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The Issue
The proposed Bipartisan Border Solutions Act, introduced by Senators John Cornyn (R–TX) and Krysten Sinema (D–AZ) and Representatives Henry Cuellar (D–TX) and Tony Gonzales (R–TX), is a poorly informed policy that would simply increase the U.S. capacity for processing illegal aliens in order to release them into the interior of the country, acting as a direct incentive for yet more illegal immigration.
The Biden Administration knowingly caused the current border crisis by undoing Trump-era border security and immigration measures for political purposes. Ending this artificially created humanitarian and security disaster requires restarting the Trump-era policies and closing legal loopholes. This bill does neither. Instead, it: