Tesla, Space-X, and X owner Elon Musk destroyed a news segment from leftist ABC News earlier this month in a post on his social media platform, formerly known as Twitter. The outlet was promoting the border bill promoted by Joe Biden’s administration, the terrible Schumer-Lankford border bill compromise that Mike Johnson has refused to pass.
The ABC News segment happened mere days after Biden and GOP frontrunner former President Trump visited the southern border. Biden visited Brownsville, Texas, where there is a relatively lower number of crossings, while Trump visited one of the real problem areas in Eagle Pass, Texas.
It should be noted that Biden only scheduled his visit after President Trump announced his, clearly in a desperate effort to keep up with the former president. ABC News reporter Mary Bruce weighed in with what clearly looked to be her own partisan opinion. She said: “The president is expected to meet with Border Patrol and local law enforcement and to once again blame Donald Trump for tanking that bipartisan border deal that would have included some of the toughest reforms in decades.”
Democrats have indeed blamed Trump for tanking the bad border deal and blame him for the border crisis despite Biden inheriting the most secure border in American history. Bruce continued: “That legislation would have imposed stricter asylum restrictions, included daily limits on border crossings, and billions of dollars in new funding for security. But Donald Trump pressured Republicans to kill that bill to deny President Biden a political win.”
Rather than take responsibility for what he destroyed, Biden instead wants money for a problem he has the power to fix without requesting a cent from Congress. Many experts on the matter claim Biden’s border boondoggle would be a disaster for the southern border. GOP Republicans like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis have been critical of the need for expensive legislation.
DeSantis said: “They have now unveiled a piece of legislation in Washington and I think people are starting to point out what a farce it is, to basically say that you only shut the border down once 5,000 people a day come illegally, which is about 2 million a year. So that’s basically legalizing illegal immigration.” The bill would essentially codify into law a required number of crossing a year, which flies directly in the face of a secure border.
A far-left, Biden-loving account posted the ABC News segment to X, prompting a roasting from owner and free speech advocate Elon Musk. “People who get their news from legacy TV live in a fake alternate reality.” Musk, who clearly has done his research on the disastrous proposed legislation, concluded, “Those so-called ‘toughest reforms’ would have made invasion-level migration permanent. That diabolical ‘Border Bill’ deserved to die and shame on those who supported it.”
It appears the border bill is dead, but if Democrats had written a bill that didn’t attempt to sneak cash overseas and allow millions into the country as law, then perhaps it would have had a shot. However, that wasn’t the case, and if Biden wants the border secure he will have to do it like Trump did, with the resources on hand.
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