Are you referring to the bill endorsed by the union representing Border Patrol Officers, the bill that the union said would significantly reduce illegal crossings? The same bill declared dead on arrival by the Speaker of House who asks "how high?" when the former president says "jump!". As conservatives balk, U.S. Border Patrol union endorses Senate immigration deal
So last year Senate republicans refused to move on aid to Ukraine and Israel, insisting on including border legislation because that was an urgent national security issue too. So the senate lead by a conservative Republican put together the toughest proposed immigration legislation in decades, then republicans change their mind because Trump wants to demagogue the issue all by himself. Today the Senate voted 62-37 to approve Ukraine and Israel aid with no border legislation. (It isn’t clear that the house will concur) This is your Republican Party. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/08/senate-ukraine-israel-aid-border-deal/
They talk about the need to stop fentanyl, but their actions don't back up the words. Scanners that spot fentanyl sit unused because Congress hasn't provided cash to install them Miller gave NBC News a tour of a port of entry in Nogales, Arizona, where half of all fentanyl seized at the border is stopped on its way into the U.S. from Mexico. Officers in Nogales have found fentanyl hidden inside crates of Coca-Cola, where bottles are painted black to look like liquid, sawed in half and filled with fentanyl pills; they’ve confiscated millions in fentanyl pills stuffed inside the water barrel of a commercial bus’ bathroom; they’ve even found fentanyl in cars carrying young children in the back in car seats. More than 95% of fentanyl seized at the border, Miller said, is actually brought into the U.S. in personal vehicles. The new technology, known as Non-Intrusive Inspection, or NII, lets CBP X-ray a percentage of cars and trucks as they pass through the massive U-shaped screeners, which look something like car washes. Drivers don’t have to get out of their vehicles to be screened, which means traffic can keep flowing through border checkpoints with fewer interruptions. But some of the equipment that has been purchased hasn’t yet been put into use, because Congress hasn’t allocated the funding needed to install it. The money to install the screeners was in the supplemental funding request Republicans blocked.