Subject: Re: Trump: I Would Encourage Russia...
Because it wasn't in the bill. It wasn't 5K migrants per day being allowed into the country. It was 5K encounters - meaning that when Border Patrol encountered someone who wasn't claiming asylum and they were immediately thrown out of the country, it still counted. What leaked was people claiming that the bill would codify allowing 5K people per day into the country, which was totally false.

Not false at all. Biden is paroling everyone into the country, so what you say above is a distinction without a difference.

I know that there were some folks out there that believed the trigger meant we just let the first 5K people walk into the country, but we've been talking about it enough that I know you don't believe that. There's no way that Johnson would have killed the bill over just the trigger.

I outlined other reasons, but those should have been things teh democrats could have negotiated on. Things like

*US taxpayers' paying for lawyers for migrants
*All families must be released from custody; only single individuals can be sent back.
*Unaccompanied minors don't count against the daily total
*All existing consent decrees in place, some of which prevent immigration laws from being enforced.
*Asylum officers, not immigration judges, get to rule on asylum claims.
*Biden can "opt out" of the quota of any illegals that they think should be included.
*The maximum number of "emergency" days each year decreases from 270 to 225 to 180.
*Illegals entering the US after July 2021 automatically get "conditional permanent resident" status.

Yes, sh1t sandwich. I'm starting to think some folks need to watch The Outlaw Josey Wales again.

Senator Red Legs: The war's over. Our side won the war. Now we must busy ourselves winning the peace. And Fletcher, there's an old saying: To the victors belong the spoils.
Fletcher: There's another old saying, Senator: Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.