However, this bill has almost no chance of being adopted in the Senate, which is in the hands of the Democrats. President Joe Biden has also already threatened to veto it.
Continue Trump’s wall, limit the right of asylum: Republicans in the House of Representatives voted on Thursday for a bill to restrict immigration to the United States, warning of the risks of a possible influx at the border Thursday evening.
Republicans accuse Democratic President Joe Biden of turning the border into a sieve.
Extremely strict restrictions on the right to asylum
A measure that has locked access to US territory since the pandemic expires at 11:59 p.m. Washington time. To prepare, the federal state has mobilized “more than 24,000 agents and law enforcement” at the border, in addition to 4,000 soldiers.
“The Democrats have had two years to fix the crisis they created on the border, but they still don’t have a plan for it,” criticized Conservative House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
Concretely, this text orders the Biden administration to resume construction of Donald Trump’s famous wall on the southern border of the United States.
It also imposes extremely strict restrictions on the right to asylum, requiring migrants to cross the border legally, pay a tax, and meet many more criteria to justify the persecutions they flee.
