GOP lawmakers aim to vote on their Secure the Border Act on Thursday — the same day the emergency expulsion powers expire.
— pairing a border security package with changes in immigration reform rules — in hopes of uniting mainstream and far-right lawmakers. But instead of expanding legal pathways for migrants, the package restricts them.
. It would also essentially choke off asylum, requiring migrants to cross legally, pay a $50 fee and meet more stringent requirements to show in initial interviews that they are fleeing political, religious or racial persecution. Scalise, on Twitter Monday, called the legislation “the strongest border security package in history” and said that Biden’s veto promise showed the president “has no plan to solve the crisis he created.”
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