2024-02-02 11:13:00
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday announced ‘a test vote’ next week on the national security bill, which includes a bipartisan agreement on immigration policy restrictions at the border and the relief package. helps Ukraine and Israel.
This, despite the fact that, as Republicans had been demanding for a long time, the government of President Joe Biden has agreed to make aid to Ukraine subject to a notable tightening of immigration policy and border security, according to reports from those who know the agreement. .
“The southern border is urgently in need, urgently in need of a fix,” Schumer said. “Ukraine’s survival is at stake… The only way we can rise to the occasion is if both sides are serious about reaching a bipartisan compromise… We are not done with the negotiations, so we will continue to work toward it.” “.
The “survival of Ukraine” is at stake…
and the crisis at the border
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell spoke along the same lines as Schumer: “It’s time for us to do something, hopefully including a border deal, but we need to get aid to Israel and Ukraine quickly.”
Although there is broad bipartisan support for supporting Ukraine, in the Lower House there is fierce resistance to treating this aid independently without first approving restrictions on immigration policy.
To the point that Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has threatened to file a vacancy motion against Johnson if he allows a vote on Ukraine funding.
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Trump called the deal “terrible” and said, “If it’s not going to be a great project and really solve the problem, I wouldn’t do it at all.” Johnson, who has consulted with Trump on border policy, also told his Republican colleagues in a closed-door meeting Tuesday that the provision “will not succeed” in the House.
Trump’s opposition, which critics link to his campaign interests heading into the election, has left Republican leaders questioning whether the border legislation should be removed from the package in a last-ditch effort to get Congress to approve funding for Ukraine.
Change for asylum seekers
Sen. James Lankford, the lead Republican negotiator, said he has been meeting with Republicans to clear up “misinformation” circulating about the project.
And now-independent Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, another key negotiator, said “the rumors circulating about what (the project) does and doesn’t do are wrong.”
In an aerial view, thousands of migrants, most wearing thermal blankets, wait to be processed at a U.S. Border Patrol transit center Dec. 19 in Eagle Pass, Texas. Large waves of migrants illegally crossing the Rio Grande are overwhelming US border authorities.
Crédito: John Moore/Getty Images
Sinema said Johnson’s team is familiar with the details of the bill and added that one of the proposed changes, the AP reported, is that immigrants who request asylum at ports of entry would be included in an “authority program of expulsion”, in which your case is decided within six months. And those seeking asylum between ports of entry would be detained and returned within 10 to 15 days if they fail initial interviews, known as credible fear tests.
“It ensures that the government has the power to close the border at a time when our system is overwhelmed and creates new structures to ensure that people who do not qualify for asylum cannot enter the country and stay here,” he said. “It’s a very solid package.”
Republican Senator Mike Rounds implied that the false information circulating on the internet has to do with a Russian disinformation campaign to derail economic aid to Ukraine.
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