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WASHINGTON– Build more wall. Restore Trump-era immigration policies. Or simply close the border between the United States and Mexico. Congressional Republicans argue that President Joe Biden already has all the authority he needs to stop the flow of migrants across the US-Mexico border. They are claiming that a bipartisan deal the president negotiated with senators to expand his authority faces almost certain defeat. The reality about Biden's powers to control migration is much more complicated. Without changes to immigration laws or more funding to manage the growing number of migrants arriving at the southern border, not much of what Biden may try will stick, as was the case for presidents before him. “President Biden needs Congress to be able to address the situation at the border,” said Kathleen Bush-Joseph, an attorney and policy analyst at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. "That's the easiest way to say it.
The $118 billion bipartisan proposal in Congress would reform the asylum system to provide for faster, stricter enforcement, as well as give presidents new powers to immediately expel immigrants if authorities are overwhelmed by the number of people seeking asylum. It would also add $20 billion in financing, a huge influx of cash. The package, which combines a border enforcement policy with wartime aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, would be Kuwait Mobile Number List the most significant immigration legislation in a decade. It has the potential, for better or worse, to transform some of the most vexing border problems. And until recently, it seemed like it had a chance of passing. Donald Trump's allies are seeking to scuttle the deal largely because the Republican presidential front-runner is loathe to give Biden a victory on immigration. Trump wants to criticize the president on the issue during the campaign. “Just a few months ago, Republicans were calling for exactly this bill to address the border, to provide support to Ukraine and Israel.
Now it's there. And they say, 'It doesn't matter.' It doesn't matter,'” Biden said Tuesday. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that he would not introduce the bill in the House in its current form, saying it would act as a "magnet" for illegal immigration, that the authority to close the asylum was "riddled with loopholes" and that the release of immigrants to the United States would continue. "If you give extraordinary authority to the very architect of the catastrophe, it will do no good," Johnson said. Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York, posted on X, formerly Twitter: “Biden has the power to end the border crisis without Congress. He just doesn't want to.” But immigration officials don't have greater detention capacity unless they get more funding for detention. They also cannot hold families in detention for more than about three weeks under a long-standing policy, and they cannot mix single adults and family units for security reasons under the law. Biden has already used his unilateral powers to address the border in multiple ways.
The $118 billion bipartisan proposal in Congress would reform the asylum system to provide for faster, stricter enforcement, as well as give presidents new powers to immediately expel immigrants if authorities are overwhelmed by the number of people seeking asylum. It would also add $20 billion in financing, a huge influx of cash. The package, which combines a border enforcement policy with wartime aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies, would be Kuwait Mobile Number List the most significant immigration legislation in a decade. It has the potential, for better or worse, to transform some of the most vexing border problems. And until recently, it seemed like it had a chance of passing. Donald Trump's allies are seeking to scuttle the deal largely because the Republican presidential front-runner is loathe to give Biden a victory on immigration. Trump wants to criticize the president on the issue during the campaign. “Just a few months ago, Republicans were calling for exactly this bill to address the border, to provide support to Ukraine and Israel.
Now it's there. And they say, 'It doesn't matter.' It doesn't matter,'” Biden said Tuesday. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday that he would not introduce the bill in the House in its current form, saying it would act as a "magnet" for illegal immigration, that the authority to close the asylum was "riddled with loopholes" and that the release of immigrants to the United States would continue. "If you give extraordinary authority to the very architect of the catastrophe, it will do no good," Johnson said. Elise Stefanik, Republican of New York, posted on X, formerly Twitter: “Biden has the power to end the border crisis without Congress. He just doesn't want to.” But immigration officials don't have greater detention capacity unless they get more funding for detention. They also cannot hold families in detention for more than about three weeks under a long-standing policy, and they cannot mix single adults and family units for security reasons under the law. Biden has already used his unilateral powers to address the border in multiple ways.