Biden Proposes Ankle Bracelets and Commands Will Solve the Immigration Problem

 The Senate finally released details of the bipartisan border package. House speaker Mike Johnson immediately blasted the deal. McConnell tried to push it.

On Sunday, the Senate released details of the bipartisan immigration package that Democrats and Republicans worked on for months, in secret.

The bill is 370 pages long and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCarthy wants a quick approval.

However, House Speaker Mike Johnson complained “This bill is even worse than we expected, and won’t come close to ending the border catastrophe the President has created. If this bill reaches the House, it will be dead on arrival.”

The following points are from the WSJ and above Tweet.

20 Key Details

1. The total package is $118 billion of which only $650 million is for the wall.
2. Migrants will either be detained or released with monitoring devices, such as ankle bracelets, and given an initial screening interview within 90 days.
3. A migrant must prove that they couldn’t first safely relocate somewhere else in their home country to be eligible for asylum.
4. Those who pass the initial screening will receive a final decision within another 90 days.
5. Under a new power, which is authorized for three years, the government can “shut down” the border to asylum seekers if crossings surpass a daily average of 4,000 a day.
6.  The shutdown becomes mandatory at 5,000 a day.
7. Free money: The Bill creates a fund to compensate cities such as New York and Chicago that have been sheltering large migrant populations.
8. 50,000 additional Green Cards a year for five years
9. A fix that would protect the children of long-term visa holders, sometimes called documented dreamers, who risk deportation when they become adults.
10. Afghan Adjustment Act, a bill that would allow Afghan refugees evacuated to the U.S. to become permanent residents.
11. A Fend Off Fentanyl Act
12. $60 billion for Ukraine
13. $14.1 billion for Israel security assistance
14. $20 billion to implement the new border policies
15. $2.4 billion for operations in the Red Sea
16. $10 billion in humanitarian assistance for Gaza.
17. 4.8 billion to address aggression by China in the Indo-Pacific.
18. $400 million for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program.
19. The total bill is $118 billion, so there’s a mystery $6.3 billion floating around somewhere.
20. At 5,000 a day for 365 days, the bill will allow 1,825,000 more immigrants. Expect much more in practice.

Questions Abound

• Ankle Bracelets? What is to stop someone from taking off the bracelet and vanishing forever in a sanctuary city?
• How can anyone “prove” they could not relocate safely in their own country? Since they can’t, I suppose we just have to take their word for it.
• 90 Days? Really? No, not really. 90 days is just a target not a firm mandate according to the WSJ.
• New Authority? Biden issued 64 regulations to open the border and now says he needs congressional authority to reverse them.
• The bill requires Biden has to shut down the border when the average hits 5,000 a day. But who’s doing the counting? And what does “shut down” mean? How? With what force?
• Can Texas put back up razor wire?
• What do Ukraine and Israel have to do with any of this?
• $650 million for the wall? Well, no, not quite. It’s $0 for the wall until the next administration authorizes it.
• Where’s the missing $6.3 billion?
• How big is the New York and Chicago bailout fund?
• What happens after three years? If Biden or a Democrat is president what will the cost be to renew the deal?
• Did Republicans really negotiate this deal? What the heck?

Overriding Question

Why should anyone trust Biden to uphold his end of this deal?

Biden has flouted supreme court decisions on rent control and student debt cancellations. Senator Joe Manchin complained that Biden did not honor commitments in the Inflation Reduction Act.

The centerpiece of the border legislation is ankle bracelets coupled with the plea: sorry, please don’t come once we reach our 5,000 daily average limit.

The enforcement provisions are so nebulous there is no reason to believe Biden would actually manage to shut down the border. Yet, the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board is pushing the deal too: A Border Security Bill Worth Passing

The fundamental problem is free services and open borders don’t mix. Denver tried and look what happened: Denver Health at “Critical Point” as 8,000 Migrants Make 20,000 Emergency Visits

The bill does not address that fundamental issue, but it does spray $118 billion, almost all of it on unrelated issues.

Meanwhile national debt is over $34 trillion and rising rapidly.

Last Friday, in a 60 Minute interview, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said the US Fiscal Path is Unsustainable and it’s “urgent” to address the problem.

Neither Congress nor the White House has gotten the message.

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