Republican Failure Theater is real, and it's spectacular.
Pressured by the record levels of migrant crossings reported in December, the Biden administration is weighing whether to restrict a key presidential immigration authority to convince Republican lawmakers to approve more aid to Ukraine and border funding.
A small bipartisan group of senators has been negotiating with the White House since December to see if they can strike a deal on stricter asylum and migration laws, which Republicans have demanded in exchange for supporting President Biden's request for billions of dollars to fund border operations and military assistance to Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine.
While the senators and the White House have reached high-level agreements on tightening asylum interviews, expanding expedited deportations and creating an authority to expel migrants without humanitarian screenings when border agents are overwhelmed, the negotiators have not resolved their differences on some key issues. Among those issues is immigration parole, a legal tool used by the Biden administration to resettle hundreds of thousands of migrants that Republicans want to severely limit.
That's a deal-breaker for me. Biden has created a de facto open borders regime by just "paroling" all fake asylum seekers into the country to await a hearing, which they will probably not bother showing up for, in eight years.
Plenty of time to have an Anchor Baby in eight years. Why bother with the asylum claims?
Senior White House officials have previously told Democrats in Congress that they would not accept the Republican demands to restrict parole. But during a White House meeting on Friday, Mr. Biden's advisers recognized that a border deal with Republicans would not be possible without the administration agreeing on limiting parole, people briefed on those talks told CBS News. Accepting restrictions on parole would be a significant concession to Republicans, since Biden has relied so heavily on the policy.
Ugh. The Republicans' top negotiator says he'll be releasing the text of a deal this week, which signals to me they've given up on the parole issue.
Because the important thing is protecting Ukraine's borders, doncha know.
Republicans' top negotiator on a potential border and immigration deal that could unlock tens of billions in aid for Ukraine said on Sunday that lawmakers could release the text of an agreement as soon as this week.
Sen. James Lankford's (R-Okla.) optimistic remarks are the latest sign that his discussions with Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) could bear fruit after several days of urgent talks in Washington last week and months of behind-the-scenes discussions. The trio and the Biden administration are honing in on an agreement that could raise the standard for claiming asylum and potentially deliver new expulsion and enforcement authorities to the administration. It would also provide significant new resources for border adjudication and staffing.
Nothing in there about limiting Biden's kingly power of parole.
Meanwhile, Biden schemes that he'll "flip the script" on immigration and use it against Republicans.
The Biden administration is attempting to flip the blame for the migrant crisis at the southern border onto Republicans.
In anticipation of Speaker Mike Johnson heading to the U.S. southern border on Wednesday, the White House issued a statement accusing House GOPers of ducking the chance to address the issue they've been attacking.
"Actions speak louder than words," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement first obtained by POLITICO ahead of two days of Republican border visits. "House Republicans' anti-border security record is defined by attempting to cut Customs and Border Protection personnel, opposing President Biden's record-breaking border security funding, and refusing to take up the President's supplemental funding request."
Obviously, every Biden "solution" to illegal immigration is just to make more illegal immigrants legal ones and amnesty all the illegals already here.
In the Sanctuary City of New York, Eric Adams is suing the bus companies bringing illegals, claiming they violate a New York City law requiring anyone who brings a "needy" person to the city to be financially responsible for that person.
He's suing the bus companies for $708 million.
Seems to me that Biden as been flying illegals to his city, too. Will he be suing Biden?
New York City has sued 17 charter bus companies that transported migrants from Texas, the mayor, Eric Adams, announced on Thursday.
The lawsuit, filed in New York state court in Manhattan, says the city is seeking $708m from the firms because that was the cost it incurred to house the migrants and provide services to them over the past two years.
In that time, more than 33,000 people were bussed to the city as a part of Operation Lone Star, a joint effort between the Texas department of public safety and the Texas military department that began in 2021 to curb illegal immigration. Operation Lone Star was born from what the Texas Republican governor, Greg Abbott, called "Biden's reckless open-border policies".
But Adams said the transportation companies had violated a 19th-century New York state law that requires anyone who transports a needy person likely to seek government assistance from another state to cover their expenses.
New York City has been (unconstutitionally) blocking buses from discharging passengers in the city. The buses have been dumping them in the NY-adjacent cities of New Jersey.
Now, NJ's leftwing hoodlum governor Phil Murphy previously declared that his petty fiefdom would "welcome immigrants with open arms, and, more importantly, open hearts." He also declared that the Statue of Liberty, with her stupid fucking poem, was "a Jersey girl."
But now he's got his state police loading the illegals on to trains and sending them to NYC.
Migrants in Jersey? Fuhgettaboutit.
New Jersey officials are making sure the Big Apple doesn't dump the out-of-control migrant mess on the Garden State -- and are even deploying cops to usher asylum seekers from the US border onto Manhattan-bound NJ Transit trains as soon as they get off their buses.
The scrap across the Hudson comes as New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy tries to rally the state's mayors to form a unified front, while New York City Mayor Eric Adams pleads with Murphy to take on at least part of the migrant burden that is burying the five boroughs.
"New Jersey just said, 'F--k this,'" one source close to the situation told The Post on Wednesday. "New Jersey Transit cops were waiting for them in Secaucus to show them how to get on the train to New York."
Multiple Garden State sources described the scene as hectic over the last few days, as nearly two dozen migrant buses rolled into train stations with "chaperones" -- with NJ Transit cops then taking over and serving as guides to get nearly 1,000 asylum seekers across the river.
The process has been successful so far, with no migrants choosing to stay in Jersey.
LOL. People used to actually want to live in New Jersey, before Murphy.
Earlier this week, Abbott boasted online that he had sent 95,000 asylum seekers north -- including 33,600 to New York since August 2022 -- and would continue to do so.
"Sanctuary cities like NYC & Chicago have seen only a FRACTION of what overwhelmed Texas border towns face daily," he wrote on X. "We will continue our transportation mission until [President] Biden reverses course on his open border policies."
DHS Secretary and future prison punk Mayorkas says that the borders are flooded due to "climate change."
On Wednesday's broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated that there are record numbers of people coming to the southern border because there has been "the greatest number of displaced people, not only at our southern border, not only in the Western Hemisphere, but across the globe" And "the effects of climate change, poverty, increasing level[s] of authoritarianism" are the root causes of this.
Meanwhile, Boston's anti-white racist mayor affirms that Boston is a sanctuary city and that she'd love to have some illegals bused there by Abbott.