Biden Pushes Immigration Legislation Amid Border Crisis

Illegal immigration soaking up headlines President Joe Biden He aggressively promotes a nearly two-year-old bill reform as his primary solution.

Biden sent A bill on immigration was introduced to Congress by the President of the United States, Jan 2021. It went nowhere during Democratic control of both chambers. White House With Republicans poised to take over, he has been pushing for it again.

SOUTHERN BORDER COULD BE THE DEFINING ISSUE OF 2023 FOR BIDEN

“Today’s order gives Republicans in Congress plenty of time to move past political finger-pointing and join their Democratic colleagues in solving the challenge at our border by passing the comprehensive reform measures and delivering the additional funds for border security that President Biden has requested,” Karine Jean-Pierre, press secretary said Tuesday.

The Supreme Court issued the statement in response. keeping Title 42 in place For now, however Jean-Pierre Recent weeks have seen the legislation mentioned repeatedly by President Obama.

“We have reached out. We’ve done outreach to Congress,” She spoke during a Dec. 19 press conference. “We have asked them and put forth this piece of legislation.”

While both sides seem to agree that there needs to be more done to secure the border which has seen record crossings over the past two years, they disagree on how to do it.

Republicans overwhelmingly praised Title 42’s stay, which will allow Homeland Security to continue turning away immigrants and could prevent a flood of asylum seekers from crossing the border this week. However, they also mentioned legislative fixes that are needed in the long-term.

“SCOTUS’s temporary stay of Title 42 protections will forestall a surge of trafficking and

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