Dead Bill Walking

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Dead Bill Walking

As mentioned in yesterday’s BRIGHT, the Senate dropped their immigration reform bill on Sunday. Semafor reported that the “bipartisan” (Hill-speak for “bad for Republicans”) immigration deal purports to include a stricter asylum process and gives emergency powers for quick migrant expulsion. The agreement also claims it will limit temporary settlement options, raise asylum screening standards, and transfers cases from judges to DHS officials. You know, Mayorkas because he’s done such a stellar job. The deal also says the president can halt new asylum claims based on daily border crossings. To keep the ruse going, pro-immigration groups criticized concessions, but accepted it as a down payment on reforms that offer a quicker asylum process and legal paths to immigration.

Illegal immigration goes down when everyone is made legal via asylum claims!

Yesterday, reactions started to come in and they’re what you would expect.

A round-up of GOP reactions from Politico:

• Sen. STEVE DAINES (R-Mont.) tips his vote: “I can’t support a bill that doesn’t secure the border, provides taxpayer funded lawyers to illegal immigrants and gives billions to radical open borders groups. I’m a no.” 

• Sen. BILL HAGERTY (R-Tenn.): “Under a President who started and could stop this crisis tomorrow, and whose solution to illegal immigration is to legalize it, any proposal that fails to fully secure the border is unacceptable. I’m a hard no.”

• Sen. ROGER MARSHALL (R-Kan.): “Throughout this process, I said I was listening and hoping for a solution, but to my disappointment, this bill misses the mark.”

• Sen. MIKE BRAUN (R-Ind.): “Pretending to ‘close the border’ only after we exceed 35,000 illegal entries per week is baselining 1.8M illegal entries into the U.S. every year. The cartels run the border and will continue to exploit our weakness. Build the wall. Enforce the law.”

• Sen. JOHN CORNYN (R-Texas): “Now that I have seen text, I have questions and serious concerns.”

A statement from Speaker Mike Johnson, Rep. Steve Scalise and Rep, Elise Stefanik pronounced the bill DOA, saying on X, “I’ve seen enough. This bill is even worse than we expected, and won't come close to ending the border catastrophe the President has created. As the lead Democrat negotiator proclaimed: Under this legislation, ‘the border never closes.’ If this bill reaches the House, it will be dead on arrival.”

RELATED: Open borders, closed courts: The migration crisis goes far beyond Mayorkas (The Hill)

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