Alejandro Mayorkas on border: ‘We don’t bear responsibility for a broken system

[Valletta]

You got one thing right....it was just an idea. When it came to actually supporting a real bill...with real funding (HR2 has zilch) the Republicans were MIA.

Some authorization bills do have direct funding, that does not make a bill "real" or not.

 

[Hazelelponi]

Funny. I JUST found this article...from CATO....
https://www.cato.org/blog/president...gration-he-did-not-reduce-illegal-immigration
Smart move by him really. The fewer LEGAL immigrants, the more ILLEGAL ones.

Lol. See this is what happens when you skim to prove some point, you stick your foot in your mouth.

Maybe actually read the article.

The complaints were surrounding the "complete collapse of interior enforcement and deportations"

Namely the reason Trump "oversaw" the collapse of deportations and interior enforcement, according to your own article, is because blue states becoming sanctuary this and sanctuary that, a tactic used by the left since the Obama administration had increased their deportations.

This article has not one thing to do with every cartel member in South America and mid Eastern terrorist in the world being given a free ride to the American city of their choice.

Your right, no president will be able to effect deportations without cities and states cooperating with ICE. No matter who they are.

However, what the president does have control over is who comes into the country in the first place.

He has control, literal military control, over our borders. With remain in Mexico you don't have to let people across the border without first making sure they pass a complete background check and asylum seekers have to first seek asylum in the first country they come to.

This spreads out the responsibility for real migrants across countries so that no one country bears the full load of those in real need.

These are the things Biden can control with pen strokes and these are the things he's not doing!

In fact, he's actively working against American best interests.

Trump over saw the migrant crisis well, without turning over America to every nefarious element in the world, and did it while keeping the numbers of people coming into the country fairly stable, even though he couldn't decrease legal immigration like he wanted...

Biden cannot even pretend to say the same.

 

[rambot]

Lol. See this is what happens when you skim to prove some point, you stick your foot in your mouth.

Maybe actually read the article.

The complaints were surrounding the "complete collapse of interior enforcement and deportations"

Lol. I DID read it.

You were complaining about illegal immigrants. This article points out how Trump did NOT deal with illegal immigrants.

Do you truly differentiate between illegal immigrants coming into your borders and illegal immigrants already here? As in, the BIGGEST insult to you is that they cross the imaginary line; but then, once they come into the country, illegals can do what they want?
I imagine you do not want that.

And yet that is what Trump worked toward.

This article has not one thing to do with every cartel member in South America and mid Eastern terrorist in the world being given a free ride to the American city of their choice.

Sure it does! When those people get inside of the USA, Trump would have allowed them to have free and unfettered reign.

 

[essentialsaltes]

You only get the border protection you pay for.

After border bill failure, ICE considers mass releases to close budget gap​

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has drafted plans to release thousands of immigrants and slash its capacity to hold detainees after the failure of a Senate border bill that would have erased a $700 million budget shortfall, according to four officials at ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.

The bipartisan border bill that Republican lawmakers opposed last weekwould have provided $6 billion in supplemental funding for ICE enforcement operations. The bill’s demise has led ICE officials to begin circulating an internal proposal to save money by releasing thousands of detainees and cutting detention levels from 38,000 beds to 22,000 — the opposite of the enforcement increases Republicans say they want.

Mayorkas is not responsible for the budget shortfall.

Maybe the GOP will come up with a 2024 budget proposal that fully funds ICE before the current deadlines for a government shutdown in March. Ha ha.

 

[Valletta]

You only get the border protection you pay for.

After border bill failure, ICE considers mass releases to close budget gap​

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has drafted plans to release thousands of immigrants and slash its capacity to hold detainees after the failure of a Senate border bill that would have erased a $700 million budget shortfall, according to four officials at ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.

The bipartisan border bill that Republican lawmakers opposed last weekwould have provided $6 billion in supplemental funding for ICE enforcement operations. The bill’s demise has led ICE officials to begin circulating an internal proposal to save money by releasing thousands of detainees and cutting detention levels from 38,000 beds to 22,000 — the opposite of the enforcement increases Republicans say they want.

Mayorkas is not responsible for the budget shortfall.

Maybe the GOP will come up with a 2024 budget proposal that fully funds ICE before the current deadlines for a government shutdown in March. Ha ha.

The Democrats refused to pass the House border protection bill that the House passed in May. They maintained the border was safe, secure, and closed. With all of the publicity they can't get away with those lies any longer, so with an election coming up their latest ploy is to admit there is a crisis and blame Republicans. Shame on everyone who was involved, and they bear responsibility for the lives lost.

 

[essentialsaltes]

The Democrats refused to pass the House border protection bill that the House passed in May.

The bill does not provide any funding. Just a list of actions, like building walls, without any resources to do so.

 

[wing2000]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has drafted plans to release thousands of immigrants and slash its capacity to hold detainees after the failure of a Senate border bill that would have erased a $700 million budget shortfall, according to four officials at ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.

The bipartisan border bill that Republican lawmakers opposed last weekwould have provided $6 billion in supplemental funding for ICE enforcement operations. The bill’s demise has led ICE officials to begin circulating an internal proposal to save money by releasing thousands of detainees and cutting detention levels from 38,000 beds to 22,000 — the opposite of the enforcement increases Republicans say they want.

Ah, but with a stroke of a pen, Biden can magically build facilities to hold detainees.....[sarcasm]

 

[wing2000]

Any bets on how soon the Republican talking points will shift to "Biden is releasing criminals" into our communities?

 

[rambot]

The Democrats refused to pass the House border protection bill that the House passed in May. They maintained the border was safe, secure, and closed. With all of the publicity they can't get away with those lies any longer, so with an election coming up their latest ploy is to admit there is a crisis and blame Republicans. Shame on everyone who was involved, and they bear responsibility for the lives lost.

Broken record doesn't actually apply to this conversation (as noted above).

Where is the funding for this going to come from?

 

[Valletta]

Where i

Where is the funding for this going to come from?

Schumer stalled on the bill, it did not pass so there is no funding. Funding can come through appropriations bills.

 

[rambot]

Where i

Schumer stalled on the bill, it did not pass so there is no funding. Funding can come through appropriations bills.

Well. Unless I misunderstand it doesn't matter that it stalled since there was funds in it to begin with

 

[Valletta]

Well. Unless I misunderstand it doesn't matter that it stalled since there was funds in it to begin with

You misunderstand. Direct funding in bills is relatively new, typically bills have been funded through appropriations bills. If, for some reason, Schumer wanted any changes to a bill, the Senate could propose their own version with added wording, pass it, and then the House and Senate would try and hash out differences. The Senate won't budge on H.R. 2. The Speaker of the House has tried to get a meeting with Joe Biden for a month now. The truth is that Joe Biden and Democrats in leadership positions are quite pleased with the current border disaster.

 

[Vambram]

https://www.cato.org/blog/what-makes-crossing-border-illegal-dhs-does