Why does Biden need new legislation to "shut down" the border?

[bmw]

President Joe Biden on Friday vowed to halt crossings at the border when it's "overwhelmed" if Congress passes bipartisan immigration legislation giving him that authority.

In a strongly worded statement, Biden threw his support behind an emerging immigration deal in the Senate, one that former President Donald Trump is seeking to torpedo since it could hand a legislative victory to his likely opponent in November.

“What’s been negotiated would — if passed into law — be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country,” Biden said Friday night. “It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigr ... rcna135980

Wait a minute? Hasn't his administration been repeatedly stating that the border is secure and that they're stopping the flow of migrants at the border?

Here is his brain-dead press secretary from just 4 months ago:

QUESTION: "Why aren't you guys stopping the flow at the border?"

ANSWER: "We are stopping the flow at the border. What the President has been able to do on his own, without the help of Republicans in Congress...the President has put a plan that is indeed, uh, the data is showing that it is indeed, uh, uh stopping, slowing down the flow of unlawful migration, and that is because of the work this President continues to do without the help of Republicans."



So if the President is doing this successfully on his own, what the hell does he need new legislation for?

[Deleted User 16173]

His press secretary is cute but stupid. The one before her was just stupid.

[TC Talks]

She's a graduate with a Master's in Public Administration from Columbia University.

Two part question:
Where did you get your post graduate degree?

Do you really think she is directing her comments to an old white guy from the Detroit suburbs, or to the people actually engaged in this issue?

You're opinion has never been important to people who are actually working on issues our country faces.

[zzand]

I believe the why is right now with the situation in Texas he is looking like a fool during an election year and he needs to make a positive step to close it to illegal crossings. I understand why Trump wants to torpedo the bill so he can use it for his campaign but I personally think he needs to be ignored.

[bmw]

She's a graduate with a Master's in Public Administration from Columbia University.

Two part question:
Where did you get your post graduate degree?

Do you really think she is directing her comments to an old white guy from the Detroit suburbs, or to the people actually engaged in this issue?

You're opinion has never been important to people who are actually working on issues our country faces.

That is a complete, 100% dodge of the question I'm posing here. If we are to take her comments at face value, then why does Biden need new legislation to accomplish the very things she said he was already successfully accomplishing just 4 months ago?

As an aside, I wouldn't be lecturing people about their level of education when you don't even know when to use "your" vs. "you're."

[TC Talks]

I was addressing the comments from the idiot just before my remarks. Thanks for the correction, Grammar and spell checking with this stupid phone aren't priorities, but they probably should be.

[bmw]

I believe the why is right now with the situation in Texas he is looking like a fool during an election year and he needs to make a positive step to close it to illegal crossings. I understand why Trump wants to torpedo the bill so he can use it for his campaign but I personally think he needs to be ignored.

I disagree with regards to Trump's reasons for wanting to torpedo the bill. I, myself, am highly skeptical of any legislation being hammered out behind closed doors that is supposedly "bi-partisan."

As to Biden, his problem is we've reached critical mass with the illegals that are here. They're everywhere. Even in my small town in northern Michigan.

[Bryce]

QUESTION: "Why aren't you guys stopping the flow at the border?"

ANSWER: "We are stopping the flow at the border. What the President has been able to do on his own, without the help of Republicans in Congress...the President has put a plan that is indeed, uh, the data is showing that it is indeed, uh, uh stopping, slowing down the flow of unlawful migration, and that is because of the work this President continues to do

Yeah? Sure!

December Border Surge Sets Alarming Record: 371,000 Illegal Crossings

[Bryce]

She's a graduate with a Master's in Public Administration from Columbia University.

So, that proves you can receive an advanced degree and still be as dumb as a rock?

Someone's money well spent?

[Mega Hertz]

Here's where the Democrats fuck themselves. They piss off the progressives when getting "tough" on the things like the border, while trying to play to the right by making it look like they're doing something...anything about it. Trick no good.

[Deleted User 16173]

She's a graduate with a Master's in Public Administration from Columbia University.

So, that proves you can receive an advanced degree and still be as dumb as a rock?

Someone's money well spent?

Both of Biden’s press secretaries dodged questions on a regular basis. Must be the criteria to be a press secretary for the Biden Administration. Don’t answer the questions just dodge them. Again, our tax money well spent.

[TC Talks]

She's a graduate with a Master's in Public Administration from Columbia University.

So, that proves you can receive an advanced degree and still be as dumb as a rock?
Someone's money well spent?

Is she dumb as a rock? Or it is that she's a person of color who can't possibly be smarter than you? (She is)

[Bryce]

She's a graduate with a Master's in Public Administration from Columbia University.

So, that proves you can receive an advanced degree and still be as dumb as a rock?
Someone's money well spent?

Is she dumb as a rock? Or it is that she's a person of color who can't possibly be smarter than you? (She is)

Gee, to bad there isn't such a thing as a lesbian card. You could have played that too.

There are bunches of people of color much brighter than I. She isn't one of them.

[Colonel Flagg]

She's a graduate with a Master's in Public Administration from Columbia University.

So, that proves you can receive an advanced degree and still be as dumb as a rock?

Someone's money well spent?

Both of Biden’s press secretaries dodged questions on a regular basis. Must be the criteria to be a press secretary for the Biden Administration. Don’t answer the questions just dodge them. Again, our tax money well spent.

Smart people usually don't use phrases like "circle back" over and over again. Circle Back Jen was pitiful to watch. Now that I think about it, Guy Gordon says it a lot too. That figures.

[TC Talks]

You don't spend much time on corporate meetings do you?