The US Republican legislators carried out this Thursday in the Lower House a bill that advocates resuming the construction of the wall on the border with Mexico, but that will be stopped by the Democrats as soon as the parliamentary process continues.
The initiative was approved by 219 votes in favor and 213 against, but it has no prospects of prospering, because the Senate is in the hands of the Democrats and the country’s president, Joe Biden, has already warned that he will veto it if it reaches his office.
The conservatives reproach the Democratic Administration for having maintained in these two years of mandate a policy “open doors” on the southern border that in his opinion has caused “a national security and humanitarian crisis”.
His bill claims to fulfill its own promise to Americans of “offer solutions to a crisis that affects not only cities and states along the border, but cities and states across the country”.
His flagship measure aims to resume the construction of a wall between Mexico and the United States seven days after its promulgation. It was one of the main promises of Donald Trump in his 2016 election campaign and his term, but it was not finalized, and Biden halted construction upon arrival at the White House in January 2021.
The bill has been promoted by Florida legislator Mario Díaz-Balart, of Cuban origin, and asks to use the funds granted in this regard in October 2019 and that have not yet expired.
He also wants there to be 24-hour operational drones over the border, a minimum of 110,000 annual flight hours of surveillance by the Air Force, and to authorize the Department of Homeland Security to transfer asylum seekers to safe third countries.”without the current need for bilateral agreements with those countries”.
“While Biden and Democrats continue to ignore the chaos at the border, House Republicans take over by passing the strongest border security bill this country has ever seen. The American people deserve no less”, said the president of that chamber, kevin mccarthy.
The vote took place hours before Title 42 expires this Thursday, a regulation implemented under Trump’s mandate and which, under the pretext of the pandemic, had until now allowed expedited expulsion of migrants.
“We all knew the deadline, but the White House didn’t plan anything and it caused another crisis”, McCarthy added before the press, while his “number two”, steve scalisecriticized that, according to his data, some 5 million have entered the country illegally in these two years due to this alleged policy of “open doors”.
Source: EFE
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