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☆ Here’s Looking at You, Hunter Biden - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Gail Collins | Bret Stephens | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I know we’ll want to talk about the Hunter Biden trial. The long and short of it is that Texan Latinos, once reliably Democratic, are turning against Joe Biden on account of the border chaos. Or does it merely confirm that the administration sat on its hands for more than three years while the crisis got worse? Gail Collins: Bret, there are parts of Texas that are the natural first destinations for people crossing the border illegally. That’s a crisis, but I think you’ve agreed with me in the past that overall, the influx of immigrants has been terrific for the national economy.

Persons: Bret Stephens, Gail, Hunter Biden, Edgar Sandoval, Joe Biden, Gail Collins, Bret Locations: Rio Grande Valley, South Texas, Texas, That’s, New York

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive action Tuesday that would temporarily shut down the southern border when daily migrant crossings between legal ports of entry exceed 2,500, with the border reopening when the number falls below 1,500, according to three people familiar with the discussions. Details of the executive order were reported exclusively by NBC News on May 23. On Sunday, Claudia Sheinbaum, whose candidacy was supported by López Obrador, won election to succeed him as president. A shutdown would not block trade, travel or entry by immigrants presenting themselves lawfully for asylum at ports of entry. But it would block migrants from applying for asylum if they crossed the border between ports of entry during the shutdown.

Persons: Joe Biden, Tuesday's, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Claudia Sheinbaum, López Obrador Organizations: Texas National Guard, WASHINGTON, of Homeland Security, NBC News, U.S . Locations: Mexico, Rio Grande, El Paso , Texas, U.S

☆ Brazil’s floods smashed through barriers designed to keep them out, trapping water in for weeks — and exposing social woes
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Vasco Cotovio | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

“It’s heartbreaking.”The picture is a little different in Porto Alegre, the state capital of Rio Grande do Sul. Maxar Technologies Satellite images of the cities of Porto Alegre and Canoas before and after the floods. Maxar Technologies Satellite images of the cities of Porto Alegre and Canoas before and after the floods. “Floods, not with this volume but with considerable volumes of water, have taken place in Porto Alegre in the last few years,” Cortês explains. One volunteer was Fabiano Saldanha, a 48-year-old businessman from Porto Alegre, who used his jet ski to rescue people trapped in their homes.

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☆ Donald Trump explains his militaristic plan to deport 15-20 million people
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Trump repeated false claims that many migrants are former prisoners or have been institutionalized in their home countries. John Moore/Getty ImagesTrump promised mass deportation in 2016 tooWhile he did not employ an Eisenhower-like effort the first time he was president, Trump is bringing the pledge back. Trump told Time he would target between 15 million and 20 million people who he said are undocumented in the US. Pew Research Center estimated the number of undocumented migrants in the US was around 10.5 million in 2021. As of 2021, it estimated about 3% of the US population and about 22% of the foreign-born population were undocumented.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, “, ”, ’, Eisenhower, John Moore, Getty Images Trump, Joe Biden, ” Trump, Stephen Miller, We’re Organizations: CNN, Capitol, Historians, Getty Images, Eisenhower, Trump, Pew Research Center, National Guard, Guard, The New York Times, Supreme Locations: reclassifying, Mexico, Rio, El Paso , Texas, China

☆ Opinion: What conservatives don’t get about the protests roiling college campuses
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Opinion Jeremi Suri | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

These attacks have over the years undermined university leadership and provoked students, staff and faculty. University leaders responded positively, helping to build more dynamic and well-endowed centers for this work than on any other peer campus in the country. Many students, staff and faculty, especially those from minority backgrounds, feel that they have suffered setback after setback at the hands of hostile politicians and deferential administrators. Public and private university leaders have become more distant from their own campuses as they focus on fund-raising and testifying before hostile federal and state legislatures. There are, of course, good reasons why university leaders should not give in to protesters on these and other points.

