The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Wednesday rallied behind new bipartisan legislation that would address the immigration crisis at the southern border.
Introduced by Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), as well as Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and Tony Gonzalez (R-Texas), the Bipartisan Border Solutions Act would expand the number of border processing facilities and hire more Department of Homeland Security personnel to improve migrant children care.
“With the Border Patrol estimating that this situation will only get worse, we must address this in a meaningful way that is fair to migrants seeking asylum, takes the pressure off of our border communities, and allows our Border Patrol agents to focus on their primary mission of securing the border,” Cornyn said.
The four new centers would be located in “high-traffic Border Patrol sectors,” but the exact locations are unclear, according to Border Report.
The Chamber has long advocated for a solution at the southern border, and was a vocal opponent of President Trump’s immigration policies.
Previously, the group endorsed two immigration bills: the team-left American Dream and Promise Act, and the bipartisan Farm Workforce Modernization Act.
The former would provide citizenship to young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children, while the latter would provide a pathway to citizenship for farmworkers.
“The sharp increase in the number of individuals crossing our southern border and the severe overcrowding at our nation’s border facilities present a set of circumstances that Congress cannot ignore. Our leaders need to address this pressing situation, and the only way that meaningful policy changes will be enacted is if republicans and democrats work together to achieve those results for the American people,” Neil Bradley, the Chamber’s chief policy officer, said Thursday.
He added that the provisions in the Bipartisan Border Solutions Act are “not only necessary to confront the ongoing crisis on our southern border, but they also need to be considered by Congress as they debate other immigration issues where reform is desperately needed,” per The Hill.
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Close the border, send the foreign invaders back to where they came from, no more work visas until we have full employment for all of our own citizens! Why won’t those who we’ve elected to represent US do this?! To answer my own question, it’s because they’re honest, they’re just doing the bidding of those who’ve lined their pockets! That’s why.
AT this point i say its time we started MINING THE BORDER… Lots and lots of land mines!
We do not need more taxpayer money spent to coddle so called “migrants” what we need is someone smart enough to stop the BS, DJT had it under control, we do not need migration without going thru the proper channels, contrary to leftist popular belief, there IS a system IN PLACE by which migration to this country is allowed and encouraged, sneaking across the border is not the way. DJT had solved the problem, communists, harris/bidan took less than 90 days to screw it up.
EVEN the gop it seems, puts ILLEGAL INVADERS, ahead of american citizens.. TEXAS. GET RID OF cornyn and Gonzalez.
and allows our Border Patrol agents to focus on their primary mission of securing the border,” Cornyn said.
If you want to ‘secure the border’, then stop lying and Secure The Damn Border !
It’s truly a pity, back say after WW1 or even WW2, the military wasn’t put to work, to do JUST THAT.. Secure the border PROPERLY.