Kind of interesting. Why would you come up with some compromise and not include the House GOP in on it? The ‘deal’ seems like the typical DC deal, but frankly, not as ‘bad’ as I would have thought. Maybe that is a sign that the Dems are scared of this topic for the election. I more think that there must be something in there is worse than the press is reporting. The biggest thing seems to be this ‘trigger’ for more action. Is that a ‘good’ level, seems like ‘0’ would be a good level. Could that trigger level info be manipulated? Seems like we have laws. Enforce the laws. I wish we had the same level disrespect for NFA laws…. How about we stop enforcing the NFA and 68 laws when crime hits a certian level…
Not bad?
*Here are the key changes included in the bill:
— New emergency authority to restrict border crossings if daily average migrant encounters reach 4,000 over a one-week span. If that metric is reached, the Homeland Security secretary could decide to largely bar migrants from seeking asylum if they crossed the border unlawfully.
If migrant crossings increase above 5,000 on average per day on a given week, DHS is required to use the authority. If encounters reach 8,500 in one day, the department is required to trigger the authority. But the federal government is limited in how long it can use the authority.
In the first year, the government can use it for 270 days, then 225 calendar days in the second year, and 180 days in the third year. The authority sunsets after three years.*
That is the literal statutory equivalent of saying “stop, or I’ll say stop again.” What the everlovin’ ****?
And on 100 days during the first year it’s a version of *olly olly oxen free. * By the third year Federal authority only applies to half the days of the year. I can’t think of a more bizarre bill, ever. Total and complete farce that only serves to exacerbate the the border crisis even further.
It’s a ****ing joke. Biden caused this border crisis using executive action. It doesn’t nedd a bill from congress to be fixed. The bill also has hidden ukrane funding in it.
They cannot pass a bill, any bill, without the house. And the house GOP has to sign off just for numbers, and there are too many who think this bill is garbage (and it is, for so many reasons). The left will portray the GOP as ‘playing politics’ and all. I think they need to get ahead and start publicizing why the bill is crap and a non-starter.
Anyone supporting this “deal” is on the wrong side. As all of you know, no bill is required to close the border and this is yet another UNIParty screwing of the American Taxpayer.
Gotta kick up 10% for the Big Guy…
Yeah, that’s a pretty common “carrot” to get a bill considered.
I would say this is the last straw if the last wasn’t broken thousands of straws ago. **** these slime, they have zero interest in what is good for this country.
60 Billion to israel & ukraine
20 billion for ‘border security’
Trump wanted 10 billion for the wall & the swamp went ape shit…clown show. Good thing is it appears to be DOA.
Closing the asylum loophole would be a good start, as would funding more immigration courts and semi-permanent refugee camps to facilitate detention.
The thing I can’t fathom though is why anyone pretends that 5,000 asylee declarations is some kind of good compromise. The number should be zero until the backlog has been cleared. Saying you’ll take that many people does nothing but increase the incentive for people attempting to migrate here.
Also…the billions for NGOs that help facilitate these refugee/migrant/immigrant caravans throughout South America and up through Mex? Rewarding people who are helping the mass law breaking? WTF. That is so ridiculous on its face that I at first I figured I must be reading it wrong. Hard no.
Are you reading the actual bill? Or the synopsis of talking points they issued along with the bill?
I have been reading the actual Bill since Lankford sent the link. It’s 280 pages long and I’m currently on page 98. So far, what I’ve read leads me to believe that Lankford has redefined “immediate consequences for illegal crossing” to mean an asylum review for NON CUSTODIAL immigrants somewhere between 31 and 90 days after being released into the country.
Of course that 31-90 days is subject to a myriad of exemptions and exclusions. Even the 90 day limit has an out because it says “90 days, or as soon as practicable.”
I’ll try to pick up the remainder of the bill later today, but so far I’m very underwhelmed. 
What I’m reading so far… Lankford wants public statements, so I’ll give him one.
read this in Dwayne Johnson voice
“Take your monster-size bill, roll it up real tight, turn that sumb–ch sideways and shove it right up your sellout ass!”
I’m up to page 105 now. None of it even has to begin until a ton of people say has the infrastructure and personnel to implement it. They aren’t even required to report on whether it’s ready for implementation for 180 days. By that time it will either be irrelevant because Trump can do better on Day One, or Biden has won and he can continue the shenanigans to say they’re not ready yet. :rolleyes:
Edit: Page 106+ say the Comptroller General determines whether DHS is operationally ready to implement the requirements at 180 days, and if not, re-review every 180 days until the ready determination can be made. They can drag this out for years.
Reading reports… Even if the border was “shut down” (never gonna happen under Biden) after hitting 5,000, that doesn’t apply to ports of entry, only in-between ports of entry. Border officials would still have to process a minimum of 1,400 asylum requests per day at ports of entry. So-called unaccompanied minors wouldn’t be counted in any of the numbers. Age? *I’m 17 so says the 22y/o man. *
It wasn’t that long ago that Obama’s DHS secretary, Jeh Johnson, said 1,000 in a day was a crisis. Today, Marble Mouth Mconnell is pushing to codify a border crisis on steroids.
Along with the unaccompanied minor exclusion, Page 124 contains a particularly troubling exemption. It says “aliens described in (a)(2)(C) from noncontiguous countries shall not be included in calculating the sum of aliens encountered.”
That’s confusing but suggests that aliens encountered at the border from countries of origin that are not contiguous with the United States, wouldn’t count towards the 5,000/8,500 calculations. Why the hell not?
Page 124, lines 3-7, the inadmissible aliens encountered at the designated ports of entry do count. Unaccompanied minors don’t count.
Page 125 if the encounters (which don’t include unaccompanied minors or citizens of noncontiguous countries) drop below 3,750 for seven consecutive days, Mayorkas SHALL suspend the emergency authority again.
So as long as the NGO’s and cartels structure the number of encounters correctly, they can avoid triggering the authority in this Bill and if they inadvertently do, only have to reduce the flow by 1,250 a day for seven days.
This bill is a piece of shit. Lankford is lying to us by obfuscation. :mad:
The kiss of death is on Page 129. Even if all the conditions requiring the activation of the authority are met, POTUS can direct the DHS Secretary to suspend the authority for up to 45 days per year, if he/she deems it to be “in the national interest”.
I can see ten ways to Sunday to avoid triggering this Bill, and if triggered to suspend it.
Karl Rove is on FOX News right now, lying his ass off to Martha McCallum, right after Rep. Nancy Mace told the truth. What a shit show is the GOP.