Byron York in dailyherald: Biden goes to the southern border and actually makes things worse.
Republicans have spent two years demanding that President Joe Biden visit the U.S.-Mexico border. They wanted Biden to face the real-world consequences of his border policy and the burden it has placed on Americans not only in the border states but around the country. Now the GOP has gotten its wish; Biden visited the border at El Paso, Texas, on Sunday. But there is bad news: The president used the occasion of his border visit to make things even worse.
The first moment came when Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott met Biden as Air Force One arrived. Abbott handed the president a letter outlining what needs to be done to solve the border crisis. Noting that Biden's destination"has been sanitized of the migrant camps which had overrun downtown El Paso because your administration wants to shield you from the chaos that Texans experience on a daily basis," Abbott demanded that Biden enforce existing U.S.
There it is. The Republican official wants to stop the flow. The Democratic official wants to accommodate it. Biden seeks to put the smugglers out of business by letting everyone in immediately. Under the new program, the U.S. will grant the border crossers parole -- the legal term for allowing an illegal immigrant to stay in the United States -- and entering the United States will be quick and easy.
The problem is, the president does not have the legal authority to do this."It is both a gross violation of the narrow, statutory parole authority Congress has granted the executive branch for decades, and an unconstitutional usurpation by the president of Congress's power to set the conditions for lawful entry into the United States," McCarthy wrote.
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