I don’t get this. Congress makes the laws. The Executive Branch enforces the laws. Why would they negotiate with Mayorkas, a department head? Negotiating with POTATUS is bad enough
Republicans’ headache: Cutting a border deal with a DHS chief they loathe
Senate Republicans are working closely with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as they try to craft a bipartisan border security deal.
Which creates a new problem for the GOP negotiators: If they succeed, they’ll need to sell that deal to colleagues who loathe Mayorkas and, later, House Republicans who are trying to impeach him.
Mayorkas’ role in the high-stakes border talks is confined to policy proposals, not politics. He’s participating to assess border changes without deciding what the White House might ultimately back, according to a person familiar with the talks who was granted anonymity to address them.
Which makes it worse: whatever he’s recommending the White House might well say “nope, not happening.”
At the moment, Mayorkas’ talks with Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Sens. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) are advancing despite facing huge hurdles. They’ve made progress on changes to asylum standards but remain at odds over dialing back the president’s parole authority and new expulsion authority, according to a second person briefed on the talks.
It sounds like they really aren’t fully focusing on true solutions. Realistically, it all needs to be shut down, boot out every single illegal who wasn’t eligible for asylum, and no longer allow in and bring in asylum seekers or refugees. We have enough, and most are not assimilating. The US has paused mass immigration for decades to allow assimilation several times in the past. Lock down the border as much as possible.
Politically, that’s not going to happen. So, yeah, narrow the asylum standards and require all asylum claims to be processed outside the U.S. If they cross the border illegally they will be required to leave and apply outside the U.S. The GOP should be talking about keeping people out and so many measures to reduce people coming illegally.
In the House, Mayorkas’ impeachment is taking a back seat to the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden — but even GOP lawmakers who don’t favor going that far are not fans of the DHS chief. And one of Republican senators’ biggest challenges is ensuring they cut a deal that the GOP-controlled House can support.
Mayorkas’ presence is particularly tricky on that front, given that support for impeaching him is growing among House Republicans. Even former skeptics like Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) are now ready to boot the DHS chief from office, and Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) is working to court moderates. Gonzales and his centrist allies are some of the same Republicans whom senators hope might vote for any deal on new border restrictions.
Getting rid of Mayorkas won’t stop the issues, because Biden will replace him with someone who will do exactly the same. Any border measures should be written in plain, simple language that allows no latitude, no extra creativity for Mayorkas and others in the Biden regime to blow off.
And until Biden gives more forceful direction to Democrats, Republicans don’t see the border talks concluding with them cutting a deal with Mayorkas, anyway.
“I’m told that he’s trying to help. He’s very knowledgeable. But he doesn’t have any authority,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.). “We’re not going to reach any kind of agreement until the president tells us what, if anything, he’s willing to do to secure the border.”
He’s doing as directed by the Biden regime. Why Trump didn’t boot him I have no idea. He may be knowledgeable, but, he was always incompetent. Now we just wait to see how badly the GOP messes this all up.
Resolution of problems is the last thing MAGAts want.
Professional Republicans, yes, because if they were interested in solving this problem they would not be negotiating with this shaven-headed prick; they would be impeaching him and removing him from office and preparing to try and hang him for treason.
As for MAGA ….that is where solutions will be found. But you’re a bitter, pissy little asshat, so you’re just going to mouth off some more.
Hang him for treason? The lamentation of a bitter, pissy little asshat…
As for MAGAtism, their favorite solution is lynching! “Hang Mike Pence!!”
Is Mike Pence a traitor for not following his President’s order?
You fucking suck at this.
A feeble attempt at an insult using the exact same words I used makes you sound like a fucking second-grader using the “I’m rubber, you’re glue” defense. Embarrassing and pathetic.
Second is your imbecilic refusal to stick to the point. Yes, I think multiple, deliberate, and repeated violations of US law and the Constitution by a cabinet member that amounts to aiding and abetting a hostile invading force deserves the rope. You got nothing to say about that, you sorry little shitweasel?
Third, your fucking TDS is so pervasive and so utterly dominates your thinking that I’m starting to think you’re actually functionally fucking retarded. Mike Pence has nothing to do with this topic, but since you brought it up, he’s a coward for not sending those vote totals back to the states because they were clearly questionable. You’re fucking lying if you think otherwise.
Nobody’s talking about lynching anybody, you dumb fuck. I specifically stated this bald-headed, traitorous clown deserves a trial.
At least work on your fucking reading comprehension if you insist on constantly shitting on comment threads.
You poor dear!! LOL
Dear Brother John: that was such a good reply to the idiocy printing here by that clown Elwood that I have copied it and pasted it and saved it in my miscellaneous folder for future reference. I wanna thank you on my behalf and wish you a very Merry Christmas. Thank you for saying what has been on all of our minds these past years. And thank you for pointing out that he has absolutely gone completely insane with trump derangement syndrome. The man is incapable of fairly assessing any problem that involves trump, trump ‘s administration, trump ‘s business, or trump supporters. He has lost all ability to be non partial. He has gone from a pain in the butt commenter to a completely loathsome advocate for everything evil in America.
BroJohn exemplifies the violence inherent in the MAGAtism movement. Disagree with someone? Hang ’em!!
MAGAts are totalitarian by nature.
Speaking of traitors… your Messiah Fat Donnie, aka Big Orange, committed treason.
You’re a bitter, pissy little asshat, so you’re just going to mouth off some more.
Geno is the latest “fluffer” here. MyLilFluffer!
The Democrats have already shown they are incapable of living by any deal they make. This is a Charlie Brown Football moment. It is already the law that the Biden administration control the border and immigration and they are intentionally and openly not doing it.
You sure ain’t getting any smarter that’s for sure