President Joe Biden is supporting the Senate Border Act of 2024 (Border Act), which he says would “be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country.”
“It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed,” he said. “And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.”
Biden invited former President Donald Trump to join him in lobbying Congress to pass the Border Act, saying, “You know and I know it’s the toughest, most efficient, most effective border security bill this country’s ever seen. So instead of playing politics with the issue, why don’t we just get together and get it done?”
I disagree. The Border Act would have little, if any, impact on the factors that attract illegal immigration to the United States: it’s too easy for migrants without a visa to get into the United States, and they are reasonably safe from deportation once they have reached the interior of the country.
The main reason I can think of for Biden to support that bill is to reduce the negative impact that the border crisis will have on him in the upcoming elections. It makes it possible for him to say that he tried to secure the border with a tough bill — and the Republicans prevented it from passing.
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