Posted 12/16/2023, 2:05:00 AM
Bipartisan Senators Seek Deal on Immigration and Border Security
- Bipartisan group of senators attempting to agree on framework for landmark immigration and border security deal as early as Sunday
- Sticking point remains over immigration parole authority, which GOP wants major limits on but White House refusing to budge
- Deal would include raising threshold for passing initial asylum interviews, expanded detention of migrants, and expulsion authority during border spikes
- Prospects in House murkier due to demands from Republicans to include more hardline measures from earlier House bill
- Progressives argue shift represents betrayal of Biden's campaign pledges on immigration