CATO has an important report showing that Biden did not cause the immigration crisis. www.alexnowrasteh.com/p/biden-didn... - ThreadSky

emptywheel.bsky.social • 41 days ago

CATO has an important report showing that Biden did not cause the immigration crisis.

https://www.alexnowrasteh.com/p/biden-didnt-cause-the-border-crisis

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libertyandlaughter.bsky.social•40 days ago

This was never reported on and it's a damn shame.

laura101.bsky.social•41 days ago

Of course he didn't! How short the American attention span is. It's infuriating. Trump caused it, on purpose, so he could blame Biden for it (he knew he would never win 2020 after his failed pandemic response), and so he could drum up fear of "the other" and run on it. His base Racism is dependable.

fanofdemocracy.net•41 days ago

great but we know bigots don't read reports.

rosiesdad.bsky.social•41 days ago

And they ignore, dispute and rebut anything that contradicts their preconceived notions.

jjeddademinred.bsky.social•41 days ago

The Republicans have caused it over 40 years of making it an election year drama and not allow anyone to try and fix.

valennb4.bsky.social•41 days ago

Truth is nice, but it doesn't win elections.

annabellelecter.bsky.social•40 days ago

Well, that is a pretty good reason why voters get the terrible outcomes they vote for.

jdiscenza.bsky.social•39 days ago

Especially if it’s three months late?

tadaaa.bsky.social•41 days ago

CATO another Koch outfit

https://bsky.app/profile/tadaaa.bsky.social/post/3lfunwfwn4k26

scaypgrayce.bsky.social•41 days ago

$10 says the media generally ignores this.

burshu.bsky.social•41 days ago

Nothing like a report like this. Too little, too late.

smpatkinson.bsky.social•41 days ago

Why wasn’t this presentation compiled and released prior to the election? This information would have been very useful to refute Trump’s assault on the Biden administration’s handling of the migrant crisis.

newjeffct.bsky.social•41 days ago

David Bier (who wrote the article) has been all over saying this for well over a year, including testifying to Congress.

saffermaster.bsky.social•41 days ago

This is a known thing, but of course, every single republican will repeat this lie forever.

newjeffct.bsky.social•41 days ago

It's known to very few - the average person on the street only knows what they heard on Fox or the Fox echoes they got from the mainstream media. Fox and much of the mainstream media say it's because of Biden.

Inflation started rising in 2020, but most think it started under Biden as well.

saffermaster.bsky.social•41 days ago

Why did inflation rise? ( remember the supply chain backlog from Covid?)

Facts matter and you are right. Fox is the bane of America’s existence.

laura101.bsky.social•41 days ago

Trump purposely caused the supply chain problems too. He kept ships out in the harbor full of supplies. I saw them with my own eyes in Texas.

newjeffct.bsky.social•41 days ago

Remember, the White House gave Jared Kushner $100 million to solve the supply chain crisis in 2020 - he gave it all to a college friend of his who spent like $1 million of the money.

laura101.bsky.social•41 days ago

Yep! I remember. And he sold our PPE and said it was his, not ours. He made states procure their own. He sent body bags instead of PPE to the First Nations. He sold our hospital COVID tests to China. He destroyed a lot and killed so many. I won't forget.

newjeffct.bsky.social•41 days ago

inflation rose due to those supply chain issues, but also because Trump surrendered to OPEC & Russia in allowing them to slash oil production 20% for 2 years. From 0.1% in early 2020, inflation went to 1.4% in Jan 2021. With inflation already heading up, it took off when the economy re-opened in 21

newjeffct.bsky.social•41 days ago

Mark Cuban explains it better than me here:

https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1851857864358293794

imthebeat.bsky.social•41 days ago

Now they publish that? Or is it dated?

photoguy81.bsky.social•40 days ago

Too late

pelledge.bsky.social•41 days ago

Something we all knew and something places like the Times and Post will ignore.

vikingstable.bsky.social•41 days ago

Where the hell was the EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION of these facts 5 6 7 8 9 10 months ago. Facts do matter. But still need to be spelled out in this day and age. Simple facts.

newjeffct.bsky.social•41 days ago

It doesn't matter how correctly Democrats point this out if the mainstream media can't be bothered to report on it because they're too busy covering Trump's every move.

