Subject: The border "Deal" and...why it stinks
First, what is it?
https://twitter.com/BillMelugi...
- Mandatory detention of all single adults.

- Mandatory “shut down” of border once average daily migrant encounters hits 5,000. Importantly, this 5,000 number includes 1,400 CBP One app entries at ports of entry per day, and roughly 3,600 illegal crossings per day.

- How is that enforced? Once the 5,000 threshold is hit, a new authority is codified into law that requires Border Patrol to immediately remove illegal immigrants they catch without processing. They would not get to request asylum, they would immediately be removed. This includes removals back to Mexico, and deportations to home countries. This would be a *massive* change from current policy, which is that once an illegal immigrant reaches US soil, they must be processed via Title 8 and allowed to claim asylum. Under this new authority – they are not processed, and they are mandatorily immediately removed once the “shut down” threshold is reached.

So the President would have the new authority to close the border down...but only once 5,000 people came in.

This legislation is a poison pill. It's designed to handcuff a potential 2nd Trump term. Why?

The border can't be shut down until after 5,000 people came over it. It basically codifies into law the current FLOOD of people crossing the border.

In other words, it's a political bill designed to help the democrats out by
1) Letting Biden claim "he solved the border crisis"
2) Taking away a theoretical Trump Presidency's 2nd terms winning issue
3) Sticking Trump with an unsolvable problem and give the d's the ability to sue under this new bill

Oh, sure...on its face it looks fantastic - loads of authority to do this and that, blah blah blah. But it's really a smokescreen.

The bill would have Constitutional problems - the President is the commander in chief and can declare the border closed as the CiC sees fit. The legislative branch is not charged with defense of the nation.