How would a President Whitmer handle immigration, border crisis?

Amid increasing calls from immoderate Democrats and liberals for President Biden to measurement speech aft his disastrous statement show past week, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been touted arsenic a imaginable replacement, raising questions astir however she would grip the borderline crisis.

Whitmer, arsenic a politician of a plaything state, has been named arsenic idiosyncratic who could measurement into the relation of the 2024 statesmanlike nominee for Democrats if Biden were to measurement down. Previous polling has suggested she would fare the champion retired of a fig of candidates against erstwhile President Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.

Should she person the information and triumph successful November, she would measurement into a national enactment relation astatine a clip erstwhile immigration policy and the ongoing situation astatine the confederate borderline are apical issues for voters and for the country.

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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer attends a canvass kickoff successful Grand Rapids, Michigan, connected Aug. 2, 2022. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Whitmer has been mostly supportive of what President Biden has done successful presumption of migration policy. When Biden announced further restrictions connected asylum past month, she issued a glowing connection approving of the determination and saying that helium is "delivering."

"President Biden’s enforcement enactment volition assistance unafraid our country’s borderline by making it easier for migration officers to region those who are present unlawfully, reducing the load connected our Border Patrol agents. Today’s announcement builds connected the president’s enactment to deploy a grounds fig of borderline agents and officers to the confederate border," she said. "The American radical privation existent solutions, and President Biden is delivering today."

Like different Democrats, she besides backed Biden’s broader calls for a broad migration measure to hole what the medication has called a "broken" migration system.

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That program included sweeping reforms, further visa pathways, other backing and a pathway to U.S. citizenship for millions of amerciable immigrants. It was rejected by Republicans successful portion owed to the inclusion of an amnesty. Whitmer wants it passed.

"President Biden sent Congress a broad migration betterment program connected time 1 and repeatedly requested much borderline resources from Congress, lone to beryllium blocked by Republicans," she said past month. "They should halt playing governmental games and enactment with the medication connected a coordinated, bipartisan national solution to hole our breached system."

Like Biden, she has besides been profoundly captious of former President Trump’s attitudes toward the border. She antecedently noted that she sent the National Guard to the borderline during Trump’s word successful office, and she has blamed him for sidesplitting a abstracted bipartisan Senate woody to supply backing for the border.

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"He told the Republicans to locomotion away, and they did," she said successful April.

Migrants get astatine a makeshift campy aft crossing the borderline from Mexico adjacent Jacumba Hot Springs successful San Diego connected Feb. 23, 2024. (Qian Weizhong/VCG via Getty Images)

In the authorities itself, she has fixed immoderate indications that she whitethorn instrumentality a harder enactment connected amerciable immigration, surely tougher than immoderate activists would want.

She has provided aggregate National Guard deployments to the border, some during the Trump medication and the Biden medication successful enactment of Texas.

According to her office, she sent 175 unit betwixt 2020 and 2021, and 37 person been stationed since 2020. She besides visited Michigan soldiers astatine the borderline successful 2022.

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Unlike different imaginable Democrats, similar Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom, she has taken a hard enactment against amerciable immigrants receiving authorities benefits. In California, amerciable immigrants are eligible for authorities Medicaid. But Whitmer has shown nary motion of echoing that approach.

"If you are present illegally, I bash not judge that you should person access," Whitmer said successful April, according to the Detroit Free Press.

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Whitmer has travel nether occurrence from immoderate Republicans for a Newcomer Rental Subsidy program, which provides immoderate immigrants up to $500 successful rental assistance. However, it is aimed to assistance asylees, refugees and others who person valid migration presumption successful the U.S. and explicitly states that those successful the state illegally are not eligible for the program.