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So Biden is set to sign an Executive Order on the border this week.
It is rumored to allow 4,000 asylees in per day, 28,000 per week, and then purports to "close" the border after that.

Senator Kennedy summed it up as only he can:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2024/06...

"President Biden is in trouble politically — he's polling right up there with fungal infections," Sen. Kennedy quipped in a Senate press conference. "Part of the reason for that is that he gave in to the loon-wing of his party and he dissolved the southern border."

"Now, five months before an election, he has to appear to be willing to do something about it," the Louisiana Republican continued. "Hence this executive order. He expects you to report this epiphany that he has had, take what the White House is telling you, balance on your noses like trained seals, and report it uncritically," Sen. Kennedy said, speaking to reporters gathered for his remarks.

"For three years, we have watched President Biden push on a door that has been clearly marked pull," Sen. Kennedy assessed. "He's mismanaged Congress, COVID, the national debt, the economy, inflation, crime, Afghanistan, Iran, the war in Gaza, the war in Ukraine, and now of course the border."

Through all these crises of Biden's creation, Sen. Kennedy said that "every time" he thinks "the president has hit rock bottom, he has managed to find a shovel and continue to dig."

Amen.

Bottom line, never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals.

-Joni Ernst on a hot mic.

In Congress today a statement was made that Biden was going to use Section 212(F) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Let's see what that says. I'm not sure it's this section

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:...



Today, Biden went out and talked about it
https://apnews.com/article/biden-asylum-migration-...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled plans to enact immediate significant restrictions on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border as the White House tries to neutralize immigration as a political liability ahead of the November elections.

“The border is not a political issue to be weaponized,” Biden said, while accusing former President Donald Trump and top Republicans of undermining bipartisan legislation that would have better addressed the issue.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA.

The new number is 2,500 a day, down from 4,000. The correct answer remains...zero.

Ah. Found it:

f) Suspension of entry or imposition of restrictions by President
Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. Whenever the Attorney General finds that a commercial airline has failed to comply with regulations of the Attorney General relating to requirements of airlines for the detection of fraudulent documents used by passengers traveling to the United States (including the training of personnel in such detection), the Attorney General may suspend the entry of some or all aliens transported to the United States by such airline.

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:...

...from §1182. Inadmissible aliens.

"Zero" violates the Geneva Convention. Can't do it.

I suspect Biden is playing the campaign game. I didn't think he can issue an EO like this and have it stick. Congress needs to change the law. Both Trump and Biden already tried EOs, and both got shot down. Unless there is some subtlety I'm not seeing. Which is possible.

If the courts do shoot it down, he can say he tried. If not, he can say he took positive action. For a campaign, that's win-win, even if it will annoy one block of his base.

Congress needs to change the law.

This was said on this board a lot, but there is a broad US statute on the books that I've cited upthread.

We agree that he's playing politics. He created the disaster on the border and now he's trying to blame Republicans for it as well as take credit for Doing Something.

Won't work.

Dope1: "Now, five months before an election, he has to appear to be willing to do something about it," the Louisiana Republican continued. "Hence this executive order...

Once a cultist, always a cultist.

President Biden worked with a bipartisan group on immigration reform beginning back in September of last year or earlier. Their immigration bill would have raised the standard to get asylum, sent away those who don't qualify and expedited cases for those who do -- and it was endorsed by the border patrol union and the Chamber of Commerce -- but convicted felon Donald Trump killed the bill because he felt it was more important to run on the border crisis than to solve the problem for the American people.

As president Biden clearly said when he announced this EO, "I've come here today to do what the Republicans in congress refuse to do, take the necessary steps to secure our border... Four months ago, we came to a deal but Republicans walked away because Trump told them to."

Foghorn Leghorn can spread all the Louisiana horse sh!t he likes but that doesn't make it cotton candy.

Republicans are to blame, at least most recently. Both parties have been negligent for 40 years or more. But the Reps blew it up most recently.

The statute you cited is rather vague. And it doesn't mention asylum-seekers, which is covered by the Geneva Convention. So he would have to demonstrate a "detriment", first, and then show that we can ignore the GC as a result. More specifically, he would have to convince a court when this gets challenged.

President Biden worked with a bipartisan group on immigration reform beginning back in September of last year or earlier.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The border's been a mess for longer than that.

Try again. Put some effort into it for once. Make it so that the post actually has some argumentative meat in it. This kind of stuff is like Beyond Posting.

Republicans are to blame,

Nope. Not even close.

And it doesn't mention asylum-seekers, which is covered by the Geneva Convention.

Does the GC specify that any signatory nation throw its borders open wide? I doubt that it does.

Yessir, it's the Reps this time. Another poster even linked a Faux Noise interview with Lankford where that was made clear. Putting it mostly at the foot of Trump, of course. (Where it belongs.)

No, it specifies that asylum-seekers are owed a hearing to make their case. That is not equivalent to "throwing open the borders".

How we do it is up to us, and we're very inefficient.

And it doesn't mention asylum-seekers, which is covered by the Geneva Convention.

Biden very loudly and very proudly killed all of Trump's EOs and got rid of Remain in Mexico. Then instructed his guys to wave people on through at the border. Only 3 years into his Presidency did his team finally look at the polls and go...

...ooops.

