Lankford's presentation to the Senate on behalf of the Bill..
Also, here's a summary of the Bill's features, from Sen. Lankford's website...tell me...what provisions are so onerous that the Bill should be rejected? (Note BOLD texts are my additions)...frankly, I've never seen any of these items in a post of. yours...feel free to dig them out.
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>No Amnesty-Period
>No Free Work Permits handed out at the Border
>No More 10-yr wait for an asylum hearing (goal...6 months, max)
>Builds the wall
>More ICE agents for deportations
>More Border Patrol agents for arrests (1,500 vs 750 requested by DJT in 2019)
>More asylum officers for faster hearings and deportation
>More than $650M 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 provean 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 sylum are able to be considered for that process fast and the majority of people who do not quality 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 ther is a caravan of people, everyone is released into the county 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 on giant step closer to zero illegal crossings a day
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Link: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4361/text