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Posted: Feb 05, 2024 12:18 AMUpdated: Feb 05, 2024 12:23 AM
Lankford Releases Border Security Package With Huge Wins for Securing the Border
Tom Davis
Senator James Lankford (R-OK) issued a statement Sunday to announce what he calls "significant border security policy to the supplemental national security request from the White House."
Lankford said, “The border security bill will put a huge number of new enforcement tools in the hands of a future administration and push the current Administration to finally stop the illegal flow. The bill provides funding to build the wall, increase technology at the border, and add more detention beds, more agents, and more deportation flights. The border security bill ends the abuse of parole on our southwest border that has waived in over a million people. It dramatically changes our ambiguous asylum laws by conducting fast screenings at a higher standard of evidence, limited appeals, and fast deportation.
“New bars to asylum eligibility will stop the criminal cartels from exploiting our currently weak immigration laws. The bill also has new emergency authorities to shut down the border when the border is overrun, new hiring authorities to quickly increase officers, and new hearing authorities to quickly apply consequences for illegal crossings. It changes our border from catch and release to detain and deport.
The text of the much-anticipated border bill cracks down on parole and asylum, but what Senator Lankford did not clarify is that If the number of illegal border crossings reaches above 5,000 daily for a five-day average, an expulsion authority would automatically kick in so that migrants are sent back to Mexico without an opportunity to make an asylum claim. If the number reaches 4,000, presidential administrations would have the option of using the expulsion authority.
Biden, referencing the authority, has said he would use it to "shut down the border" as soon as the bill is signed into law.
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