The Administration, the Senate Border Bill, and a Brewing Constitutional Imbalance

Julian Zelizer : Biden-Harris administration pushed for a bipartisan border bill that would only have made the border crisis worse.

Zelizer says the bill would have codified their pre-existing border policies and allowed them to continue to release the vast majority of inadmissible aliens encountered at the Southwest border.

He says the Senate border bill was rushed to the Senate floor without going through “regular order” without being marked-up in committee.

Judge Wetherell has concluded the border crisis is driving the surge in illegal immigration.

He says the administration has effectively incentivized what they call “irregular migration” that has been ongoing since early 2021 by establishing policies and practices that all-but-guaranteed that the vast majority of aliens arriving at the Southwest Border who were not excluded under the Title 42 Order would not be detained.

Frida Ghitis: The White House is ignoring the law and releasing any and all aliens it desires.

She says Congress hasn’t put up much of a fight for its prerogatives, and especially for the almost absolute authority the Supreme Court has recognized it has over immigration.

Ghitis says Congress needs to turn off the spigot of cash they rely on from border releases.