Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) said during an appearance on the show that there is a “growing chance” that the pro-immigration border bill will not pass the first closing vote. Breitbart News Dailydescribed the measures as smoke and mirrors at best and “at worst inviting more illegal immigration.”
“I’m very confused as to why they thought it was a good thing to have this border emergency authority there,” Lee said when explaining the details of the bill itself.
“Because at first it sounded like a good thing, and then it sold. It was marketed as kind of replicating Title 42, but we don’t need a public health problem like a pandemic at all. “In reality, it was smoke and mirrors at best and, at worst, it led to more illegal immigration,” he said.
“So the idea of not having a citation authority and closing the border, you can’t even do it as a discretionary act until you’re seeing 4,000 migrants a day, and that’s not going to happen.” ization…until we reach 5,000 cases,” which he says is “perplexing.”
“Then we get to the fact that we limit the number of days per year that it can be triggered: 270 days in the first year, 235 days in the second year and 180 days in the third year,” Lee said. He explained.
“Add to all of this the fact that the President and the Secretary of Homeland Security can waive many of these days at their discretion. And other than that it appears to provide some means of securing the border. “It’s gotten to the point where we don’t know if we’re doing anything to help people,” he said, concluding that “it’s not going to do anything other than cause drug cartels to smuggle people into this country. And every American.” “You’re going to plan for them to transport a human, along with fentanyl to kill multiple times,” he said.
Now that more Republican senators have expressed opposition, it is very likely it will fail in the first cloture vote, Lee said.
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“If Chuck Schumer brings it to a vote this week, I expect Republicans to oppose it and vote against a shutdown,” he said, explaining what a shutdown vote would look like. teeth.
“As you know, a closing vote is a vote to end debate, and the first closing vote you take to move forward on a bill is called a closing motion. We need 60 votes to get there. So if all it takes is 41 senators to oppose the shutdown, and 60 can be blocked, even most Republicans, including Sens. McConnell and Lankford, are likely to oppose the shutdown. “It’s increasing,” Lee said.
“We were paying for impact just a few days ago, and now we know that we likely won’t survive the first closing vote,” Lee continued, adding that Senate Chuck Schumer He explained the reality of dealing with the majority leader (Democratic Party). -New York) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
“Very often, when you get the top Republican and Democratic leaders from the Senate, sometimes with the support of the other two or the other House, they come together to put something together, and they secretly put the bill together. and then release it to the American people,” and then telling their elected officials, with just days, even hours left, before an artificially created deadline that they I would like to add that this is something they have come up with – and yet they are saying that it is an emergency and must be passed now, or else something terrible will happen. It will happen if you don’t. That’s one way to get people to vote without reading it, to get people to vote before voters have a chance to know what it’s about,” Lee said, explaining that he was pleading for the bill. . The text of this law had been in the works for several months.
“I finally get it. Once I get it, I don’t know how quickly I’ll call it up for a vote. So when this issue was announced, I stayed up late last night and wondered what I could do about it.” “We’ve looked as far as we can,” he said during an interview, adding, “Even if there is something here, we still haven’t found anything that actually forms a border.” “
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