Nolan Rappaport, former immigration counsel for the U.S. House of Representatives, has posted a detailed opinion piece on The Hill, discussing Joe Biden and the Border Act of 2024, currently pushed by the Democrats and by some RINO-style Republicans.
He quotes Biden as declaring that, if enacted, the law would be “the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country.” Unfortunately, Biden’s idea of “toughest” would be a policy that permits him to admit up to 5,000 illegal migrants every day (nearly two million every year). Nevertheless, Biden says he needs to law in order to stem the tide that began when he took office.
Not so, says Rappaport. Biden — not a “broken system — is the cause of the crisis. It is Biden’s own policy of catch and release that has allowed more than 2.3 illegals into the US so far during his term. To end it, he would need only to rescind the executive order he issued to begin the policy in the first place. Likewise, he could reinstate the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy and other policies that he abandoned willy-nilly early on to de-Trump his administration. He could terminate the CBP One mobile application program, which has allowed nearly 250,000 migrants entry across the border since August 2023 and another 320,000 illegal migrants through American airports. He could cease abusing the Humanitarian Parole policy that has enabled him to welcome millions. And he could have deported the 1,292,830 illegals subject to deportation in fiscal 2023, when in actuality, he removed only 142,580 of them.
Those are some of the things Joe Biden could do. Instead, he is attempting to bamboozle gullible Republicans into granting de facto amnesty to nearly two million “newcomers” every year.
For more, see The Hill.