Description: A blog about statelessness, migration, refugees and climate change.
A blog about statelessness, migration, and refugees.
This week, Donald Trump apparently coerced members of his own party, including senator Mitch McConnell , into killing a border deal with the Biden administration and Democrats, a deal that would have given Republicans and conservatives much of what they want on border control in exchange for Ukraine funding. The reason Republicans may kill their best chance at closing the US border with Mexico? Because Trump wants to run on "border chaos" in the presidential campaign.
It probably surprises no one that Trump's only real political goal is to get reelected and that he doesn't really care about the border at all. What is more surprising is that the Republicans might go along with it. They surely realize that Trump would never be able to get such a bill through Congress. Essentially, they are blowing up their only chance to kill asylum in order to, ironically, get Trump reelected so he can not do anything. It's hardly a wise campaign strategy to kill an agreement on the numbe