Not exactly true, EO fixed it, then EO destroyed it.
You need to look at those EOs and the court cases ruling on those EOs, and, after devoting considerable study, let us know if you still hold the same opinion.
In the words of Judge VanDyke, a Trump appointee to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals:
"The Biden administration’s ‘Pathways Rule’ before us in this appeal is not meaningfully different from the prior administration’s rules that were backhanded by my two colleagues. This new rule looks like the Trump administration’s Port of Entry Rule and Transit Rule got together, had a baby, and then dolled it up in a stylish modern outfit, complete with a phone app.”
There was no EO that "fixed it," nor was there an EO that "destroyed it." As Judge VanDyke said, the rules of Trump and Biden are "not meaningfully different." That is a Trump appointee to a federal appeals court and no friend to the Biden administration. In fact, in the same dissent, he accused the two Democrat appointee judges on the panel with him of potentially allowing Biden to get away with more on undermining the asylum statute than Trump because of political partisanship.
The courts have struck down both Trump and Biden EOs as violating the plain text of the federal statute.
The more interesting thing about your comments on Congress is that the House sent a representative to the Senate to negotiate the exact fix you suggest, prescreening and rejecting claims up front. That would then become federal law. The Senate agreed to it, and sent it to the House. The Border Patrol Union (which hates Biden, just check out their Twitter - X- page) wanted it and posted on X (Twitter) that it was a "huge improvement" - those words were repeated four times in one post with respect to things in the bill. It was supposed to reduce the average stay in country from 6 years (current) to less than six weeks, with the majority being rejected right out of the gate. Trump tweeted out that it was "garbage," however, and the House announced it DOA.
The House then passed a bill that they knew the Senate would not agree to, which means it was intended to be only a political posture, not a real legislative solution.
Why?
Because this is an election year. The illegal alien crisis has to remain unabated in order to give Trump a boost at the polls. It motivates more of the base to turn out and vote, and a lot of folks in the middle believe the propaganda that this is an EO issue. The vast majority of Americans have no idea about the federal asylum statutes or that EOs issued by both Trump and Biden trying to get around the asylum law have been struck down in the federal courts as violating federal law.
It is the federal law that needs to be fixed.
It will not be touched until after the presidential election, though, because the House Republicans know that this is a winning election year issue. That issue goes away for Trump if they fix it before November.
THAT is what is happening.
It's too bad that the propaganda on this issue has been so successful. The propaganda has actually prevented a real fix.
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