Republicans Promise to Stand Against Israel/Ukraine Military Aid Package If It Does Not Contain Border Security Provisions
Jose Nino
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Recently, Republicans in the United States Senate have been opposing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s proposal to put forward a Ukraine and Israel supplemental foreign aid package that would be voted on without including measures to bolster the US’s southern border with Mexico.
Republicans have raised the alarm about the record number of US Border Patrol encounters with illegal aliens at the border throughout President Biden’s term in office.
Per a House Judiciary Committee report, the Biden regime released 2.1 million illegal aliens into the US from the border as of March 2023.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans have been calling for US border security funding to be tacked on to any foreign aid package that the Senate is floating for Israel and Ukraine. On top of that, McConnell contended that border security does not mean doling out federal funds Democrat mayors
to confront the massive flow of illegal aliens arriving in their cities. Instead, he believes that policies need to be passed to secure the border.
Schumer and Biden’s proposed bill features $61 billion for the war in Ukraine, $14 billion for the Israel vs. Hamas conflict, and $6 billion for humanitarian aid for Palestinian refugees.
In a letter disseminated on the evening of October 27, 202 , Schumer declared that Republicans were calling for “partisan border policy,” continuing by noting that he will proceed with a foreign aid bill package that doesn’t feature measures connected to border security.
Schumer contended that Republican support for H.R. 2, the “Secure the Border Act,” capsizes the whole foreign aid package. The bill passed in the House, which is under Republican control, back in May. The Senate version of the bill has yet to be voted on in the Democratic-controlled chamber. The White House announced that Biden opposes the legislation.
Schumer stated that Senate Republicans should not insist on tacking on H.R. 2 as a condition for the broader foreign aid bill.
McConnell responded by noting that “the single largest obstacle in the way of urgent resources to help Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan is Democrats’ refusal to address the crisis at the southern border.”
“National security begins here at home. And the sooner our colleagues admit it, the sooner the Senate can move forward on the urgent business before us,” he declared on the Senate floor.
Senate Republicans are promising to vote against the Democrats’ aid bill without the border security measures that are featured in H.R. 2.
“Senator Schumer, empty threats to force the Senate to work a full week does not scare us. The invasion at our border does,” declared Kansas Senator Roger Marshall, on November 28 on X/Twitter.
Utah Senator Mike Lee took exception with Schumer’s remark about Republicans playing dangerous games with this military aid spending bill.
“What’s dangerous is spending hundreds of billions to secure Ukraine’s border while refusing to enforce our own,” Lee wrote on X.
Per the Congressional Budget Office, the Secure the Border Act would “require the Department of State to negotiate with countries in the Western Hemisphere, particularly El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, concerning agreements related to claims for asylum.”
Under the bill, all American employers would be mandated to use E-Verify, which is a “federal web-based system that allows public- and private-sector employers to confirm that employees are eligible to work in the United States.”
The legislation would require DHS to “resume activities related to building a wall along the southwestern border of the United States, as planned or under construction before January 20, 2021.”
Large segments of the ruling class do not care about border security. Many would rather maintain the invade the world, invite the world dynamic that has animated DC policymaking in the last few decades.
It’s going to take a complete overthrow of this corrupt set of rulers for normalcy to be restored in American affairs. America First Republicans are the only political actors capable of pulling this off. However, this will be an uphill struggle due to the neoconservative capture of the party.
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