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The GOP demands for extreme immigration concessions have nothing to do with “border security.”

that if Democrats want a new package of aid to Ukraine — which was not included in that government funding bill — they must help pass the GOP “border security” agenda.would dramatically roll back certain types of legal migration to this country and otherwise transform our immigration system in numerous radical, cruel and reckless ways.

Using Ukraine aid as leverage to extract policy concessions that could functionally end a program for Ukrainian refugees seems particularly ghoulish. What’s more, such a restriction on the president’s parole authority could also end Biden’s programs admitting some 30,000 migrants per month from Cuba, Venezuela, Haiti and Nicaragua into the United States, Reichlin-Melnick notes.with “border security.

accustomed to negotiating under threat from Republicans as the normal conditions under which governing must function. Even if McCarthy is ousted as speaker, his replacement is likely to adopt this same demand, perhaps even more aggressively. Democrats should stop acceding to this cycle. The fate of our immigration system shouldn’t be hashed out under yet another round of quasi-extortionate duress.

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