The far right Republican who would be House speaker telegraphs more governmental hostage-taking.
Republicans spend more time talking about the practical problems posed by the U.S.-Mexico border than any other issue — even as much of what they propose to address them is utter fantasy.the next House speaker, is threatening to derail the next round of talks about keeping the government open — unless Democrats agree to restrictions on asylum-seeking that are not just wildly extreme, but would be entirely unworkable even if Democrats were inclined to accept them.
“That would be both illegal and a practical impossibility,” Tom Jawetz, a former senior Department of Homeland Security lawyer, told me, adding that administration officials “are legally obligated to process people for asylum on request. It’s not a choice.”Jordan’s demand for a total defunding of all releases is similarly absurd. Like all past administrations, the Biden administration does release many migrants who are awaiting asylum hearings, especially families.
Meissner notes an irony: Hard-right lawmakers ousted McCarthy for failing to secure deep spending cuts in the last fiscal talks, but now are injecting a demand for mass detentions that “would be entirely at odds with the goal of cutting spending.”and Senate Democrats, won’t ever become law.
that would help fix the problems there. Instead, as Jordan’s latest threat demonstrates, when it comes to policy, Republicans often treat the border as a kind of fantasy zone — and there is no discernible limit on their prescriptions, no matter how hallucinatory or barbaric.
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