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The negotiators specifically talked about more funding for more border patrol agents
A common democrat trick here is to "hire more Border Patrol agents" and then dedicate them to processing illegals inside the country, not turning them away at the border.
And the negotiators were socializing with the Democratic base the likelihood that there would be a revision to asylum criteria
This needs to be the centerpiece of the bill, given that the loopholes are driving the surge.
Someone upthread suggested the GOP would be better off waiting until next year - the thought being they could do better with Trump in the WH (if that happens) and maybe control in the Senate. That's wrong, I think. Right now, the Democrats are putting all of the above on the table - and forcing their immigrant advocacy faction in the base to just eat it - so they can get Ukraine funding. Democrats are willing to swallow their distaste for the narrower asylum criteria (which many have a moral and philosophical objection to) in order to meet the moment on Ukraine. That disappears by next year.
I look at it the other way. democrats are hoping the GOP caves and gives them what they want NOW in exchange for a future promise of things the GOP wants. That's the point Ace was making above, that in the 40 years I can remember this being a debate the terms of the debate are consistently laid out in the democrats' favor.
That needs to stop.
