How badly does Joe Biden want that funding for Ukraine? That's the question Republicans are asking as border negotiations tied to Ukraine funding continue this week.
Parole has been used to circumvent immigration laws and procedures, literally opening the border for immigrants with very little vetting.
Modifying presidential immigration parole is opposed by many Democrats who see it as a way to dodge regular immigration channels and bring in mostly Hispanic immigrants to the U.S. Biden wants a border deal done to get $60 billion for Ukraine and $15 billion for Israel, but the president's numbers are sinking like a stone thanks to the largest number of illegal entries into the United States in one month in history in December.
While it has so far not said much publicly about the talks, the White House internally has been aggressively trying to forge a border policy deal in the Senate due to its desire to give Ukraine more military aid and the political pressure it faces to reduce the unprecedented number of migrants crossing into the U.S. illegally, people familiar with the internal deliberations said.
In December, Customs and Border Protection processed more than 300,000 migrants at and in between ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border, an all-time high roughly the size of the population of Pittsburgh.
Besides Democratic opposition to changes in presidential parole policies, there's Republican opposition to any border bill and Ukraine funding in the House.
There's a large bloc of Republicans who say they already passed a border bill and won't settle for anything less.
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