Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union that represents 18,000 Border Patrol officers, recently criticized Biden for dragging the agency into the political battle over the plan to allow 5,000 illegal immigrants into the country each day without fear of deportation.
“It really upsets me when he uses our name, and the reason it upsets me is he doesn’t give context to anything,” Judd told The Washington Times late last week.
Biden did so most recently during his State of the Union address on Thursday night.
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“The Border Patrol Union endorsed the bill,” Biden said in claiming that the bill, widely endorsed by Democrats, proposed the “toughest set of border security reforms we’ve ever seen in this country.”
Judd told the Times that’s not the union’s position.
“What we wanted to see is, we wanted the bill to go to the floor for debate and amendment,” he said.
Judd acknowledged that the legislation may help cut into the tidal wave of illegal immigration unleashed by Biden, especially of single men crossing the border without children.
But the union wanted the bill to go through the process.
“We thought it should be given the light of day for debate and amendment and if you don’t get the right amendments then we would be able to weigh in,” he told the Times.
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Judd also pushed back on Biden’s main argument for the bill: that his hands are tied to stop illegal immigration without it.
“He’s weaponizing our support for this to go after the Republicans when he knows he has the executive authority right now to do what that bill would otherwise have done,” Judd said.
Despite the union’s receptiveness to the bill, GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson declared it “dead on arrival” because it did little to fix the current situation.
The bill’s provisions were so bad that the Republican Party of Oklahoma censured Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, a Republican, for sponsoring the measure.
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