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Trumpers in the House don't want to solve immigration.

In case you haven't been paying attention, we have a crisis in Congress.

Back in October, President Biden requested $13.6 billion in emergency funding for border protection, including hiring 1,300 additional Border Patrol agents and 1,600 asylum officers and more funds to counter fentanyl smuggling.¹ Congressional Republicans refused his request.

Additionally, immigration judges face caseloads of more than 4,500 apiece, and Congress refuses to fund the increase for the necessary number of judges to clear cases.²

Biden says he would "shut down the border right now" if given the authorities in the proposal.³ MAGA Republicans are still refusing his request.

Republican House Leader Mike Johnson has accused Biden and Democrats of trying "to turn all the illegals into voters. ... That's why the border's open."⁴ This is a bold face lie, but Johnson and fellow Republicans are refusing to legislate impactful immigration reform bills. Leader Johnson threatened to withhold support to Ukraine unless border security was a part of the deal. However, months later, Johnson is actively stopping bills from being heard.

Republican James Lankford of Oklahoma was charged with negotiating a border security bill⁵ with Democrats and the White House and succeeded in moving it forward, only to be stonewalled by Republican House Leader Mike Johnson. Being a sycophant to Trump, Leader Johnson caved when Trump intervened. Apparently, according to their cult leader, Trump, America does not have a problem at the border that needs addressing at this time:

Though he (former President Trump) had long demanded that Congress "change our old, broken, ridiculous, weak immigration laws," the former president now panned the very idea, saying "a border deal now would be another gift to the radical left Democrats."⁶

Johnson now contends that President Biden must use his executive power to close the border. That can not happen, and speaker Johnson knows this. Otherwise, President Trump, during his four years in office, would have made that happen. An executive order would be challenged as it should be in the courts.

Republican James Lankford of Oklahoma was charged with negotiating a border security bill⁵ with Democrats and the White House and succeeded in moving it forward, only to be stonewalled by Republican House Leader Mike Johnson. Being a sycophant to Trump, Leader Johnson caved when Trump intervened. Apparently, according to their cult leader, Trump, America does not have a problem at the border that needs addressing at this time:

Though he (former President Trump) had long demanded that Congress "change our old, broken, ridiculous, weak immigration laws," the former president now panned the very idea, saying "a border deal now would be another gift to the radical left Democrats."⁶

Johnson now contends that President Biden must use his executive power to close the border. That can not happen, and speaker Johnson knows this. Otherwise, President Trump, during his four years in office, would have made that happen. An executive order would be challenged as it should be in the courts.

(Source: People Power United/Feb 2, 2024).
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Confined · 56-60, M
Im sorry Biden is lieing to you. All he needs to do is use his pen and he can close the boarder today and send all illegals back from where they came. Stop watching The communist news network or the mental netword and msnbc, abc or nbc.
@Confined 💯

He reversed Trump's border policies with a pen...he can reinstate them with a pen.
JSul3 · 70-79
@Confined Biden has deported more migrants than Trump ever did.
Confined · 56-60, M
@JSul3 He has not gotten rid of a single migrant. NOT ONE!
Prove your claim.
Confined · 56-60, M
10-15 Million migrants/criminals have come over the southern boarder. Biden has not stoped a single one of them. He has sued Texas and made them take down walls and razor wire so more migrants could enter the USA.
@Confined WRONG!

Your Apricot Antichrist who was an absolute failure as POTUS is once again for the millionth time lying to you and good cultist that you are, you bought it hook, line, and sinker! Or in Quad Indicted’s case—STINKER!
Confined · 56-60, M
@KunsanVeteran You still have not proven your claim. It is well documented on ever single network that 10 million or more people have come across the boarder. Look at govt documents.
Even NYC is complaining now, and they are pro immigration.
Confined · 56-60, M
@KunsanVeteran I hope you dont believe any of the news owned by the CIA, like CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC. CBS, Politico, NPR, USA Today, Newswars, Fox, Tennessean etc.
@Confined Facts are facts. Learn to deal with it.
Confined · 56-60, M
@KunsanVeteran You have yet to give a single valid fact. Biden is a criminal. The boarders are wide open to this day. Biden has accepted Millions in bribes from China, which makes him a traitor.
JSul3 · 70-79
@Confined WAPO. Dec 2023.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported more than 142,000 immigrants in fiscal year 2023, nearly double the number from the year before, as the Biden administration ramped up enforcement to stem illegal border crossings, according to the agency’s annual report, published Friday.

Nearly 18,000 of those deported were parents and children traveling as family units, surpassing the 14,400 removed under the Trump administration in fiscal 2020.

Federal officials said the removals adhered to the Biden administration’s enforcement strategy, which the Supreme Court upheld in June. Migrants who cross the border illegally and those who commit violent crimes or otherwise pose a safety threat are priorities for removal. The ICE report covered the period from Oct. 1, 2022, to Sept. 30.


