Where do you get that figure? If you think it means 5000/day are permitted, that's bullshit, actually, trump bullshit.
(In a social media post on Feb. 5, Trump wrote, “Only a fool, or a Radical Left Democrat, would vote for this horrendous Border Bill, which only gives Shutdown Authority after 5000 Encounters a day.”)
“It’s not that the first 5,000 [migrants encountered at the border] are released, that’s ridiculous,” Lankford said on the Senate floor. “The first 5,000 we detain, we screen and then we deport. If we get above 5,000, we just detain and deport.”
If we don't deport the majority of illegals NOW what makes you think we would deport if the bill were pasted. Supposedly we would shut down the border after 5k why not close it down at 100?
Yes, five Dem senators voted against it, and four repub senators voted for it. So what's your point? Almost the same number on each side crossed over.
The point is 4 Republicans is not a consensus like YOU said. Why did you represent it as a consensus:
A: general agreement : UNANIMITY
B: the judgment arrived at by most of those concerned
I wouldn't want a native citizen or legal immigrant to kill my family either, and that's more likely than an undocumented immigrant doing so.
So when is crime enough. Do we need to import criminals because that is exactly what is happening. Venezuela and other countries are emptying their jails onto us. Criminal gangs are coming to us. Salvadorean gangs are moving here and killing people. When should we stop PREVENTABLE crime? Should we wait till one of your family is hurt or killed or should we stop them at the border. You can go on the internet to see if your neighbor is a register sex offender. We know NOTHING about people from Venezuela because we can't get records from them. The same is true for other countries.
‘‘(B)
MANDATORY ACTIVATION.—The Sec2 retary shall activate the border emergency au3 thority if—
4 ‘‘(i) during a period of 7 consecutive
5 calendar days, there is an average of 5,000
6 or more aliens who are encountered each
7 day; or
8 ‘‘(ii) on any 1 calendar day, a com9 bined total of 8,500 or more aliens are en10 countered.
11 ‘‘(C) CALCULATION OF ACTIVATION.—
12 ‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of
13 subparagraphs (A) and (B), the average
14 for the applicable 7-day period shall be cal15 culated using—
16 ‘‘(I) the sum of—
17 ‘‘(aa) the number of encoun18 ters that occur between the
19 southwest land border ports of
20 entry of the United States;
21 ‘‘(bb) the number of encoun22 ters that occur between the ports
23 of entry along the southern
24 coastal borders; and
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1 ‘‘(cc) the number of inad2 missible aliens encountered at a
3 southwest land border port of
4 entry as described in subsection
5 (a)(2)(F)(iv); divided by