House fails to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in major blow to GOP

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Latest Political News on Fox News

The Republican-led House of Representatives on Tuesday failed to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over his handling of the crisis at the southern border – marking a major blow for House Republicans who have pushed for Mayorkas' removal.

The House voted mostly along party lines, but Republicans suffered a number of defections that torpedoed the vote. Four Republicans ultimately voted no: Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., Ken Buck, R-Colo., Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., and Blake Moore, R-Utah, who switched his vote at the last minute in a procedural move to be able to bring the resolution back to the floor.

But Democrats remained united. The vote was 216-214. Lawmakers voted on a resolution combining two articles of impeachment that accused Mayorkas of having "refused to comply with Federal immigration laws" and the other of having violated "public trust." A Cabinet secretary has not been impeached since 1876, when Secretary of War William Belknap was impeached.

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The move is a crushing defeat for the Republican majority, which held hearings throughout 2023 on Mayorkas' "dereliction of duty" and additional hearings on the impeachment articles themselves earlier this year. Lawmakers accused Mayorkas of disregarding federal law with "open border policies" that have made the ongoing crisis at the southern border worse. They have pointed to the rolling back of Trump-era policies, like border wall construction and "Remain in Mexico," and reducing interior enforcement and expanding "catch-and-release." They say it has fueled record numbers at the southern border, breaching the 300,000 mark in December.

"Under Secretary Mayorkas’ watch, Customs and Border Protection has reported more than 8.5 million encounters at our borders, including more than 7 million apprehensions at the southwest border," Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green, R-Tenn., said on the House floor. "Even more terrifying is the approximately 1.8 million known gotaways that Border Patrol agents detect but are unable to apprehend. Millions of those inadmissible aliens who are encountered are eventually released into our communities. This has never happened before in our history. And it doesn’t happen by accident."

Green said Republicans had been left with "no other option" than to proceed.

"We, the people's representatives, have no opinion, no option but to exercise this duty when branch officials blatantly refuse to comply with the laws we have passed threaten the separation of powers, imperiled the constitutional order, and expose Americans to untold suffering and death," he said.

Democrats and the administration have painted the impeachment push as politically motivated on nothing more than policy disagreements, and nothing that approaches high crimes and misdemeanors.

"Far from alleging high crimes and misdemeanors, this resolution relies on the same tired and untrue Republican talking points that Democrats have demonstrated for months are not true," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.

Homeland Security Committee ranking member Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., called the push a "travesty" and an "affront to the Constitution."

"Rather than doing what's right for America because it's clear that Republicans have failed to make the case for impeachment. They have failed to articulate a single high crime and misdemeanor. The other side of the aisle reeks of desperation," he said.

Mayorkas himself has attacked the push against him, calling the allegations "false" and "baseless."

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"I assure you that your false accusations do not rattle me and do not divert me from the law enforcement and broader public service mission to which I have devoted most of my career and to which I remain devoted," Mayorkas said.

DHS has pointed to more than 500,000 removals since May and record seizures of fentanyl at the border to counteract claims that it has pursued open border policies. It has also called on Republicans to provide more funding and to work with the administration to fix a "broken" immigration system. It had highlighted Republicans and former DHS officials who have opposed the impeachment effort.

"This baseless impeachment should never have moved forward; it faces bipartisan opposition and legal experts resoundingly say it is unconstitutional," DHS spokesperson Mia Ehrenberg said after the vote on Tuesday. "If House Republicans are serious about border security, they should abandon these political games and instead support the bipartisan national security agreement in the Senate to get DHS the enforcement resources we need."

"Secretary Mayorkas remains focused on working across the aisle to promote real solutions at the border and keep our country safe," she said.

Democrats, meanwhile, were gleeful at the defeat for the majority.

"House Republicans just tried to impeach Secretary Mayorkas purely as a political stunt: AND THEY FAILED," Jayapal said on X, formerly known as Twitter. "As they keep wasting their time in the majority, Democrats will continue working for the American people."

However, at least one Republican suggested the fight might not be over.

"I will not STOP until Secretary Mayorkas is IMPEACHED," Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, posted. "House Republicans will hold the administration accountable, no matter how many votes it takes!"

Top Republican says Dems ‘will answer’ at ballot box for not backing Mayorkas impeachment

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Latest Political News on Fox News

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer on Tuesday predicted Democrats will pay at the ballot box for failing to back the impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, ahead of a vote on impeachment articles later in the evening.

