149 Words in Sen. Lankford’s ‘Border Act’ Could Help Curtail the Biden/Mayorkas Border Fiasco
So what’s not to like? The other 20,583 words
By George Fishman on May 31, 2024
Summary
The Senate recently defeated Sen. James Lankford’s ill-begotten “Border Act” on a procedural vote. The measure was relaunched as a Democratic bill, as it should have been all along, and opposed by all but one Senate Republican, as it should have been all along.
The “Border Act” contains over 20,000 words, 20,732 by my count. Let’s start on a positive note. I have personally identified 149 words in the legislation that I could work with to help curtail the Biden/Mayorkas border fiasco. Among those words are “Whenever ... border emergency authority is activated, the Secretary shall have the authority, in the Secretary’s sole and unreviewable discretion, to summarily remove from and prohibit, in whole or in part, entry into the United States of any alien [OK, with exceptions] who is subject to such authority.” This “summary removal” authority could be a quite effective replacement for Title 42 expulsions.
Unfortunately, in addition to those 149 words of note, the Border Act contains 20,583 other words that range from benign to malignant. I will focus on the 2,835 words purposefully designed to enfeeble the Act’s own summary removal power:
https://cis.org/Fishman/149-Words-Sen-Lankfords-Border-Act-Could-Help-Curtail-BidenMayorkas-Border-Fiasco
