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A deal between Biden and ACLU would prevent the federal government from using prosecutions of adults in the U.S. illegally to separate them and their kids.
Soldiers and razor-sharp metal at the Mexico-Texas border don’t deter migrants who traveled months to get there, as numbers of those fleeing to the U.S. soar.
A Texas GOP congressman has introduced a measure that would block any funding for implementing the plan, and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has promised to sue if Biden moves ahead with it.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is investigating U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s referrals of migrants from Muslim countries for prosecution.
The Texas governor called the idea a “scam” and vowed to send more buses of migrants to Washington, D.C.
The proposal, which recalls President Reagan’s efforts to limit asylum seekers’ movements in the late 1980s, is likely to draw fierce opposition from immigrant rights groups and border-state officials.
Immigrants from Muslim-majority countries are a tiny percentage of border crossers. But in one Texas judicial district, they made up more than half of those prosecuted under an obscure law.
Why is the U.S. trying to send Russian President Vladimir Putin men he wants on the front lines in Ukraine?
The expansion into other cities, including to San Francisco, San Diego and San José this week, indicates that more migrant families will be pushed into the program.
Biden administration officials have declared in court filings that without the policy, border crossings will increase, straining government resources.
