Saturday, June 1, 2024

149 Words In Sen. Lankford's 'Border Act' Could Help Curtail The Biden/Mayorkas Border Fiasco

I have personally identified 149 words that are indeed ... helpful! I could work with those 149 words to help curtail the Biden/Mayorkas border fiasco.

Wait one New York minute! DHS can only utilize the summary removal power if illegal aliens are arriving at the rate of 1,460,000 a year?! And DHS is only required to utilize summary removal if illegal aliens are arriving at the rate of 1,825,000 a year, or at the rate of 3,102,500 a year?! Our nation has never experienced such yearly levels until the Biden/Mayorkas border fiasco.

Arthur has written that this "'5,000 a day' rule would ... concede[] defeat at the border" and "Accept the dismal status quo at the Southwest border as the new standard, forever, or at least until Congress is forced to act again", "Resign[ing] Congress and the country to the idea that 1.825 million aliens pouring over the Southwest border per year is the 'new normal', and that there's nothing this administration can do about it".

The Border Act provides that "The border emergency authority shall not be activated with respect to ... [a]n unaccompanied alien child [UAC]." Such an exemption will only encourage more unaccompanied minors to come to the U.S. illegally, a journey that DHS and the Department of Justice have described as "Long, arduous, and extremely dangerous" and "Bring[ing] with it a great risk of harm".

To add insult to injury, the Border Act mandates that aliens who manifest a fear and are placed in its newfangled "Protection merits removal proceedings" cannot be detained.

The border emergency authority shall not be activated with respect to ... [a]n alien who an immigration officer determines, with the approval of a supervisory immigration officer, should be excepted from the border emergency authority based on the totality of the circumstances, including consideration of significant law enforcement, officer and public safety, humanitarian, and public health interests, or an alien who an immigration officer determines, in consultation with [ICE], should be excepted from the border emergency authority due to operational considerations.

AUTHORITY TO PROHIBIT INTRODUCTION OF CERTAIN ALIENS.- If the Secretary of Homeland Security determines, in his discretion, that the prohibition of the introduction of aliens who are inadmissible under subparagraph or of section 212(a)(6) or under section 212(a)(7) at an international land or maritime border of the United States is necessary to achieve operational control (as defined in section 2 of the Secure Fence Act of 2006 (8 U.S.C. 1701 note of such border, the Secretary may prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of such aliens at such border for such period of time as the Secretary determines is necessary for such purpose. 

https://cis.org/Fishman/149-Words-Sen-Lankfords-Border-Act-Could-Help-Curtail-BidenMayorkas-Border-Fiasco

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