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Oh, good grief....this is awful. Worse than awful.

Key senators cut deal to give US new power to clamp down on border crossings
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/26/politics/...rder/index.html
By Manu Raju, CNN
Updated 9:29 PM EST, Fri January 26, 2024


Senate negotiators have agreed to empower the US to significantly restrict illegal migrant crossings at the southern border, according to sources familiar with the matter, a move aimed at ending the migrant surge that has overrun federal authorities over the past several months.

The Senate deal, which is expected to be unveiled as soon as next week, would also speed up the asylum process to consider cases within six months – compared with the current system, under which it could take up to 10 years for asylum seekers.

The details provide a new window into high-profile negotiations that have been going on for months – as Senate leaders hold out hope they can attach the deal to aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan as domestic and international crises loom. The plan would also put pressure on Republicans to decide whether to greenlight these new authorities or reject the plan as former President Donald Trump has urged the GOP to defeat anything short of what he calls a “perfect” bill.

President Joe Biden, in a rare statement on ongoing congressional negotiations, said the deal that Senate negotiators have worked toward is both tough and fair.

“What’s been negotiated would – if passed into law – be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country,” he said in the statement Friday. “It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.”

Under the soon-to-be-released package, the Department of Homeland Security would be granted new emergency authority to shut down the border if daily average migrant encounters reach 4,000 over a one-week span. If migrant crossings increase above 5,000 on average per day on a given week, DHS would be required to close the border to migrants crossing illegally not entering at ports of entry. Certain migrants would be allowed to stay if they prove to be fleeing torture or persecution in their countries.

Moreover, if crossings exceed 8,500 in a single day, DHS would be required to close the border to migrants illegally crossing the border (They already are!). Under the proposal, any migrant who tries to cross the border twice while it is closed would be banned from entering the US for one year. (Oooooh - scary!)

The goal of the trio of negotiators – GOP Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut – is to prevent surges that overwhelm federal authorities. (Because they can't easily process them if they "surge") The Biden administration and Senate leaders have been heavily involved in the talks, and more details of the deal are expected to be released in the coming days. -- excerpt, rest at link above --

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They really do think we're stupid. They really, honestly believe that we're just a bunch of pitchfork-waving, ignorant rednecks who "just don't get it." They're so much smarter and wiser than we are, you see. They just know things that we don't know and couldn't hope to understand. They have PhDs and JDs and miscellaneous other letters behind their names. We don't.

They just pat us on our heads and tell us to sit down and listen to the experts. They know what's best for us, and a self-governing independent Texas would just be too hard, and they know how much we dislike paying taxes and all of that, so we might as well just be satisfied with what we have and get on with being tax slaves to the federal government. There is nothing better to which we can aspire.

Exactly right. Elitists like Kerry, Granholm, Buttboy. Newsome, Brown Jackson and of course Biden destroy what they manage.

Everyone I mentioned are dummies as well as so they really have no substance and no underlying way to make their case but to lie and obfuscate.

The ones I pay more attention to are the shrewd ones like Schwab, Soros, Gates and Zuckerberg as they know how to control without giving up the game.

House Republicans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas on two articles

By
Anna Giaritelli
January 28, 2024 9:15 am


House Republicans plan to impeach President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on two articles in a historic committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday, the Washington Examiner has learned.

The House Homeland Security Committee will take up articles of impeachment for Willful and Systemic Refusal to Comply with the Law and Breach of the Public Trust against Mayorkas, according to the committee.

“These articles lay out a clear, compelling, and irrefutable case for Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ impeachment,” said House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) in a statement. “He has willfully and systemically refused to comply with immigration laws enacted by Congress. He has breached the public trust by knowingly making false statements to Congress and the American people, and obstructing congressional oversight of his department.

“Secretary Mayorkas has also completely disregarded the separation of powers, a bedrock of our constitutional republic. Congress has a duty to see that the executive branch implements and enforces the laws we have passed,” Green continued. “It is time we take this affront to a coequal branch of government, to the Constitution, and to the American people seriously. The House of Representatives must impeach Secretary Mayorkas.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told colleagues in a letter Friday that the chamber will move “as soon as possible” to impeach Mayorkas, who has served in his position since February 2021.

“When we return next week, by necessity, the House Homeland Security Committee will move forward with Articles of Impeachment against Secretary Mayorkas,” Johnson wrote. “A vote on the floor will be held as soon as possible thereafter.”...

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Quote: Tinker wrote in post #49

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House Republicans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas on two articles

By
Anna Giaritelli
January 28, 2024 9:15 am


House Republicans plan to impeach President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on two articles in a historic committee meeting scheduled for Tuesday, the Washington Examiner has learned.

The House Homeland Security Committee will take up articles of impeachment for Willful and Systemic Refusal to Comply with the Law and Breach of the Public Trust against Mayorkas, according to the committee.

“These articles lay out a clear, compelling, and irrefutable case for Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ impeachment,” said House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) in a statement. “He has willfully and systemically refused to comply with immigration laws enacted by Congress. He has breached the public trust by knowingly making false statements to Congress and the American people, and obstructing congressional oversight of his department.

“Secretary Mayorkas has also completely disregarded the separation of powers, a bedrock of our constitutional republic. Congress has a duty to see that the executive branch implements and enforces the laws we have passed,” Green continued. “It is time we take this affront to a coequal branch of government, to the Constitution, and to the American people seriously. The House of Representatives must impeach Secretary Mayorkas.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told colleagues in a letter Friday that the chamber will move “as soon as possible” to impeach Mayorkas, who has served in his position since February 2021.

“When we return next week, by necessity, the House Homeland Security Committee will move forward with Articles of Impeachment against Secretary Mayorkas,” Johnson wrote. “A vote on the floor will be held as soon as possible thereafter.”...

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