CNN political commentator SE Cupp and John Abron had a heated exchange Monday over the border crisis, with Cupp arguing that Democrats bear a significant amount of responsibility.

senate released Language has been written for a long-awaited border package in exchange for aid to Ukraine. The bill would allocate $48 billion to Ukraine and nearly $16 billion to Israel to fund border security measures. Border provisions also include hiring new immigration judges to speed up the processing of asylum and deportation cases and increasing funding for law enforcement to detain and remove illegal immigrants. There is.

The bill includes a provision that would allow the country's borders to remain open if fewer than 5,000 people enter the country each day. The bill would allow authorities to remove immigrants without deportation proceedings if the average number of arrivals per week exceeds 5,000 per day. This process will continue until the two-week average number of illegal immigrants decreases to 3,750 people per day.

“There's a lot of responsibility here, so let me call the balls and strikes. I'm a little late for a Hail Mary. Biden is now in his fourth year as president. “I think the Democrats and Biden have let the border get a little out of control and now there's a sense of crisis, and I wonder why,” Cupp said.

“And obviously for Republicans to decide to kill a bill without even reading it because unelected House Speaker Donald Trump decided he wanted to use it for election purposes is pretty damning. People. No wonder they don't believe the government can solve the problem.”

CNN's John Avlon pushed back, calling the bill bipartisan despite significant Republican opposition and arguing that the deal is an example of functioning government. Mr. Avlon then claimed that Republicans were cowards and were responsible for the continuing border crisis by not voting to pass the bill, prompting a backlash from Mr. Cupp.

“But how do you explain that the Democrats have both houses of Congress? Well, they've done nothing on immigration. You can look back at the first two years of President Obama, but they've done nothing on immigration. Is not–“

“So we've gotten to this point because both parties decided it was politically advantageous to keep the system broken,” Cupp continued.

Avlon said he disagreed, saying that past presidents have pushed for border security but have run into obstacles with “far-right” Republicans. Mr. Kapp then said that the crisis only worsened because of bad policy, before tensions on the committee began to subside.

House Republican swore to kill He calls the law a “magnet” for illegal immigration. Several Republicans, along with New York State Representative Elise Stefanik, argue that the bill will do little to curb the flow of immigrants. to call It's a “non-starter”. (Related: 'Just Take the L': James Lankford gets distributed for defending border bill in X)

republican party Arizona Rep. Eli Crane made a similar argument to Cupp, telling “This is a surrender to open borders policy.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection encountered In December, the number of illegal immigrants exceeded 302,000. Over 380,000 illegal immigration The encounter occurred at the southern border during the first two months of the 2024 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.

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