An interesting article appeared on Microsoft Bing’s web browser today. It reported that President Biden has pledged to close our border with Mexico when it is “overwhelmed” if the current bill being negotiated by congress is passed. The article said that the bill grants President Biden “extraordinary powers” to close the border when it is overwhelmed, and that Biden has promised to use those powers immediately. [1]
Americans have good reasons to be skeptical, even cynical. A few of them include:
· President Biden has a record of playing fast and loose with the truth. For example, he said he was not involved in his family’s business dealings. [2] He dissembled about the border with Mexico being secure, being present at ground zero in New Youk City on 9/11, the withdrawal from Afghanistan being a success, being arrested by South African police for trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison, and much more.[3]
· It is a well-known tactic of the radical left to create a crisis so they can be granted extra ordinary powers to deal with it. Everything the Democrats do regarding illegal migration is calculated to give them more power … one way or another.
· From one conservative’s point of view, President Biden’s “pledge” appears to be a poorly disguised attempt to help expedite the so-called bipartisan border legislation that the Democrats and RINO Republicans are attempting to rush through congress. No one yet knows fully what the bill provides for, and Senators Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell do not want conservative legislators to have time to find out. Most assuredly, it is another example of the RINO Republicans giving the Democrats everything they want. Furthermore, it is an attempt to fix the blame for inaction at the border on the Republicans if they block passage. That’s a double bind, and just one more instance of dirty politics from our friends in Washington DC.
· According to an opinion published by Jonathan P. Reidel on the New York University Law Review website, the president already has the authority to order “very brief or geographically limited” border closures. Donald Trump has asserted that he would consider closing the border if reelected. [4] The question is, if the president already has the authority to close the border, why is President Biden saying that he needs new legislation to do it?
It is clear that the Biden Administration’s policies have
created a crisis at the border with Mexico that is threatening our national
security and has made a temporary border closure appear to be the only way to
get illegal migration into the United States back under control. It also seems clear that the only way the
American people can have confidence that effective border control will happen
is to vote the Democrats out of office in November.
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