When it comes to this issue, Rep. Jim Jordan says we’re stuck between a rock and a hard place
America’s border crisis is listed as one of the top voter issues of the 2024 election. People of all political ideologies mostly agree that illegal immigration is problematic and must be dealt with, but it seems Biden has no intentions of reversing course. Plus, with Election Day still months away, he has ample time to continue funneling more illegal immigrants into the country.
“Biden could close the border, right?” Dave Rubin asks Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).
“I mean yeah ... but he probably won’t stop something that he intentionally started,” says Jordan. “They did this on purpose — willfully, deliberately, intentionally. They decided that they wanted to change three fundamental policies: no more wall, no more weight in Mexico, [and] once you’re here, you will not be detained.”
“They can stop it if they put back in place those policies, but they just don't want to.”
“When you talk to your colleagues on the other side, do they believe it's intentional? What do they think Biden’s intentions are? This is just a replacement of voters?” asks Dave.
“That’s the question. Why are they doing it? I gotta believe it’s political. Sometimes I think it's just, ‘Well President Trump did A, B, and C, so we're going to do D, E, and F; we're not going to do what he did, we're going to do the opposite,”’ Jordan speculates.
The bottom line is, “we’re down to two options: [Biden] is not going to fix it, so we can wait for the election ... or we can use the power of the Constitution the framers gave us, which is the power of purse.”
When the spending bill is due next month, we can say, “No money can be used to process or release into the country any new migrant” and instead focus on “evaluating the the 8 million who've come thus far” by having them “go through the adjudication process to see if they actually are legitimate asylum-seekers,” says Jordan, acknowledging that this course of action is the opposite of the Senate’s border bill that was designed to “keep letting the flow happen.”
In “three years and 17 days of the Biden administration, we went from a secure border to no border.”
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