"I think the Democrats are making a mistake once again, especially some of the folks in South Texas, some of the people in New York and other states where immigration has become a huge issue, Illegal immigration. I think they're making a mistake by not supporting this. And they will answer for that at the ballot box," he said.

Emmer spoke to Fox News Digital ahead of votes on two articles of impeachment which accuse Mayorkas of having "repeatedly violated laws enacted by Congress regarding immigration and border security" and of having "made false statements to Congress" that the border is secure and closed and that DHS is in operational control of the border.

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The vote is expected to go mostly along party lines, but Republicans have so far seen two lawmakers announce they will be voting against the articles. Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., issued a scathing statement against the articles earlier Tuesday, while Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., is also expected to vote against the legislation. The House majority is slim and Republicans can only afford three defections if all lawmakers are present and all Democrats vote against impeachment.

Emmer says he doesn’t share whip counts with anybody, but rejected criticism that Republicans were impeaching Mayorkas over policy differences and said that the House will "perform our constitutional obligation tonight."

"This literally is about somebody who has willfully, willfully, and systematically, created an agency's ability to subvert our laws. They are literally violating our laws," he said.

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Republicans have accused Mayorkas and the administration of fueling the crisis with "open border" policies including "catch-and-release," reduced interior enforcement and the rolling back of Trump-era policies they believe helped secure the border. Mayorkas has denied those claims even amid record numbers at the border, and found support from Democrats and some former DHS officials among others. Former Bush-era DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff recently called on Republicans to "drop this impeachment charade" and work with Mayorkas to solve the crisis.

Mayorkas himself defended himself against impeachment last week in a letter to Republicans, in which he slammed the allegations as "false" and "baseless" and called on Congress to reform a broken system and provide more funding.

Should Mayorkas be impeached it’ll be the first such impeachment of a cabinet secretary since the 1800s.

"This vote is appropriate because of the individual who has purposely, willfully violated the law, and refused to do his job," Emmer told Fox. "I think that's one, but two, it's also the only thing we can do at this point. It's the only tool we're left with. Because, we have got a White House that refuses to do anything, and we have one-half of one-third of government."

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Meanwhile, in the upper chamber, a Senate border deal announced this week has faced significant opposition in the House -- but looks like it won’t even make the chamber amid massive opposition in the Senate as well.

Emmer said he was not surprised at the bill's struggles, and took aim at the inclusions in the package -- including the emergency border authority that would kick in to allow expulsions if there was a 7-day average of over 5,000 encounters a day.

"Five thousand a day before you have shutdown authority? One coming across the southern border is too many at this point and that just wasn't going to fly," he said. "I think the rumors we heard turned out to be true and worse. In effect, that bill is codified catch and release…it's making into law the very law that Mayorkas is violating."

"I think once the senators saw the text filing and read it, they realized how bad this was and this is not where the American people are. They're going to side with the American people instead of this lawlessness that we're seeing out of the Biden administration," he said.

Emmer stressed that a deal should deal with five issues he believes the House package dealt with: Restoring the Trump-era Remain-in-Mexico policy; reforming the broad use of humanitarian parole; restricting asylum laws; ending "catch-and-release"; and finishing the construction of a wall at the southern border.

"You've got to address those five things that are in H.R. 2. You have to have all well, maybe you can't get them all because we only have one-half of one-third of our federal government. But at a minimum, you should be restoring of remain in Mexico and you should be ending catch and release," he said.

Fox News' Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.

Karine Jean-Pierre blames GOP for failure to secure border despite Democrats being in charge on day 1

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Latest Political News on Fox News

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday repeatedly blamed Republicans after the collapse of a bipartisan deal that paired border policy changes with billions in wartime aid for Ukraine.

Throughout the press conference, Jean-Pierre accused the GOP of playing games with national security and not having a spine for supporting the deal. She said President Biden, in contrast, had taken the border issue seriously "from day one."

"He said, ‘I’m going to put forward a legislation,' a comprehensive immigration legislation that was introduced more than three years ago … and [Republicans]," have failed to act, Jean-Pierre said when asked if President Biden bore some responsibility for the collapsed deal.

Later on, Fox News’ Peter Doocy pressed Jean-Pierre on the matter.

"So, you guys talk a lot – including today – about how the border wouldn’t be such a big deal if Congress would have just passed your immigration bill on day one," Doocy asked. "Who was in charge of Congress on day one?"

