After months of bipartisan negotiations, Republican senators blocked a plan that was meant to solve some of the major issues contributing to the southern border crisis, which brought America’s illegal immigration problems to a peak last week.
The proposal was hailed by the White House as “the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve had in decades.” However, Republicans in the Senate and House said that the plan was a failure on several fronts.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, said, “It fails in every policy area needed to secure our border and would actually incentivize more illegal immigration.”
“Among its numerous shortcomings, the bill increases the number of illegal aliens who are authorized to work while omitting important reforms related to asylum. Worse yet, it would essentially support Biden’s “catch-and-release” strategy if it contained language permitting illegal immigrants to be “released from physical custody.”
AN ATTACK BY REPUBLICANS TO INCLUDE A HARDLINE BORDER SECURITY BILL IN A FOREIGN AID PACKAGE
This strategy, which Republican attorneys general have contested, relates to the notion of keeping immigrants in the interior while they wait for asylum proceedings rather than having them placed in a detention center.
The Biden administration “is already flouting the laws on the books for ideological ends,” according to bill critics like Gene Hamilton, vice president and counsel for America First Legal, who claimed that the Senate bill would have given Biden “top cover to continue his catch-and-release policies to an even greater degree.”
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In the end, Hamilton added, the outcome would be a bureaucratic maze that further stifles immigration enforcement, would validate Biden’s ludicrous views, and would leave the border far weaker than it is now.
