05-18-2024, 06:08 PM
(05-18-2024, 12:11 PM)Waterglass Wrote: That being aside I am beginning to wonder whether FBI Chris Wray keeps saying in public that all hell is breaking loose in the USA and he’s connecting the dots to the borders and the 2024 election. Almost warning Biden to do his job as in securing the borders
The numbers fall WAY short of those from Bush's term: https://www.dhs.gov/ohss/topics/immigrat...19/table39
Congress bears most of the responsibility since they are the ones who decide on how much budget the Immigration department gets. You may recall that recently the Republicans shot down (at Trump's behest) a bipartisan deal that would have given them more funding -- a bill that was praised by the border patrol itself.
https://apnews.com/article/congress-ukra...b727a284f8
Biden could say "open all the borders" or "shut everything down" (and things between) and it doesn't mean a thing. What DOES mean something is if CONGRESS funds the shut down or ramp up. Biden could say "hate it! Let everyone in" and if congress didn't like the idea, it's merely political talking points and not actual policy. He could attempt (as Trump did) an executive order and would find that he was blocked by every court in the land.
So let's blame the ones who are NOT giving the agency money for agents and equipment... and that's Congress. The agents can only do so much in a 40 hour work week (many work overtime) -- without more agents and more equipment, there's nothing else they can do.
And nobody's going to arrest Biden for "not doing his job" because his job is NOT writing the budget. He just signs off on it (or doesn't, and Congress overrides him.)
