As the Congressional lawmakers work on a spending deal for Foreign Aid?
The Republican lawmakers ARE leveraging a harder US policy turn against the current Biden immigration policy….
In echo’s of what Vice President Biden went thru with President Obama on immigration reform?
Effort’s counter the stricter Trump policy have led to headlines of thousand’s of migrants overwhelming the US Southern Border….
While Biden might want to not annoy his left political flank?
The headlines are forcing him to allow Congress to clamp down on things….
Barack Obama got put in the same place during his term and took a beatdown from Latino’s, as Biden is sure to get…
But?
Changes WILL be coming in order for Biden’s push for aid to Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine….
Democrats do NOT have the votes to stop it….
One hopes the treatment of migrants will NOT degenerate to way it was under the Trump admin….
Pressured by the record levels of migrant crossings reported in December, the Biden administration is weighing whether to restrict a key presidential immigration authority to convince Republican lawmakers to approve more aid to Ukraine and border funding.
A small bipartisan group of senators has been negotiating with the White House since December to see if they can strike a deal on stricter asylum and migration laws, which Republicans have demanded in exchange for supporting President Biden’s request for billions of dollars to fund border operations and military assistance to Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine.
While the senators and the White House have reached high-level agreements on tightening asylum interviews, expanding expedited deportations and creating an authority to expel migrants without humanitarian screenings when border agents are overwhelmed, the negotiators have not resolved their differences on some key issues. Among those issues is immigration parole, a legal tool used by the Biden administration to resettle hundreds of thousands of migrants that Republicans want to severely limit.
Senior White House officials have previously told Democrats in Congress that they would not accept the Republican demands to restrict parole. But during a White House meeting on Friday, Mr. Biden’s advisers recognized that a border deal with Republicans would not be possible without the administration agreeing on limiting parole, people briefed on those talks told CBS News. Accepting restrictions on parole would be a significant concession to Republicans, since Biden has relied so heavily on the policy….
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In December, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) processed more than 300,000 migrants at and in between ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border, an all-time high roughly the size of the population of Pittsburgh. Roughly 256,000 of those migrants entered the U.S. illegally in between ports of entry, including a record 104,000 parents and children traveling as families, according to internal federal data obtained by CBS News.
A CBS News poll published Sunday found that over two-thirds — or 68% — of Americans disapprove of Mr. Biden’s approach to the U.S.-Mexico border, an all-time high. Sixty-three percent of respondents indicated support for tougher border policies….