The Biden administration is considering executive action to deter illegal migration at the southern border
By: NBC News
What a dork. He has had the power all along this being the case.
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Feb. 8, 2024, 2:15 AM UTCBy Julia Ainsley and Monica Alba
The Biden administration is considering taking executive action to deter illegal migration across the southern border, according to two U.S. officials.
As passing legislation on border security in Congress appears unlikely, the plans under consideration signal that the White House wants to take action before numbers at the border, which have dropped in the past month, rise again as expected.
The plans have been under consideration for months, the officials said. In December, as Congress prepared to leave town for the holidays with no border solution, illegal crossings of the southwest border hit records at more than 10,000 per day.
The unilateral measures under consideration might upset some progressives in Congress, the officials said, but they noted that Democratic mayors who have asked for more help from the federal government to handle the influx of migrants in their cities would be pleased. The measures are still being drafted and are not expected to take place any time soon.
On Wednesday, Senate Republicans blocked a bipartisan border bill that they had negotiated with Democrats and the Biden administration over the preceding months.
In a statement, a White House spokesperson said, "The administration spent months negotiating in good faith to deliver the toughest and fairest bipartisan border security bill in decades because we need Congress to make significant policy reforms and to provide additional funding to secure our border."
"Today, Congressional Republicans chose to put partisan politics ahead of our national security and voted against what border agents have said they need. No regulatory actions would accomplish what the bipartisan national security agreement would have done for border security and the immigration system at large."
Regardless of how much any executive action might appear to increase immigration enforcement both on the border and in the interior of the U.S., the officials said, it would pale in comparison to the effects that would arise if Congress had passed the border security bill.
"It's a plan B," an official said. Both officials said doing nothing is not an option.
On Tuesday, President Joe Biden argued the bipartisan bill would have "made important fixes to our broken immigration system," calling it "the toughest, fairest law" on the border ever proposed.
Biden faces growing political backlash, some of it from members of his own party, over his handling of the border as he campaigns for re-election. He plans to cite the Republican turnabout on the bipartisan border legislation as proof that for political reasons the GOP doesnot really want to solve the problem. But he is still vulnerable on the issue, trailing his likely 2024 opponent, former President Donald Trump, by more than 30 points on securing the border and controlling immigration, according to a new NBC News poll released this week.
The Biden administration has already taken multiple unilateral actions to try to stem the flow of migrants.
In May, when Covid restrictions were set to lift at the border, the Department of Homeland Security introduced restrictions that would make more migrants eligible for speedy deportations. But overwhelming numbers meant the vast majority of migrants apprehended by border agents were still released into the U.S.
Julia Ainsley
Julia Ainsley is homeland security correspondent for NBC News and covers the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department for the NBC News Investigative Unit.
Monica Alba
Monica Alba is a White House correspondent for NBC News.
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Should have left it alone on "Day 1". This rah rah piece seems to stink to high heavens. Toughest and fairest my aching back. It's bullshit.
Joe is between a rock and a hard place. Do something about the border and show that he had the power to something all along or double down on convincing people it is all the republicans fault. How stupid Joe and his minions think the American public are and how it can impact his reelection will dictate what he does. The decision has nothing to do with what is best for Americans or Joe would have addressed this by doing nothing (what he is best at) when he took office.
He's going to double down on stupid and go with the latter. And all that despite his EO and policies that caused all of it.
These Democratic mayors have only dealt with a fraction of what border states and cities are dealing with. But it took THEM to cry that they had to act to back up their Sanctuary Shithole declarations and policies to get anything done. Fucking pathetic.
So where was this negotiation during the previous administration? Oh, that's right the Democrats and the left were calling any measures to secure the border "racist" and attempted to block it at every opportunity.
Did you know that a migrant who makes an asylum request at a port of entry is not an illegal immigrant? The illegal aspect of illegal immigration is that the migrant has entered the country illegally. How is it possible to stop illegal entry with an open border?
The unbiased liberal press has been talking about triggers to close the border. The only thing that accomplishes is making legislating that an illegal activity has become legal. It's like marijuana laws legislating away a crime but the law doesn't address the consequences. A dope head is still a dope head, legal or not.
And once the President has been triggered then how does the President close the border? There aren't any walls, wire, or manpower to turn back people trying tin enter the country illegally. Even a triggered President cannot close a wide open border. A President could round up the law breakers and deport them but that should already be happening.
The only thing the bipartisan immigration bill accomplished was to legalize illegal entry into the country. That ain't the reform we need. What needs reform is how Presidents refuse to enforce the law. What needs reform is how Presidents refuse to close the border to illegal entry. What needs reform is how Presidents turn a blind eye to the crime of illegally entering the country.
If the ports of entry are overwhelmed then we need to deploy more resources to those ports of entry. Maybe we need to add new ports of entry. But we can't do that because the resources are diverted to assist criminals entering the country illegally.
Even a blind squirrel stumbles on a nut once in a while. He intentionally created this disaster, about time to start trying to clean up this mess.
The Dems don't understand why the Repubs don't wanna fund Ukraine, Israel, Yemen when the Dems don't even consider funding protection of our borders???
The Dems are DEMANDING we continue funding wars not dealing or even pertinent to our borders or the loss of life, etc. of U.S. Citizens for what purpose???
Thomas Jefferson had it right in the 1700's - in his Notes on Virginia, written in the early 1780s, Thomas Jefferson expressed skepticism that large numbers of immigrants from culturally different countries would help the U.S. to thrive. “Suppose 20 millions of republican Americans thrown all of a sudden into France, what would be the condition of that kingdom?,” he wrote. “If it would be more turbulent, less happy, less strong, we may believe that the addition of half a million of foreigners to our present numbers would produce a similar effect here.”
And there ya have it.
Where in the frick are their fish heads????
Thoms Jefferson was a very wise man, and our country would not as good as it is without him.
Making an asylum request does not mean they should be approved. The standard should be very high and should be limited by space available and resources available.
An asylum request, according to the laws/statutes, DOES NOT GUARANTEE ILLEGAL ALIENS ENTRY INTO THE U.S. - only a hearing, in front of an immigration judge, will give them that approval - if the judge authorizes it.
You file for asylum? Fine - stay in your country until your case is called to court - FOLLOW THE FRIGGIN' LAW.
Kick'm out until they're LEGALLY required to be in the U.S..
It is amazing how many people don't understand that.
There's any number of better ways to handle it than "go into the country and show up for a hearing in ten years if you want to"
Sadly, 92% DO NOT SHOW UP for their court date 'cause the courts have no idea where they are to send them their notice for court date.
It isn't that hard to figure out..........
And they will continue to claim they are seeking asylum right up to the time they are deported. (only to do it all over again)