Biden Urges Border Deal as Johnson Calls Plan ‘Dead on Arrival’
- Speaker says reported plan details won’t fly in GOP chamber
- Biden vows he would use new powers to ‘shut down the border’
Migrants walk near the US-Mexico border fence in Jacumba Hot Springs, California.
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President Joe Biden committed to using “new emergency authority to shut down the border” as contours of an immigration deal negotiated between the White House and a bipartisan group of senators emerged Friday — even as opposition to what would amount to a sweeping overhaul of US immigration programs appeared to be hardening in the Republican-controlled House.
Under the proposal, the Department of Homeland Security would be able — and, during times of heavy migration, required — to turn migrants away, according to a person familiar with the deal who requested anonymity to describe the contents before it was publicly announced.