Alabama Senator Katie Britt has a plan to fix the border —but can she convince her fellow lawmakers?
According to a report from Fox News, Britt is preparing to introduce 4 sweeping immigration measures on Thursday aimed at “securing and sealing” the southern border and protecting American communities amid an unprecedented influx of migrants and drugs into the United States.
Britt will also attempt to have Congress acknowledge that it is, indeed, a crisis.
“We have to acknowledge the problem before we can solve it, but President Biden hasn’t even been willing to do that,” Britt said of the resolution in a statement to Fox News Digital. “With a record number of Americans dying from fentanyl poisoning, record deaths among migrants attempting to cross the border, record profits by the cartels, and a record amount of people on the terrorism watchlist apprehended at the border, there is no doubt that this is a crisis unlike which we have ever seen.”
From Fox News:
In addition to the resolution, Britt will also introduce three measures – the Keep Our Communities Safe Act, the Asylum Abuse Reduction Act, and the WALL Act – in an effort to strengthen border protection measures and curb the flow of illegal migrants into American neighborhoods.
The Keep Our Communities Safe Act – according to Britt’s office – would put an end to the Obama-Biden “catch-and-release” policy, which refers to the federal government’s release of migrants into the U.S. interior while they await court proceedings.
Under current law, migrants are to be released from custody into the U.S. after six months if no other country accepts them for deportation. When individuals arrive in the United States, either at ports of entry, or when caught crossing the border illegally, they are considered “arriving aliens” under immigration laws. Under U.S. code, those individuals are required to be detained until a decision is made whether they are to be admitted to the country.
The measure, which has received support from 19 GOP senators, would close the loophole preventing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from detaining illegal immigrants for more than six months based on a number of factors, including when “their release would threaten the safety of the community and the alien either is an aggravated felon or has committed a crime of violence,” if they “have a highly contagious disease,” or if their “release would have serious adverse foreign policy consequences.”
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