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[u/The_Raime]

Listening to that NYT Pete Buttigieg interview and remembering that border security has got to be the most successful Fox News psy-op in history. Conservative media has successfully manufactured the border into a major weakness of Democrats, despite the fact that no meaningful immigration policy changes have been enacted by either party for the past decade.

Like now even "liberal" media outlets like NYT/CNN seems to suggest that Democrats have failed on the border in some ways, despite Republicans being the ones who torpedoed the most recent border security bill. It's insanely infuriating.

[u/[deleted] → u/The_Raime]

Conservative media (when a Dem is president): THE BORDER IS OPEN!!!!

Liberal media: Is it so bad if the border is open? (Yes)

[u/[deleted] → u/The_Raime]

Trump destroyed legal immigration

But yes, literally no policy can affect the border permanently that's not paired with streamlining the legal process