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Someone stop us before we win. The headline isn’t just sarcastic, it’s their actual argument.
Speaker Mike Johnson is publicly and privately panning the Senate’s ongoing border and immigration negotiations. Senate Republicans are reminding him that it’s the best deal he’ll ever get.
Republican senators said on Tuesday that they see only worse opportunities ahead to craft a border bill that can pass, given that Democrats who run the Senate and White House are now considering major changes to asylum policy, new expulsion authorities and perhaps even putting limits on presidential parole authority. If Republicans try to wait for a better deal after November’s election, senators say, they could end up with GOP control over Congress and the White House — but Democrats who are in no mood to deal on the issue.
If I were taking in these people with me to help me buy a used car, they’d urge me to take the first offer and throw in more money because if I wait till next year, the salesman will be less likely to want to negotiate because he’ll be resentful that I didn’t buy it then.
Of all the insane sales pitches on the table, “let’s make a deal now before we gain actual negotiating leverage” is up there.
But that’s because Senate GOPers don’t actually want to crack down on illegal migration. Middle-of-the-road establishment types in both parties are easy sales on some form of amnesty while packaging it with some kind of border security. Most people in both parties think the situation is out of control and they want to reduce the scale of the problem, but not actually put a stop to it.
Immigration deals with Dems are always a Catch 22 in which there’s more open borders and immigration, not less.
Here the Dems are proposing to trade “new expulsion authorities” (absolutely worthless since Biden wants open borders) and (perhaps even putting limits on presidential parole authority) which Biden has already announced is a non-starter. The latter might be worth something depending on the enforcement mechanisms and whether it could even pass, but trading it for significantly increased immigration and work permits for all the illegal invaders Biden already allowed inside is a bad deal.
The work permits ensure that they’ll all stay here.
Fast forward to a potential Republican president who actually ends this madness (probably a fantasy) and there’s much less need for congressional involvement. An administration which is actually serious about this can find ways to secure the border and end the asylum flood without a congressional deal.
The only thing that the Dems may be offering of value here is a limit on the authority of a Dem president to release illegal aliens, but I suspect little will stop that from happening anyway.
So the deal is mostly worthless for ending the invasion, but will likely involve giving Biden more resources to more swiftly process the invaders, and expand ‘legal immigration’ further while giving work permits to the illegals so they never decide to leave.
Hell of a deal.
SPURWING PLOVER says
VOTE OUT ALL OPEN BORDERS TRAITORS
Algorithmic Analyst says
The main thing is to keep building public opposition to illegal immigration.
Gordon says
This deal is being made now to hamstring Trump from actually fixing it after he is elected.
NAVY ET1 says
Senate Republicans are experts at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, but in this particular case, they both demonstrate who they support (themselves, NOT the American people) and ultimately why they nearly all need the boot. A donkey wrapped in an elephant hide is still an ass.
Mickorn says
The work papers ensure that they are not “illegal invaders”, but rather productive members of a society that needs them. Schmuck.
Daniel Greenfield says
And when Democrats legalized shoplifting, crime went down because stealing things was no longer a crime.
Ugly Sid says
If they are honest, hard working and creative then the society they are leaving needs them far more than we do.
In 1865, the Republic declined to hang Democrats. They thanked Lincoln by shooting him in the head. They have not become more gracious over time.
junkyard infidel says
my dog dropped a deuce this morning with a higher IQ than you!
Domenic Pepe says
Mexico is the enemy of America and US citizens.
Mexico murders more than 100,000 US citizens with Mexican drugs every year.
Mexican president Obrador is a mass murderer of US citizens
Mexico encourages and facilitates and promotes the invasion of millions of illegal aliens into the USA.
Mexico is the real insidious enemy of America and especially US working and middle class citizens.
Put 500,000 US military troops on the Mexican border,
and deport all illegal aliens from the USA,
and shut down the anchor baby racket.
Daniel Greenfield says
Urgently needed.
SANJAC1836 says
and charge Mayorkas with 2 million counts of human trafficking.
RAM says
Their usual RINO behavior.
Dachs_Dude says
Another example of giving the voters the illusion of choice, while those who are supposed to represent our interests in Congress are just going to do what they’re being paid, (via campaign donations), to do.
We voters and our lost jobs, deteriorating cities and quality of life can just pound sand, (as long as we keep paying our taxes and voting the same people back into office each cycle).
CowboyUp says
We’ve known how that “amnesty today, for securing the border tomorrow,” works since the 80’s. It works exactly like “tax increases today, for spending cuts tomorrow.” Tomorrow never comes. It looks like the rinos are trying to hobble Trump on immigration before he gets back in office.