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WASHINGTON (TNND) — It’s estimated more than 11,000 migrants are awaiting their turn to cross the border from Mexico to the United States to have their asylum cases heard.
The incoming Trump administration is working to make it so all migrants are the same by reinstating the migrant protection protocol policy often referred to as “Remain in Mexico.”
Ken Cuccinelli, the former Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under President-elect Donald Trump was called to testify at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday.
The real success of programs like the ‘Remain in Mexico’ program is not just that they screen out fake asylum seekers, but they help deter illegal aliens from coming in the first place,” he stated.
Since President Joe Biden took office in 2021, the number of encounters at the border has broken records. GOP lawmakers blame Biden Administration policies, which often allowed migrants to be released into the country, including those who weren’t properly vetted.
The GOP argues the United States has witnessed an erosion of security.
The committee’s new chairman, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said, “This deterioration was marked by a complete disregard for the laws put in place to protect U.S. citizens.”
Republicans are also working to pass the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act.
It states that “Any alien who has been convicted of, who admits having committed, or who admits committing acts which constitute the essential elements of a sex offense, or a conspiracy to commit such an offense, is inadmissible.”
A similar bill passed the House during the last Congress.
Elon Musk posted on X, “There is no excuse. Please post the list of people who opposed this law and want to keep illegals who are convicted sex offenders in America. They all need to be voted out of office. Every one of them.”
A vote against this bill is a vote against deporting illegal aliens who rape and abuse women and children.”
While 61 Democrats voted in favor of the bill, those who opposed it said there are already punishments in place for anyone who commits those crimes, including inadmissibility and deportation.
They warn the bill would make it less likely that immigrant communities would report incidents of domestic violence.
On the House floor Thursday, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said, “This is once again a bill that widens the highway to Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans.”
Several legal groups have vowed to fight some of these policies with lawsuits. They say they’ll be ready on day one for Trump’s executive orders and any new legislation they view as illegal or unconstitutional.
