WASHINGTON – Senators released long awaited text stricter enforcement of the bilateral agreement immigration and asylum laws on Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is voting on the package this week.
It includes a number of provisions aimed at action reducing crossings to record levels It has been on the southern border and straining the asylum system displaced by migrants they leave their homes and seek shelter. This includes critical care Israel and UkraineRepublicans have said they would support it only if it was combined with significant new U.S. immigration restrictions.
The deal — Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla., Chris Murphy, D-Conn. and Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz. — If it passes Congress, it would be the most aggressive border security and immigration bill in decades. It would raise the standard for asylum, deport those who don’t qualify and speed things up for those who do.
“We’re not going to have people just coming into the country and going to court for maybe the next 7 or 10 years,” Sinema said Sunday on CBS’s Face The Nation. “Instead, we will soon provide justice. People who qualify for asylum will be on a fast track to starting a new life in America – in six months or less. Those who do not meet the requirements will soon be returned to their countries.”
But deal got involved in election year politics and it’s unclear whether it has the support to pass the Senate, where it would need at least 60 votes to defeat a guaranteed filibuster. Conservative senators rallied against the deal, which was backed by former President Donald Trump, who told Republicans to reject it if it wasn’t “perfect.” He is there too is falsely suggested The bill would allow 5,000 illegal border crossings a day as he seeks to use border chaos as a political weapon in a 2024 rematch against President Joe Biden, who approved the pact before the text was released.
The bill could lose support from some progressives and members of the Hispanic Caucus, who worry Democrats are taking too much. they complain that they are left out of the negotiations.
“Every time they come up with this immigration issue, no matter who the president is, they always err on the side of being tougher,” said D-Ariz., a member and former leader of the Hispanic Caucus. Progressive Caucus. “A lot of Democrats are going to be stuck, and if Republicans here don’t support it, it’s never going to see the light of day.”
Prospects at home
Pack can face long bets at Home. In his inaugural address last week, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who has focused entirely on border security, blasted the emerging Senate legislation as not going far enough to stop illegal immigration: This “so-called deal does not include this transformative policy. The changes needed to truly stop the border disaster,” he said.
Johnson announced on Saturday that the House will hold a vote next week independent Israel aid billwithout any border provisions or Ukrainian funding.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., who served with Johnson in the House and discussed the Senate border deal with him last week, acknowledged that it is a politically difficult issue for Republicans to address during an election year and is unlikely to. Support from a majority of the 219-member House GOP conference.
“Here’s the speaker’s problem: He can’t vote on a bill without a majority. At this point, it’s very difficult to say that the House majority has a majority,” Mullin told reporters after meeting with the speaker. “You have a lot of people up for re-election, and the American people think that’s bad. That is why it is very difficult to prevent it.”
There are other problems in the chamber. House Republicans prepare to vote as Johnson faces pressure from his right wing Impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, one of several administration officials meeting with senators as they craft the new immigration deal. House Republicans accuse him and Biden of not enforcing immigration laws and failing to secure the southern border.
The leader of the extreme right-wing “Freedom” party, R-Va. Rep. “No president in the history of our state has done more to intentionally harm the United States than the president did with the border intrusion,” said Bob Good, whose members have aggressively pushed for impeachment.
Julie Tsirkin, Julia Jester and Frank Thorpe W contributed.