Musk Calls Out Biden for Waiting on Bipartisan Senate Deal to Shut Down Border; Musk Hits Out at Biden’s Call for Border Deal: ‘No laws need to be passed’

Musk Calls Out Biden for Waiting on Bipartisan Senate Deal to Shut Down Border:

Billionaire Elon Musk called out President Joe Biden for waiting on a bipartisan Senate deal to shut down the southern border, saying the president has the authority to do so by means of an executive order.

“No laws need to be passed,” Musk wrote on X. “All that is needed is an executive order to require proof before granting an asylum hearing. That is how it used to be.”

Musk’s comment was in response to a statement from Biden, who said Friday night he would “shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed” if Congress gives him that emergency authority under the border deal. In October, Biden requested Congress to approve funding for securing the border in a legislative package that includes an additional 1,300 Border Patrol agents, 375 immigration judges, 1,600 asylum officers, and more than 100 inspection machines to detect fentanyl.

Negotiations for the border deal continue as Republicans and Democrats in the Senate fail to reach an agreement for both border security and Ukraine aid.

“Securing the border through these negotiations is a win for America,” Biden said. “For everyone who is demanding tougher border control, this is the way to do it. If you’re serious about the border crisis, pass a bipartisan bill and I will sign it.”

The president’s hopes for such a bipartisan agreement were quashed by Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.), who said earlier Friday that, if rumors about its details were true, the deal would have been “dead on arrival” in the House.

Musk went on to elaborate that a border wall is not necessary to solve the migrant crisis. Rather, the blame rests on Border Patrol agents under the direction of Biden’s Department of Homeland Security, he said. —>READ MORE HERE

Musk hits out at Biden’s call for border deal: ‘No laws need to be passed’

Elon Musk has fired back at President Biden’s calls for a bipartisan Senate deal to be passed to fix the unprecedented levels of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border.

Biden released a statement late Friday saying that the legislation being negotiated would give the president a new emergency authority to shut down the border “when it becomes overwhelmed” and that he would use that authority on the day he signs the bill into law.

“For everyone who is demanding tougher border control, this is the way to do it,” Biden said in the statement. “If you’re serious about the border crisis, pass a bipartisan bill and I will sign it.”

But Musk, a vocal critic of the border crisis clapped back to the statement posted on the president’s X account.

“No laws need to be passed,” Musk wrote. “All that is needed is an executive order to require proof before granting an asylum hearing. That is how it used to be.”

Musk, the owner of Tesla, SpaceX and X, previously argued that gaining asylum status after illegally crossing the southern border is as easy as a Google search.

He also agreed with Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor David Sacks who wrote last night that the border is broken “because this administration refuses to enforce the laws we already have.” Musk responded by writing, “exactly.” —>READ MORE HERE

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