A Bad Border Bill

Last night, the senators who have been secretly negotiating a so-called “border security bill” for several months finally released the text of their legislation. 

I’m not going to summarize the entirety of this 370-page monstrosity. But several things jumped out immediately, any one of which should doom this deal.  For example:

• Contrary to everything Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) said about “internet rumors” misrepresenting the legislation, it does in fact normalize Biden’s open border scandal by only “shutting down the border” after illegal entries average 5,000 a day for seven straight days.  Remember that Obama’s secretary of homeland security said that 1,000 illegal border crossings a day was a “bad number” and 4,000 was a “crisis.”

• There are caps on the number of days this “emergency shut down” provision can be enforced.

• There is no limit in this deal on “parole migration,” which is supposed to be handled on a case-by-case basis.  In the past, it has been used to bring in about 15,000 migrants a year. Biden has abused “parole migration” to bring in 1,000,000 migrants!

• The legislation limits judicial review of the proposed new law to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, which is packed with left-wing judges.

• If this bad deal actually passed, it would become binding law, effectively limiting Donald Trump’s authority should he win this November. Some speculate that is why Democrats are pushing this deal – to lock in open borders policies.