<p>Within the first couple hours of the Sunday release of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> bill coupling border security reforms with aid for U.S. allies, such as Ukraine and Israel, critics quickly began to highlight the words of one of the legislation&#8217;s architects as a reason to reject the <a href="https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/emergency_national_security_supplemental_bill_text.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">370-page measure</a> while Republicans leaders in the House warned it would be &#8220;dead on arrival.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), a negotiator for Democrats, posted a thread to X sharing a list of &#8220;key elements&#8221; of the compromise that came out of a months long effort that sought to answer the call of President Joe Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-lee-rallies-support-for-giving-senators-adequate-time-to-consider-border-deal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">roughly $106 billion</a> national security supplemental request and satisfy a Republican push for an overhaul of the immigration system that people in both major parties acknowledge needs to be shaken up.</p>
<p>One post in the thread, featuring Murphy&#8217;s fifth point out of 10, <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1754292307677913264" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;A requirement the President to funnel asylum claims to the land ports of entry when more than 5,000 people cross a day. The border never closes, but claims must be processed at the ports.&#8221; It adds, &#8220;This allows for a more a more orderly, humane asylum processing system.&#8221;</p>
<p>The phrase &#8220;The border never closes&#8221; quickly began to take hold among the $118 billion package&#8217;s early detractors on the GOP side of the Senate, which <a href="https://www.senate.gov/history/partydiv.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has</a> 49 Republicans, 48 Democrats, and three independents. One of the independents, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), helped put together the bill.</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8216;The border never closes&#8217; is a good summary of this bill, and of Joe Biden&#8217;s policy,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1754313179956437043" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH).  &#8220;I can understand why Chris Murphy supports it. I cannot imagine why any Republican supports this atrocious proposal.&#8221; Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) also highlights the post, <a href="https://twitter.com/SenRickScott/status/1754312084458979828" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, &#8220;THE BORDER NEVER CLOSES. The words of bill author [Sen. Chris Murphy] &#8230; Again — this is not a border security bill.&#8221;</p>
<p>The lawmaker who has spearheaded the talks for the Republicans, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK), released a three-page summary that broke down the various provisions for border security enshrined in the legislation. According to the <a href="https://www.lankford.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/FINAL-GENERAL-ONE-PAGER.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">document</a>, the bill deconstructs the &#8220;catch-and-release fiasco,&#8221; imposes &#8220;immediate&#8221; consequences for illegal crossings, provides $650 million to build and reinforce miles of border wall, and change up the asylum system.</p>
<p>Lankford also took to X to push back on of criticism about previously leaked section concerning 5,000 migrants, which some naysayers, including <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1754301705578008893" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump Jr</a>. and Arizona Republican Senate candidate <a href="https://twitter.com/KariLake/status/1751025054589333854" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kari Lake</a>, equated to &#8220;mass amnesty&#8221; and allows up to 1.8 million to 2 million illegal immigrants into the country a year.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Border Emergency Authority has been the most misunderstood or maybe just misrepresented parts of the bill. Some people have said it would mean 5,000 people a day are coming into the country every day. That is absurd and untrue,&#8221; Lankford <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorLankford/status/1754325107474915806" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;The emergency authority is not designed to let 5,000 people in, it is designed to close the border and turn 5,000 people around,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The Border Emergency Authority only lasts 3 yrs to force this Admin to shut down the border &amp; to give time for the next POTUS to hire more agents &amp; more officers. After three years, the emergency authority expires because we should have regained full control of our border by then.&#8221;</p>
<p>Democrat and Republican leadership in the Senate voiced support for the legislation, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who <a href="https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=4E55495D-EA15-452C-A566-DBD9356C859E" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the measure &#8220;has direct and immediate solutions to the crisis at our southern border&#8221; and called on the Senate &#8220;carefully consider the opportunity in front of us and prepare to act.&#8221;</p>
<p>Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) indicated he plans to act quickly on the bill, <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/majority-leader-schumer-statement-on-bipartisan-senate-agreement-on-emergency-national-security-supplemental" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> he will take the &#8220;first procedural step&#8221; on Monday to get it passed in the Senate and have the first vote scheduled for Wednesday. Sixty votes will be needed for the legislation to make headway, a <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1754291625583329581" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threshold detractors</a> hope to keep from breaking.</p>
<p>Whether the bill, which also has support from the Biden administration, manages to make it through the Senate, the compromise&#8217;s supporters already face a hurdle among Republicans in command of the House who vowed on Sunday that the legislation will not pass, <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1754319765894578181" target="_blank" rel="noopener">let alone get a vote</a> in the chamber, while some vouched for the border security bill they passed last year that Schumer has <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refused to bring up for consideration</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;I’ve seen enough. This bill is even worse than we expected, and won’t come close to ending the border catastrophe the President has created,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1754333708193091928" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). &#8220;As the lead Democrat negotiator proclaimed: Under this legislation, &#8216;the border never closes.&#8217; If this bill reaches the House, it will be dead on arrival.&#8221;</p>
<p>The compromise bill is slated to be considered in the Senate this week as the House aims to tackle a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-johnson-announces-clean-standalone-israel-aid-package" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“clean, standalone” bill</a> to send more aid to Israel and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republican-says-he-opposes-mayorkas-impeachment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">potentially vote on</a> articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who helped devise the Senate legislation, for his handling of the border crisis.</p>
<p>Former President Donald Trump, who is the GOP frontrunner as he campaigns for a second term in the White House, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oklahoma-gop-disavows-censure-of-sen-lankford-over-border-talks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Truth Social he opposed the Senate deal “unless we get EVERYTHING needed to shut down the INVASION.”</p>

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