Speaker Mike Johnson ( R- La. ) on Tuesday ripped into President Biden’s senior order on border security, calling it “weak” and “window dressing”.
Johnson claimed that Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas “engineered the empty border” during his White House tenure by speaking to reporters on Tuesday morning immediately before the purchase was unveiled.
The information is so abundant, and then suddenly, he wants to enact some unwise executive order, one, by the way, one executive order, allegedly to try to resolve the problem. It’s glass washing. Everyone is aware that if he had been concerned about the frontier, he may have done it a long time ago,” Johnson said.  ,
The executive purchase may give the White House more authority to halt the flow of migrants to the southern border and let border officials to reject them when the average number of daily border crossings between ports of entry is over 2, 500 on average for seven days. It will take effect instantly.
Johnson suggested that the order does n’t include a number of long-awaited border security measures that Republican lawmakers have urged.
According to Johnson, “from what we’re hearing, it may dismiss several elements that need to be addressed,” Johnson said in response to the GOP-led border assault legislation that was passed more than a year ago.
The policy, titled H. R. 2, was dying on arrival in the Political- controlled Senate.
” Whatever little short measure that he ‘s]Biden’s ] going to do here, is not going to solve the problem”, Johnson said. ” In fact, by some estimates, it may make it worse, because it will expand when suddenly, the delightful message … incentivize people to come.’ Be among the primary 2, 500 people,’ is what we’re hearing … ‘ the second 2, 500 per day to arrive in,’ to be insured you find your welcome deal when you come into the country illegal. It’s absolute madness”.
For further clarification, The Hill reached out to the White House.
Johnson and House Republicans have long pleaded with the Biden administration to take executive action at the border and asserted that his policies have contributed to the large-scale influx of immigrant arrivals into the country at the southern border.
In January, Johnson ‘s , office released a list of 64 instances , it claimed showed the Biden administration “undermining border security policy and encouraging illegal immigration”, which he referenced again Tuesday.
Biden and White House officials initially claimed that Congress had the authority to pass border security measures, but lawmakers have been unable to pass any bipartisan legislation on the subject. A bipartisan border agreement was broken earlier this year by conservative Republicans and former president Trump.
