House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) led a group of 60 Republican lawmakers to the border to demonstrate President Joe Biden's refusal to protect families and communities from foreign immigrants. I'm on my way.
he It is scheduled A press conference will be held at 3:30 ET at Shelby Park Boat Launch in Eagle Pass. The boat launch has been used by Biden's lawmakers to import hundreds of thousands of economic migrants. The statement states:
Speaker Johnson and House Republicans will hold a press conference to highlight the Biden administration's failures in enforcing border policy, its experience on the ground, and its consultations with federal, state and local officials.
Democrats and pro-immigration journalists have sought to downplay what could be the largest visit by lawmakers to the border.
This is a comparison between Eagle Pass from just a few weeks ago and yesterday.
The Biden administration has decided to divert a flood of illegal immigrants elsewhere to avoid them appearing on camera. @HouseGOP's visit to Eagle Pass. Don't be fooled, they are still released… pic.twitter.com/XzjPVq5xxB
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) January 2, 2024
The event comes after Biden's lawmakers acknowledged that at least 300,000 economic migrants crossed the border on foot in December. In 2023, Biden is likely to import approximately 3.3 million immigrants across the southern border, which is approximately one immigrant for every American birth.
Since August, more arrivals have officially arrived each month than there are children born to American mothers.
And these are just official encounters. We don't know how many evaded detection. https://t.co/7Bt52x0385 pic.twitter.com/2APOiICGW0
— ~~Data Hazard~~ (@fentasyl) December 29, 2023
This event has already been announced by the Republican Party. passed it A comprehensive, legally scrutinized and popular border stability bill called HR 2.
Johnson has repeatedly pushed for HR2 as Republican senators negotiate a border security deal with Biden's pro-immigration allies. These talks are intertwined with Biden's $14 billion request to accelerate and cover up immigration during the 2024 campaign.
But Republican senators don't want to deal with the deeper issues of immigration damage to pocketbooks and civil harm to ordinary Americans. “I think asylum reform, parole restrictions and re-invoking Title 42 are enough to pass the House,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). Said CBS News on December 31st.
In response, Representative Tony Gonzalez (R-Texas) said: Said Punch Bowl News:
i said [GOP senators] Whatever policy comes out of the Senate will likely be different from what the House ultimately agrees to. …They don't understand it yet. They're like, “Oh, we're senators and we're working with the White House and we figured this all out.” This is another house.
Mr. Gonzalez is important because he works with donors in the Republican Party's pro-immigration program. Their support is helping bring Republican politicians to the border for business-biased press conferences that downplay the pocketbook impact of Biden's migration on American families.
Many Republicans at the press conference will instead try to avoid an immigration crisis by focusing on border crossings. Partly due to pressure from donors, few are willing to talk about the growing economic and civic impact of mass immigration on the nation's cities and towns, young workers and families, schools and workplaces, communities and hospitals.
A focus on the border could minimize conflicts with Republican donors who openly welcome Biden's massive influx of new consumers, renters and low-wage workers. Significant donors include many local business owners, including auto dealers, landowners, retailers, ranchers, and builders, as well as Fortune 500 companies and national lobbying organizations for coastal investors.
For example, Punchbowl quoted Gonzalez as saying:
Gonzalez said He is calling on Congress to significantly increase the number of daily repatriation flights for illegal immigrants. Gonzalez said that at this time, ICE uses this practice against immigrants who have not applied for asylum in the United States. Gonzalez also said he would push for stronger border security in his bill.
Gonzalez is a member of the establishment Republican Party, along with fellow Latino Republican Rep. Juan Siscomani (R-Texas). Companies benefit from an influx of low-wage workers, consumers on welfare, and renters who share apartments.
Johnson holds a slim majority in the House of Representatives and must zigzag between the growing populist and establishment factions of the Republican Party and Democrats who are almost unanimously opposed to curbing immigration.
Rep. Roy on the border crisis: “If you fund it, you own it.”
“We must choose whether to fight for the people we came to Washington to fight for.”#NoSecurityNoFunding #HR2 pic.twitter.com/Mgqe8dEhEF
— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) January 3, 2024
Republican politicians know that voters strongly oppose any donations to pro-immigration business groups.
For example, an Associated Press poll found that immigration will be the most important political issue for Americans in 2024, outside of the current war with nuclear-armed Russia.
Nationally, “35% say immigration and the border wall are their top concern, up from 27% last year.” Said December 2023 public opinion poll conducted by The Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Among Republicans, immigration was the top issue at 55% of respondents, ahead of foreign policy at 46%, inflation at 41% and the economy at 32%.
Many polls show that the public is increasingly opposed to Biden's invitation. millions of economic immigrants.
In New York state, 62% of Catholics say legal immigration is a burden, while just 27% say it's a benefit, according to a Siena College poll conducted in October. new york times.
A majority of Americans say immigration is an invasion, and the public is increasingly rejecting the Cold War narrative that America remains a “nation of immigrants.”
What is the difference between HR2 that passed the House and the “compromise” bill that passed the Senate?
I took it apart 👇 pic.twitter.com/HWWx3pK5Ds
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) November 20, 2023
