The Border Security And Enforcement Act Of 2023

  The McClintock-Biggs bill, if enacted into law would provide the Department of Homeland Security with the industrial-strength cleaning supplies it needs to mop up the Biden administration's mess at the border.

Instead of linking border expulsions to a CDC declaration of a pandemic-related public health emergency, the bill would allow DHS to prohibit the introduction of aliens as necessary to achieve operational control of the border.

The bill would end the Biden administration's flagrant disregard of its statutory mandate to detain aliens apprehended at the border.

The bill would in large measure terminate the disastrous "Flores Settlement Agreement" bestowed upon us by the Clinton administration and an out-of-control federal judge, especially with regard to the detention of alien minors who were accompanied by a parent or other guardian when they come across the border.

The bill would prevent aliens from basing asylum claims on factors not relevant to the statutory standard of "Persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion", such as an alien's gang membership, past or present terrorist activity or association, presence in a country with a high crime rate, or having been a victim of a private criminal act.

The McClintock-Biggs bill to a large extent follows in the tradition of the great omnibus immigration enforcement legislation of the last quarter century, the two bills mentioned above and Rep. Smith's and Senator Alan Simpson's Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, which, per Dara Lind, "Essentially invented immigration enforcement as we know it today ... with a single goal: to increase penalties on immigrants who had violated US law in some way."

The majority of the Republican "Nay" sayers voted against the bill because they couldn't stomach stronger enforcement and/or worried that the bill would strip their farming constituents of a steady supply of illegal alien farmworkers.

https://cis.org/Fishman/Border-Security-and-Enforcement-Act-2023