The proposed bill is currently awaiting a vote in the Senate
Democrats want to open the border, and Republicans want to close it, right? Well, if you've been on political social media recently, you've probably seen the conflicting narrative being voiced in unison by establishment Republicans, including those such as Mitt Romney, and Democrats alike. Last Wednesday, Senate Republicans held a press conference to explain their opposition to the bill, with Florida Senator Rick Scott starting off with what I thought was a very complete and coherent statement:
"...So what we're here to talk about is, everybody up here would like to have a secure border. I think most of us have always been very supportive of legal immigration but what we don't want, we don't want drugs, we don't want criminals, we don't want terrorists , we don't want human traffickers. When President Trump was president the border was secure, so it's not about the laws. We're talking about a new border, but it's not about the laws, it's actually, we have a lawless administration. The Biden administration is absolutely lawless. You can see it in what happened - and Senator Cruz is going to talk about this in regards to Texas - the Biden administration went to the Supreme Court to say they want to make sure that Texas cannot keep their border secure. Just think about that for a second. Our federal government said they don't want a secure border, they don't want to do their job to make sure their citizens stay safe. We haven't seen this text yet, but we do know about this bill, there will be there will be nothing in there that will directly impact anything whether it's Ukraine aid or anything else if the border is not secure, so if we wanted to have something in that that said 'OK, if the numbers don't come down, the monthly Ukraine aid doesn't go there', Mitch McConnell said 'nope we're not going to have that in there, it's not in there'... So we have nothing, and it could be something else, but we're not going to have anything to do it. Now one thing that bothers me is we don't have text. We're all US senators, we ought to be sitting there, we ought to be negotiating, we ought to be able to tell them what our thoughts are, and by the way people back home, they ought to know exactly what's going on, this should not be a surprise at the last minute, and I've been up here five years, and here's what's happened: they give us the bill at the last minute, expected to vote on it, probably that day, and you get no amendment votes. That's not the way the US Senate should work, we should all have the opportunity to engage. We all ought to be involved in this. One thing that's important to me is that we don't codify Biden's open door policy. So when they're talking about saying 'oh, we're OK with up to 5000 people, 5000 people a day,' so let's just say one percent, so we'll just say one percent of them are murderers, rapists, or terrorists, or some other criminal, every day we're going to put those people on our street, that might impact our families. The other thing is, we're hopefully going to have a new president. When we get a new Republican president, we should make sure we don't pass a bill that's going to impact their ability to secure the border. Trump was able to secure the border with the existing laws, so let's make sure we don't pass something that makes it harder for him to do that."
Very well said, in my humble opinion, by Sen. Scott. He covered most of the bases, but as I wrap up this article I will add two points of my own:
We don't need new laws about the border. As Sen. Scott touched on, we already have all the laws we need (i.e. the Constitution) but Democrats in the places of power simply aren't enforcing them, and will continue to do so even if it's politically damaging to them this election cycle. Because as always, Democrats understand and play the long game. They know that when they're letting in 4 million migrants a year that they're letting in likely at bare minimum 2.5 million Democrat voters, often into key swing states. The Great Replacement Theory is not a hoax, or a fallacy, or a conspiracy. It is an undeniable fact that most people know even if they refuse to recognize it publicly
At the same time, on top of all of Rick Scott's points and my own, the Dems also know how to play smart election-year politics. Remember the "Inflation Reduction Act?" Republicans stood mildly by as Dems passed it, and it proceeded not only to, if anything, raise inflation slightly, but it also accomplished it's main goal. It gave liberal politicians nationwide the opportunity and the cover to say "see, we do care about inflation! We passed it with Republican opposition!" By the time the facts could be proven about the bill, the campaign slogans had been delivered and the headlines had been run. It was too late, and the Dems still today celebrate the "Inflation Reduction Act". And the same media and the same politicians (including Republicans and Democrats) that supported that act now want to pass this one, a red herring which - once passed - will do zero to stop illegal immigration, but will in the eyes of many gullible, common voters make the liberals look like a better choice come November.
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