Only hours before the Trump administration’s immigration directive, Title 42, expires at midnight on Thursday, the House voted to approve a comprehensive border security and immigration package.
With a vote of 219 to 113, the comprehensive immigration and border security law was approved. Reps.
Republicans John Duarte of California and Thomas Massie of Kentucky joined all the Democrats in opposing the measure.
Title 42: Strongest Border Security
The Democratic-controlled Senate is certain to kill the bill, and the White House has threatened to veto it.
The plan would toughen the penalty for people who overstay their visas and expand the number of Border Patrol agents, Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House, described it as the most robust border security legislation to pass Congress in more than a century.
H.R. The Secure the Border Act No. 2, often known as the Secure the Border Act, continues border wall development and reinstates the stay-in-Mexico policy, it required that certain asylum seekers be sent to Mexico while their immigration cases were being processed.
Similarly, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, a Republican from Louisiana, blasted President Joe Biden and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas during remarks on the floor on Thursday.
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White House Opposes GOP-sponsored Immigration Bill
The Biden administration supports worthwhile initiatives to improve the nation’s immigration system, but it opposes the GOP-sponsored measure, which it claims will make components of our immigration system worse, according to a White House statement of administration policy released this week.
According to the report, the law does little to address the underlying reasons for migration, decreases humanitarian protections, and restricts legal paths, which are essential alternatives to unauthorized arrival.
At soon before midnight on Thursday, the United States will abolish Title 42, the pandemic-era rule that instantly expelled migrants without an opportunity for an asylum hearing. The expiration is anticipated to increase migratory traffic and lengthen processing delays for migrants held by Border Patrol.
Tuesday saw more than 11,000 migrants cross the southern border, topping the Department of Homeland Security’s prediction of 10,000 per day once Covid restrictions are lifted.
When House Republicans unveiled the legislation at the end of April, congressional Democrats vehemently opposed it, arguing that it would go beyond border security and punish all noncitizens, including legal residents, trafficking victims, and refugees.
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