OAN’s Elizabeth Bolbelding
6:31pm – Tuesday, February 20, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden is considering a “bold move” in next month’s State of the Union address to sign “an executive order that would dramatically halt the president’s actions,” according to people close to the president, especially a senior White House official. The emphasis will be on “behaviors that are positive.” This has led to record levels of immigration into the Southwest. ” Axios report.
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So Biden has shown that he actually had the authority to make this decision throughout the border chaos, even though he previously claimed the issue was beyond his control.
Biden said last month that he had “done everything we could” to resolve the border issue. In promoting the Schumer-Lankford bill, he declared, “If that bill were the law today, I would close the border right now.”
Biden has been described as an “old man with a bad memory,” but it’s truly remarkable how he managed to forget that he had this power. Shortly after sparking the border crisis, the president declared that the surge in illegal immigration was normal, claiming that this “happens every year in a lonely year.”
Recently impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has consistently assured Congress and the public that the border is secure, despite the fact that his agency has released approximately 3.5 million illegal immigrants into the United States. I reassured her.
Additionally, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed that Biden has “done more than anyone else to secure our borders and address this immigration issue.” He really does that! ”
Given how blatant and repeated the administration’s false claims on immigration have been, and how negative the results have been, this maneuver just before the 2024 election may not be as successful as Biden envisions. be.
The “bipartisan” Senate bill is designed to be vetoed by Republicans and allows Democratic candidates to shift responsibility for the border situation on their own shoulders. But if the president were to independently stop widespread border incursions, as Republicans have long argued, the legitimacy to rush border action would completely disappear.
The possible wording of the executive order was not disclosed in the leak about the president’s plans; Section 212(f) Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the president has the power to “suspend the admission of all aliens or aliens of any kind” at any time and for as long as he wishes, if he determines that admission would be “harmful.” Can be done. It is in the interest of the United States. ”
Biden also could roll back some of the more than 500 immigration laws he enacted over the past three years to make it easier for undocumented immigrants to enter and remain here. For example, you may choose to hold border jumpers rather than release them, as required by law.
In January, there were about 6,000 illegal immigrants per day at the southern border, down from about 10,000 in December 2023. Every day, thousands of illegal immigrants are released into American cities, where they are taken to shelters, hotels, or facilities. Other facilities willing to house and feed them.
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