Speaker Johnson blasts Biden border order as 'weak'

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) blasted an executive order by President Joe Biden to deal with border security as "weak" and "window dressing" on Tuesday just before it was unveiled, reminding the press that Biden has “engineered the open border” during his time in office.

“The evidence is so clear and now suddenly he wants to issue some weak executive order; one, by the way — one executive order, supposedly to try to address the issue. It’s window dressing. Everybody knows that if he was concerned about the border, he would have done this a long time ago,” Johnson said.

Johnson pointed out that the order lacks several actions Republicans have pushed for, meaning that it will not likely do much to curtail illegal immigration.

“From what we’re hearing, it will ignore multiple elements that have to be addressed, the elements that were in our legislation that we passed over 14 months ago to fix the broken asylum program, to fix the broken parole process, to reinstate the remain in Mexico policy, to end the catch and release policy that they’ve advanced,” Johnson said, referencing the bill Republicans passed 14 months ago.

Johnson also noted that at least 2,500 people a day--nearly one million a year--will still be able to get into the country without much difficulty.

“Whatever little short measure that he’s [Biden’s] going to do here, is not going to solve the problem,” Johnson said. “In fact, by some estimates, it might make it worse, because it will extend once again, the welcome message … incentivize people to come. ‘Be among the first 2,500 people,’ is what we’re hearing … ’the first 2,500 per day to come in,’ to be insured you get your welcome package when you come into the country illegal. It’s absolute madness.”

Johnson claimed that there have been at least 64 instances of the Biden administration dropping the ball on the border, and he cited that again on Tuesday.