Border needs a bipartisan solution now, before immigration gets lost in party battles
Republican voters want a secure border and more legal immigration, but will Congress act in time?
Matthew Soerens By Matthew Soerens | Fox News
A judge’s order this past week halting the use of Title 42 to expel migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border is a warning sign that we are going to see new challenges at our already-strained border.
The border needs real solutions — but if Republicans want to provide them, they should act now. They cannot wait for the new Congress when partisan stalemate between the two chambers will make actual legislation all-but impossible.
In the most recent fiscal year, Border Patrol made more than 2.2 million apprehensions of individuals who had entered the U.S. unlawfully, a new record. And even more concerning than those who were apprehended is the estimated 599,000 individuals who were not.
The end of Title 42 — a public health emergency law — was probably inevitable: to be citing the COVID-19 pandemic has become less and less justifiable as the pandemic fades from most Americans’ minds.
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