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President Joe Biden is a man of action — unless the action could have too much political blowback.
Congress kicked an immigration bill around for months before dropping the ball. The border crisis continues, setting up the president for a definitive play to ease the migrant influx.
His answer: we’ll see.
The Biden administration is weighing whether he has the sole power to close the southern border with Mexico should the need arise, the president said Tuesday.
“We’re examining whether or not I have that power,” Biden said in an interview with Univision’s Enrique Acevedo, referencing a potential need for congressional action, as The Hill reported.
Of course he has the power, and he’s used it before. On Day One of his presidency, Biden issued an executive order rescinding President Trump’s immigration enforcement policy that cracked down on communities protecting undocumented immigrants from being deported.
He also issued an executive order letting undocumented immigrants be counted in the national census, and issued a proclamation ending the construction and funding of border wall.
It was a busy day, and he didn’t let up — issuing some 137 executive orders as of last week.
Not all of them concerned American domestic policies. One Feb. 1, Biden issued an executive order “on imposing certain sanctions on persons undermining peace, security and stability in the West Bank.” This was aimed at those who threatened to or committed violence against civilians and destroyed property, among other things.
With near-daily headlines about criminal migrants assaulting citizens, police officers, committing robberies, the relentless smuggling of Fentanyl across the border, and the unsustainable fiscal burden placed on communities to house and shelter migrants, one could easily say that our peace, security and stability is under fire as well.
Where’s our executive order?
“When the border has over … 5,000 people a day trying to cross the border because you can’t manage it, slow it up. There’s no guarantee that I have that power all by myself without legislation,” Biden continued. “And some have suggested I should just go ahead and try it. And if I get shut down by the court, I get shut down by the court.”
Biden was “shut down by the court” over student loan forgiveness, but that didn’t stop him from rolling out massive debt relief this week for borrowers — a move that will spike the national debt by billions. Biden’s loan forgiveness has sparked lawsuits from multiple states, and yet he is undeterred.
The problem, of course, is that Democrats view every immigrant as a potential voter, and have long promoted the view that deportation, even of immigrants who commit crimes, is unacceptable. The country is paying the price for this progressive posturing, and it will only get worse as communities are forced to cut services and programs from their budgets as the migrant guest bill continues to grow.
The “need has arisen,” Mr. President. It’s time for an executive order restoring sanity at our southern border.
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