Senate Republicans are pushing back against Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s plan to put a Ukraine and Israel supplemental foreign aid package up for a vote without including measures to better secure the U.S.-Mexico border.
Republicans point to the record number of the U.S. Border Patrol’s encounters with illegal immigrants at the border during President Biden’s time in office.
A House Judiciary Committee report found that the Biden Administration has released 2.1 million illegal immigrants into the U.S. from the border as of March 2023.
McConnell and Senate Republicans have been advocating for U.S. border security funding to be included in any foreign aid package that the Senate considers for Israel and Ukraine. McConnell also argued that border security funding does not mean providing Democrat mayors federal funds to handle the influx of illegal immigrants arriving in their cities but that policies need to be passed to secure the border.
Schumer and Biden’s proposed package includes $61 billion for the war in Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel’s war against Hamas, and $6 billion for humanitarian aid for Palestinian refugees.
In a letter circulated on Monday evening,
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