The White House, corporate media, and even Senate Republicans claim Democrats’ open-border amnesty bill, which does more to secure Ukraine than the U.S., is the only way to successfully curb the influx of more than 10 million illegal border crossers. The real power to end the record-breaking Southern border crisis, however, lies with President Joe Biden, who previously used his executive authority to undo all of his predecessor’s border safeguards. He simply isn’t wielding it.
“Have you done everything you can do with executive authority [on the border]?” a reporter asked the president on the White House lawn on Tuesday.
“I’ve done all I can do. Just give me the power…! Give me the border patrol! Give me the people! The judges! Give me the people who can stop this and make it work right!” Biden replied.
John Kirby, Biden’s coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council, also denied during a White House press briefing on Monday that Biden was “withholding executive action on the border until he gets the money” from the Senate border deal. Shortly after, he confirmed the administration’s stance, which is that “the proper way forward is to get the supplemental passed.”
JACQUI TIME: “John, I just want to clarify two of your previous answers in this briefing. Are you suggesting, in response to the border question, that the President is withholding executive action on the border until he gets the money that is part of this supplemental?”
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— Curtis Houck
