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The Republican and Democratic senators claim they have an immigration reform DEAL: where two million ‘dreamers’ would be protected, asylum seekers would be processed quickly and those who do not qualify would be expelled
- The deal would include a path to citizenship for two million Dreamers, or DACA recipients who were brought to the US as children.
- It would also include resources to speed up asylum processing and removal, more funding for border officers, and a one-year extension of Title 42.
- The agreement would have to go through the House and the Senate before the end of December.
- In January, Republicans will take over the House, and Kevin McCarthy has already promised not to undertake immigration reform until he deems the border safe.
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North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis and Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema reportedly reached a framework agreement on immigration reform that they would like to push through in the lame duck session before Republicans take the House in January.
The deal would include a path to citizenship for two million Dreamers, or DACA recipients who were brought to the US as children, resources to speed up asylum processing and removal of those who don’t qualify, more funding for border officers and a one-year extension of Title 42 until new processing centers are up and running, according to the Washington Post.
The deal grants a path to citizenship and strengthens due process rights for some immigrants to make Democrats happy and faster removal and strengthens border security for Republicans, though it’s unclear if 10 will be on board in the Senate .
The agreement would have to go through the House and the Senate before the end of December. In January, Republicans will take over the House, and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who is running for House speaker, has already vowed not to pursue immigration reform until he deems the border safe.
Republicans to his right are even less favorable to such a deal.
“This is a terrible deal that shouldn’t be a House start,” Matt Tragesser, communications director for Rep. Andy Biggs, co-chairman of the Border Security Caucus, told DailyMail.com. ‘Congressman Biggs does not support an amnesty of any kind.’
Under the agreement, asylum processing facilities would serve as detention centers and more attorneys would be available to defend immigrants. But if immigrants fail to establish a “credible fear” in their initial interview, they will be removed more quickly.
North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis and Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema reportedly reached a framework agreement on immigration reform that they would like to push through in the lame duck session before Republicans take the House in January.
It’s also unclear if 50 Democrats in the Senate would support the bill. Many remain opposed to extending Title 42, and progressives in both houses may resist an expedited removal process.
Lawmakers have not moved on such a politically contentious immigration issue in decades.
Still, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Monday On twitter I was checking the bill.
“As the author of the Dream Act, I applaud any good faith effort to provide these deserving individuals with a path to citizenship,” Durbin said. ‘I have been in contact with my colleagues and will carefully review his proposal. I am determined to do everything possible to help deliver a Christmas Miracle for Dreamers.’
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the president had not seen the Tillis-Sinema deal but was eager to push through a bipartisan immigration deal.
‘Let’s have a bipartisan agreement on immigration instead of playing political tricks, instead of doing what [Republicans] they’re doing – going to the border, actually not coming up with any real ideas about it. That’s where I’ll leave it.
Jean-Pierre also said that Biden will not visit the southern border on Tuesday during his trip to Arizona to visit a semiconductor plant in Phoenix.
The anti-immigration group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) criticized Tillis for reaching an agreement.
“You’d think the utter disaster wrought by the Biden administration’s handling of the border, and our immigration system in general, would put an end to Republicans like Senator Tillis seeing an amnesty deal as the only way forward. ”press secretary Ron Kovach said in a statement.
“It wouldn’t matter if he got $250 billion in funding or a 10-year Title 42 extension, unless Congress changes asylum and detention policies with no amnesty involved, the crisis will continue.”