https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigr ... rcna135980President 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.”
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?