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Chip Roy Will Use Debt Ceiling to Push Border Security

January 25, 2023 at 8:05 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said he will employ brinkmanship over the federal debt ceiling debate — threatening to allow the U.S. to default on its loans — to push through his border security plan that has been criticized by members of his own party for being too extreme,” the Texas Tribune reports.

“The Austin Republican introduced a bill earlier this year that would give the secretary of Homeland Security the power to bar border crossings — even for asylum-seekers — until the U.S. is able to detain all migrants crossing illegally. The bill also allows state attorneys general to sue the secretary if they determine that the administration is not adequately enforcing that policy — which would likely be the case in President Joe Biden’s administration.”

Filed Under: Immigration

House Republicans Spar Over Border Bill

January 23, 2023 at 8:38 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“House Republicans had hoped to make border security legislation one of the first bills they passed after retaking the majority,” the Washington Post reports.

“But their plans to bring a bill to the floor as soon as this week have been thwarted by backlash from moderate Republicans concerned that it would threaten migrants’ ability to seek asylum in the United States.”

“The clash highlights the tensions among House Republicans over how to revise the country’s immigration laws, with some lawmakers pushing a more aggressive approach to the border than others despite agreement that the Biden administration’s policies are failing.”

Filed Under: House of Representatives, Immigration

Senators Pursue Bipartisan Deal on Border Security

January 19, 2023 at 10:01 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A bipartisan group of senators is pushing ahead in the new Congress with efforts to reach an agreement on border security and immigration policy, after talks ran out of time last year,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The lawmakers recently visited the southern border in Arizona and Texas, in the face of sharp political divides over how to handle a record number of illegal crossings that have strained border staff and facilities. The lawmakers say they see an opening for compromise on an issue that has vexed Capitol Hill for decades, following last year’s bipartisan work to pass a gun-control law.”

Filed Under: Immigration, Senate

Border Officials Invited to House Oversight Hearing

January 19, 2023 at 9:55 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) is inviting U.S. Border Patrol officials to testify before his panel during the week of Feb. 6, as the GOP House majority sharpens its inquiries into the Department of Homeland Security,” Politico reports.

Filed Under: House of Representatives, Immigration

House GOP Lays Groundwork to Impeach Mayorkas

January 17, 2023 at 12:40 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Senior House Republicans are moving swiftly to build a case against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as they strongly weigh launching rare impeachment proceedings against a Cabinet secretary, a plan that could generate sharp backlash from GOP moderates,” Politico reports.

“It’s exceedingly rare for a Cabinet secretary to be impeached, something that has only happened once in US history – when William Belknap, the secretary of war, was impeached by the House before being acquitted by the Senate in 1876. Yet it’s a very real possibility now after Kevin McCarthy – as he was pushing for the votes to win the speakership – called on Mayorkas to resign or face potential impeachment proceedings.”

Filed Under: House of Representatives, Immigration

Eric Adams Visits the Texas Border

January 17, 2023 at 7:59 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

During a visit to the Texas border city of El Paso, New York Mayor Eric Adams offered up a blistering criticism of the federal government’s response to the influx of immigrants into U.S. cities, the AP reports.

Said Adams: “Our cities are being undermined. And we don’t deserve this. Migrants don’t deserve this. And the people who live in the cities don’t deserve this. We expect more from our national leaders to address this issue in a real way.”

Filed Under: Immigration

Biden Prepares More Measures to Curb Border Crossings

January 10, 2023 at 7:58 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Biden administration will roll out additional measures during Tuesday’s North American Leaders’ Summit in a desperate bid to keep migrants from journeying to the US southern border,” CNN reports.

Filed Under: Immigration

DeSantis Stunt Cost $35,000 Per Migrant

January 9, 2023 at 7:55 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Florida has agreed to pay up to $1 million to two law firms to defend it following Gov. Ron DeSantis’ controversial decision last summer to relocate nearly 50 Venezuelan migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard,” the Tallahassee Democrat reports.

“When combined, it represents a cost of around $35,000 for each migrant relocated through the program.”

Filed Under: Immigration

Migration Casts Shadow Over Biden’s Mexico Visit

January 9, 2023 at 6:54 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “Biden will be the first U.S. president to visit Mexico since Barack Obama in 2014… While Biden has met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau repeatedly, he’s spent far less time with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which has only added to the feeling in Latin America of being snubbed by the United States. That has added another layer of pressure to this week’s long-awaited gathering.”

