Fox News reporter Bill Melugin just broke the details of the Senate Border bill and just how many illegals would get to cross every day until they shut down the border. And how long that shut down would continue for, etc.
Here’s the news:
– Mandatory detention of all single adults.
– Mandatory “shut down” of border once average daily migrant encounters hits 5,000. Importantly, this 5,000 number includes 1,400 CBP One app entries at ports of entry per day, and roughly 3,600 illegal crossings per day.
– How is that enforced? Once the 5,000 threshold is hit, a new authority is codified into law that requires Border Patrol to immediately remove illegal immigrants they catch without processing. They would not get to request asylum, they would immediately be removed. This includes removals back to Mexico, and deportations to home countries. This would be a *massive* change from current policy, which is that once an illegal immigrant reaches US soil, they must be processed via Title 8 and allowed to claim asylum. Under this new authority – they are not processed, and they are mandatorily immediately removed once the “shut down” threshold is reached.
– This “shut down” also takes effect is there are 8,500 migrant encounters in a single day.
– The “shut down” would not lift the next day. It wouldn’t lift until daily encounters are reduced to under 75% of the 5,000 threshold for at least two weeks. This means the “shut down” authority would not lift until two weeks of an average of less than 3,750 migrant encounters per day.
– Some family units will be released with ATD (Alternatives to Detention, ankle monitors etc).
– New removal authority to immediately remove all migrants who do not have valid asylum claims, which will be determined within 6 months rather than the years long process we have right now.
– Any migrant caught trying to cross twice during “shut down” phase would be banned from entering US for one year.
– US will need agreement with Mexico for MX to take back non Mexican illegal immigrants. This hasn’t been ironed out yet.
– President Biden approves of the deal and is ready to sign it as is, right now, and implement the new authority it would give him.
One commenter said it best: “You just need one line: turn everyone away at the border, and force anyone with asylum claim to wait in Mexico until it’s adjudicated (ie rejected because they’re all fraudulent)”
100%. That’s all the bill really needs to say. Letting 5k illegals in per day ON AVERAGE before the border shut down takes effect is absurd. Who determines how many days it takes to form this ‘average’?
And I’m sure there’s a loophole for that built right into the bill. There’s always a loophole to screw Republicans when Democrats are in charge.
I think I like Greg Abbott’s solution much better. Let’s just go with that.