Persons: Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown, America’s, CNN —, George W, Bush, ”, “, —, ” Jeremi Suri Korey Howell, Rick Perry, Perry, William Powers, Powers, Greg Abbott, Abbott, Bill, – Organizations: Leadership, Global Affairs, University of Texas, History Department, LBJ School, Democracy, “, CNN, Yale, Republican Party, Republican, Bush’s, Austin, Republicans, University, Clements Center for National Security, Salem Center for Policy, Civitas Institute, School of Civic Leadership, Military, Public, Kent State, Jackson State Universities Locations: Austin, Texas, Houston, Rio Grande Valley, Dallas, United States, Vietnam

☆ Opinion | Immigrant Detention Should Have No Place in Our Society
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-14 | by ( Ana Raquel Minian | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The two had fled Guatemala after gang members killed his son, Marco, and threatened the rest of the family. Mr. Arredondo was not aware of the new policy, but it should not have mattered. Still, an immigration official took Andrea from Mr. Arredondo and placed them in different cells. Hours later, the officials lined up a group of children, including Andrea, and drove them away without explanation. The next day, Mr. Arredondo was transported to a different facility.

Persons: Fernando Arredondo, Andrea, Marco, Weeks, Trump, Arredondo Organizations: Border Patrol, U.S, Detention, GEO Group Locations: Mexico, Guatemala, Laredo , Texas, Rio

☆ A Divided America Agrees on One Thing: The Eclipse Was Awesome
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Christopher Maag | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Aidan Hernandez lay on the sidewalk wearing his eclipse glasses and staring up. The day was cloudy in Eagle Pass, Texas, and for a while he was silent. There it is!” said Aidan, 7, alerting everyone that the total eclipse was visible. “Now it’s gone.”Eagle Pass, a border town facing Mexico across the green valley of the Rio Grande, was the first American city on the path of totality. The eclipse also passed over Houlton, Maine, a small town pressed between rolling potato fields and the international border with Canada.

Persons: Aidan Hernandez, ”, Aidan, it’s Locations: Pass , Texas, Mexico, Rio, Houlton , Maine, Canada, United States, Texas, Arkansas, Cleveland, Buffalo

☆ Abbott’s Army on the Border: Is it Working?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( J. David Goodman | Edgar Sandoval | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

For many months, the small border city of Eagle Pass, Texas, has provided the backdrop for a bitter legal battle between Gov. Greg Abbott and the Biden administration over how best to handle record numbers of migrants arriving at the border. The court fights, which intensified this week, have centered on claims that the border is in crisis. But recently, the opposite has been happening along the Rio Grande as it curves its way through Eagle Pass: In an area that last year was the epicenter of unauthorized migration along the southern border, far fewer migrants have been crossing. Mr. Abbott has cited the slowdown as evidence that his aggressive attempt to push the boundaries of immigration law and his $10 billion program to harden the state’s border with Mexico — using National Guard troops, razor wire, helicopters, boats and floating buoys in the Rio Grande — has been working.

Persons: Greg Abbott, Biden, Abbott Organizations: Gov, National Guard Locations: Eagle Pass , Texas, Grande, Eagle, Mexico, Rio

☆ Supreme Court allows a new Texas immigration law that gives police the power to arrest migrants
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-19 | by ( Lawrence Hurley | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to enforce a contentious new law that gives local police the power to arrest migrants. The dispute is the latest clash between the Biden administration and Texas over immigration enforcement on the U.S.-Mexico border. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a brief order that it could go into effect March 10 if the Supreme Court declined to intervene. On March 4, Justice Samuel Alito issued a temporary freeze on the law to give the Supreme Court time to consider the federal government's request. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said in court papers that the Texas law is "flatly inconsistent" with Supreme Court precedent dating back 100 years.

Persons: Biden, Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, Elizabeth Prelogar Organizations: Border Patrol, Biden, Circuit, Appeals Locations: Venezuela, Rio, Eagle Pass , Texas, Texas, Mexico, New Orleans

☆ Colin Allred will win Democratic nomination in Texas Senate race to face Republican Ted Cruz in November, CNN projects
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Eric Bradner | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —US Rep. Colin Allred will win the Democratic nomination in Texas to take on Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, CNN projects. Allred defeated state Sen. Roland Gutierrez and seven other contenders in the Democratic primary Tuesday. Six years after then-Rep. Beto O’Rourke shattered fundraising records with his near-miss bid to unseat Cruz, Texas Democrats are trying again. Republican Sen. John Cornyn cruised to a 10-point reelection win in 2020, and GOP Gov. Cruz, meanwhile, easily overcame marginal opposition from two little-known Republican primary challengers as he seeks a third term.