The increase in deportations is more a reflection of the high numbers of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border than interior enforcement, which Biden has discouraged in most cases.

“ICE continues to disrupt transnational criminal organizations, remove threats to national security and public safety, uphold the integrity of U.S. immigration laws, and collaborate with colleagues across government and law enforcement in pursuit of our mission to keep U.S. communities safe,” said ICE Deputy Director Patrick J. Lechleitner in a statement.

Cato Institute: In absolute terms, the Biden DHS is removing 3.5 times as many people per month as the Trump DHS did. These figures are important for understanding how each administration has carried out border enforcement.

PBS:
According to the Migration Policy Institute, the Trump administration deported about one-third as many immigrants in the country illegally from the interior during its first four fiscal years as the administration of President Barack Obama during the same time frame.

Enforcement sweeps take months of planning, and arresting an immigrant can often require days of surveillance. Officers don't usually carry search warrants, and advocates warn immigrants not to open their doors. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement often struggled to find adequate detention space during the Trump administration, and people can fight their deportation cases for months or years.

The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for information on why his administration did not come close to deporting millions and how a second term would conduct such a large-scale effort.

The Trump administration was more hostile to immigration than any administration in decades. Trump prevented people from applying for asylum at the southwest border, separated children from their families, and built a border wall in environmentally sensitive areas.

Advocates and extremism experts have noted his language echoes writings from Hitler about the "purity" of Aryan blood, which Nazi Germany used to justify murdering millions of Jews during World War II.

Well into his term in 2019, Trump announced on Twitter that he would deport millions the day before he was launching his reelection bid.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is running against Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, hit Trump for his immigration record in the last GOP debate.

"He did say in 2016 he'd have the largest deportation program in history. He deported less than Barack Obama did when Barack Obama was president," he said. "Some of these policies he ran on in '16, I was cheering him on then, but he didn't deliver it."
Confined · 56-60, M
@JSul3 The Washington post is owned and opereated by DEMOCRATS and the CIA. They are the #! FAKE News out let. Nothing they report is true. Let me repeat that. NOTHING they report is true.
AKA the Washington POOP.
@Confined You ignore 60 + court cases thrown out as frivolous launched by QI’s brainless enablers—why! Because they were meritless just like your posts.

QI is trying to trash the bipartisan Southern border deal because he campaigned on it and did NOTHING SUBSTANTIVE IN HIS FOUR WORTHLESS YEARS IN OFFICE.

QI faces 91 criminal charges with more expected every day—how much of YOUR savings have you sent to that certin?
Confined · 56-60, M
@KunsanVeteran You know all the charges are political only and have no merritt. The Supreme court is going to rule on it soon. I expect a civil war, followed by a Nuclear war started by Dementia Joe.
Confined · 56-60, M
Any one who supports Joe Biden and his criminal regime are traitors to their country. We will be a communist country if we do not remove the traitor in the white house.
Tell me how much interest do we pay on the national dept? Joe B has spent and pocketed more money then any other preident in United States history. The US dollar is worthless.
@Confined Know why it’s called FAUX News?

Know why they lost BIGGLY! against Dominion? Know why they are about to lose even more to Smartmatic?

Because you believe the lies being fed to you!

And that says something really, really bad about YOU that fools like Lindell & Giuliani fooled YOU,
Confined · 56-60, M
@KunsanVeteran Actually one of those machines was hacked in front of a judge I belieave last week. There is a new case against the companies that make those machines. Time will tell what will happen.
Confined · 56-60, M
@KunsanVeteran NOT ONE SINGLE JUDGE has allowed voting fraud evidence to be presented in an open court room. No evidence has been presented because no court will allow it, because it would bring down the country.
@Confined Traitor TRUMP:

Sold out his country in Helsinki to PUTIN (a murderer and war criminal)

Sold out his country to KJU—who committed multiple murders and FRATRICIDE!

Pardoned TRAITOR FLYNN

Pardoned TRAITOR STONE

Dodged the draft OUT OF COWARDICE

Slandered war heroes and deceased veterans

Slandered Gold Star families

That’s YOUR hero!
@Confined And let’s not forget—concealed a [b]gruesome murder by bonesaw of a journalist who exposed the crimes of MBS[/b]

HIS GOLF BUDDY,
Confined · 56-60, M
@KunsanVeteran Did Biden serve his country? What unit was he in?
Flynn was not a traior in any way shape or form.
@Confined Flynn absolutely was a traitor.

And you are so uninformed that it’s embarrassing having to school you like this.

Why don’t you and Don Jr and Pillow Addict get together and do some cocaine?

That’s all you’re good for.

Goodbye!
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