House Republicans are expected to pass a bill on Thursday that would mandate that Customs and Border Protection hire and train 22,000 Border Patrol agents and also require the homeland security secretary to resume construction of the border wall.
said that while the Biden administration supports productive efforts to reform the country’s immigration system, it opposes the GOP-sponsored bill, which it said would make “elements of our immigration system worse.”Andres Leighton / AP
Reached for comment by NBC News, the office of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., pointed to his comments during a press conference Wednesday, where he called the bill the “Child Deportation Act” and characterized it as “one of the extreme MAGA Republicans’ top priorities.” “The Republican approach is anchored in xenophobia and fanning the flames of hatred and distrust and of irresponsible policies that will do nothing to solve the problem,” he added.
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