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EXCLUSIVE — Senate Republicans released a border proposal on Monday that would tie funding for President Joe Biden's $106 billion supplemental to changes in immigration policy, including tighter restrictions for asylum and parole.
Senate Republicans are demanding the president restart border wall construction, something he paused upon assuming office. But the bulk of the proposal, a one-page summary circulated to the conference over the weekend, attempts to limit migrants' ability to enter or stay in the country once they are apprehended.
Humanitarian parole, which, unlike asylum, does not provide a direct path to citizenship, would be restricted under the proposal as well, directing the administration to use it rarely and only for aliens outside the United States. Grants of parole would be limited to one year or less. That, in part, reflects the mood of his conference, which is split between defense hawks and Ukraine skeptics. The latter see border reforms as an acceptable trade for the $61 billion Biden is requesting for the war-torn country.
Then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to extend government funding without it, a move that precipitated his ouster, made that push moot. But the proposal, or some version of it, could prove decisive in this next funding fight.