House Approves $694 Million Border Security Plan

by JASmius

<sigh>:

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted on Friday to crack down on Central American migrants, including unaccompanied children, who are flooding to the U.S. border with Mexico, as lawmakers passed a $694 million border security bill.

The 223-189 vote came one day after conservative Republicans balked at an earlier version of the measure, exposing a deep rift between Tea Party activists and more mainstream Republicans.

In passing the retooled bill, the Republican-led House ignored a veto threat from the White House. But with the Senate already on a five-week summer recess, this measure will advance no further at least until September."

So that was the compromise.  Pass Boehner's "perceived amnesty-lite" bill alongside the other bill defunding O's unconstitutional DACA decree after the Senate has already blown town.  Kick two cans down the road, as it were, without even combining them, as Senator Cruz was urging the other day.  And....what?  Make it more difficult for the White House to issue its promised illegal amnesty decree for six million more illegals?  How does this legislation do that?  It does the precise opposite, in point of fact.

And Kay Granger is completely clueless to it:

We couldn't go home (for recess) and not have a decision," said Representative Kay Granger of Texas-12, who helped draft the original bill.

You couldn't go home without giving the White House a target to bludgeon relentlessly for a month, after which O's next unconstitutional amnesty decree will cast him in the role of avenging angel.

Granger said the measure would serve as a marker for negotiations in September to resolve the humanitarian crisis that has seen nearly 60,000 children from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala arrive illegally since October to escape criminal drug gangs and poverty.

In your dreams, perhaps.  In reality your bill is already compost sprinklings on Moochelle's vomit garden.  It's the $2.7 billion Senate version that will be the marker for "negotiations" that will be far more like a star chamber, at the end of which House Republicans will inevitably cave under the usual media-propelled vilification onslaught, disrupting the electoral momentum that had them on-course to take the Senate back.

House Democrats complained that the legislation would too speedily return children to dangerous conditions in their home countries. President Barack Obama called the Republican bill "extreme" and "unworkable."....

With Obama's $3.7 billion border funding request rejected by Congress, but no alternative legislation presented to him for signing into law, Obama said he would shift funds from other accounts to pay for enhanced border security and the care and feeding of thousands of detained migrant children.

"I'm going to have to act alone because we don't have enough resources," Obama told reporters. "We've already been very clear. We've run out of money."

It's already begun.

Dammit.