A exasperated President Biden, trying to immigration off his back , and send money to the Ukraine, yesterday said in so many words…..
‘Screw it!….I’ll close the border if you House GOPer’s want me to….’
Lawmakers HAVE put THAT in the bill they are finishing up…
This is bound to get Biden in trouble with parts of his part….
BUT?
In the footsteps of Bill Clinton’s ‘steal the issue from them Republicans’?
Biden’s move has Donald Trump abruptly backing up and saying?
‘Don’t let that Democrat who beat me, ACTUALLY do what I did, and close the Border!?’
Ya can’t make this shit up…
I have preached this over and OVER here….
Republican’s and ole’ Donald are NOT looking for a solution to the immigration sitaution…
They are ONLY looking to KEEP beating Democrats on it….
The day after President Joe Biden ramped up his rhetoric on a border deal, former President Donald Trump again tried to undercut the chances of significant immigration reform this year.
“A bad border deal is far worse than no border deal,” the former president and GOP presidential frontrunner wrote in all-caps on Truth Social.
The bipartisan deal, which Senate negotiators have not yet finalized, could grant Biden’s administration the authority to shut down the border if pre-determined triggers for daily border crossings are met.
“What’s been negotiated would – if passed into law – be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country,” Biden said in a statement Friday.
“It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law,” he continued, urging Congress to pass the legislation.
Trump’s solidifying of his status as the GOP frontrunner for the presidential nomination in New Hampshire this week threw Senate talks on the border deal into chaos, with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell eventually dispelling doubts about his commitment to a deal.
While many Senate Republicans are on board with the deal, it is far less popular among Trump-aligned House Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson.
Trump has made immigration reform and the border a central plank of his election campaign….
A side story to this….
The calls for states to fight (Trump’s credo) the Federal Government have gone off the hook….
Salt Lake Tribune: “A bill creating a process to give legislators the power to order state officials and agencies to ignore federal laws and regulations was approved by the Utah House of Representatives on Friday.”
“The House passage follows Gov. Spencer Cox’s endorsement of Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to defy the Supreme Court and supplant federal authority over the southern border.”
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Donald Trump called on “all willing States to deploy their national guards to Texas to prevent the entry of Illegals, and to remove them back across the Border.”
He added: “Biden is, unbelievably, fighting to tie the hands of Governor Abbott and the State of Texas, so that the Invasion continues unchecked. Texas has rightly invoked the Invasion Clause of the Constitution, and must be given full support to repel the invasion.”
A bunch of back and forths on Biden vs House GOPer’s and Trump and Dem’s…..
…And then it was Biden’s turn.
In a Friday evening statement, he endorsed the deal no one has yet seen, calling it “the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country” and a “win for America.” He added, “If you’re serious about the border crisis, pass a bipartisan bill and I will sign it.”
OK, sure, sounds good.
But then there was this: “It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.”
As Myah Ward and Burgess Everett report, that statement represents “a ramping up in rhetoric for the administration, placing the president philosophically in the camp arguing that the border may hit a point where closure is needed.”
It also amounts to a perfect way to infuriate forces on both the left and the right who have been working to kill a deal.
As for the right, the reaction was pretty straightforward: Biden already has the authority he needs to clamp down on the border, so just use it already. (Never mind that Trump sought similar additional authorities from Congress when he was president.)
As for the left, well, let’s just say that immigration advocates who had been pleasantly surprised by the Biden administration’s approach after four years of Trump are not pleased. At all.
“President Biden is finally admitting that he’s given up on his campaign promise to enact more humane immigration policies than Trump,” a former Biden immigration official texted Playbook last night. “He would rather adopt Trump’s border rhetoric than continue the work he started as Vice President to fix the border by addressing the root causes of migration.”
The person, who also worked under former President BARACK OBAMA, added: “Even worse, he’s making a promise he will not be able to keep. He is about to lose all credibility on the global stage to tell other democracies to treat migrants at the border fairly and humanely.”
Las Americas Executive Director MARISA LIMON GARZA, who has met with Biden officials for years, called the statement “the most uninformed, short-sighted idea of a solution as could be” and a break from the administration’s prior policy commitments….
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