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Jean-Pierre said the Biden administration has called on Congress to act since Biden took office more than three years ago, but Republicans "have gotten in the way" of trying to fix the border by using the immigration crisis as a political stunt.

When President Biden took office, Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate. Republicans took back the House by a slim majority in the 2022 midterm elections.

After taking office, Biden signed two executive orders on immigration and pledged to roll back many of the policies put in place by his predecessor, former President Donald Trump. Within a few months, Biden took more than 90 actions related to the border.

Under the president’s stewardship, illegal immigration has skyrocketed to historic levels. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) report for fiscal 2023 showed that the number of illegal immigrants on the non-detained docket soared from 3.7 million in FY 2021 to nearly 4.8 million in FY 2022 to nearly 6.2 million in FY 2023.

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The number of illegal immigrants being deported has increased, according to the report, but it is still a fraction of the increase in the illegal immigrant population. There were 142,580 removals in FY 23, up considerably from 72,177 in FY 22 and 59,011 in FY 21, but still down from the highs of 267,258 under the Trump administration in FY 19.

With the 2024 election looming, Biden has for months engaged in a plan to pair policies intended to curb illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border with $60 billion in wartime aid for Ukraine. The bill would have also sent tens of billions of dollars more for Israel, other U.S. allies in Asia, the U.S. immigration system and humanitarian aid for civilians in Gaza and Ukraine.

But after Republicans backed away from the compromise, the president and Senate leaders are now stranded with no clear way to advance aid for Ukraine through Congress. They have run into a wall of opposition from conservatives — led by Trump — who reject the border proposal as insufficient and criticize the Ukraine funding as wasteful.

Biden laid the blame for the bill's demise squarely on Trump — his presumed Republican opponent in the November presidential election.

"For the last 24 hours he's done nothing, I'm told, but reach out to Republicans in the House and the Senate and threaten them and try to intimidate them to vote against this proposal," Biden said. "It looks like they're caving. Frankly, they owe it to the American people to show some spine and do what they know to be right."

Meanwhile, House lawmakers have cleared the way to advance an impeachment resolution against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, for alleging "refusing to enforce our nation's laws."

"An architect of destruction at our southern border, the secretary has caused serious injury to society, as the Founding Fathers discussed," Rep. McCaul, R-Texas, said in a statement.

Fox News’ Adam Shaw contributed to this report.

Mayorkas shows ‘willful ignorance’ of border crisis, GOP rep says as House tees up historic impeachment vote

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Latest Political News on Fox News

Congressional lawmakers weighed in on whether Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has positively or negatively influenced border security ahead of the House's vote on his impeachment.

"I think that he’s violated the law on purpose," Rep. Matt Gaetz told Fox News. "I think he deserves impeachment for that."

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But Rep. Lloyd Doggett called the impeachment case against Mayorkas "appalling."

"I think certainly one could look back on this time and recognize there are improvements that could have been made, but the idea of impeaching him under these circumstances at the very time he’s trying to develop a bipartisan agreement is appalling," the Texas Democrat said.

The Republican-led House Rules Committee voted 8-4 on Monday to send an impeachment case against Mayorkas to the full chamber for a vote. The two impeachment articles accuse Mayorkas of refusing to comply with federal immigration laws and violating the public's trust.

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The full chamber passed a motion for debate on Mayorkas' impeachment 216-209 Tuesday. A second series of votes will follow the debate. If the impeachment resolution passes, it will head to the Democrat-led Senate, where it's expected to fail.

"Mayorkas has not done his job," Rep. Doug LaMalfa said. "He can at least be fighting back, or he can resign the position if he feels the job he’s supposed to do isn’t being done or isn’t being allowed to be done."

"He’s not done his constitutional duty," the California Republican said. "It’s not a matter of incompetence. It’s a matter of willful ignorance."

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The vote came on the heels of the Senate's long-awaited bipartisan border security deal being revealed on Sunday, which sparked fierce condemnation from some House Republicans. Among other criticisms, House leaders said in a Monday statement that the bill would give too much authority to Mayorkas, who "has proven he will exploit every measure possible, in defiance of the law, to keep the border open."

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Mayorkas has been "forcibly making the border wide open and endangering the American people," Rep. Chip Roy told Fox News.

There were over 2.4 million migrant encounters during fiscal 2023, up from roughly 1.7 million in 2021, according to Customs and Border Protection data. In December, they reached a record-high of 302,000.

