Arizona’s Sinema glad for Biden’s southern border visit, skeptical on immigration pol

freshh. · freshh.

Nothing concrete, but she mentions that she will be in a group working on comprehensive immigration reform.

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PHOENIX — U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona is elated for President Joe Biden’s upcoming southern border trip — the first of his tenure — but isn’t convinced about his recently announced immigration policy changes.

“Remember that a couple weeks ago I said it was a no-brainer for the president to come and visit the border region,” Sinema told reporters Thursday at a press gathering in Peoria.

“It is the federal government’s failure to secure our border that landed us in this position, so I’m glad to see that the president is visiting the border now.”

Biden will travel to El Paso, Texas, on Sunday before moving on to Mexico City to meet with North American leaders on Monday and Tuesday.

Arizona's Sinema, Kelly criticize Congress over lack of immigration action
The trip to the border comes in conjunction with Biden announcing Thursday the U.S. would immediately begin turning away Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans who cross the border from Mexico illegally.

The new rules expand on an existing effort to stop Venezuelans attempting to enter the U.S., which began in October and led to a dramatic drop in Venezuelans coming to the southern border.

Together, they represent a major change to immigration rules that will stand even if the Supreme Court ends Title 42.

Sinema wants to see how the policy change will work on a larger scale.

“The proof is in the pudding,” Sinema said. “We’ll see how they actually implement those actions to see whether it makes a difference on the border or for those migrants who are seeking access to the U.S.”

Sinema, who recently left the Democratic Party to become an independent, will also be in El Paso in the coming days.

Her and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) will lead a group of senators to the Texas border city on Monday before traveling to Yuma on Tuesday.

Sinema has been working with multiple Republican members of Congress to get bipartisan immigration legislation passed.

“Our congressional delegation that will be hosting on Monday and Tuesday of next week is really the launch to our effort to work on the immigration bill again this year,” Sinema said.

KTAR News 92.3 FM’s Taylor Tasler and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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hDreamer1988 · hDreamer1988

Unless they get the House leadership's buy-in, any immigration deal is DOA. Looking at the current House situation, the far right is in control and immigration is impossible.

cooltalker · cooltalker

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Originally Posted by hDreamer1988

Unless they get the House leadership's buy-in, any immigration deal is DOA. Looking at the current House situation, the far right is in control and immigration is impossible.

They have no intention of actually getting anything done. They'll probably bring up a bill in the senate now since it won't have a chance of passing in the house anyways.

Transcend · Transcend

With McCarthy being severely weakened and always under the threat of impeachment, unfortunately immigration reform is going to be incredibly difficult. We'll see. That's why I had hoped if his party were to win, he'd win big.

More than likely, we'll see the house GOP in-fighting all 2 years. They basically had a marathon argument on the simplest vote of this congress. I've def lost some confidence in any meaningful action.

Transcend · Transcend

Forgot to mention...I do applaud Sen. Sinema trying to do SOMETHING on the issue as opposed to president Biden (who is only now taking some action). I think she is genuine.

Imthexman · Imthexman

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Originally Posted by Transcend

With McCarthy being severely weakened and always under the threat of impeachment, unfortunately immigration reform is going to be incredibly difficult. We'll see. That's why I had hoped if his party were to win, he'd win big.

More than likely, we'll see the house GOP in-fighting all 2 years. They basically had a marathon argument on the simplest vote of this congress. I've def lost some confidence in any meaningful action.

The house fight is not over yet, Mccarthy needs to pass the budget and other important bills the far rigjt lunatics wont allow, and if he gets ousted by the far right he might need to ask the dems for help to re-elect him again without consessions.

Sinema is an opportunistic biatch.

dreamer12345 · dreamer12345

lol, yeah I'm sure the MTG's will let that thru the House w/their newfound power.

dreamer12345 · dreamer12345

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Originally Posted by Transcend

Forgot to mention...I do applaud Sen. Sinema trying to do SOMETHING on the issue as opposed to president Biden (who is only now taking some action). I think she is genuine.

ffs...how long have you been following politics?

cmeow · cmeow

I don't think McCarthy will bring any immigration bill to a vote because he has a very small margin of votes in the house. He has to maintain support of the freedom caucus and they can hold up the entire government. Even the must pass bills like debt ceiling or government budget bills will even be hard to pass.

It'll be very interesting because McCarthy can easily get support from moderate dems and not rely on freedom caucus votes if he's a moderate speaker, but these days bi-partisanship is almost a sin... even when he gave concessions to the freedom caucus and they still didn't vote for them. They humiliated him for a week. When the must pass bills come later this year, there's going to be a lot of dysfunction.

Hopefully the next two years won't be a shit show but I wouldn't bet on it.

Transcend · Transcend

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Originally Posted by dreamer12345

ffs...how long have you been following politics?

LOL. Is the negativity necessary? Why do you think she is not genuine on her immigration track record?

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