The bill has virtually no chance of becoming law. Democrats, who have a narrow hold on the Senate, have decried the aggressive measures in the bill as “cruel” and “anti-immigrant,” and President Joe Biden has already promised he would veto it.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., stands center in the House Chamber, Thursday, May 11, 2023, at the Capitol in Washington, as House Republicans pass a sweeping bill to build more U.S.-Mexico border wall and impose new restrictions on asylum seekers.
The House GOP pointedly voted on the bill the same day as the expiration of Title 42, a public health emergency rule that allowed border authorities to quickly return many migrants who crossed the border illegally. Biden has conceded that the southern border will be “chaotic for a while” as migrants weigh whether to cross and U.S. officials use a new set of policies that aim to clamp down on illegal immigration while offering more legal pathways.
The 213-page bill represents a compromise in the Republican conference between mainstream lawmakers, who wanted to focus on beefing up border enforcement, and hardline conservatives, who want to see drastic changes to U.S. asylum and immigration law. “This extreme MAGA Republican piece of legislation will throw out children who are fleeing, in many cases, extreme violence and persecution,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the top House Democrat, said at a Thursday news conference. “It will build a medieval border wall that is a 14th-century solution to a 21st-century problem.”
“The bill that we’re getting, I think, is a good starting point,” said Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican. “It, by itself, would not get 60 votes to get out of here.” In explaining his vote against the bill, Duarte, who represents a district comprised of farmland in California’s Central Valley, said in a statement that the bill would “harm many families that work in our Valley and create difficulties for our food producers.”Massie, the other Republican to oppose the legislation, made a libertarian argument against a system that tracks people’s immigration status.
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