The two 2024 presidential election front-runners traveled to Texas on Feb. 29 to deliver vastly different messages about
Former President Donald Trump, left, speaks Feb. 29, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas; President Joe Biden speaks the same day in Brownsville, Texas. President Joe Biden overstated the possible effect of an emergency authority in a failed Senate border security bill. The bill would have blocked people from applying for asylum between ports of entry, but would not have “shut down” the border, experts say.
A few minutes after Trump spoke and about 300 miles south, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, and Border Patrol agents joined Biden as he spoke in Brownsville, Texas.At the end of his speech, Biden asked Trump to join him in getting Congress to pass the Senate border security bill.
"There is this idea that we control how many migrants attempt illegal crossings. We do not," Theresa Cardinal Brown, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s senior adviser for Immigration and border policyUnder current immigration law, people on U.S. soil are allowed to seek asylum regardless of how they entered the country. The bill’s emergency authority tried to change that. But the government’s ability to quickly remove people from the U.S.
Ibarra, a 26-year old from Venezuela, was stopped by U.S. Customs and Border Protection when he illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in September 2022, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Ibarra was paroled in, allowing him to be released into the U.S. to await further immigration proceedings.
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