That Terrible Deal

I want to revisit the Senate border security deal and address some of the arguments that are being made by advocates of this disastrous deal.

Defenders, like Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, are blasting the critics for being “political” in their opposition. They claim that the only reason conservatives in the House and Senate, along with Speaker Mike Johnson, oppose this “wonderful bipartisan bill” is because they are afraid it will help Joe Biden by taking the issue off the table.

That’s a lie.

Even if the bill had some good things in it, three years of experience under Biden have proven that those provisions would be used to the detriment of our country. Here’s a simple example.

Sen. Lankford addressed the frustration many people have that illegal aliens claiming asylum are being released into the country with court dates that are years down the road. We all know they won’t show up and we won’t be able to find them.

Lankford said the bill has money for 375 additional immigration judges, so these cases can be quickly adjudicated. Well, I’m pretty sure that Sen. Lankford won’t be the one picking the judges. Joe Biden will fill these new positions with ACLU open borders advocates.

I would applaud that provision if a conservative were president. Then I would know what kind of judges he would appoint to those courts.

Lankford said the bill adds more Border Patrol officers. We have plenty of Border Patrol officers. The problem is that Joe Biden turned them into babysitters and won’t let them do their jobs.

Under a conservative president, I would have more confidence that these additional Border Patrol officers would be allowed to guard the border and stop illegal aliens from entering the country.

But any Republican who thinks Joe Biden will allow them to do that is too dumb to be holding electing office!

By the way, our Border Patrol officers aren’t the only ones Biden won’t allow to do their jobs. Instead of protecting airline passengers, Biden has redeployed air marshals to the border – not to stop illegal aliens from entering the country but to help process illegal aliens more quickly.  

Incredibly, Lankford and other defenders of this deal are claiming that conservatives are attacking a bill they haven’t seen yet. They really should think twice about offering that as a defense. The senators are the ones not letting us see the bill!

This gang of senators has been negotiating for months, and no one (other than themselves and the Biden White House) knows what’s in the bill. Speaker Mike Johnson has been totally excluded from the discussions.

Oh, sure, they’re promising to give the rest of the Senate a few days to read it before a vote. How many times have we watched massive bills get passed that everyone supposedly read only to find out months later that page 857 does something no one understood?

Why aren’t they putting this bill through the normal open and transparent committee process? Will Chuck Schumer allow amendments to the bill? Will he allow open debate on those amendments?

One final point. According to leaks, there is nothing in this deal that restricts Biden’s “parole authority,” which he has used “at a historic scale” to resettle more than one million so-called “refugees” in the United States. In other words, he has opened the borders in every way imaginable.