🚨The new Senate border bill is out () and we are evaluating it, but here are TEN things you should know to start with (there are more).
In sum, it appears to be WORSE THAN the current law.
Read this 🧵and decide for yourself.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
1. It does not end catch and release. Instead, it facilitates catch and release for certain populations. This should be a MAJOR red flag for all.
2. It exempts UAC from the new "break glass" removal authority. Which means it is worthless, as UAC remain a gaping loophole, and we have seen the largest child smuggling operation in history during the Biden Administration. For context, more than 476,000 UAC have come during the Biden Admin. None of them ever go home.
3. It does nothing to end perpetual settlement agreements like Flores, which have undermined border security for decades.
4. The bill effectively codifies the Administration's absurd "asylum officer rule" that dozens of state Attorneys General are currently challenging in court. They might as well call this the "Asylum Officer Empowerment Act," meaning more and more aliens will get asylum based on lax adjudications. And asylum = path to a green card and citizenship.
5. The new "break glass" emergency authority is a disaster. The Secretary "may" use it if there are 4,000 or more aliens encountered each day (28k per week, 121k a month, 1.46 mil a year). But he "must" use it when there are more than 5,000 a day over a week or 8,500 in a single day. Those are insane numbers and totally unacceptable to the American people.
6. And Non-Mexican UAC are NOT counted in the total that triggers the emergency authority.
7. But if that wasn't bad enough, there is a provision that allows the Biden team to essentially opt anyone out from the new supposedly expedited proceedings.
8. And if that weren't bad enough, it allows Biden to SUSPEND the new authority if he wants to, rendering it meaningless:
9. Oh, and the authority is limited in time duration, going down each subsequent year, making it even more worthless:
10. The bill wastes a ton of taxpayer money.
Billions here and billions there for more "processing." Including $1.4 BILLION for more FEMA grants that provide shelter and other services to illegal aliens.
There are even nuggets like $36 million to provide attorneys for "incompetent" adult aliens.
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