mbwbmj123.bsky.social•41 days ago

🎯‼️

annabellelecter.bsky.social•40 days ago

Democrats have consistently said this, but Fox, OAN, WSJ, Ben Shapiro and other outlets just shout louder and people don't read or use critical thinking.

vikingstable.bsky.social•40 days ago

There is an incredibly large difference between one off Dems stating facts in different outlets that when agreed upon aren't repeated necessarily and a coordinated repeated facts are irrelevant machine that knows exactly what they are saying and doing is intellectually dishonest..lies travel faster

vikingstable.bsky.social•41 days ago

It was basically not communicated, washed out, spoke over, whatever u want to call it. Sometimes facts are left alone and those that are intellectually dishonest with the largest of mics win, lies and prop sell and move quicker.....
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Sigh

brienmcmullen.bsky.social•41 days ago

I'm still waiting for the study of how Trump's extreme sanctions on Venezuela sank their economy and triggered the migrant crisis.

zapitron.bsky.social•41 days ago

We need to destroy the economy in order to save it. Just raise taxes (in form of tariffs) to raise prices, so that demand for goods will be reduced. Reduced demand will cause reduced employment. Incentives to live in newly-shithole country will drop, thereby reducing immigration. MAGA!

jwalker0x.bsky.social•41 days ago

The CATO Institute! As a Libertarian think tank, this is a pretty big deal. Spread this far and wide.

jbomukti.bsky.social•39 days ago

I understand "crisis" to signify a dangerous problem. Where do the effects of under-regulated immigration actually rank in the catalog of problems facing American society? The notion that immigration itself is a problem is questionable, if commonplace.

edomalley.bsky.social•41 days ago

Well this is useful 4 days before T's inauguration...

jrockme.bsky.social•41 days ago

The RW/Foreign Enemy Noise/Radicalisation Machine has been pushing their alternative to truth and have convinced way too Americans

justamoosemom.bsky.social•41 days ago

📌

richlevine6.bsky.social•41 days ago

So, his economy was just too damn good?

leupp.bsky.social•41 days ago

📌

annabellelecter.bsky.social•40 days ago

I knew this.

I also know that Fox's scareavans would work when coupled with ugly, relentless lying to Hispanic/Latino/ White suburbanites.

Faith organizations also abdicated any moral duty to push back on the ugliest messaging.

chicago21222.bsky.social•40 days ago

🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

mordent.bsky.social•41 days ago

Ah, well.

🤤🙄😑😑😑😑

wenzopeg.bsky.social•41 days ago

CATO? Et tu?

facistantii.bsky.social•41 days ago

Immigration crisis origin began with GOP to use against any and all Democratic politicians from city mayor to the Presidency. It is one of their most useful tools to pull out of their shitbags before every general election. Trump took it as his first order of business to make it a permanent crisis.

sweatband09.bsky.social•40 days ago

Timely.

johnpanzer.com•40 days ago

📌

kcarpdiem.bsky.social•41 days ago

📌

skitridog2024.bsky.social•41 days ago

Look Immigration .. not addressed in over twenty years.. with Policy..as much on Dems as GOP... and DEMS if you take the issue away..they got shit..wake up.

peaceablyassembled.bsky.social•40 days ago

If you're old enough..
and
you've been paying attention long enough..

You may be aware that republicans made a conscious decision to Obstruct legislation on repro rights, immigration, climate etc to be used as a political cudgel while packing our courts, long ago
J20 is their fruitioned coup

kmcollado.bsky.social•41 days ago

Impressive report.

thereitgoes.bsky.social•41 days ago

Most MAGA repeat slogans and when you ask them about immigration it's clear they have no idea what they're talking about. We didn't have a decent media explaining it.

Republicans were able to simultaneously claim no bill was needed and a bill was needed. Can't someone figure out how to disarm their

thereitgoes.bsky.social•41 days ago

ability to shift accountability from themselves?

More noise about how many policies remained in place during under Biden, how little remain in Mexico covered, how title 42 was kept in place, how Republicans sued Biden for focusing on those deemed dangerous, how the INA Act works could have helped

thereitgoes.bsky.social•41 days ago

How Mexico became our largest trading partner (bigger than China), how asylum works, how Mexico has rejected remain in Mexico and how we need international cooperation. Why HR2 was written to fail etc

News orgs reported R talking points, heightened fears, and failed to disgusting propaganda.

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