I've already stated I oppose Biden's immigration policy. So you have no argument from me.
But Republicans didn't oppose the legislation because they needed some sign from Biden. We all know why they opposed it, lets not be naive. And that's incredible short term thinking based upon who is President right now. Not 5 or 10 years from now. Again you fix problems with current legislation by passing fixes. You, by specific law, eliminate catch and release. If a future admin isn't following, there is at least legal standing to challenge them. Something that doesn't exist now when all you rely upon is exec action.
Sinema said the bill would end the policy of allowing migrants who are detained to live in U.S. communities while they await having their asylum cases heard by an immigration judge, known colloquially as “catch and release.”
Instead of that practice, Sinema said those migrants would be taken to a short-term detention center, where a quick asylum interview would determine whether that migrant meets the asylum requirements or should be swiftly removed.
Sinema said that those migrants who cannot be detained, such as families, would have a three-month asylum review.
“For folks that we can’t detain, like families, for instance, (we) will ensure that we’re supervising them over the course of just three months and conduct that interview with that new higher standard, requiring them to show more proof early on about whether or not they qualify for asylum and to return them to their country if they do not have the evidence or the proof that they qualify for asylum,” Sinema said.
Backlogs of asylum cases is a serious problem. Lack of immigration judges cause cases to be 2 years out. $500m for new immigration judges would have been nice.