“I’ve seen enough,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced on Sunday night.
Just hours after Senate negotiators released their pro-illegal-immigration border package, Johnson vowed it would never pass the House.
“I’ve seen enough. This bill is even worse than we expected and won’t come close to ending the border catastrophe the President has created. As the lead Democrat negotiator proclaimed: Under this legislation, ‘the border never closes.'”
I’ve seen enough. This bill is even worse than we expected, and won’t come close to ending the border catastrophe the President has created. As the lead Democrat negotiator proclaimed: Under this legislation, “the border never closes.”
If this bill reaches the House, it will be…
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) February 5, 2024
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Johnson cited a comment by the senior Democratic negotiator, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), who rightly stated that “the border never closes” under the bipartisan agreement.
Murphy highlighted a “requirement” in the measure for “the President to funnel asylum claims to the land ports of entry when more than 5,000 people cross a day. The border never closes, but claims must be processed at the ports. This allows for a more orderly, humane asylum processing system.”
However, his post is misleading. The criterion for declaring a new emergency authority is 8,500 migrant interactions each day, not 5,000. It would take an average of 5,000 migrants crossing per day for seven days to use the secretary’s authority to declare an emergency. Murphy was spreading disinformation.
And, contrary to Murphy’s allegation, the language in the bill states that the secretary “shall” activate the border power, not “must.”
Further weakening the text, the president has the right to suspend the declaration for 45 days.
Despite Johnson’s unequivocal statement that the bill will fail in the House, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is poised to begin pulling procedural triggers on Monday to allow votes on the bill this week.
President Donald Trump expressed strong opposition to the Senate’s pro-migration border plan.
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Trump joined a chorus of Republicans who opposed the accord struck by Sen. James Lankford (R-OK).
“Only a fool, or a Radical Left Democrat, would vote for this horrendous Border Bill, which only gives Shutdown Authority after 5000 Encounters a day, when we already have the right to CLOSE THE BORDER NOW, which must be done,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “This Bill is a great gift to the Democrats, and a Death Wish for The Republican Party.”
He went on to say, “It takes the HORRIBLE JOB the Democrats have done on Immigration and the Border, absolves them, and puts it all squarely on the shoulders of Republicans. Don’t be STUPID!!! We need a separate Border and Immigration Bill. It should not be tied to foreign aid in any way, shape, or form! The Democrats broke Immigration and the Border. They should fix it. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
In a second post, Trump stated, “The ridiculous “Border” Bill is nothing more than a highly sophisticated trap for Republicans to assume the blame on what the Radical Left Democrats have done to our Border, just in time for our most important EVER Election. Don’t fall for it!!!”
Kyle Becker pointed out on X on Sunday something written in the bill that should make any lawmaker who is serious about border security reject the entire thing straight away.
“Oh by the way, if at any moment Joe Biden doesn’t like the “border emergency” declaration he can end it at will.
That’s actually in the bill, lol ”
Oh by the way, if at any moment Joe Biden doesn't like the "border emergency" declaration he can end it at will.
That's actually in the bill, lol 🔻 pic.twitter.com/ZAjh4aY0ZW
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) February 5, 2024
Throughout the months-long talks, Lankford vehemently opposed claims that the plan would have a 5,000 migrant contact threshold. He said it was “absolutely absurd.” Well, here we are living in the absurdity of this bill.
“It would be absolutely absurd for me to agree to 5,000 people a day,” he told reporters.
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) went so far as to imply that the reports of the provision’s inclusion were the result of Russian disinformation campaigns.
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who has stated that he and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) worked closely together on the agreement, is set to convene the bill’s first procedural vote on Wednesday.
“I have never worked more closely with Leader McConnell on any piece of legislation as we did on this,” Schumer told reporters on Sunday. Which means they are both snakes in the grass who have designs on flooding our country with even more illegals than have already crossed our border.
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