December 8, 2022 3:29pm EST
Tillis, eyeing immigration deal, warns Border Patrol will 'lose control of the border' if Title 42 ends
Tillis has been working with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on a potential deal.
By Adam Shaw | Fox News
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., is warning that Border Patrol agents will "lose control of the border" if Title 42 is allowed to end in the coming weeks – just as he is floating an immigration compromise which would extend the Trump-era public health order in exchange for a pathway to citizenship for two million illegal immigrants.
Tillis spoke on "America’s Newsroom" on Thursday, as Title 42 – which allows for the rapid expulsion of migrants at the southern border due to the COVID-19 pandemic – is due to expire as a result of a court order on Dec. 21. Both Republicans and Democrats have warned about a coming increase in migrants once the order ends. The Biden administration has now appealed against the court order, but a decision will not be made in time for the Dec. 21 cutoff.
Tillis gave a grim warning as he highlighted efforts being made in the chamber to come to a bipartisan solution – and accused the administration of not having a solution for the crisis. The administration has said it has a plan in place, but lawmakers have dismissed it as insufficient.
"What the administration is going to have to accept is we're going to fix the problem that they created," he said. "In the last year of the Trump administration, we had about a half million illegal crossings. That is manageable for Border Patrol. Now we have over 2 million. And if Title 42 goes away, that could be 3 million or more."
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