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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The co-chair of Democrats for Border Security says a Senate bipartisan border security bill will reduce the number of asylum seekers from 5,000 a day to 500 a day.
U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi of New York launched Democrats for Border Security with U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar. At a press conference called to announce the formation of the new group, Suozzi said one particular feature of the Senate bill has not received enough media attention.
“Everybody talks about the 5,000 people a day, 5,000 people a day, 5,000 people a day and the Republicans are saying we don’t want 5,000 people a day. Please understand that the 5,000 people a day are asylum seekers. When the system is improved with more border agents, more immigration judges, more walls, more detention centers, more money for states like mine and cities that I represent to address the migrant crisis, all those different things… we’re also speeding up the asylum process, which now can take three years, four years, five years, in some cases ten years to resolve,” Suozzi said.
“Under this system proposed in the Senate bipartisan compromise, those cases will be resolved in a matter of weeks. So the 5,000 people that apply for asylum, 90 percent of them will be adjudicated to not be eligible, and they will be sent back. So 90 percent of 5,000 or 4,500 people will be deported soon thereafter their adjudication.
“So, it will not be 5,000 people a day (applying for asylum), it’s 500 or less people a day. And it’ll address a whole bunch of other issues that we face in our country with this backlog.”
Suozzi said he will support any bipartisan compromise border security bill “that will actually get this issue addressed.” But, he said, the Republican leadership in the US House refuses to hear the Senate bill.
Suozzi said: “The Republicans refused to move forward because President Trump has told them, don’t want to give Biden a victory. We don’t want to give him a win. We want to campaign on the chaos. Well, that’s appalling. That’s the most irresponsible, most cynical thing you could do in politics.”
Suozzi said Democrats for Border Security are going to work together to “try and figure out how we can get the Senate bipartisan compromise or something like that to the floor and voted on.”
He added: “We believe that border security is a real issue. And we believe it’s our responsibility as members of the United States House of Representatives to actually solve the problem. Not just talk about the problem, but actually solve the problem.”
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