Republicans are eager to use their new majority to spotlight the border with hearings in several committees, including the panel’s devoted to the judiciary...
FILE - Cuban migrant Mario Perez holds his wife as they wait to be processed to seek asylum after crossing the border into the United States on Jan. 6, 2023, near Yuma, Ariz. U.S. authorities have seen a 97% decline in illegal border crossings by migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela since Mexico began accepting those expelled under a pandemic-era order, the Biden administration said Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023.
Samaniego described his area as the epicenter of migrant surges but said his community has learned how to treat asylum seekers in a way that strikes a balance between security and compassion. He said there is no open border in El Paso but rather asylum seekers who present themselves to border patrol agents for processing.
“Right-wing, anti-immigrant cynics do not care about solving our immigration issues,” Casar said. “They do not care about addressing this humanitarian crisis across the Western Hemisphere that is pushing people out of their homes, fleeing for their lives.” “I am hopeful that beyond unearthing and publicizing the lengths to which Biden and his officials have gone to cause an unmanageable flood of illegal immigration, these hearings will move us closer to holding this Administration accountable for failing the American public,” Paxton wrote.
“Fentanyl is a very serious and urgent issue. It’s just not an immigration issue,” said Zach Mueller, political director for America’s Voice. “The fentanyl that is being trafficked in the United States comes through ports of entry, not with migrants seeking asylum.”
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