So here we are. The blame game won't work because he's in charge, we've been following his plan...and his plan sucks.

And here's what Biden's border policy has brought us: South American-style crime:

https://nypost.com/2024/06/03/us-news/bernardo-cas...

Migrant accused of shooting two NYPD cops had immigration case dismissed within a year of illegally crossing into US

The Venezuelan migrant accused of shooting two NYPD cops during the early hours of Monday morning crossed into the US illegally last year, but the case against him has already been dismissed, The Post can exclusively reveal.

Bernardo Castro Mata, 19 — who shot one officer in the chest and another in the leg after they attempted to stop his moped in Queens — had a hearing in Chicago on May 6 where an immigration judge closed his case, according to ICE sources.

The information emerged less than 24 hours after The Post exposed the Biden administration’s dismissal of asylum cases and deportation orders against 350,000 migrants because they didn’t have criminal records or aren’t deemed national security threats.

Biden's been issuing an effective amnesty to every Tom, Dick and Harry that makes it over the border with a bogus asylum claim (and most of them are bogus).

If someone wants to say "It's not bogus", to that I say...we'll never know, will we?

And that's the point of Biden's open border.

"Remain in Mexico" only works while Mexico cooperates. Last I heard, they were refusing to continue that program. So it wouldn't matter what Biden or Trump or anyone else wanted. Mexico is saying "no".

They also refused to pay for that wall, and there wasn't anything we could do about it. We didn't set Mexican policy.

From what I've read, about 40% are granted asylum. So, yes, 60% is a majority. But 40% is a lot of people fleeing genuine life-threatening situations. It would be callous in the extreme to ignore that. Plus it would violate our obligations under the GC.

It's likely more, but without counsel it is a good bet that many with legit claims lose in court.

And I don't recall now what percentage never get past the initial screening, but it's a lot. Hardly an open border.

"Remain in Mexico" only works while Mexico cooperates.

Sure. And they were. (They said 'yes' during Trump's Presidency).
Until Biden terminated the deal. Now that they know Biden is paying a political price, well, the price for their cooperation went way up.

They're acting on their own incentives and playing their cards as they should. Biden messed up by allowing them to do that.

They're not even adjudicating the cases. They're just...cancelling the hearings.

Dope1: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The border's been a mess for longer than that.

Try again. Put some effort into it for once.

You don't even know what you originally posted, do you?

Here, let me quote you quoting senator Foghorn Leghorn:

"Now, five months before an election, he has to appear to be willing to do something...

To which I pointed out that the bipartisan immigration/border bill has been in the works and Biden has been working on a solution with them since at least last September, not five months before the election.

Plus, the deal which would have helped solve the border crisis was KILLED BY the convicted felon Donald Trump, who just an hour ago said: "I notice a lot of the senators, a lot of the senators are trying to, say respectively, they're blaming it on me. I say that's okay, please blame it one me. Please."

So I'm doing what he asked: I'm blaming the collapse of the bipartisan immigration/border bill on the convicted felon.

And in the future, you might want to actually pay attention to what you've written. Shouldn't be too hard... you always write the same incorrect nonsense.

To which you pulled your usual specious nonsense.

Nobody told Brandon to throw the border wide open.

Nobody told Brandon to send his minions out to claim the bOaRDER iS sEcURE (and his chatbots online to repeat that) when they knew the opposite was true.

Nobody told Biden to suddenly wake up and admit there was a problem 3 years into his Preside-, oh, wait. The polling data did do that.

Senator Kennedy NAILED IT. Biden is polling about as well as fungus on immigration.

Hence today’s EO.

Oh, and by the way:

I was right. EO’s are possible.

You were wrong. Again.

Defeat. Taste it.

Oh, and by the way:

I was right. EO’s are possible.

You were wrong. Again.

Defeat. Taste it.

Wrong. Your EO was to shut the border down - it isn't shut down.

"Remain in Mexico" only works while Mexico cooperates. Last I heard, they were refusing to continue that program. So it wouldn't matter what Biden or Trump or anyone else wanted. Mexico is saying "no".

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If there is a way to apply pressure to Mexico, lots of it, Trump will find it. Biden won't even look.

If there is a way to apply pressure to Mexico, lots of it, Trump will find it. Biden won't even look.

That’s because libs only think in terms of carrots, i.e. other people’s money.

An effective stick is to tell them that Seal Team Six will start paying visits to fentanyl factories if Remain in Mexico can’t be quickly renegotiated.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The border's been a mess for longer than that."

Yes it has. Mostly because your cult leader decided he would rather keep the status quo so he could have something to run on rather than actually try and do anything about the border. Being in the cult you were ok with that because you are too clueless to even understand why.

Just remember, you are the one who prefers the status quo over actually attempting to do anything.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

You're starting to 'sound' hysterical. : )

dont let lankford fool you.
his long tenure and bipartisan policy-making experience had him salivating at the concessions in the border bill, and a personal opportunity to return into the spotlight crowded by MAGA.
initially he was extremely upset that trump tanked his hard work, but now has gotten back into the fold.

Nope. Don't think so.

The DHS did fail to file some paperwork prior to court dates, so the migrants deportation was cancelled for the time being.

It appears to be an issue with border patrol scheduling the hearings. I couldn't find a lot about this quickly.

It also appears the cases can be refiled.

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