If you meant border security, then why did he help kill a bill that would have fixed many of the things he’s complaining about?
What most Republicans took issue with the bill was that it actually somewhat ties the president’s hands and limits how long the border can be shut down:
The bill includes a new emergency authority that would allow the Department of Homeland Security to, as Biden has put it, “shut down” the border if there are too many migrants trying to cross.
DHS could close the border if Border Patrol encountered 4,000 or more migrants on average over seven days. The border would have to be shut down if those encounters reached a seven-day average of 5,000 or if they exceeded 8,500 in a single day.
The border couldn’t be shut down under this authority for more than 270 days in the first year. And the bill would give the president the power to suspend a border closure “on an emergency basis for up to 45 days if it is in the national interest.”
During an emergency closure, Border Patrol would still need to process a minimum of 1,400 migrants who try to enter the U.S. legally through ports of entry. Only unaccompanied minors would be able to cross between ports of entry. And any migrant who tried to cross illegally two or more times during a border emergency would be barred from the U.S. for a year.
Don’t Republicans support doing something now and then fixing things later? They treated fixing healthcare like that by trying to repeal the ACA without a future plan, so it seems odd that they would treat this situation different, no?
Yeah that’s fair, and I do think the bill would have been a step in the right direction. I don’t like absolutist advocacy, I see this in the pro life movement also. If I was in Congress I would have voted for this bill even though I’m a Republican.
What most Republicans took issue with the bill was that it actually somewhat ties the president’s hands and limits how long the border can be shut down:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/new-immigration-asylum-reform-bill-released-senate-text-rcna136602
Don’t Republicans support doing something now and then fixing things later? They treated fixing healthcare like that by trying to repeal the ACA without a future plan, so it seems odd that they would treat this situation different, no?
Yeah that’s fair, and I do think the bill would have been a step in the right direction. I don’t like absolutist advocacy, I see this in the pro life movement also. If I was in Congress I would have voted for this bill even though I’m a Republican.