'I'm Going To Use Leader Schumer's Own Words!': Ron Johnson Hammers Dems Over Border Bill

6 months ago

At a Senate Republican press briefing, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) blamed President Biden for record-high border crossings.

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00:00 Senator Johnson.

00:02 Thanks Senator Blackburn for hosting this press conference and your leadership on the issue.

00:07 In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that existing law, the Immigration and Nationality Act, exudes deference to the executive.

00:15 It was that authority that President Trump used to secure the border.

00:19 It was that exact same authority that President Biden used to open it back up and create this catastrophe.

00:25 So, he has the authority, he's just not willing to use it because he wants open borders.

00:30 When you hear Democrats say they want to secure the border, what they really mean is they want to make it more efficient

00:36 to encounter, process, and disperse illegal immigrants who do not have a valid asylum claim throughout America.

00:43 That's what this bill does, by the way.

00:45 It spends $20 billion, can not secure the border, but to more efficiently encounter, process, and disperse illegal migrants.

00:54 The worst part of this bill is the threshold set at 4,000 migrants coming in that grants the President discretion to secure the border.

01:04 It doesn't really describe how he's going to secure the border, but that discretion basically implies that Congress doesn't think he has the authority.

01:10 And then even worse, after three years, they take that discretion away.

01:13 So, that's why I've been saying this bill is worse than doing nothing because it reduces the authority of a President that was serious about securing the border.

01:23 And to talk about what a political ploy this is, what a charade it is, I'm going to use Leader Schumer's own words to prove the point.

01:31 After that bill failed, and it failed not because Trump wanted it to fail, it failed because it's an awful bill.

01:39 Leader Schumer was quoted by Politico saying, "We were playing chess, they were playing checkers, and we end up with a crane bill."

01:49 That's what he wanted. He didn't want to secure the border.

01:52 He wanted $60 billion to help secure Ukraine's border.

01:56 Now, let me ask a question.

01:59 Is that what somebody that you're negotiating in good faith would say after your negotiation failed?

02:05 Rub your nose in the fact that, "Hey, we're smart. We were playing chess. These guys were only playing checkers."

02:13 It just shows how disingenuous the leader is.

02:16 Then he went on to say, "We also end up in much better shape on the border than we were three months ago."

02:23 Now again, they didn't pass the bill.

02:26 So, they don't have this bill that's supposed to secure the border.

02:29 Why are they in better shape?

02:31 It's because they got the political cover, which was the only thing they wanted out of a border security bill.

02:37 They just wanted political cover. This quote proves it.

02:41 Thank you.

02:42 Senator Vance.

'I'm Going To Use Leader Schumer's Own Words!': Ron Johnson Hammers Dems Over Border Bill

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