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☆ Opinion | The Ugly History at the Root of the Border Standoff
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-01 | by ( Michelle García | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Thursday, President Joe Biden and presidential candidate Donald J. Trump separately toured strips of the border flanked by federal and state agents. For both, there was an eerily similar use of border security backdrop, signaling the decisive role it and immigration will play in the election. Their visits were but another reminder of how the border is used for political theater. Across South Texas, where I lived in recent years, I have repeatedly witnessed federal and state agents convert tiny slivers of the border into sites of violent spectacle. He prevented federal Border Patrol agents from routine access to the riverbank, even after a Supreme Court ruling in January allowed agents to cut or remove the wire.

Persons: Joe Biden, Donald J, Trump, Greg Abbott, Mr, Biden Organizations: Texas, federal Border Patrol, Shelby Locations: South Texas, Rio Grande, Eagle, Shelby Park, Texas

The ex-president will be in Eagle Pass, scene of a border showdown between the Biden administration and Texas Republican Gov. “He spent three years not going to the border,” Trump told Real America’s Voice Tuesday. But White House and Biden campaign officials see a unique opportunity for Biden to point the finger at Republicans on border security. The American voters will see it,” Cedric Richmond, a Biden campaign co-chair, told CNN. And Biden’s decision to immediately undo multiple Trump immigration policies offered an opening to the GOP.

Persons: Joe Biden, Donald Trump, They’re, Biden, Greg Abbott, Trump, who’s, Biden’s, Reagan, “, ” Trump, ” Biden, it’s, Abbott, Ron DeSantis, Republicans don’t, ” Cedric Richmond, ‘, ’, “ Trump, Alejandro Mayorkas, Mike Johnson, we’re, Laken Hope Riley, Sean Hannity, Alayna Treene Organizations: CNN, Texas Republican Gov, White, Trump, Democratic, Black, State of, Union, Real America’s, Republican, Florida Gov, Biden, Republicans, Democrats, GOP, Homeland, Conservative Political, Conference, Shelby Park, Augusta University, Fox News, Washington Locations: Texas, Eagle, Brownsville, Gaza, State, Mexico, Ukraine, Washington, DC, Asia, Africa, Rio Grande

Mr. Biden will go to Brownsville, Texas, a city in the Rio Grande Valley that has historically seen large influxes of migrants. He is scheduled to meet with Border Patrol, law enforcement and local officials before giving remarks. Greg Abbott and Brandon Judd, the president of the National Border Patrol Council, the main union for Border Patrol agents. Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump will arrive at the border at a moment when Americans are citing immigration as one of their top concerns. Mr. Biden, who has taken an increasingly forceful stance on immigration in recent months, is trying to reset the conversation.

Persons: Biden, Donald J, Trump, Greg Abbott, Brandon Judd, Mr, —, Republicans tanked, ”, Donald Trump Organizations: Border Patrol, Gov, National Border Patrol Council, Mr, White, Republicans, “, MAGA Republican Locations: Brownsville , Texas, Rio Grande, Eagle Pass , Texas, United States, America

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Texas will build an operations base for up to 1,800 National Guard members in Eagle Pass, expanding the presence of soldiers in the border city where the state has clashed with the Biden administration over immigration enforcement, Republican Gov. “This will increase the ability for a larger number of Texas military department personnel in Eagle Pass to operate more effectively and more efficiently,” Abbott said. The mayor of Eagle Pass said the move at the start of January caught the city off guard and questioned the timing, given that crossings have fallen in recent weeks. The U.S. Justice Department last month asked the U.S. Supreme Court to order Texas to allow Border Patrol agents back into park. The Biden administration says Border Patrol agents use the park to monitor the river and to launch boats into the Rio Grande.

