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The Senate Republican Working Group is proposing solutions to address the crisis at the southern border by reforming asylum policies and increasing border security. The proposals would resume construction of the border wall, increase pay for border patrol agents, strengthen screening for credible fear claims, and limit parole. The goals are to prevent illegal border crossings, reform the asylum system to close loopholes, and reduce incentives for migrants to make the dangerous journey.

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The Senate Republican Working Group is proposing solutions to address the crisis at the southern border by reforming asylum policies and increasing border security. The proposals would resume construction of the border wall, increase pay for border patrol agents, strengthen screening for credible fear claims, and limit parole. The goals are to prevent illegal border crossings, reform the asylum system to close loopholes, and reduce incentives for migrants to make the dangerous journey.

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Senate Republican Working Group Solutions for the Southern Border Crisis

The crisis at the southern border is a direct result of failed policies. The Senate Republican Working Group is presenting
solutions to fix these failed policies, instead of simply throwing more money at the ever-worsening problem. These
solutions, drawn from those found in H.R. 2, prioritize the concrete and significant policy reforms that are most critical to
securing the border and stemming the flow of migrants immediately.

Securing our southern border should be a key component of our national security. The Republican Working Group
proposal includes measures that increase pay for hardworking border patrol agents, strengthens border security, and
removes pull factors by fixing our broken asylum process and stopping the Biden Administration’s abuse of the
immigration parole system.

Border Security: Preventing Illegal Aliens from Crossing the Border


• Border wall: Requires DHS to resume construction of the border wall and instructs DHS to take necessary
actions to achieve situational awareness and operational control of the border via tactical infrastructure,
advanced surveillance, and the most-effective technology.
• Border Patrol Retention: Incentivizes Border Patrol agents to stay with CBP by requiring those who are GS-
12 be paid time-and-a-half for overtime hours 81-100. Also includes improvements to recruiting and
training programs.
• DNA Collection: Forces DHS to comply with DNA and biometric collection requirements in existing law
at the border.
Asylum Reform: Stopping the Top Loophole that “Pulls” Illegal Aliens to the USA
• Safe Third Country: Makes aliens ineligible for asylum if they have transited through at least one country
outside their home country unless the aliens can show that they sought and were denied protection in each
such safe third country.
• Credible Fear Standard: Raises the asylum “credible fear of persecution” initial screening standard from
“significant possibility” to “more likely than not,” weeding out non-meritorious claims earlier in the
asylum process. Allows asylum officers to deny unwarranted credible fear and withholding of removal
claims, and limits administrative appeals of denials.
• Port of Entry: Forces migrants who are requesting asylum to make their request at a port of entry, which will
allow Border Patrol to focus on dangerous drug smugglers and criminals.
• Prevents “Two Bites at the Apple”: Makes the denial of an alien’s affirmative asylum claim controlling
when he later raises asylum as a defense to removal. This prevents frivolous delays.
• “One Central Reason”: For withholding of removal claims, requires the alien to show that the central reason
for the threatened harm in the return country is related to that alien’s race, religion, nationality, membership in
a particular social group, or political opinion.
• Streamlined screening: Makes initial screenings more consequential; reduces administrative delays.
• Other Asylum Exceptions: Makes aliens ineligible for asylum if they have committed felonies or other serious
crimes, including, gang-related crimes, DUI, child abuse, domestic violence, certain controlled substance
offenses, and extreme cruelty or battery.
Parole Reform: Stopping the Biden Administration’s Abuse of Humanitarian Parole
• Prohibits DHS from using broad class-based criteria to grant humanitarian parole.
• Allows parole only for aliens who are not present in the U.S., with narrow exceptions.
• Codifies two existing parole programs: the Cuban Family Reunification Program, and another for the spouse
and children of active-duty military service members.
• Narrows the scope of the parole statute to clarify that parole is to be used rarely.
• Limits grants of parole to 1 year (with up to one 1-year extension) or shorter.
Other Key Immigration Policy Reforms to Reduce the Effectiveness of Illegal Border Crossing
• Return to a contiguous country: Require the return of aliens to a contiguous country during their immigration
proceedings if DHS can’t detain or remove them to a safe third country. This would also allow for the
suspension of entry of certain inadmissible aliens (similar to authority under a Title 42 order) if DHS deems it
necessary to achieve “operational control.”
• Family unification: Requires that DHS keep families together in custody while charges for illegally
crossing the border are pending. This ends the tragic practice of adults bringing a child with them on the
dangerous journey to get a faster release from custody. This also contains a sense of Congress that the
changes to family detention satisfy the requirement of the Flores settlement.

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