On 6/4/2024, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Congressman Michael Guest (R-Miss.), and Congressman Juan Ciscomani (R-Ariz.) to discuss Dems border policies. House Democrats voted against legislation on the House Floor last month to deport illegal immigrants. Johnson slammed President Biden’s planned executive action on the border to still allow thousands of illegal immigrants to enter the country as a political stunt designed to cover for his self-created crisis.

Johnson, speaking to reporters Tuesday morning shortly before the order was unveiled, argued Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas took a series of actions that “engineered the open border” during Biden’s White House term. “The evidence is so clear and now suddenly he wants to issue some weak executive order; one, by the way — one executive order, supposedly to try to address the issue. It’s window dressing. Everybody knows that if he was concerned about the border, he would have done this a long time ago,” Johnson said.

Johnson suggested the order doesn’t include several long-sought border security measures demanded by Republican lawmakers.

“From what we’re hearing, it will ignore multiple elements that have to be addressed, the elements that were in our legislation that we passed over 14 months ago to fix the broken asylum program, to fix the broken parole process, to reinstate the remain in Mexico policy, to end the catch and release policy that they’ve advanced,” Johnson said, in reference to the GOP-led border crackdown legislation passed more than a year ago.

The legislation, titled H.R. 2, was dead on arrival in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

“Whatever little short measure that he’s [Biden’s] going to do here, is not going to solve the problem,” Johnson said. “In fact, by some estimates, it might make it worse, because it will extend once again, the welcome message … incentivize people to come. ‘Be among the first 2,500 people,’ is what we’re hearing … ’the first 2,500 per day to come in,’ to be insured you get your welcome package when you come into the country illegal. It’s absolute madness.”

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Speaker Johnson rails against Biden’s ‘weak’ border executive order