The verb plot connotes secrecy and skulduggery.
But Trump and the anti-"deal" Republicans are announcing their position and their intent publicly, with no deception.
But Axios, aka Politico for Kidz!, thinks it's just generally underhanded to oppose leftwing Democrat propagandists and traitors.
Republican and Democratic senators are taking to the airwaves, scrambling to pass severe restrictions on migrants flooding across the U.S.-Mexico border. There's just one thing: Their plan is all but dead.
Why it matters: The Senate might pass the plan, which would be one of the harshest immigration bills of the century.
It's so harsh that it writes into law that 150,000 illegals are allowed to enter the country in a 30-day month without fear of deportation.
President Biden is ready to sign it. But House Republicans -- egged on by former President Trump -- already are planning to shut it down.
Mike Johnson announced it was "dead on arrival" before Trump made any statements about it.
State of play: Illegal immigration has rocketed to the top of voters' concerns, and Biden has become increasingly desperate for a solution. Trump and conservative Republicans see a political opportunity to squeeze Biden and Democrats on the issue.
This is the treasonous propaganda line: Everyone knows this is a great bill which will "fix the border," but nasty Republicans oppose it just to deny Biden credit for "fixing the border."
The fact that it includes no money for a wall, does not authorize deportations except in very narrow circumstances and only for limited time periods, and does not narrow the grounds for making Fake Asylum claims don't count.
Biden says this is a perfect bill and you should believe him, he's never lied or raped an employee before.
Trump, whose front-runner status in the Republican presidential race has solidified his leadership of the GOP, has loudly vowed to kill the bipartisan border deal.
"It's not going to happen, and I'll fight it all the way," Trump said Saturday in Nevada.
Zoom in: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has fallen in line. He called the deal "dead on arrival" on Friday, then doubled down over the weekend, claiming it wouldn't do enough to stop illegal border crossings.
Interesting that Johnson said this Friday and Trump make his statement Saturday but Johnson "fell in line" with a statement that would be made in the future.
Karen Armstrong writes that Jill Biden is out on the campaign trail in place of her invalid rapist husband, making the same case that Republicans know this bill is just So Awesome but are opposing it just to hurt Joe Biden.
Via the Daily Mail:
'You see what happened today with the border, and now Trump is trying to do everything he can to make Joe look bad, you know, even at the lives -- sacrificing lives of so many people just for his own political gain,' she told donors to her husband's re-election campaign.
'I know it's early to start, but I want you to sort of think after you leave tonight that yes, I am committed to a democracy. And yes, I'm going to fight as hard as I can and not let anything like 2016 happen again.'
You mean, you're going to fight to make sure we don't have a fair and free election?
Yes we already knew that.
The Daily Mail points out that Joe Biden's immigration policy is... largely shaped by "Doctor" Jill Biden.
Biden's border policy has been particularly influenced by the first lady, his advisors told the Wall Street Journal, because of her reaction to the Trump administration's policy of family separations and his 'Remain in Mexico' program.
During the 2020 campaign, Jill Biden visited a tent camp of migrants living just across the southern border in Matamoros, Mexico.
Over the weekend, a group of former FBI officials wrote an urgent letter to Joe Biden informing him that the terrorists freely flowing across the open border presented a clear and present danger to US citizens' lives.
The Biden administration's border policy poses an "imminent danger" to the US, which has been "invaded" by "military-aged men from around the globe," a group of former FBI officials warned.
In a letter sent Jan. 17 to leaders in the House and Senate, 10 former FBI senior executives said the migrant crisis is " the most pernicious ever to menace the United States.
"In its modern history, the US has never suffered an invasion of the homeland, and yet one is unfolding now," according to the officials, which included former Terrorist Screening Center Director Timothy Healy, FBI assistant directors Kevin Brock and Chris Swecker, and Mark Morgan, the former acting commissioner US Customs and Border Protection who also an ex-FBI superintendent.
"Military-aged men from across the globe, many from countries or regions not friendly to the United States are landing in waves on our soil by the thousands -- not by splashing ashore from a ship or parachuting from a plane but rather by foot across a border that has been accurately advertised around the world as largely unprotected and with ready access granted," the letter continued.
The matter is even more pressing than ever, particularly after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas on Israel, they warned.
"It is stark to say so, but having a large number of young males now within our borders who could begin attacking gatherings of unarmed citizens, in imitation of 10/7 and at the behest of a foreign terror group, must be considered a distinct possibility," the officials wrote.
"We would be remiss not to call out this potentially grave threat in the most direct terms. The warning lights are blinking."
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And all the more stunning in light of terrorist attacks on our own soil, said New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis.
"It's shocking that in a post 9/11 world that the Biden administration would have an open border policy with such lax vetting," she said. "They are even allowing people with no real identification to board airplanes, which is directly against the 9/11 Commission recommendations."
This is not a hypothetical concern.
Federal authorities caught a terrorist at the U.S. southern border and released him into the country, where he roamed freely for nearly a year before being arrested in Minnesota just days ago, according to an internal federal memo exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
The unnamed individual, who the memo only identifies as a member of the Somali terror group al-Shabaab, was released shortly after being caught illegally crossing the southern border near San Ysidro, California on March 13, 2023, according to the memo, which the DCNF is not publishing in order to protect the identity of a confidential source. The Terrorist Screening Center "deemed him a 'mismatch'" after running his name through the terror watchlist, according to the memo, which was sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials.
However, on January 18, 2024, the Terrorist Screening Center "made a redetermination" that the individual was "a confirmed member of al-Shabaab" and was involved in the use, manufacture or transport of explosives or firearms, the memo states. Two days later, ICE nabbed the al-Shabaab member in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Border Patrol caught 172 terror watchlist suspects attempting to enter the U.S. illegally during fiscal year 2023. Former homeland security officials say the constant deluge of illegal immigrants hitting the southern border is making it easier for bad actors to slip into the country.