Subject: Re: Senate Border Bill Details...
Oh, here's one more social media link for you: It's from Senator Chris Murphy, who wrote a bunch of the bill. Maybe you'll accept his words at face value.

https://twitter.com/ChrisMurph...

https://twitter.com/ChrisMurph...
3/ A quicker, fairer asylum process. No more 10 yr wait. Claims processed in a non-detained, non-adversarial way in 6 months.

A slightly higher asylum screening standard at the border.

Also, no more waiting for work permits. Most asylum seekers can work immediately.

Since everyone pretty much gets asylum these days, there's your auto work permits.

https://twitter.com/ChrisMurph...

4/ A brand new right to legal representation for all immigrants. Remember when Trump denied lawyers to victims of the Muslim ban? Never again.

And...the first ever government paid-for lawyers for young unaccompanied minors. A long standing injustice righted.

Get denied at your asylum hearing because you're on a terror watch list? Now you get a US taxpayer funded lawyer to help you beat the rap!

https://twitter.com/ChrisMurph...

6/ But...important checks on that power. It can only be used for a limited number of days per year. It sunsets in 3 years. Emergency cases that show up in between the ports still need to be accepted. The ports must process a minimum of 1400 claims a day.

Get that? Even if the encounters hits 5,000 the border isn't really closed: they're just supposed to go to a port of entry.

You guys can chant all you want about how the bill "has things that Republicans like". Sure, it does. Like maybe the font or paragraph spacing. But as a matter of policy, it's terrible.