Deseret News: “Biden visits Mexico this week. Will he find a reliable partner, or a country in crisis?”

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Immigration

Biden Heads to Southern Border Facing Criticism

January 8, 2023 at 8:00 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Biden was set on Sunday to make his first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border since taking office, amid criticism from both parties of his immigration policy and as the administration begins a new push to drive down illegal crossings,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Associated Press: “Biden is due to spend a few hours in El Paso, Texas, currently the biggest corridor for illegal crossings, due in large part to Nicaraguans fleeing repression, crime and poverty in their country. They are among migrants from four countries who are now subject to quick expulsion under new rules enacted by the Biden administration in the past week.”

“The president is expected to meet with border officials to discuss migration as well as the increased trafficking of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, which are driving skyrocketing numbers of overdoses in the U.S.”

Filed Under: Immigration

Biden Plan Would Restrict Illegal Border Crossings

January 5, 2023 at 11:08 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Biden on Thursday will announce new immigration restrictions, including the expansion of programs to remove people quickly without letting them seek asylum, in an attempt to address one of his administration’s most politically vulnerable issues at a time when the nation’s attention is focused on Republican disarray in the U.S. House,” the Washington Post reports.

Filed Under: Immigration

Biden Considers Visit to U.S.-Mexico Border

January 4, 2023 at 2:28 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The White House is strongly considering adding a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border to President Biden’s trip to Mexico City next week, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Immigration

Arrests, Deportations of Immigrants Increased in 2022

December 31, 2022 at 11:50 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Arrests and deportations of immigrants in the country illegally increased in the second year of the Biden administration, though both remained below average Trump- and Obama-era levels,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

Filed Under: Immigration

Biden Was Furious Over Influx of Migrants

December 30, 2022 at 12:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Biden was furious over the influx of migrants at the U.S. southern border early in his administration, according to a new book about the Biden White House,” The Hill reports.

Biden’s aides said they “have never seen him as angry as he was over the border crisis in the first six months of office.”

From the book: “From all over the West Wing, you could hear the president cursing, dropping f-bombs (he’d always apologize when women were present).” 

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Filed Under: Immigration

The Border Crisis Is Already Here

December 29, 2022 at 11:51 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “The southern border already is in the midst of a record-setting migration surge that is likely to persist for the foreseeable future. The border-control measure is full of exemptions under which tens of thousands of migrants every month are showing up at U.S. ports of entry with a relatively high degree of confidence that they will be allowed to stay.”

Filed Under: Immigration

Justices Order Keeping Immigration Limits

December 27, 2022 at 4:28 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Supreme Court ordered the Biden administration to keep the U.S. immigration limits that were imposed at beginning of Covid-19 pandemic in place indefinitely, the AP reports.

“Under the restrictions, officials have expelled asylum-seekers inside the United States 2.5 million times and turned away most people who requested asylum at the border on grounds of preventing the spread of Covid-19. The restrictions are often referred to as Title 42 in reference to a 1944 public health law.”

Justice Neil Gorsuch joining the three more liberal Justices in dissent in a 5-4 ruling.

Filed Under: Immigration

An Unexpected Migrant Group Is Fleeing to the U.S.

December 27, 2022 at 9:47 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “For generations, Nicaragua, the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere after Haiti, saw only a trickle of its people migrate northward. But soaring inflation, declining wages and the erosion of democracy under an increasingly authoritarian government have drastically shifted the calculus.”

“Now, for the first time in Nicaragua’s history, the small nation of 6.5 million is a major contributor to the mass of people trekking to the U.S. southern border, having been displaced by violence, repression and poverty.”

“While attention has focused this year on the record numbers of Venezuelans and Cubans pouring into the United States, this less-noted but remarkable surge of Nicaraguans is also adding to the migration crisis in a big way, sending money back to their families and, inadvertently, providing an economic lifeline to a government under sanctions from the United States.”

Filed Under: Immigration

Graham Tells Biden to ‘Get His Ass’ to the Border

December 23, 2022 at 10:33 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called on President Biden to get his “ass” out of the White House and go to the U.S. southern border, Fox News reports.

Said Graham: “It is so unconscionable for him not to go to the border and listen to the agents and people trying to control the border, what life is like along the southern border. The fact that he doesn’t go shows to me that he’s disconnected and he does not give a damn.”

Filed Under: Immigration

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