President Biden thread

Beerman said:

We all know the current administration could do more immediately without any nee legislation.   Nice try.

Please tell us what you think a President can do to change decades of desire to request asylum at our borders for a better life due to crime against their family, sexual orientation, religious +political  persecution?

Crusades said:

Yes. We all know the democrats  tried to  pass a bill to help the crisis at the boarder. .. along with more money to fund a foreign war.  And perfectly planned, accused Republicans for doing nothing at the boarder when they voted against the bill. LOL 

As facts matter:

Sen. James Lanford R Securing Our Southern Border bill negotiated by both parties can be read in full here

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The bill works to stop the illegal immigration chaos now and in the future. Here are some of the details:

• NO amnesty—period
• NO free work permits handed out at the border
• NO more 10-year wait for an asylum hearing
• Builds the wall
• More ICE agents for deportations
• More Border Patrol agents for arrests
• More asylum officers for faster hearings and deportation
• More than $650 million is recapitalized for border wall construction next year
• Adds more technology at the border to interdict drugs and illegal crossings
• Increases detention beds to 50,000 to end catch and release
• Doubles the number of deportation flights
• Ends the cartel trick of trafficking children with adults so the adults can enter the country faster
• Raises the standard to prove an asylum request, so people coming to our border can no longer just say, "I have fear in my country" and get released into America for years
• Deports anyone seeking asylum with a criminal record immediately, instead of the current policy of deporting them years from now
• Deports any alien who could have resettled in another country on the way to the United States
• Deports any alien who came to America to seek "protection,” but they could have just moved to another town in their own country and been safe
• Adds more asylum officers for screening to make sure the handful of people who actually qualify for asylum are able to be considered for that process fast and the majority of people who do not qualify for asylum are deported faster
• Creates a new Title 42-like authority to shut down and deport everyone when the border is being overrun-
• Currently when there is a caravan of people, everyone is released into the country because there is not enough time to process everyone fully. This new authority would reverse that by deporting everyone when the border is overrun with too many people to process.
• Creates sanctions for the criminal cartels who traffic dangerous drugs like fentanyl and meth into our country
• Finally finishes vetting the Afghan refugees that have been in our country for two years and accelerates the processing of the Afghans that fought alongside our troops who are already in the country
• Moves our national strategy one giant step closer to zero illegal crossings a day

 

White House FACT SHEET: Impact of Bipartisan Border Agreement Funding on Border Operations

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President Biden has repeatedly said he is willing to work in a bipartisan way to secure the border and fix our broken immigration system. Over several months, his Administration negotiated with a bipartisan group of Senators to release a bill that includes the toughest and fairest reforms to secure the border we have had in decades. It would make our country safer, make our border more secure, and treat people fairly and humanely while preserving legal immigration, consistent with our nation's values. The bill received support from the Border Patrol Union, the Chamber of Commerce, the South Texas Alliance of Cities, and the Wall Street Journal – but Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans have decided to play politics at the expense of border security.

At the President's request, the agreement included over $20 billion for border security. The agreement would provide critical resources at the border and significant policy changes, including:

Border Patrol: Border Patrol staffing has remained roughly flat over the last four years, despite border encounters increasing by 250 percent over the same period. Today, there are just shy of 20,000 Border Patrol Agents. The bipartisan Senate bill would add more than 1,500 new Customs and Border Protection personnel.

Asylum Officers and Asylum Reform: Similarly, Asylum Officer staffing has remained stagnant over the last four years and there is an insufficient number of asylum officers to do initial screenings. As a result, each asylum case generally takes 5 to 7 years to be heard and adjudicated. Today, there are approximately 1,000 Asylum Officers; the bipartisan Senate bill would add an additional 4,300 Asylum Officers and it would make the asylum process faster and fairer.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): ICE detention facilities are currently over capacity. Today, ICE has approximately 40,000 detention beds. The bipartisan Senate agreement would increase detention beds to a total of 50,000. Moreover, without immediate action from Congress DHS will need to move funding to ICE from other critical missions or reduce ICE's enforcement operations to manage a shortfall of several hundred million dollars.

Immigration Judges: Currently there is a backlog of over 2 million cases for immigration judges. Each asylum case generally takes 5 to 7 years to complete. Without more judges, these timelines and backlogs will continue to grow. Today there is funding for 734 immigration judges, the bipartisan Senate bill would provide funding for an additional 100 immigration judges and their associated staff.

Combatting Drug Trafficking: We continue our fight against the trafficking of fentanyl and other illicit drugs. The bipartisan agreement would fund the installation of 100 cutting-edge inspection machines to help detect fentanyl....

The vote failed 49-50 — far short of the 60 ayes needed to take up the bill — with four Republicans voting to move forward with the legislation and six Democrats, some of whom said the border compromise went too far, voting against it.

Sure seems like ALOT of this immigration bill is what Republicans are requesting and COULD have had if they hadn't listened to Trump. Threw Sen. Langford under the bus.