House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) defended the Republicans' progress on keeping a midterm election campaign promise to make the border crisis their top priority come January.
"The Republicans have been in office for 40 days. The committees have just now been constituted. Not all of them have even been constituted yet. So I don't think it's a really — an opportunity to say, 'You haven't acted yet.' No, we're here at the border. It didn't take us 40 years to come here.
The lawmakers met with homeland security, customs,, and border officials in the Tucson, AZ, region and got an aerial view of the border from the sky. “The first thing you’ll see is a bill to control the border first,” McCarthy told CNN in an interview. “You’ve got to get control over the border. You’ve had almost 2 million people just this year alone coming across.”
Last July, House Republicans debuted a comprehensive plan to regain control of the southern border. The Republican plan largely pulled from previous initiatives used by the Trump administration, including the need for a physical barrier, infrastructure, and technology on the 2,000-mile southern border.
Under Republicans' strategy, immigrant families would not be released into the U.S. after being apprehended, but detained together in custody. Unaccompanied migrant children from countries other than Mexico and Canada would no longer be admitted into the country as suspected victims of human trafficking.
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