Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said that a legislative border security deal will make little difference given that the Biden administration presently has the “tools to enforce the law at the border, but they won’t use them.”
While appearing on The Ingraham Angle, Rubio explained that the laws concerning the border have not changed since President Joe Biden took office. The Florida senator noted that the change regarding border security has come in how those laws have been applied.
“The problem is this: The laws have to be executed by the executive branch. And we already have laws on the books right now. The laws have not changed from the time Trump was president to the time Biden became president. What changed was the way the law was applied and executed,” Rubio said. “The same laws — Trump had the same laws as Biden, but Trump did not allow people and discouraged people from coming.”
“Biden, on day one, said, ‘I’m getting rid of all the Trump policies.’ In essence, they’re not following the laws that exist now. They’re not using their enforcement tools now. So what leads us to believe that no matter what law you pass, they’re actually going to do any of the things you agree to?” the senator said, referencing legislative negotiations concerning the border.
Rubio noted that Monday’s 5-4 ruling from the Supreme Court, which came as a victory for the Biden administration as it allowed the federal government to cut wire set up by Texas with the intention of deterring immigrants from illegally crossing into the United States, further showed the likelihood of Biden adhering to any new legislation passed.
“All these things do is it allows an administration to do something, but it doesn’t mean they’re going to do it. If they are willing to go to the Supreme Court to fight against border security, what makes you think they’re going to adhere by any legislative deal that’s done on border security? They’re going to take the legislation and say, ‘Yes, that’s an option,’ but not pursue it because they’re not interested in border security,” Rubio said.
The Florida senator also said he believes Biden’s plan is to have a bipartisan border deal pass in the Senate but be stopped in the House, which may allow the president to say: “The crazy Republican MAGA people in the House wouldn’t do it. Now they own the border crisis.”
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“That’s what this is all about,” Rubio said.
On Monday, the Congressional Budget Office released new data that indicated border officials witnessed but did not catch 860,000 illegal immigrants crossing into the U.S. last year — a figure that is more than double the number of “gotaways” who entered when Biden entered office and dismantled border policies from former President Donald Trump’s administration.
