Tuesday, January 09, 2024

With Border Crisis Metastizing, Biden Feels Pressure to Strike Deal With Republicans on Deporting Illegals


Republican Failure Theater is real, and it's spectacular. 
Pressured by the record levels of migrant crossings reported in December, the Biden administration is weighing whether to restrict a key presidential immigration authority to convince Republican lawmakers to approve more aid to Ukraine and border funding. 
A small bipartisan group of senators has been negotiating with the White House since December to see if they can strike a deal on stricter asylum and migration laws, which Republicans have demanded in exchange for supporting President Biden's request for billions of dollars to fund border operations and military assistance to Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine. 
While the senators and the White House have reached high-level agreements on tightening asylum interviews, expanding expedited deportations and creating an authority to expel migrants without humanitarian screenings when border agents are overwhelmed, the negotiators have not resolved their differences on some key issues. 
Among those issues is immigration parole, a legal tool used by the Biden administration to resettle hundreds of thousands of migrants that Republicans want to severely limit. 
That's a deal-breaker for me. Biden has created a de facto open borders regime by just "paroling" all fake asylum seekers into the country to await a hearing, which they will probably not bother showing up for, in eight years.
Plenty of time to have an Anchor Baby in eight years. Why bother with the asylum claims?

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