The latest reporting is that "the Department of Homeland Security would be granted new emergency authority to shut down the border if daily average migrant encounters reach 4,000 over a one-week span. If migrant crossings increase above 5,000 on average per day on a given week, DHS would be required to close the border to migrants crossing illegally not entering at ports of entry. Certain migrants would be allowed to stay if they prove to be fleeing torture or persecution in their countries.

Moreover, if crossings exceed 8,500 in a single day, DHS would be required to close the border to migrants illegally crossing the border. Under the proposal, any migrant who tries to cross the border twice while it is closed would be banned from entering the US for one year." - quoted by CO

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Just a few comments and rhetorical questions....

Re: DHS emergency authority to shut down the border if daily average migrant encounters reach 4,000 over a one-week span.

hah, having the authority is no guarantee that the authority will be used.

And Shut down? That sounds like border security to me, How exactly will the border shutdown be accomplished given we are told this very thing is impossible today.

If actually shut down somehow, what happens to the arrivals that show up anyway?

And what about the timing delay of statistics. 4,000 daily average cap but consider a surge of forty or fifty thousand showing up in one week and again the next week and the week after that. Then we find out that four weeks ago, the limit was exceed, so we shut down but what about all the excess that got in while we are waiting for the stats?

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Re: allowed to stay if they prove to be fleeing torture or persecution in their countries.

Loophole city. The advocates, lawyers, and NGO's will coach the would be asylee on exactly what to say like they are doing now.

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Lastly got-aways are presently unaccounted for but are estimated at 800 to 1,000 per day, 1.2M since Biden took office. To me this is the biggest threat, Nobody knows who these people are or what their intent is in coming her. or what reason they have fro not presenting themselves to BC and claiming asylum. What in the proposal stops 99% of these types of illegals.