Senate Democrats are fuming over a Republican effort to link an aid package for Ukraine to a crackdown on immigration to the United States.
Senate Republicans want to tie aid to Ukraine to provisions that will restrict immigration, create more security measures at the US-Mexico border and change the asylum process. Republicans have focused on curtailing immigration, which they consider to be a “crisis”, and see funding for Ukraine as an opportunity to win concessions they otherwise would not receive from a Democratic Senate and White House.
