Subject: Re: Schumer to reintroduce border bill
We argued long and hard about this, and it's good to see the White House agree with myself and others who called the limits that were in the border bill what they really were.

Scoreboard.

It's not "scoreboard" until the EO stands up to a request for an injunction.

Biden's doing the same thing he did with student loan forgiveness. He (correctly) argued that he needed legislation to implement a particular policy. Then when the legislation failed, he decided he didn't want to keep putting up with people complaining that he really didn't need the legislation - so he went ahead and did the EO. Which was then promptly enjoined by the courts as being outside of his authority.

This is also pure "messaging." Biden's reached the point where the political pain of being hammered on immigration is higher than the political pain of adopting an EO that's likely to get shot down by the courts as unconstitutional (which carries two different types of costs - the cost of being shown to be ineffective and the cost of taking a political hit from your base and still not solving the problem). So he'll take the hits of being called "Deporter in Chief" (or whatever the current incarnation of that ends up being), but he can possibly get folks like you to stop claiming he's got executive powers he's just choosing not to exercise.