Biden Doesn't Need Congress to Fix the Border
Another Border Bill Won't Solve the Problem He Created
Mitch McConnell seems pissed. The months his crony open border crony James Lankford spent working out a deal with Democrats to provide border security in exchange for more Ukraine and Israel Aid appears to be over.
According to Punch Bowl News, the Senate Minority Leader has conceded that the border bill is dead on arrival after Trump bashed the bill:
“McConnell told GOP senators that before border security talks began, immigration policy united Republicans and Ukraine aid divided them. “Politics on this have changed,” McConnell said of solving the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. That’s because former President Donald Trump wants to run his 2024 campaign focusing on immigration.
“We don’t want to do anything to undermine him,” McConnell said of Trump, a one-time collaborator turned nemesis.”
From a campaign perspective, this is a disaster because it looks like Republicans are aiding the crisis. Still, more importantly, the bill was garbage that would have done nothing to stop the flow of migrants coming across the border.
While a final bill was never released, according to the details leaked to the press, a large portion of the bill just included corporate giveaways for more cheap labor. It also provided another magnet to welcome more illegal aliens because it would have provided them with work permits so they could compete and drive down the wages of working-class Americans.
The only part of the deal that strictly dealt with the border was limiting the number of migrants allowed to enter the U.S. to 5,000 per day, more than coming in during any period of Trump or Obama’s presidencies.
Unfortunately, most people in the media and conservative punditry are clueless when it comes to immigration law. They like to imagine that we’ve gone several hundred years as a country without meaningful legislation regarding immigration enforcement.
It’s bonkers.