Teabaggers are just repeating the lies of their dear leader and RWNJ "media".
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Feb 8, 2024 — On Feb. 7, the
bill failed in the Senate after it was opposed by all but four Republicans and a few Democrats. Some of the criticism leveled by ...
Leading up to the vote, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise on social media
said the bill “accepts 5,000 illegal immigrants a day.” Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn added her voice to the opposition,
posting that she would “never vote to make illegal immigration legal.”
The bill stated that temporary border emergency authority would be automatically activated by the Department of Homeland Security secretary if there is an average of 5,000 or more migrant encounters a day over seven consecutive days — or if there are 8,500 or more such encounters on any single day.
In December — according to the
latest data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection — there was an average of more than 8,000 encounters a day of migrants who crossed the border illegally between points of entry.
The other point in Trump’s post is that Biden “already [has] the right to CLOSE DOWN THE BORDER NOW.” But Trump tried to bar migrants caught crossing into the U.S. illegally from pursuing asylum and failed.