Senate Border Policy Talks Drag, Jeopardizing US Aid to Ukraine
- Asylum rules, parole of migrants are sticking points in talks
- House awaits Senate result on border before voting on Ukraine
The US Capitol in Washington, DC.
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Senators are struggling to strike a long-elusive compromise on US-Mexico border policy that Republicans insist is needed for assistance to Ukraine to pass Congress.
Hardliners in the House gambled that they could leverage the assistance Ukraine says it desperately needs — as well as win a long-sought shift in US politics on immigration — to force Democrats’ hand on asylum restrictions and other Republican border priorities.