The GOP has been hammering Biden on his lack of substance on immigration……now that the election is just months away he will try and silence some of the criticism with the use of the Executive Order process.
Plus this should provide a much needed diversion from is limp wrist policies toward Israel.
President Biden, under increasing heat to stem the number of migrants crossing the border, is expected to unveil his most aggressive move yet Tuesday in the form of an executive order. The New York Times reports that the order would essentially seal the Mexican border when the number of migrants reaches a certain threshold by prohibiting anyone who crossed the border illegally from claiming asylum. Instead, border officials would be allowed to quickly deport the migrants back to Mexico or their home country, per the Wall Street Journal.
Biden is expected to sign the measure at the White House in the company of mayors from border towns, per the AP. However, whether such an order can withstand a legal challenge is uncertain. The Journal notes that then-President Trump attempted to enforce a “nearly identical ban” back in 2018, but a federal court blocked him on the grounds that it violated longstanding asylum laws allowing anyone to seek asylum no matter how they entered the country.
Immigration has emerged as a top issue in the presidential campaign, with Trump and Republicans criticizing Biden as too soft on the issue. CNN reports that the White House is pushing to put something in place before the first Trump-Biden debate on June 27. While details remain under wraps, the Times calls the broad strokes of the plan “the single most restrictive border policy instituted by Mr. Biden, or any modern Democrat.”
This will do little to solve any problems we have at our borders or to silence that constant nagging by the GOP….it may give him a short burst of support before the election.
This will not solve any problems or help the criticisms….it will make the MSM happy for there will be yet another news story for them to blow out of proportion.
Will this satisfy the armchair geniuses?
Doubtful!
Onward and upward….as they say….
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
Illegal immigration and ‘boat people’ are big issues in our July election. But the massive increase in immigration here is mostly legal, with visas issued to foreign students paying for university education and to foreign workers coming over to do jobs British people won’t do. (Farming, crop-picking, delivering parcels and food, working in elderly care homes) So the right-wing propaganda about the illegals is actually a smoke screen.
Best wishes, Pete.
Biden had to do something the GOP was kicking his butt in the polls on this subject….this is also a smoke screen chuq