Vice President Kamala Harris continues to blast her opponent, former President Trump, for allegedly tanking a "Bipartisan" Senate border bill that died in the upper chamber shortly after it was introduced, only to die again weeks later.
As the Center has explained, the bill would only have made the border crisis worse, but the reason why Democrats have been pushing it so hard goes to a larger constitutional imbalance that a Wall Street Journal op-ed discussed over the Labor Day weekend - an imbalance that the Biden-Harris administration continues to exacerbate.
Politics aside, there is a much more practical reason why the Biden-Harris administration wanted the bill: It would have codified their pre-existing border policies and allowed them to continue to release the vast majority of inadmissible aliens encountered at the Southwest border.
In analyses of the overheated claims made by this bill's proponents that the Senate bill includes "The toughest border restrictions in a generation", the fact that the bill mandates the very Biden-Harris border releases that Judge Wetherell has concluded are driving the border crisis rarely if ever comes up, even on many outlets critical of the administration.
Nothing proves the professor's points more clearly than the Biden-Harris border releases and the Senate border bill.
Though the House has passed various border resolutions condemning what Biden and Harris are doing in ignoring the laws, and has also passed truly tough border bills like H.R. 2, the resolutions have no real effect and the bills come with no strategy for success, i.e., passage through the Senate and signing by the president.
As a congressional staffer, I've drafted many bills, and if my bosses or leadership wanted to hide the implications of their proposals, I'd have sent them something written in the style of the Senate border bill.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Administration-Senate-Border-Bill-and-Brewing-Constitutional-Imbalance
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