House GOP Finally Offers Border Security Platform
Neil Munro 29 Jul 2022
The House GOP leadership has released a brief and vague two-page policy platform on border security for the 2022 election, after more than a year of inaction.
Titled “House Republicans: We Must Secure the Southern Border,” the low-drama paper ignores the voter-mobilizing, economic impact of legal and illegal migration, and was released on a Friday before the weekend.
But the platform does include significant promises of 2023 legislation to reform current laws on asylum, parole, and other high-profile issues outside the narrow issue of border control.
“It is 1,000 percent better than it was going to be,” said Rosemary Jenks, the government relations director for NumbersUSA. She told Breitbart News:
Republican leadership [recently] realized that they needed to combine the judiciary and homeland security [committee] jurisdictions and to include meaningful reforms that will close the loopholes in the law that the Biden administration is exploiting to drive the mass illegal migration.“It is worth noting that the framework contains most of the demands from our broad coalition effort,” said a statement from RJ Hauman, government relations at the Federation for American Immigration Reform:
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