Subject: Re: Biden Snubs Mayor Adans
hclasvegas: For three years Jeh has been warning us that team Biden’s border policies are a disaster and must be amended, period, end of story. Watch his interviews or waste your time defending the obvious policy errors...

First, you still continue to NOT answer albaby1's question: what can Biden legally do that he's not currently doing (and no, not EOs, the courts will block those in a heartbeat)?

Second, Johnson criticized the Trump administration for four years but you didn't seem to see him as a border expert then. Johnson has repeatedly defended the Biden administration, like this for example a year ago:

This administration, I believe, unfairly, is perceived as lax on border enforcement. In fact, we are sending back over 100,000 people a month and have been for the last two years, over 2 million people.

When Trump threatened to close the legal ports of entry, Johnson said it was bad idea, that migrants would simply cross illegally in the same numbers but with a devastating downside: we would know nothing about them and any threats they might present.

Johnson points out that during his days with the Obama administration, they tried to make it easier to detain and to deport migrant kids but that the courts blocked them.

For Johnson, the answer lies in helping other countries overwhelmed by poverty, violence, and corruption through financial aid in their home countries:

We can do things on our southern border to enhance enforcement ... but as long as the underlying push factors persist in these source countries, as long as it is as bad as it is — poverty, violence, corruption — they’re going to keep coming.

For Johnson, the answer lies in congressional funding directed at the source of the problem:

"We were dealing principally with the Northern Triangle countries Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico. This problem has become hemispheric. In addition to those countries, you now have Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela who are not cooperating with us," Johnson told Brennan.

"Their countries are literally imploding and there is migration to the north and the south," Johnson added. "Our Border Patrol capabilities, our resources are bigger than they were eight, seven years ago when I was in office. But they do struggle to keep up with this..."

Johnson says the Obama administration made some progress but that the Trump administration had no interest in pursuing that policy. And today's Congress isn't about to send money south of the border to stem the flow of migrants.

So, again, answer albaby1's question: give us Jeh Johnson's magic answer or provide us with your own workable legal solution, please.



https://thehill.com/homenews/s...

https://www.newsnationnow.com/...

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/02...