White House officials told NBC that President Joe Biden plans to use executive powers to curb immigration ahead of the 2024 election.
The admission comes after Republicans’ main argument in this month’s partisan political battle over the border — that Biden’s choice not to use executive authority — is that Biden’s choice not to use executive authority is a sign of the massive and costly influx of more than 6 million migrants since January 2021. This acknowledges the claim that it caused the
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The Biden administration is considering executive action to stop illegal immigration from crossing the southern border, two U.S. officials said.
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Officials say the plan has been under consideration for several months. In December, as Congress prepared to leave town for the holidays without a border solution, illegal border crossings in the Southwest reached a record of more than 10,000 per day.
Officials said the unilateral measures under consideration could upset some progressives in Congress, who have called for more help from the federal government to deal with the influx of immigrants into cities. He noted that Democratic mayors would be happy. The measure is still in draft and is not expected to be implemented immediately.
This article was co-authored by A White House reporter suggested the leak came from President Biden’s chief of staff.
Since 2021, Biden’s pro-immigrant lawmakers have repeatedly used executive authority to lift President Donald Trump’s restrictions and circumvent existing laws on paroled immigration. secretly funding more immigration To America.
For example, in December, his agents also used their authority to secure a secret agreement with Mexico’s pro-immigration government that required Mexican Latino police officers to physically stop Latino immigration into the United States. tied. Arrangements to outsource border security appear to have sharply reduced immigration from about 10,000 per day in December to perhaps 5,000 per day in January.
Biden’s border officials are keeping January data at the agency for a release that could be released next Friday.
Biden’s White House is dominated by corporate-backed pro-immigration zealots, including Border Security Chief Alejandro Mayorkas.
The Cuban-born Mayorkas told the Aspen Institute in July 2022 that “to a large extent, I align myself with the expectations” of the immigrant community.
Mayorkas said in February 2023 that “when our immigration laws do not meet our highest ideals or can be proven to actually work in line with those ideals, we need to change them.” Stated.
This pro-immigration frenzy, supported by business, has repeatedly thwarted Mr. Biden’s regular efforts to curb immigration and seriously threatens his re-election. For example, zealots have criticized the recent immigration deal with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as a deal with bogus restraints such as trumped-up shutdown triggers and an influx of large numbers of new immigrants. By cramming it in, I watered it down.
Many Republican leaders, including President Donald Trump, have blamed Biden for massive wealth transfers to low-wage immigrants.
“Everyone understands that when he entered the White House, everything changed dramatically,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) told Breitbart News. He continued:
We have shown and continue to show the American people step by step how he and Mayorkas organized this. There’s a reason why just 18% of Americans, in the latest poll, support the government’s handling of the border crisis. The last poll I looked at puts his overall approval rating at just 37 percent.
“The idea that we can blame the Republican Party for the disaster it has caused is laughable. It’s time for him to take responsibility,” Johnson added.
