The White House is rushing to get Ukraine aid passed, and congressional Republicans are demanding a slate of harsh border restrictions in return. Some Democratic lawmakers—and President Joe Biden—are growing more willing to make that deal. But there's ample evidence to suggest that it'll lead to more illegal crossings, more migrant deaths, and more government spending, all while gutting key humanitarian protections in exchange for temporary foreign aid.
In recent bipartisan talks, congressional Republicans have pitched "measures to detain all migrant families, keep migrants in Mexico until their day in immigration court, and expand the president's authority to expel migrants swiftly, before they can make asylum claims," reported The New York Times. Other GOP proposals include mandating E-Verify, a burdensome government system that checks workers' citizenship status; gutting humanitarian parole, a policy that has allowed Ukrainians, Afghans, and people fleeing certain authoritarian countries in the Western Hemisphere to come to the U.S. legally; and building the border wall.
