For those who dont spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a weeks worth of network and cable news media spin The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
Sundays media spin focused primarily on the southern border and the situation which, according to President Joe Biden and his media apologists, wasnt a crisis until it was and once it was a crisis, it was Congress responsibility to deal with it.
Biden who spent the first few days of his presidency dismantling former President Donald Trumps border security initiatives and the next three years claiming that the resulting mess either wasnt his fault or wasnt happening at all issued an executive order on Tuesday that he claimed would regain control of the border. That order and whether or not it would have any impact whatsoever on the millions who have crossed the border illegally on Bidens watch were the topic of much discussion on Sunday.
On ABCsThis Week,Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told Martha Raddatz that the goal of the order was to discourage people from making the dangerous trek to and then across the southern border.
Biden wanted to change the risk calculus of individuals before they leave their countries of origin and incentivize them to use the lawful pathways.Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas tells @MarthaRaddatz that the intent behind the new border policy is to change the risk calculus of individuals before they leave their countries of origin and incentivize them to use the lawful pathways. https://t.co/y4C3CL92zq pic.twitter.com/eYdrfUMCB7
This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 9, 2024
But Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX) wasnt buying it. He spoke with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures, and he argued that the problem was only going to get worse.
As long as the Biden administration refuses to provide any type of enforcement, any type of blockage of people crossing illegally, all that this new Biden policy is going to do is to actually attract and invite even more people to cross the border illegally, he said.
Theres no slowing down of people crossing the border, he continued. In fact, its just accelerating. This is gaslighting our fellow Americans. When Biden gets up and says, This is going to stop people from coming across the border, when he says, Its going to secure the border, in fact, it is making illegal border crossings worse.
The majority of Americans appear to agree with Abbott, at least according to a new CBS/YouGov poll. That poll, asFace the Nation host Margaret Brennan pointed out on Sunday morning found that only 20% of Americans believed that President Bidens border policies would decrease the flow of illegal immigrants coming across the border and into the United States. Another 30% believed that Bidens policies would have no impact at all, while nearly half, 49%, said that illegal border crossings would continue to increase under Biden.
According to that same poll, 70% believed that former President Donald Trumps policies would decrease the number of illegal border crossings. Just 5% said that Trumps policies would lead to an increase in border crossings, and 24% said that they would not change the number at all.
Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) spoke with Brennan about the poll and defended Biden.CBS News polling found only 20% of voters believe President Bidens border policies would decrease the number of migrant crossings. When asked if his latest executive action on the border is too late, Biden campaign co-chair Sen. @ChrisCoons says, No, I dont think it isthe pic.twitter.com/uJnHU8Ax7G
Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) June 9, 2024
When Brennan asked Coons whether Biden had waited too long to take action on the border after insisting for months that he couldnt take action alone he brushed off any concern.
No, I dont think it is [too late], he said. The American people understand the difference between substance and showmanship.
Others including former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki have admitted that Biden issued the executive order because he found himself politically vulnerable as poll after poll indicates that the American people view illegal immigration and Bidens failure to keep it under control as a key issue going into Novembers election.
There needs to be something thats done, but also, politically, this is one of the biggest vulnerabilities, Psaki said. And regardless of whos mad about the details of whats in here and what isnt in here, its a political vulnerability for the president and his campaign. They know that. They knew they would have to do something like an executive order before the election politically as well. And thats what were seeing play out.
