Speaking during the Friday broadcast of his show, a Democrat who is known as one of the high-profile supporters of the current president, HBO’s Bill Maher, shredded Biden as having done “nothing” on the key election issue of the US-Mexico border and illegal immigration across it. Further, he argued that Biden’s belated attempt to do something on the issue with an executive order is meaningless for the election and will do nothing to fix the issue.
As background, President Biden recently issued an executive order having to do with illegal immigration in an election-time ploy to make it look to the uninformed voter like he is securing the border. The executive order would halt new asylum requests once the number of migrants crossing into the U.S. hits an average of 2,500 per day over a week.
Maher, ripping into Biden for the do-nothing order and his stance on the border generally, said, “I think if Biden loses this election, it’s gonna be because of two things. He’s old, and he can’t get past that issue, and people just hate that about him. And immigration. I mean, just on a political level, I don’t think they could’ve handled it worse.”
Continuing, Maher noted that President Biden embarrassingly backtracked on his border stance, explaining, “Because now what’s going on … he’s finally, after saying he couldn’t do anything, he’s gonna issue an executive order. By the way, this is the same executive order Trump tried to get through the courts, and they didn’t let him do it.”
Next, Maher noted that the order is obviously timed to the election after Biden did nothing for years and, now that he has done so little for so long, will only put a cap on the number of asylum seekers. He said, “But he’s gonna finally try it six months before the election, which says we’ll put a cap of 2,500 now asylum seekers coming in.”
Continuing, Maher went on to describe the “scheme” as “bizarre.” First, he described how it would theoretically operate, saying, “If it passes 2,500, if it’s 2,501, then we automatically close the border. Fire marshal says, ‘No more.’ He’s gonna come here and close the club. And if you don’t have a stamp on your hand, you can’t get back in.”
Continuing, he described how it would end up pleasing nobody, saying, “But when it goes down to 1,500, then we resume standard asylum procedures. It’s like surge pricing with Uber. It’s a bizarre scheme that, of course, has pleased nobody. It looks like he did nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. Of course, he did try through Congress, and the Republicans purposely spiked that football … but now it looks like this is his last minute before the election Hail Mary pass. And it’s not going to succeed.”
Watch Maher sound off on Biden’s tardy immigration “hail mary” and why it won’t work at saving his 2024 electoral chances here:
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