I’m "disappointed from some of what I’ve seen from [Mayorkas], but I think that disagreement in terms of job performance is not an impeachable offense," Rep. Chris Pappas, a New Hampshire Democrat, said. "We should be giving him the tools he needs to do the job."

Constitutional scholars have criticized the impeachment push against Mayorkas. Alan Dershowitz, for example, called the charges against the Homeland Security secretary "vague," while Jonathan Turley said there's no "cognizable basis" for impeachment.

Pappas said Congress needs to step up to enact change at the southern border.

"We’ve got to have some order at the border," he said. "We also need greater investments. That’s where Congress comes in. We need to be a partner here."

House clears way to advance impeachment articles of DHS Secretary Mayorkas

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Latest Political News on Fox News

House lawmakers on Tuesday cleared the way to advance an impeachment resolution against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The 215-207 floor vote came as the House adopted the "rule" to manage the debate on the measure.

The resolution affirms that Mayorkas "has willfully and systematically refused to comply with Federal immigration laws" by having repeatedly violated laws enacted by Congress regarding immigration and border security during his tenure.

If the vote goes through, Mayorkas would be the first Biden Cabinet official impeached in nearly 150 years.

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House tees up vote on impeaching Mayorkas over border crisis

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Latest Political News on Fox News

House Republicans are moving toward a chamber-wide vote on whether to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the border crisis.

A Cabinet secretary has not been impeached since 1876.

Mayorkas is facing two impeachment articles, one that accuses him of having "refused to comply with Federal immigration laws" and the other of having violated "public trust."

Those articles passed out of the House Rules Committee on a party-line 8-4 vote Monday evening. That sets up a procedural rule vote that, if passed, will be followed by a House floor debate and then a final impeachment vote.

Three sources told Fox News Digital on Monday afternoon that they expect that vote to come Tuesday.

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House GOP leaders have accused Mayorkas of willfully disregarding existing federal laws and making deliberate policy decisions that have made the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border worse.

Democrats, meanwhile, have painted Republicans’ impeachment push as political and argued the impeachment articles have no basis.

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But the effort has served to largely unite what’s been a very divided House GOP conference this term. Even moderates from districts where President Biden won in 2020, like Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., have said they’d support Mayorkas’ impeachment.

It’s a good sign for Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who will need every Republican vote he can get to pass the historic measure. He’s presiding over a razor-thin House GOP majority, but the expected returns this week of Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., from medical absences will give him slightly more wiggle room.

At least one House Republican is against the impeachment push so far, while at least four more were undecided as of late last week.

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Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., told reporters last week that he was a "solid" no against impeaching Mayorkas. Buck criticized the Biden official for his handling of the southern border crisis but said, "The people that I’m talking to on the outside, the constitutional experts, former members agree that this just isn’t an impeachable offense."

Mayorkas himself slammed the impeachment articles as baseless accusations in a letter to House Homeland Security Secretary Mark Green, R-Tenn., last week.

The impeachment proceedings will be a stark juxtaposition to Senate leaders' efforts to pass a bipartisan border security deal this week, talks which Mayorkas has been a part of.

House tees up vote on impeaching Mayorkas over border crisis

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Latest Political News on Fox News

House Republicans are moving toward a chamber-wide vote on whether to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the border crisis.

A Cabinet secretary has not been impeached since 1876.

Mayorkas is facing two impeachment articles, one that accuses him of having "refused to comply with Federal immigration laws" and the other of having violated "public trust."

Three sources told Fox News Digital on Monday afternoon that they expect that vote to come Tuesday.

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House GOP leaders have accused Mayorkas of willfully disregarding existing federal laws and making deliberate policy decisions that have made the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border worse.

Democrats, meanwhile, have painted Republicans’ impeachment push as political and argued the impeachment articles have no basis.

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At least one House Republican is against the impeachment push so far, while at least four more were undecided as of late last week.

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Mayorkas himself slammed the impeachment articles as baseless accusations in a letter to House Homeland Security Secretary Mark Green, R-Tenn., last week.

The impeachment proceedings will be a stark juxtaposition to Senate leaders' efforts to pass a bipartisan border security deal this week, talks which Mayorkas has been a part of.

House tees up vote on impeaching Mayorkas over border crisis

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Latest Political News on Fox News

House Republicans are moving toward a chamber-wide vote on whether to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the border crisis.

A Cabinet secretary has not been impeached since 1876.

Mayorkas is facing two impeachment articles, one that accuses him of having "refused to comply with Federal immigration laws" and the other of having violated "public trust."

