Subject: Re: We Don't Know Who We're Deporting
But the converse of that is that defeating the bill enhanced the GOP's political situation - nothing more.

Talk to Joe Biden about that. Nobody told him to throw the southern border wide open to the degree he did.

The bill wouldn't have actually codified any number of border encounters as being permissible - the 5K was only a trigger for an additional enforcement power.

I covered this. Future democrat President would suddenly swing into action AFTER 5,000 people flowed in. THEN in a big performative show they would declare the border ‘closed’. After that…right back to having the a wide open front door.

You didn't dodge a bullet

Oh, yes we did. Because now the first problem of 5k/day is down to about 22/day.