Reports: Biden Eyes Token Border Curbs for 2024 ElectionNeil Munro 16 May 2024
President Joe Biden’s deputies are planning to keep accepting thousands of illegal migrants per day at the border but also will make a big campaign push about not allowing more than 4,000 migrants per day, according to leaks to multiple media outlets.
“President Biden is planning executive action that would allow him to shut down the US-Mexico border once the number of migrant crossings reaches 4,000 per day, [said] a source close to the White House,” the New York Post reported May 15.
The GOP is scoffing at the rumors. “In a desperate attempt to stabilize his plummeting poll numbers, Biden is reportedly expected to announce an executive action that would allow him to shut down our Southern Border once the number of illegal immigrant crossings reaches 4,000 per day,” said a statement from Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY). “Biden’s reported executive action is nothing more than a political stunt,” she added.
The promised curb may be meaningless because the White House has already negotiated a political swap with Mexico’s government that blocks more than 4,000 migrants from getting to the U.S. border, according to BorderReport.com.
“We have committed to the United States to achieve a reduction of the flow to the border, so the number does not exceed 4,000 a day,” Mexico’s foreign minister said on Tuesday. U.S. officials “can manage the crossing of 4,000 people along their border, but no more than 4,000,” Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena said as he announced Mexico’s plan to regulate and direct migration through the region.
Biden’s proposed cap of 4,000 migrants a day was tacitly approved in February by congressional Democrats in back-room negotiations over the giveaway border bill. The bill was blocked by near universal GOP opposition, partly because the 4,000 daily cap adds up to a tacit welcome for 1.4 million illegal migrants per year.
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