2024-01-27 02:47:44
“If you are serious regarding the border crisis, pass a bipartisan bill and I will sign it into law,” he added.
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, asked Republicans in Congress this Friday (26) to approve a reform to control migration that would allow him to “close the border” with Mexico “when it is saturated”.
“What was negotiated would be – if passed into law – the toughest and fairest set of reforms to ensure border security that our country has ever had,” Biden said in a statement.
“[A lei] would give me, as president, new emergency authority to close the border when it is saturated”, he added, without knowing the details of the agreement negotiated between a group of conservative congressmen and government officials.
These negotiations are an attempt to save an aid package for Ukraine that the president requested from Congress, but conditioned by Republicans on a tightening of immigration policy.
“If you are serious regarding the border crisis, pass a bipartisan bill and I will sign it into law,” he added.
Negotiations on this issue, one of the most important for the November elections, are arduous. For weeks, they have been working “24 hours a day, holidays and weekends”, said Biden.
The president, up for re-election in November, is urging Congress to provide the funds he requested in October to cover the cost of 1,300 additional Border Patrol agents, 375 immigration judges, 1,600 asylum officers and more than 100 machines to detect fentanyl in border.
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Biden’s call comes just hours following the president of the House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson, warned that the migration pact will die as soon as it reaches the Chamber.
“If the rumors regarding the content of the bill are correct, it would be dead by the time it reached the House anyway,” Johnson said in a letter sent to House Republicans.
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