WASHINGTON, DC – Prominent Republican senators on Tuesday spoke out at a press conference opposing the “dead” pro-immigration border bill announced on Sunday, saying President Joe Biden already has the authority to address the crisis at the southern border through executive action. He emphasized that there is.
Seven conservative Republican senators – Ted Cruz (R-FL), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Mike Lee (R-UT), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Eric Sens. Schmidt (R-MO), Rick Scott (R-MO), and J.D. Vance (R-OH) spoke in solidarity with the bill at a Tuesday press conference, each stating their opposition to the bill. I spoke about the reason.
In a meeting with reporters, Cruz claimed that Biden “intentionally” caused the border crisis with three executive actions in his first week in office, and vowed to immediately reverse those decisions if he felt like it. He pointed out that it is also possible.
He inherited the lowest illegal immigration rate in 45 years, halted construction of the border wall in his first week in office, reinstated the disastrous policy of catch-and-release, and achieved incredible success. The country withdrew from the Mexico Remain Agreement. . That is what caused this explosion. It also means Joe Biden could solve this problem tomorrow. How will he solve it tomorrow? By overturning these three decisions, he can once again have secure borders.
Cruz claimed that Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) “don’t want to secure the border.”
“Instead, this bill codified Joe Biden’s open borders. This bill codified catch-and-release. Catch-and-release is against the law, but if we pass this bill… If they had, catch-and-release would be right in the U.S. code,” Cruz said. “This bill normalizes 5,000 illegal immigrants per day.”
This equates to 1.8 million immigrants per year, he noted.
“We’ve seen 9.6 million illegal immigrants under Joe Biden. Apparently, the Republican position is going to be, ‘We don’t like your 9.6.’ [million]But two-thirds of illegal immigrants are fine. “It was ridiculous,” he added.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said that even if the bill fails to pass the Senate, the bill would “fail” in the House in the now unlikely scenario. Ta. Cruz argued that since there is no realistic chance of the bill becoming law, “the entire purpose of this bill is to give political camouflage to Democrats running in November.”
The purpose of this bill is, first of all, to do nothing to secure the border, to do nothing, and to have every Democrat running for office say, “Well, I wanted to secure the border; It meant “not to do it.” let us. ‘This is all about talking points to deceive voters.
Following Cruz, Marshall echoed the Texas senator’s comments, saying that while “Biden was able to secure the border yesterday,” “that was never his goal.”
“Joe Biden’s goal is to fund Ukraine, not to fund Israel. He wants to fund Hamas. It’s very clear what his goal is. I think it’s clear. Right now, he doesn’t want to do anything that could hurt Iranian feelings. That’s Joe Biden’s goal,” Marshall said.
Mr. Vance expressed the same opinion in his remarks.
“The basic framework here is that Joe Biden has every tool at his disposal to end the border crisis tomorrow,” Vance said.
The Ohio senator further noted that Republicans are “trying to force the president to do something he can already do under existing legal authority,” but “nearly every provision in this bill authorizes one or the other.” . [Department of Homeland] secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas or the President of the United States should abandon the enforcement mechanism. ”
“What we need to do is not force Joe Biden to do his job and curtail his discretion and limit his discretion, but give him more power to circumvent the laws that we have in this country. It’s not about giving,” Vance later added. “This bill does not do that. Therefore, we cannot support it.”
Mr. Schmidt, Mr. Cruz, and Mr. Marshall all shared the belief that the bill is “dead.” Lee told SiriusXM. Breitbart News Daily It was announced early Tuesday that there was an “increasing likelihood” that the bill would not pass the first closing vote.
