MAY 23, 2024
SENATOR MENENDEZ STATEMENT ON THE SENATE BORDER LEGISLATION
Washington D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) released the following statement the Senate's border legislation:
“The Senate is once again moving full steam ahead with border legislation that falls woefully short of fixing our broken immigration system. With little regard for how this bill will upend the lives of millions of migrants, asylum seekers, and immigrant families, they are again attempting to enact this sweeping legislation without the buy-in of the most important stakeholders: immigrant communities and those who represent them.
“The permanent changes in this package do not contain any meaningful relief for the millions of undocumented immigrants in the country, including Dreamers that have lived here for a decade or more as Congress has continued to fail them. Many provisions contained in this legislation read like an enforcement wish list from the Trump administration, and directly clash with the most basic tenets of our asylum system and who we are as a nation.
“We have long needed a comprehensive deal that reforms our immigration system and secures our border, but let me be clear when I say that this package will do little more than exacerbate our issues at the border and forever change the fabric of our country. Millions of immigrants and asylum seekers that will be harmed if this legislation is signed into law and I’m confident the United States Senate will once again reject this proposal.”
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