Discussions around the southern border show how sharply the United States immigration policy has shifted to the right. On his first day, President Biden sent a bill to Congress to "restore humanity and American values in our immigration system." Almost three years later, he considers the possibility of imposing large -scale restrictions on migration in exchange for assistance to Ukraine and Israel.
This is the last feature of how radically changed immigration policy in the United States, where, according to polls, support, even in the Presidential Party, border events that had once condemned Democrats and former President Donald Trump.
But it is also a game for Mr Biden, who risks to move away from some of the democratic party's democratic principles and to pursue key parts of his main electorate, such as progressive and young voters.
"There is no doubt that there were shifts in this matter, partly due to the influx of migrants to these big cities," said David Axelrod, the chief adviser to former President Barack Obama. "There are limits where it can and should go, but it is almost a gift - to be able to do what it may have been harder to do."
The southern border is a politically vulnerable place for Biden, who could not contain a record number of migrants heading north, escaping from bandit violence, poverty and natural disasters. The states led by the Republicans sent buses with migrants to liberal bastions such as Washington and New York, in protest against what they characterize Biden's unsuccessful politics.
With the increase in the number of border crossings, the political center of gravity on this issue has shifted sharply to the right. Polls The New York Times and the College in the States where the elections will be held, showed that voters prefer Trump over Biden in immigration with a difference of 12 points.
Senator John Fetterman from Pennsylvania, Democrat with left -wing political views, said his position on limiting migration puts him in contrast with the liberal wing of his party.
"I'm not progressive," Mr Fetterman said in an interview with NBC News.
And some of the most famous governors and mayors of the country whose communities feel the burden of the cost of maintaining migrants, put pressure on Mr Biden, demanding that he find new ways to overcome the crisis.
The fact that Republicans refused to maintain further assistance to Ukraine without new strengthening immigration can give Biden this opportunity, sociologists, political experts and some Democrats believe.
Mr Biden stated that he was ready to go to "significant compromises" on the safety of borders to satisfy the Republicans who stated that they would not support further assistance to Ukraine without new strengthening control over immigration.
Some of the proposals on the table include complications of asylum in the United States, and the White House made it clear that he was ready to consider them. The idea is to raise the standards that migrants should meet when they claim that they need asylum in the United States because of fears of persecution at home.
But Republicans also want to limit the use of immigration policies known as humanitarian parole, which allowed thousands of Afghans, Ukrainians and other people who escape from war and violence to come to the United States. Democrats have not yet agreed to this proposal.
Republicans and Democrats also discuss a policy that would quickly turn away people at the border as soon as the number of arrests at the border will reach a certain level.
"It was quite obvious that they were considering things that would be controversial," said Senator Richard Durly, Democrat from Illinois, about the White House approach to negotiations this week. "It is necessary to make changes to our policy at the border."
The negotiations lasted during the weekend, but there were few signs of a potential breakthrough until the end of the year. Although the White House and Democrats did not sign the restriction, the fact that they even consider them, indignantly, angered the progressives and immigration defenders.
"I just think it is unfortunate that we are constantly doing it when we buy and try to beat the Republicans," said Pramila Jaapal, the leader of a progressive cocus of Congress. "It has never worked. The strategy of only coercion does not work."
Ms. Jiaapal is one of many progressives who seem to have reached boiling points in relationships with the white home. They say that a recent survey does not ask voters about the long -term consequences of the policy under consideration, which, according to them, will include deportation of refugees seeking asylum in the US and the breakdown of families.
"To throw immigrants under the bus - and I saw how it happens again and again - is not a good election strategy," Ms Dzhaapal said.
Baiden's assistants say he is trying to find a compromise to provide the financial assistance needed by Ukraine to win the war with Russia. They say Baiden's approach cannot be compared to Trump's approach, who divided thousands of families on the border.
Answering questions about the possible adoption of Trump's era in exchange for help, Karin Jean-Pierre, a White House spokesman, said this week that the White House strategy was in line with Mr Biden's approach during the past negotiations on the Capitol Hill.
"We understand that in order to come to a compromise and make something on behalf of the American people, we need to find a two-party way to do it," said Ms. Jean-Pierre.
But some party members fear that such a policy will turn away asylum seekers for many years.
Gib Vaskes MP, Democrat from New Mexico, said Democrats "need to look at something more than the political moment of today and what the poll show."
