Speaker Mike Johnson slams Joe Biden’s proposed immigration crackdown after 7.2MILLION
House Speaker Mike Johnson is ripping into President Joe Biden for finally floating executive action to crack down on illegal immigration after millions of migrants flooded into the U.S. since he took office.
Since Biden took office in 2021, over 7.2 million migrants have entered the U.S. through the southern border.
That’s more people than the population of 36 states. Arizona, for example, had 7.1 million residents according to the 2020 census.
Now, Biden is reportedly mulling whether to take executive action on the border as polling indicates it is a top issue for voters and lawmakers rejected a negotiated border bill earlier this month.
He is looking into using the Immigration and Nationality Act, which gives a president broad leeway to block entry of certain immigrants, to shut down the border if more than 8,500 try to cross in one day.
The top GOP leader is accusing the president of waiting until the election year to take action, which he should have done months ago. Biden previously said he could not provide border security without GOP support in Congress.
President Joe Biden said he has done everything he can to fix the border crisis, but now the White House is mulling a Trump-like executive action to crack down in migration
‘Americans have lost faith in this President and won’t be fooled by election year gimmicks that don’t actually secure the border,’ Speaker Mike Johnson wrote in a statement obtained by DailyMail.com.
‘Nor will they forget that the President created this catastrophe and, until now, has refused to use his executive power to fix it.’
‘These reports also underscore just how brazenly and intentionally President Biden misled the public when he claimed he had done everything in his power to secure the border,’ Johnson continued.
The speaker wants Biden to reinstitute the ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy and end the administration’s ‘abuse’ of the parole system.
‘After three years of chaos, the Biden Administration is finally realizing President Trump had it right,’ Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., posted on X following reports of Biden’s potential executive action.
After taking office on 2021, President Biden immediately canceled various Trump-era border initiatives, including the ‘Remain in Mexico‘ policy that required migrants claiming asylum to stay in Mexico until their hearing court date in the U.S.
Biden also stopped construction of the U.S.-Mexico border within days of taking office.
The White House, however, has blamed Republicans for the ongoing issues at the U.S. southern border.
‘Every day between now and November, the American people are going to know that the only reason the border is not secure is Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican friends,’ President Biden said on February 6.
Speaker Mike Johnson slammed Biden for saying he needed Republicans to fix the border
Over 300,000 migrants illegally crossed into the U.S. during December 2023, a record
Rep. Jared Golden, a moderate Democrat, has advocated for the return of ‘Remain in Mexico’
But House Republican Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., said letting migrants into the country illegally is exactly what Biden wants.
‘7.2 MILLION illegal immigrants have entered the U.S. under Biden—more than the population of 36 states,’ he wrote on X.
‘This was the Left’s plan from the start when they canceled Remain in Mexico,’ he continued. ‘Biden could fix it by reversing his executive actions—but he refuses.’
Moderate Democrat Rep. Jared Golden of Maine, meanwhile, says Congress still has to work to fix the border crisis.
‘Congress must stop abdicating our policymaking responsibility,’ he posted on X.
‘While the president may be considering actions to restore law and order at the border, Congress isn’t off the hook. Passing Title 42 and Remain in Mexico would ensure order regardless of presidential whim.’
But many members of Golden’s party disagree and have called for the abolition of ‘Remain in Mexico.’
When Donald Trump was president in 2019, a group of over 20 Democrat senators wrote a letter to the then-president to eliminate the ‘dangerous’ policy.
‘The growing body of evidence that migrants fleeing persecution face abuse or even death, along with the fact that the Remain in Mexico policy flouts our legal obligation to asylum seekers, underscores why we demand an end to this dangerous policy,’ the group of two dozen senators wrote.
‘It is imperative that the United States end this reckless course of action and reaffirm its commitment to the principles of due process on which this country was founded.’