Daily Border Bulletin: Babeu Urges Focus on Border Security, Senate Rejects Republican Effort to Gut CIR Bill, Security Change

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Babeu Urges House to Reject Senate Immigration Bill, Focus on Border Security During yesterday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday on the SAFE Act, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu urged the House to reject the Senate immigration legislation and increase law enforcement and police authority. However Karen Tumlin, of the National Immigration Law Center, pushed back suggesting that would be too much to add to a bill that already increases enforcement.

Senate Rejects Republican Effort to Gut Immigration Bill The Gang of Eight compromise remained strong yesterday as the Senate defeated an amendment from Sen. Grassley with a 57-43 vote. The amendment would have delayed the pathway to citizenship provisions of the bill. Supporters and critics of the bill continue to work on border security provisions. 

Senate Immigration Authors Consider Border Control Change Several sponsors of the Senate immigration bill are trying to draft an alternative to Sen. John Cornyn’s RESULTS amendment which they fear could permanently impede the proposed path the citizenship for undocumented immigrants in the US. One of those sponsors, Sen. Chuck Schumer said, “We just want to make sure that it doesn’t forsake our principles, which is that there has to be an achievable, specific [border] trigger.”