Biden Says He’ll Shut Down the Border If He Gets What He Wants

This wouldn’t really happen, obviously.

But it’s mightily interesting that Biden would be making the claim it would happen, given that his entire platform has been “America isn’t a country, it’s a free territory for every poor person on earth (who supports Israel) to come live on welfare.”

For the record, he can’t actually make a blood pact that the border will be closed. He can say he’ll close it, and then he can go ahead and order the Border Patrol to do whatever he wants.

He is saying “I would do anything for the Ukraine…”

But you’re going to later hear the “but I won’t do that” part.

AP:

Bidding to salvage a border deal in Congress that also would unlock money for Ukraine, President Joe Biden offered fresh assurances Saturday night that he would be willing to close the U.S.-Mexico border if lawmakers would only send him a bill to sign.

Biden — also eager to disarm GOP criticism of his handling of migration at the border — said at a political event in South Carolina that he would shut down the border ’“right now” if Congress passed the proposed deal. The framework hasn’t been formally agreed to by Senate Democrats and Republicans and would face an uncertain future in the GOP-controlled House.

“A bipartisan bill would be good for America and help fix our broken immigration system and allow speedy access for those who deserve to be here, and Congress needs to get it done,” Biden said. “It’ll also give me as president, the emergency authority to shut down the border until it could get back under control. If that bill were the law today, I’d shut down the border right now and fix it quickly.”

The deal being negotiated in Congress would require the U.S. to shutter the border if roughly 5,000 migrants cross illegally on any given day. Some one-day totals last year exceeded 10,000.

In a written statement on Friday evening, Biden said the deal would allow him “a new emergency authority” to close the border. He added: “And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.”

It’s a big promise, that in itself threatens some of his diehard supporters (while also potentially making him seem less insane to more normal people).

But it would not happen.

As far as I’ve been able to gather, the entire mega-bill has been doomed ever since Israel was attacked, because so much of the US establishment is worried about not having enough military supplies for endless war with Israel.

Still, I’m personally pretty surprised he said this.

(Although I don’t know how I’m surprised by anything at this point.)

Elvis Dunderhoff contributed to this article.