Senate negotiators on Wednesday reached a preliminary agreement on a border security bill that would dramatically raise the cap on foreign visas and allow more than 1.8 million illegal crossings a year, a summary of the provisions obtained by the Washington Free Beacon shows.
The draft bill is an effort to please immigration hardliners and progressive Democrats who want to preserve the Biden administration’s border policies, which have facilitated a record number of illegal crossings. The bill, the result of negotiations between Sens. James Lankford (R., Okla.), Chris Murphy (D., Conn.), and Kyrsten Sinema (I., Ariz.), would also raise the annual number of visas issued, and trigger automatic migrant deportations once the total number of illegal border crossings exceeds 2 million annually.
The latter provision is an effort to appease conservatives, who slammed the Biden administration for suspending Trump-era deportation policies. But critics of the deal who spoke with the Free […]
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