Biden ready to make compromises to ensure aid to Ukraine – Reuters

Katerina Chernovol01:53, 08.12.23

It is noted that the Republican-led US House of Representatives plans to complete its work before December 14, so time is short.

The administration of US President Joe Biden is ready to make concessions on strengthening border security in order to ensure approval of the bill, which deals in particular with providing new aid to Ukraine and Israel.

Reuters writes about this with reference to sources. It is noted that the White House and the US Congress are rushing to conclude an agreement that would provide military assistance to the two allied countries and at the same time prevent illegal immigration across the US-Mexico border.

Thus, US President Joe Biden said that he is ready to make significant concessions on border security. A source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on condition of anonymity that the White House was open, in part, to raising standards for initial vetting of asylum applicants.

Additionally, the Biden administration is considering some form of “safe third country” provision—the ability to deny asylum to migrants who pass through another country on their way to the United States.

Another possible point of agreement could be an expansion of the rapid deportation process known as “expedited removal.” According to the source, this procedure will apply throughout the country, and not just at the border.

At the same time, a bipartisan group of senators trying to reach an agreement is also discussing a quantitative limit on asylum requests. However, the Biden administration’s position on such a restriction remains unclear.

White House spokesman Angelo Fernandez Hernandez said Biden has made clear the situation at the border is problematic and the U.S. Congress must take action to fix it.

“The president said he was open to compromise,” he added.

It is noted that the Republican-led US House of Representatives plans to complete its work before December 14, so there is little time left to pass a bill to help Ukraine. The Senate, which is led by the Democratic Party, has a similar time frame.

“With that in mind, the goal appears to be to secure a high-level deal and perhaps work on the precise details of the legislative text during the break,” the agency wrote, citing sources. 

(C)UNIAN 2023

12 comments

  1. Illegal immigration from hostile, often primitive cultures, is something to avoid. As Britain found in 1998, when Blair opened the doors to them.
    Result being that terrible crimes with extreme violence, sexual violence, rape and thieving quickly reached an all time high.
    Illegals to the UK from shit countries getting prosecuted for rape are getting pro bono hard left lawyers to defend them saying “where they come from it’s not considered a crime.”
    In Germany, a muzloid illegal butt-raped a young boy in a swimming pool. He said he couldn’t help it as the urge was too strong. You could not make it up!
    But cannot Americans; specifically those Republicans that want to trade Ukraine for a deal on illegals, realise that however unpleasant those illegals on their southern borders are, they don’t have tanks and heavily artillery to back them up while they’re doing their raping.
    Which is what Ukraine has to live with every day that those filthy fucking arcs are there.

    • I think in the U.S. this is always a bit weird, as the entire population is composed of immigrants.
      And they were savages, the Europeans have killed almost the entire native population of the U.S.

      And those that are trying to enter the U.S. now aren’t ethnically much different than most Americans.
      Mexicans are mostly Europeans too, although a larger share came from the Iberian peninsula.

      Although I do understand Mexico is a country full of crime, drugs cartels and other nasty stuff that you do not necessarily want in your own country.

      But unlike immigration from the Middle East to Europe, immigrants coming from the America’s are generally culturally and ethnically quite close.

      I understand that there are definitely downsides to immigration, although I find it weird that a country that has its origins as a place for Europeans to flee to does not welcome Europeans from Mexico and Southern America anymore.

      However, restricting immigration to help Ukraine is a deal I would absolutely accept if I were Biden.

      ^bert

  2. “Republican-led US House of Representatives plans to complete its work before December 14… ”

    “Decision due on 12 December whether Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson will participate in election”

    ………

  3. “I believe that sometimes there are moments when this place can’t fail. This feels like one of those moments,”

    https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/12/07/congress/next-steps-border-talks-senate-murphy-lankford-00130616

    I refuse to believe that the USA is going to hand Ukraine over to Orc dogs. But I’m going to burn a lot of candles this weekend.

    My thoughts and prayers are all with Ukraine and Congress.

    Show us that America is still America…!

    • also burn for Trump who said he would be a dictator and would explode the system only on the 1st day. if it passes there will be a before and an after for the whole world. it will be the illustration of the other side of the coin of American power which has no adult alter ego, which likes docile, not to say submissive, allies. there would then be no counterweight to the descent into hell…

  4. “the U.S. Congress must take action to fix it.”

    It’s the responsibility of Congress to write laws, but they’ve punted on the immigration issue through many administrations.

  5. Not liking how the issues got linked together. However if better securing the Southern U.S. border, and providing some immigration reform is what it takes to get Ukraine aid flowing again, then get it done.

    • “some immigration reform” is needed.

      Cutting it off completely, like the white nationalists want to do, would be both wrong and bad for the country.

  6. We must close our southern border and secure it once and for all. But, the aid to a brave nation struggling desperately against a fetid, brutal horde of ghouls should not be held hostage for this to happen. This is downright heinous.

    • As one US guy said yesterday, if Biden gives the GOP what they want concerning the border, then supplies Ukraine with everything they need, he would win the election next year quite easily, as Trump would have nothing to talk about.

      • I can almost agree to this. It beats me to pieces as to why stupid Biden opened our damned borders in the first place. It can’t be for humanitarian reasons, because this has caused lots of human tragedies, both for the immigrants and for the Americans, especially those who live along the border.

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