Republicans have stalled out on promised action to fix the border crisis after winning back a majority in the House due to infighting among the House and Senate GOP.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy vowed the day before the midterm elections to make ending the record-high number of immigrants coming across the U.S.-Mexico border the first order of business come January, but the party is gridlocked on its proposal.House GOP leadership had attempted to use a House Freedom Caucus member's Border Safety and Security Act of 2023 as the vehicle to tackle the border. H.R. 29 was reintroduced this session by immigration stalwart Rep.
“H.R. 29 is all hat and no cattle," Rep. Tony Gonzales said in a statement to the Washington Examiner this week."It would essentially prevent legal asylum claims such as migrants fleeing religious or political persecution from a safe haven in the United States. Not only is this radical position un-American; it would worsen our border crisis and incentivize human smugglers to continue sneaking people into our country illegally.
With a tiny threshold in the lower chamber, Republicans have a four-vote difference over Democrats if all Republicans vote in line. With the absence of Rep. Greg Steube due to an injury, the GOP can only afford three defectors. One co-sponsor, Rep. Dan Crenshaw , told the Washington Examiner he expects Gonzales will come around in discussions with other party members.A White House official noted that while Republicans have been willing to hold hearings in Congress and analyze the state of the border, they have ignored President Joe Biden’s olive branch to work on immigration reform and border matters together.
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