Congressionally Approved Funding to make it permanent....BUT...Donald J. Trump KILLED it...for the sole purpose of keeping voters like you riled up over this issue.
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The bill works to stop the illegal immigration chaos now and in the future. Here are some of the details:
NO amnesty—period
NO free work permits handed out at the border
NO more 10-year wait for an asylum hearing
Builds the wall
More ICE agents for deportations
More Border Patrol agents for arrests
More asylum officers for faster hearings and deportation
More than $650 million is recapitalized for border wall construction next year
Adds more technology at the border to interdict drugs and illegal crossings
Increases detention beds to 50,000 to end catch and release
Doubles the number of deportation flights
Ends the cartel trick of trafficking children with adults so the adults can enter the country faster
Raises the standard to prove an asylum request, so people coming to our border can no longer just say, “I have fear in my country” and get released into America for years
Deports anyone seeking asylum with a criminal record immediately, instead of the current policy of deporting them years from now
Deports any alien who could have resettled in another country on the way to the United States
Deports any alien who came to America to seek “protection,” but they could have just moved to another town in their own country and been safe
Adds more asylum officers for screening to make sure the handful of people who actually qualify for asylum are able to be considered for that process fast and the majority of people who do not qualify for asylum are deported faster
Creates a new Title 42-like authority to shut down and deport everyone when the border is being overrun-
Currently when there is a caravan of people, everyone is released into the country because there is not enough time to process everyone fully. This new authority would reverse that by deporting everyone when the border is overrun with too many people to process.
Creates sanctions for the criminal cartels who traffic dangerous drugs like fentanyl and meth into our country
Finally finishes vetting the Afghan refugees that have been in our country for two years and accelerates the processing of the Afghans that fought alongside our troops who are already in the country
Moves our national strategy one giant step closer to zero illegal crossings a day
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