Three sources told Fox News Digital on Monday afternoon that they expect that vote to come Tuesday.

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House GOP leaders have accused Mayorkas of willfully disregarding existing federal laws and making deliberate policy decisions that have made the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border worse.

Democrats, meanwhile, have painted Republicans’ impeachment push as political and argued the impeachment articles have no basis.

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At least one House Republican is against the impeachment push so far, while at least four more were undecided as of late last week.

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Mayorkas himself slammed the impeachment articles as baseless accusations in a letter to House Homeland Security Secretary Mark Green, R-Tenn., last week.

The impeachment proceedings will be a stark juxtaposition to Senate leaders' efforts to pass a bipartisan border security deal this week, talks which Mayorkas has been a part of.

House committee votes to advance impeachment case against DHS Secretary Mayorkas to full chamber

Posted on February 6, 2024 by Latest Political News on Fox News

The Republican-led House Rules Committee on Monday voted 8-4 to send an impeachment case against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the full chamber for a vote.

A vote on the articles of impeachment in the House – which Republicans hold by a slim margin – could come as early as Tuesday.

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If the vote goes through, Mayorkas would be the first Cabinet official impeached in nearly 150 years.

The impeachment articles charge that Mayorkas "refused to comply with Federal immigration laws" amid a record surge of migrants at the southern border and that he has "breached the public trust" in his claims to Congress that the U.S.-Mexico border is secure.

The secretary and supporters have repeatedly said that what's happening is part of a worldwide phenomenon of people on the move seeking a better way of life and that the U.S. immigration system needs more resources and legislation to meet the challenge.

The secretary has called the Republican charges against him "politically motivated and completely baseless," pointing to constitutional scholars who have weighed in with similar assessments. He said if it comes to a trial in the Senate, which generally follows an impeachment vote, he's prepared to defend himself.

House GOP leaders smack down bipartisan Senate border deal as Republican support crumbles

Posted on February 5, 2024 by Latest Political News on Fox News

House GOP leaders are formally announcing their opposition to the bipartisan border security deal revealed by the Senate on Sunday.

Republican support for the measure has been dissipating by the hour as more high-profile GOP lawmakers add their voices to the chorus of criticism.

"House Republicans oppose the Senate immigration bill because it fails in every policy area needed to secure our border and would actually incentivize more illegal immigration," Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.; Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La.; Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., said in a joint statement Monday.

"Among its many flaws, the bill expands work authorizations for illegal aliens while failing to include critical asylum reforms. Even worse, its language allowing illegals to be ‘released from physical custody’ would effectively endorse the Biden ‘catch and release’ policy."

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They also claimed the bill gave too much authority to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who House Republicans aim to impeach this week.

"The so-called ‘shutdown’ authority in the bill is anything but, riddled with loopholes that grant far too much discretionary authority to Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas – who has proven he will exploit every measure possible, in defiance of the law, to keep the border open," House leadership said. "The bill also fails to adequately stop the President’s abuse of parole authority and provides for taxpayer funds to fly and house illegal immigrants in hotels through the FEMA Shelter and Services Program."

They reiterated prior calls for the Senate to take up H.R.2, the border security bill House Republicans passed last summer. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has panned that bill as a nonstarter.

"That bill contains the necessary components to actually stem the flow of illegals and end the present crisis. The Senate must take it up immediately. America’s sovereignty is at stake," the Republicans said.

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"Any consideration of this Senate bill in its current form is a waste of time. It is DEAD on arrival in the House. We encourage the U.S. Senate to reject it."

The 370-page border and security supplemental funding bill would, if passed, grant President Biden the authority to temporarily shut down the border. It would also raise the threshold for migrants to claim asylum while also speeding up the process by which those claims are adjudicated.

The bill also includes a total of 250,000 new visas over five years and a legal pathway to citizenship for Afghans who fled to the U.S. when Kabul fell to the Taliban.

But many Republican lawmakers are saying that it does not go far enough to secure the border, citing the record-shattering number of migrants encountered at the southern border since 2021.

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Several key GOP lawmakers have come out against the bill since the text was revealed Sunday, potentially putting its passage in peril.

That includes Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., chairman of House Republicans' campaign arm and a member of Senate GOP leadership, who said on Monday, "With House Republicans united in opposition to this bill, it makes no sense to even bring it up in the Senate…I will vote no when the bill is brought to the Senate floor this week."

At least a dozen GOP senators are also publicly opposed to the bill, which Schumer said will get a vote this week.