Republicans powered a stiff new border security bill through the House Judiciary Committee overnight Wednesday, brushing aside Democrats’ complaints of cruelty and taking a first concrete step to unravel President Biden’s lenient immigration policies.
The measure passed on a 23-15 party-line vote. It comes as the chaos at the southern border stretches into a third year under Mr. Biden, and just weeks before the administration will give up its most important border tool, the Title 42 powers that had allowed some illegal immigrants to be quickly expelled.
It would also narrow the grounds for claiming asylum, returning them to the kind of serious cases of government persecution that were originally envisioned when the asylum law was passed more than 40 years ago. One Democrat-sponsored amendment would have exempted illegal immigrant children who arrived without parents from being expelled. When that was rejected, Democrats narrowed it to children under age 5. And when that failed, they narrowed it to infants under age 1.
Rep. Tom McClintock said Democrats’ lenity was misguided. He pointed to the surge of young children who have come to take advantage of Mr. Biden’s more relaxed approach, and found themselves abused along the journey, or forced into work here in the U.S. One exchange saw two of Congress’ most vocal ideological warriors, Rep. Matt Gaetz, Florida Republican, and Rep. Adam Schiff, California Democrat, sparring over what qualified as a totalitarian dictatorship. Mr. Schiff refused to answer Mr. Gaetz’s question as to whether the Democrat considered Saudi Arabia to qualify.
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