Spinning and scapegoating were reportedly in the works from Democrats readying their plan to fully foist blame for the border on the GOP.
“After all, you can’t say it’s an emergency and then refuse to take action.”
Having spent three years overseeing the unmitigated disaster at the U.S.-Mexico border, kicked off with executive actions and an invitation from President Joe Biden, his party is eyeing election year gaslighting to fault Republicans for their globalist mess.
NBC News reported Monday on a Senate meeting with “key administration officials and top Democratic lawmakers” that sources said “included potential executive actions within the coming weeks.”
With attendees including New York’s Democratic duo Senate Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, it was detailed that the left would be forcing votes on the border and immigration that Republicans would oppose to hammer home their messaging of the right as obstructionists to solutions and their idea of progress.
“Democrats have made clear that the situation at the border is unacceptable,” Schumer said in a statement reported by NBC News. “That’s why we worked in a bipartisan fashion to craft the strongest border security bill in a generation, endorsed by the border patrol union.”
“Republicans need to get serious about fixing the border and ignore Donald Trump. After all, you can’t say it’s an emergency and then refuse to take action,” continued the senator as he touted the Biden-endorsed border bill that simultaneously allowed for nearly 2 million illegal entries into the country per year while suggesting the influx could be curbed immediately if a threshold of 5,000 daily encounters was reached.
Wholly ignored by Schumer, on top of the realities that Democrats peddled amnesty and sanctuary cities, was the fact that on May 11, 2023, the Republican-led House of Representatives had passed H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act, by a vote of 219-213 with only two members of the GOP siding with Democrats and three congressmen marked as not voting.
Nearly a full year later, the Senate had yet to hold a vote on the bill that, if enacted, would impose limits to asylum eligibility, mandate the use of electronic verification for employment eligibility, and require the Department of Homeland Security to abide by the law, build the wall and provide plans regarding border security among other things.
Much like the fear Democrats had from the far-left on backlash were they to aim to quell pro-Palestine campus protests, Amnesty International USA’s director of refugee and migrant rights Amy Fischer bristled at the potential for actions from the president.
“The executive action is merely a political move to amp up cruelty against people seeking asylum at the border ahead of the election,” she told NBC News. “Instead of investing in policies that build and strengthen a humanitarian infrastructure, the Biden administration has instead decided to sow more chaos at the border and restrict the rights of people seeking asylum in the U.S.”
According to a DHS security official, it was suggested Biden would invoke Section 212(F) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, giving the president discretion over who is admitted into the country
Packing on the propaganda, 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.”
“No executive action, no matter how aggressive, can deliver the significant policy reforms and additional resources Congress can provide and that Republicans rejected,” added the spokesperson to NBC News. “We continue to call on Speaker Johnson and House Republicans to pass the bipartisan deal to secure the border.”
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