The Biden administration indicated to congressional lawmakers that it would be willing to back the implementation of harder measures at the border in exchange for Republican support to its broad aid package, which includes funding for Ukraine and Israel in their respective wars against Russia and Hamas, CBS reported late Tuesday.
Concretely, the government could support a broader border authority to expel migrants without asylum screenings and a drastic expansion of detentions and deportations, the report said, citing four people familiar with the conversations.
