Posted on 01/30/2024 5:33:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The White House, corporate media, and even Senate Republicans claim Democrats’ open-border amnesty bill, which does more to secure Ukraine than the U.S., is the only way to successfully curb the influx of more than 10 million illegal border crossers. The real power to end the record-breaking Southern border crisis, however, lies with President Joe Biden, who previously used his executive authority to undo all of his predecessor’s border safeguards. He simply isn’t wielding it.
“Have you done everything you can do with executive authority [on the border]?” a reporter asked the president on the White House lawn on Tuesday.
“I’ve done all I can do. Just give me the power…! Give me the border patrol! Give me the people! The judges! Give me the people who can stop this and make it work right!” Biden replied.
John Kirby, Biden’s coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council, also denied during a White House press briefing on Monday that Biden was “withholding executive action on the border until he gets the money” from the Senate border deal. Shortly after, he confirmed the administration’s stance, which is that “the proper way forward is to get the supplemental passed.”
Democrats’ not-so-secret long game is to blame the ongoing border crisis on House Republicans who refuse to give into Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s manipulation tactics by passing a bad border bill.
Republicans like Sen. James Lankford, who was chastised by his state’s GOP for “playing fast and loose with Democrats on our border policy,” want you to believe that their negotiations are the only path forward. They want you to believe that the administration they swore to punish for the border’s collapse is making a good-faith effort to fix it.
But even Trump, who was McConnell’s original target for ire, saw through the establishment senators’ sham.
“They are using this horrific Senate Bill as a way of being able to put the BORDER DISASTER onto the shoulders of the Republicans. The Democrats BROKE THE BORDER, they should fix it. NO LEGISLATION IS NEEDED, IT’S ALREADY THERE!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
During his first hours in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2021, Biden halted construction on Trump’s border wall. The former vice president also rescinded the Republican’s executive order refusing federal funding to “sanctuary” cities harboring illegal migrants, discouraged the immediate removal of illegal border crossers who committed crimes, and toppled Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy.
Biden’s day-one proclamations were just the beginning of what would become 296 executive actions on immigration and the southern security boundary in just his first year. Since then, the Democrat has continued to loosen border enforcement by demanding agents avoid making arrests, scaling back ICE deportation, and reinstating Obama-era catch-and-release.
Overall, nearly 1/3 of Biden’s border actions were reversals of his predecessor’s policies.
Biden’s pen doesn’t simply hold the power to undo our nation’s defenses. In October 2023, the Democrat waived 26 federal laws to resume construction of the border wall to comply with a 2019 appropriations bill.
Unlike Trump, who had to jump through judiciary hoops every time he tried to secure the Southern border, Biden could cut off the hundreds of thousands of people without a hitch thanks to the administrative state’s disinterest in opposing its preferred presidential pawn.
The only reason Biden has yet to use his power to secure the border (and satiate voters who say illegal immigration is their top concern heading into the 2024 election) is because he simply doesn’t want to.
With one stroke of a pen, our commander-in-chief could authorize the return of law and order to our border by shutting it down. With one press conference, he could threaten Mexico with steep tariffs for being an accomplice to the crisis as Trump did.
Instead, Biden is using more time and effort to pump up legislation that would codify the crisis and fight a state that wants to defend itself against the invasion.
Biden never had a change of heart about our national security crisis. He never wanted to secure the border. His decision to throw his weight behind controversial border legislation instead of exercising his executive authority simply means that the bill fits perfectly in his deliberate plan to run a borderless nation.
First thing he did was get rid of Trumps arrangement with Mexico and got the wall stopped.
Headline says it all. No further comment possible.
First thing he did was what 10% gets for the customer’s of his. Second thing was to do whatever the old Obama state department criminals told him to do.
Not enough is being done to put 100% of the blame for the open borders invasion on Biden and the Democrats. Biden’s feeble “congress must act” defense must be brushed aside and blame for all the sins and deprivations of open borders hung around Democrats necks.
At least half the GOP Senators are equally as guilty as Biden.
Sorry folks, this is what the Democrat large donor class and the chamber of commerce wants to fill the cheap labor jobs, most in hospitality and farming sectors. This also will minimize the declining birth rate in the US to meet the replacement rate to stop the population tree from inverting.
And before I get hit with “Americans can fill those jobs” what 18 year old American is going to move to middle of nowhere USA to work at a chicken processing plant for 8-10 hours a day for minimum wage even if the pay is 15.00 an hour? Lay a tar roof on a scorching hot day and other back breaking menial work.
I’m not saying the avg US worker can’t they are. It taking the open jobs even if available
So the dopers on the hill believe that if Pedo Joe opens the borders, wetbacks will stop coming here illegally? Someone is smoking more than just weed.
Ending the border crisis is what Trump would do, so,
no effing deal!
Biden is doing the bidding of enemies of the country. He has been for forty years. Why do we expect him to do the right thing now? He won’t. The border must be restored yesterday
Exactly. He won’t do it because it would be an admission that Trump was right. He’d rather see the country burn before acknowledging Trump was doing the right things.
There is no difference with the gop and dems on illegal immigration. None.
just end ALL asylum, and the problem is solved.
Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
“Whenever 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, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”
via The Conservative Treehouse
“New memos unveiled by the Trump administration Tuesday outline a sweeping plan to detain and deport certain undocumented immigrants as well as add more than 15,000 immigration, border patrol and customs agents, but White House press secretary Sean Spicer said mass deportation is not the goal.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/immigration-memos-announce-15000-hires/story?id=45631883
BIDEN IS A TRAITOR, should be the headline.
Biden isn’t in charge. It doesn’t matter what Biden says.
All dementia joe had to do was leave every Trump border policy in place.
The “New World Order” would have nothing to do with that.
Now dementia joe gets to deal with the wrath of his puppet action.
Biden and his administration have been working very hard to make the border completely insecure. They have violated the laws regarding border security.
Any idiot who trusts this nasty chomo to keep his word is an idiot.
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