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| Arizona border county official's blunt message to Congress to reject immigration bill: ‘Shut down the border' |
| 2024-02-06 |
| [FoxNews] Congress should reject the Senate's border security bill and any other legislation that doesn't "cut off and eliminate all illegal entry into the United States," an Arizona border county official said. "Do not vote yes on the bill," Yuma County Supervisor Jonathan Lines told Fox News. "Sit down with the Freedom Caucus, sit down with all interested parties and establish what needs to be done as a baseline, which is shutting the border down right now." "There are thousands of people on their way," he added. "There is a pipeline to the United States. You see them in airports, you see them in police stations sleeping on the floor, you see cities that are unable to care for these people. They don't have the resources to do it and it's simply because these numbers continue to multiply on a daily basis." A long-awaited bipartisan border security deal was revealed Sunday night, aimed at gaining control of an asylum system that has been overwhelmed by historic numbers of migrants flooding the border. It also would give the president and the Department of Homeland Security power to temporarily close the border when its overwhelmed and require a shutdown once a certain threshold is reached. "Instead of setting a threshold, whatever it might be, I think we need to go back to getting control of the border first and foremost, before we can address any type of a number type system or identify how many people we will allow in," Lines told Fox News. "We've got around 8 to 10 million people that still need to be adjudicated, and I am seeing dates into the 2030s for people to go before a federal judge." "So knowing that we have that type of backlog, why would we continue to allow people to come in unvetted and remain here waiting for adjudication?" he added. Many House Republicans have voiced opposition to the $118 billion spending package in addition to Johnson, saying its measures aren't aggressive enough to curb illegal immigration. Some are critical of its attachment to Democrats’ supplemental aid proposal allocating $60 billion toward Ukraine, $14 billion to Israel and $10 billion in humanitarian assistance for civilians "caught in conflict zones." While he thinks aiding U.S. allies should be a priority, Lines said the border issue should not be tied to issues involving foreign conflicts. "We need to separate Ukraine from Israel from our U.S. border," he said. "We need to tackle those problems independently because they're so different. We can't just put riders into these bills that send out money by the millions and even billions to these different areas." Related: Yuma County: 2023-01-24 Border city is on brink of collapse under 'unprecedented' migrant surge that has left hospitals and food banks overloaded: Number of crossings is 'highest for thirty years' Yuma County: 2023-01-19 Border under control of cartels, not the US, Yuma residents say as gangs rake in billions off human smuggling Yuma County: 2021-12-09 Migrants rush Yuma border crossing as ‘Remain in Mexico' policy reinstated |
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