Joe Biden is getting the cold shoulder from members of his own party on his dismal border policies.
This from westernjournal.com.
Five Democratic senators are backing a bipartisan bill to block Biden’s termination of Title 42, a Trump-era immigration policy that allows the quick expulsion of illegal aliens on coronavirus public health grounds.
The Public Health and Border Security Act of 2022 was drafted by Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and James Lankford (R-OH), according to Axios.
Lankford said Wednesday the measure might make it through the upper chamber of Congress, according to Axios.
Besides Sinema, the bill’s democrat co-sponsors are Sens. Mark Kelly of Arizona, Jon Tester of Montana, Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
The bill prevents a sitting president from terminating Title 42 until 60 days after the surgeon general notifies Congress that the coronavirus public health emergency has been ended.
It was invoked in 2020 by then-President Donald Trump’s administration to deal with illegal immigrants.
On Friday, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Wolensky issued a directive announcing the policy of invoking Title 42 would end effective May 23.
That prompted Republican attorneys general in three states to file a lawsuit aimed at keeping Title 42 in place.
Under Sinema and Lanford’s bill, the “Public Health and Security Bill of 2022,” the president would have to provide a written plan to Congress on a plan to deal with an influx of illegal aliens.
If the Title 42 invocation is lifted, the resulting surge of illegals at the southern border could be historic in scale, with leaked documents revealing the Biden administration is planning “broadscale release mechanisms” instead of enforcing immigration law.
“Is it the open-borders part of the Biden administration … or is it the portion of the Biden administration that says, ‘This gives us a good excuse to say those crazy folks in Congress compelled us to do this … and this becomes an excuse for them to not cause this kind of chaos in the border?” he told Axios.
Sinema and Manchin have emerged as Biden’s primary critics on border policy in his own party.
“It just doesn’t seem at all workable that this, that whatever plan they’re working on right now can be ready to implement in a way that is both safe for our border communities and respects the humanitarian crisis that is coming,” Sinema told Axios.
Fox News’ Hillary Vaughn reported last week that Customs and Border Protection sources have indicated the Biden regime is considering reassigning Department of Veteran’s Affairs doctors to treat the expected surge of illegals arriving at the border.
According to Axios, Lankford and Sinema plan to attach their bill’s contents to an upcoming $10 billion coronavirus spending bill, potentially spurring indecisive senators into supporting it instead of holding up coronavirus relief.
There is certainly a motive in the democrat support of the bill in the Senate.
Two of its co-sponsors—Arizona’s Kelly and New Hampshire’s Hassan—face tough reelection contests in November.
