For his next trick he will morph into a Republican until November 5th..............
Posted on 04/11/2024 6:06:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Joe Biden indicated in a new interview that he is considering taking executive action to secure the southern border.
“Have you made a final decision on taking executive order in terms of what you want to do at the border? That includes the power to shut down the border, as it was suggested,” Univision’s Enrique Acevedo asked Biden in an interview that aired late Tuesday night.
“Well, it’s suggested that we’re examining whether or not I have that power,” Biden answered.
“I would have that power under the legislation,” the president continued, referring to the Senate’s $118 billion spending bill, which included a measure that would allow the president to close the border after 5,000 illegal aliens crossed in a single day. That bill failed in the Senate in February, and House Republican leadership said it would have been dead on arrival in the lower chamber.
“There’s no guarantee that I have that power all by myself without legislation,” Biden said in reference to closing the border, despite what his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, was able to do through executive orders.
Biden, a Democrat, added that “some have suggested I should just go ahead and try it, and if I get shut down by the court, I get shut down by the court.”
“But we’re trying to work through that right now,” he said.
Axios reports that while executive action by Biden on the southern border isn’t yet final, it is expected by the end of April.
Such an executive order or orders have been rumored for weeks, beginning before Biden’s trip to the border Feb. 29 and his State of the Union address March 7.
Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act gives the president authority “to suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens” when the president “finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States,” according to the Congressional Research Service.
As president, Trump used the power outlined in the Immigration and Nationality Act to implement policies to secure the border and keep illegal aliens on the other side, policies that Biden undid through executive actions when he took office in January 2021.
If Biden chooses to take executive action now on securing the border, he will be following Trump’s model and drawing on the power given to the president in U.S. law.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that agents have encountered over 1.1 million illegal aliens at the southern border since the start of fiscal year 2024 on Oct. 1. In February, the latest month for which CBP has published numbers, agents encountered 189,922 illegal aliens at the border, averaging 6,549 a day.
For his next trick he will morph into a Republican until November 5th..............
Well....f&^k me dead!!!! WHAT an idea!!!
get the Senate to Pass HR2 and sign it.
His Obama Gang at the White House will just fly the Illegals in now no need to walk in ,LOL
To secure the border Biden would need to not take executive action since the actions he has taken has opened the border.
Just like they blocked Trump's EO's that undid Obama's EO's.
Right?
Great idea Joe.
Here is a suggestion.
How about you reinstate the 17 Border Related Executive orders that Trump had in place that you revoked on your first day in office?
Oh yeah, it’s an election year. How about that.
Is he too late to solve his ruined economy? The only thing standing in the way of Joe Biden is his own arrogant stupidity, along with 50,000 bureaucrats that prop him up, dress like the Easter Bunny, write his words, and write his policies for his dumb a$$. And oh yeah.. .run the DOJ.
Lol, in illusion only if ever...
Finally decided to lock the barn door...
SHAZAM!
His people found out that they just imported 20 million voters that wouldn’t vote for him in quid-pro-quo fashion like they thought.
Well, maybe so. If “they” have run the numbers and deemed they have the illegal votes needed to get him re-elected, it can only help those numbers by having Joe the marionette appeal to right leaning voters by using a more Conservative sounding rhetoric.
Not the Bee! I had to look.
“It’s suggested that we’re examining whether to have a meeting to discuss whether we should convene a task force to look into the issue of whether I need the Republicans to pass a law to give me the power.”
Now that’s bold leadership right there.
Nixon’s formula:
Go to the right as far as you can to get the nomination, then run back to the middle to get elected.
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