20-year high in April that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol data shows has leveled off in recent weeks.

Border patrol agents took more than 172,000 people into custody in March and were expected to match that number in April.

"We call on you to take action on the crisis at the southern border immediately," the letter from the governors begins. "The crisis is too big to ignore and is now spilling over the border states into all of our states."



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[Champp]

1. Ricketts and his billionaire republiqon crickets

are expert whiners

[BoomaofBandM]

2. Imagine the difference if these republican governors had held trump to any standard.

[Warpy]

3. Are any of those governors ON the border?

That asshole Ricketts is governor of Nebraska. Let him wall off his own damned state.

(Sorry, OmahaSteve, I know you have more sense than to have voted for him)

[mopinko]

15. he cant. the packing plants are full of mexicanos.

but i guess w/o a threat of deportation, the whole business model sorta falls apart.

[Warpy]

17. Maybe they'll use prison slave labor like chicken processors

Give 'em one AA meeting a week on Sunday, call it drug rehab.

https://www.readfrontier.org/stories/judge-lawsuit-over-forced-labor-at-chicken-plants-can-move-forward/

Covid seems to have ground that lawsuit to a temporary halt, the bosses and the scammers hoping the plaintiffs will die before it goes before a judge,

[AZ8theist]

4. Well, at least they recognize the ACTUAL President and Vice President of the US.....

[ancianita]

5. Good point.

And since they do, they ought to do a quid pro quo with this president and not sign their state houses' voter suppression bills.

Otherwise this is typical Republican performative bullshit drama.

[PortTack]

6. "Has leveled off in recent weeks." Numbers of children being held has dropped by 84%

Per usual qgop presidents making messes for dem presidents to clean up. Dotard made this mess!

Biden asked for outside help instead of turning to you, because you offer NONE!! But let’s pile on...assholes!!

[pazzyanne]

14. + 1 nt

[JohnnyRingo]

7. I thought we needed people to work for minimum wage?

Hire 'em by the caravan load.

Get the message straight. We either need people willing to work, or we don't.

[BigmanPigman]

8. Bingo!

[mopinko]

16. w/o the threat of deportation, the business model sorta falls apart.

[Mr.Bill]

9. So, the wall is not working?

Trump's fault.

[elleng]

10. Border Arrests at Highest In Two Decades.

Border Arrests at Highest In Two Decades

May 11, 2021 at 8:15 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 1 Comment

https://politicalwire.com/2021/05/11/border-arrests-highest-in-two-decades/

"SNIP.....

“Immigration arrests and detentions along the Mexico border rose slightly in April to 178,622, the highest one-month total in two decades, but a decline in the number of teens and children arriving without parents eased pressure on the Biden administration,” the Washington Post reports.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215420768

[Cryptoad]

11. Give 'em Green Card ,,,,,

and let them work and pay taxes,,,,,,,,since the MAGA Warriors are refusing to work!

[rockfordfile]

13. Well we have Americans that are homeless that need jobs

[Baked Potato]

12. Seems Republicans are setting up a Rat F**k operation.

A crises can be ginned and warped to lay blame on President Biden and Democrats. The most worrisome is the Middle Eastern apprehensions.

[Scruffy1]

18. I must have missed something.

Sitting here, having brunch about one hundred meters from the border and all is nice. I did have a cat burglar last week when I left the patio door open a crack. The cat food dishes were polished clean. I'm pretty sure the dark tabby did it and she's probably undocumented too.