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Biden Vows to “Shut Down” Border When “Overwhelmed” if Senate Deal Goes Through

Charlie Kirk Staff

01/27/2024

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Biden Vows to “Shut Down” Border When “Overwhelmed” if Senate Deal Goes Through

President Biden is begging lawmakers to advance a proposal aimed at addressing the massive surge in illegal border crossings, asserting it to be the “toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border” in the nation’s history.

The proposal, tied to $61.4 billion in aid to Ukraine, faces resistance in the Senate, particularly from several Republicans.

Despite months of negotiations between the White House and a bipartisan group of senators, the deal appears to be dead on arrival.

The president, acknowledging the longstanding issue of a broken border, emphasized the urgency to fix it and described the negotiated bill as granting him emergency authority to shut down the border when overwhelmed.

He called for the funding requested in October to secure the border, including additional border patrol agents, immigration judges, asylum officers, and cutting-edge inspection machines to detect and stop the influx of fentanyl.

While the text of the bill remains undisclosed, Biden portrayed it as a victory for America and urged those demanding tougher border control to support the bipartisan bill.

Some Senate Republicans, including Mike Lee and Josh Hawley, criticized Biden’s statement, questioning the secrecy surrounding the negotiated deal and suggesting that the president should enforce existing laws.

Details leaked about the bill include provisions such as continuing humanitarian parole for migrants flying into the country at designated airports, granting legal counsel to unaccompanied migrant children and mentally incompetent migrants, and increasing immigrant visas to 50,000 annually.

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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government.

Charlie is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show” podcast, which regularly ranks among the top-10 news shows on Apple podcast news charts, and is the host of the nationally syndicated daily radio show on the Salem Radio Network live from 12 - 3 PM ET.
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