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Biden signs executive order drastically tightening border

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  1. philnotfil

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    Better late than never? Wish we could have gotten the bipartisan bill through the Senate.

    Biden signs executive order drastically tightening border

    Facing mounting political pressure over the migrant influx at the southern border, President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an executive order that will temporarily shut down asylum requests once the average number of daily encounters tops 2,500 between official ports of entry, according to a senior administration official.

    “The border is not a political issue to be weaponized," Biden said in a White House speech announcing the order.

    The shutdown would go into effect immediately since that threshold has already been met, a senior administration official said. The border would reopen only once that number falls to 1,500. The president’s order would come under the Immigration and Nationality Act sections 212(f) and 215(a) suspending entry of noncitizens who cross the southern border into the United States unlawfully.

    Senior administration officials said Tuesday in a call with reporters that “individuals who cross the southern border unlawfully or without authorization will generally be ineligible for asylum, absent exceptionally compelling circumstances, unless they are accepted by the proclamation.”
     
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  2. WestCoastGator

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    Gotta do what ya gotta do.
     
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  3. gatorjo

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    Have the Trumppublicans started protesting yet?
     
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  4. AzCatFan

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    Pure political move. ACLU will sue. What power does the POTUS have to arbitrarily change asylum laws? Disagreed with the bipartisan bill. Disagree with the XO. But the move puts the Rs on the defensive when it comes to border policy.
     
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  5. gator_lawyer

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    Craptastic policy.
     
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  6. Spurffelbow833

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    C'mon everybody, all together now! Let's go Brandon!

     
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  7. okeechobee

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    He is the ultimate schmuck politician. He did this to us, then attempted to blame GOP. Now he is finally doing what Trump has been saying he should have done two years ago. Sounds like he needs to hand over the reins to Mr. Trump if he's going to poach all of his ideas he's been filibustering against for the past two years.
     
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  8. citygator

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    Well thought out move by Biden just ahead of this one:

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  9. gatorchamps960608

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    Great timing as border crossings are at an all time low. :rolleyes:
     
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  10. G8tas

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    Biden is strong. Trump and Congress are weak. We need new immigration laws but the Republicans were never let that happen
     
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  11. okeechobee

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    Another racist, xenophobic Trump policy Biden adopts as his own.

    Look how they lie to us.
     
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  12. vegasfox

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    Exactly as expected. If Biden wins in November the border opens back up and we get another 15.or 20 million coming in to get on our welfare system.
     
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  13. AzCatFan

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    If this was R policy, why didn't they pass the bipartisan legislation? Answer is, Trump told them not to.
     
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  14. slayerxing

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    Lol Biden could start actually building a wall paid for by Mexico and trumpers would still find some way to criticize border policy.
     
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  15. mikemcd810

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    Because these aren't genuine concerns. It's all just a game and team sport to them.
     
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  16. G8trGr8t

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    sadly it is needed to show maga and others that the courts will not allow it
     
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  17. okeechobee

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    My only criticism is that Biden ignored Trump's warnings for two years and we ended up with the crisis that we did. This was after heavily insinuating Trump and the GOP were a bunch of racists. I would not be shocked one bit if Biden started building the wall. He rails against Trump-era policy to score political points until it blows up in his face and makes his election year pivot. Helluva guy, Pedo Joe..
     
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  18. G8trGr8t

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    pubs also killed best immigration bill in decades that passed senate 68-32 when Boehner refused to bring it up for vote. HOR rules need revision to stop the majority party from not allowing votes to be held.

    Senate Gang of 8 immigration reform bill (full text) - POLITICO

    The collapse of bipartisan immigration reform: A guide for the perplexed | Brookings
     
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  19. sierragator

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    Well, there WAS a bipartisan effort to address the border until the republican's orange god told them to tank it. They don't want to solve it, just bitch about it.
     
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  20. G8tas

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    So what you're saying is Trump wasn't strong enough to get it done. Diamond Joe does it again
     
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