On Tuesday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “The Hill,” U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) said he wants a border deal to pass Congress, but now that it’s not happening, Joe President Biden said there is a need to use current law to quickly reach a border agreement. expel and make the expulsion public.
“It’s very interesting that Republicans don’t want to do a border deal that they’ve been talking about for months, but they still want to impeach a secretary who is not doing his job,” Cuellar said. But again, Congress does not do its job by passing border agreements. In other words, we are misplacing the P of politics rather than the P of policy. ”
Host Blake Berman then asked, “What did you just say to the White House when the political reality is that nothing will happen on the southern border before the election?” So, what have you communicated to the White House, to members of Congress, and what do you think President Biden needs to do going forward in terms of some executive action? ”
Mr. Cuellar replied: “I think, first of all, we need to look at the current law called Title VIII and do expedited removal. And when he does expedited deportation, it’s not about people coming in; We need to publicize as much as possible how people are being deported.In fact, if you look at the numbers, Biden has already actually deported more people than the president.Trump has. Of course, there’s a bigger number, but he doesn’t show it. So I’m going to use the current law, Title VIII, to do expedited removal, and if we actually enforce the law. We promote people to come back so that the image penetrates into the minds of other people and other countries to show that it is a law.”
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