Congressional Republicans request that their colleagues in the Senate reject the border bill

The chief Republican negotiator on the Senate’s bipartisan border security bill said his colleagues must decide whether to hold a debate on the proposal on Tuesday, while their colleagues in Congress are calling for the bill to be rejected. There are two parties.

The United States Senate yesterday presented the bipartisan bill on border security and foreign aid of the United States government for the last fiscal year. This bill allocates $20 billion for border security, in which The government is allowed to deport illegal immigrants when the number of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border of Mexico with the United States exceeds a certain limit. Also, the policy of arresting and releasing immigrants should be ended and the standards required for asylum applications should be increased and the process of examining this application should be accelerated.

Mike Johnson, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, wrote in response to this package on X social network: This package is even worse than that We expected it. This package is dead on arrival at Congress.

He added: I read this bill enough. This bill is worse than we expected and has done nothing to end the border crisis that President Biden is causing. According to this bill, the borders will never be closed.

He emphasized that if this bill reaches Congress, it will be dead on arrival.

The bill proposed by US senators will go to Congress for voting tomorrow, Wednesday (February 7). In order for this bill to be negotiated in the congressional floor, it must get 60 votes in favor.

In this bill 118 billion dollars, 60 billion dollars in aid to Ukraine, 1.14 billion dollars in aid to Israel, aid to Indo-Pacific allies is also planned .

While about ten days ago, US President Joe Biden said that the border bill being negotiated in the Senate is “difficult It is the “fairest and fairest” set of possible amendments to the border laws and I support it.

He pledged to turn this bill into law on the day he signed it. will close the borders.

Biden noted that these new reforms would give me as president the emergency authority to close the borders when they are threatened.

Earlier The White House agreed to new restrictions on asylum seekers at the border, three people familiar with the matter said. These restrictions include the creation of the power to deport refugees who have entered illegally through the Mexican border with the United States, and if more than 4,000 immigrants enter the United States this way every day, these immigrants will be quickly returned to Mexico. .

American Republicans have repeatedly criticized the policies of the Biden administration on the issue of immigrants and illegal immigrants crossing the Mexican border. An issue that has intensified on the eve of the presidential election in November this year and Biden’s opponents are looking to use this issue to destroy Biden.

while The differences between Joe Biden’s administration and the state of Texas have escalated following a ruling by the state of Texas in favor of the Biden administration, leading to warnings of civil war.

A few days ago, the judges of the US Supreme Court temporarily allowed the border patrol agents to remove the barbed wire on the border with Mexico, which was put up to prevent the crossing of illegal immigrants.

The decision of the Supreme Court has angered many Texans who support Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s actions to fight illegal immigration in the state.

The barbed wire on the border between Mexico and the United States has been built at the expense of the Texas National Guard as part of Operation Lone Star (the nickname of the state of Texas), an initiative of Republican Governor Greg Abbott in 2021 was drawn with the aim of preventing immigrants from crossing this border illegally.

U.S. Border Patrol agents have arrested about 2 million illegal immigrants on the border with Mexico in fiscal year 2023, which is an unprecedented number in 2 years. The first was during the presidency of Biden.

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