Persons: Biden, Greg Abbott, ” Abbott, Abbott, General Suelzer Organizations: National Guard, Republican Gov, Texas National Guard, U.S . Border Patrol, Operation Lone Star, Texas Military Department, Texas, U.S . Justice, U.S, Supreme, Border Patrol Locations: McALLEN , Texas, Texas, Eagle, Rio, Shelby Park, U.S, Mexico, Rio Grande

Texas' new law is set to take effect March 5. For months, tensions have escalated between the Biden administration and Texas over who can patrol the border and how. A heavy presence of Texas National Guard members in the border city of Eagle Pass has denied Border Patrol agents access to a riverfront park. The new measure would allow any Texas law enforcement officer to arrest people who are suspected of entering the country illegally. Republicans have defended the law by saying it would likely only be enforced near the U.S-Mexico border.

Persons: Joe Biden's, David Ezra, Ronald Reagan, Biden, Bill Organizations: —, U.S, Supreme, Justice, District, . Border Patrol, Texas National Guard, Border Patrol Locations: AUSTIN, Texas, Austin, Arizona, . Texas, Rio, Eagle, Rio Grande, U.S, Mexico

Last Saturday, a crowd of several hundred people gathered in a grassy field near the bank of the Rio Grande in Quemado, Texas, for a rally in support of the state’s defiant stance on immigration. The event, which was held by the protest group Take Our Border Back, marked the final stop of a dayslong convoy of conservative Americans who, in a procession of cars, trucks and mobile homes, made their way to Quemado to demonstrate their frustration over what they see as the federal government’s failure to enforce immigration laws at the border. A response to the intensifying confrontation over border security and immigration between the Biden administration and the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, the event featured an unexpected blend of political anger and religious ardor.

Persons: Biden, Greg Abbott Locations: Rio Grande, Quemado , Texas, Texas

☆ Factbox-Biden Administration, Texas Battling Over Border Policies on Multiple Fronts
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Feb. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +4 min

Those cases could ultimately determine how much power, if any, states possess to police international borders when they disagree with federal immigration policies. The Biden administration has sued to strike down the law, claiming it interferes with the federal government's exclusive powers to police the border and enforce immigration laws. In defending the law, Texas will have to contend with a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down key provisions of an Arizona immigration law. Texas in its lawsuit claims that by destroying the wire, federal agents are violating the state's property rights. Days after four migrants drowned in the river last July, the state installed the string of buoys, prompting a lawsuit by the Biden administration.

Persons: Daniel Wiessner, Greg Abbott, Joe Biden, Abbott, Biden, Alexia Garamfalvi, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Republican Texas, Democrat, Supreme, Biden, U.S . Customs, Border, . Border Patrol, U.S, Circuit Locations: Mexico, Texas, U.S, Arizona, Rio Grande, Eagle, , Texas, Mexico . Texas, New Orleans, Rio, Albany , New York

☆ Analysis: Maduro’s immigration card could influence America’s election, not just Venezuela’s
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Rafael Romo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Let’s get united,” Maduro said. Banning Machado from running for president amounts to a repudiation of the agreement, both the opposition and the United States have claimed. “In response to anti-democratic actions by Maduro representatives, the United States has revoked sanctions relief for Venezuela’s gold sector. Venezuela has recently been cooperating with the United States to reduce illegal immigration by allowing removal flights. It’s also immigration and oil during an election year in the United States.

Persons: Voters don’t, Nicolás Maduro, Joe Biden, Biden, Hugo Chávez, Maduro, ” , Let’s, ” Maduro, María Corina Machado, Machado, Maria Corina Machado, Gaby Oraa, ”, ” Machado, Leopoldo López, Maduro’s, Brian Winter, there’s, “, ” Winter, John Moore, Banning Machado, Matthew Miller, Delcy Rodríguez, “ Maduro, It’s Organizations: CNN, Venezuelan, Voters, Socialist United Party of Venezuela, American, US, Venezuela’s, Justice, National Assembly, Bloomberg, Getty, Americas Quarterly, Immigrants, Border Patrol, Biden, US State Department, Twitter, State Department Locations: Venezuela, United States, Caracas, Madrid, Spain, Rio Grande, Eagle Pass , Texas, Barbados, Maduro, Mexico

☆ What the border security bill would and wouldn’t do
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The border bill also comes with a big budget – including large amounts of funding for enforcement. New emergency border restrictionsWhat’s proposed: Once illegal border crossings reach a certain threshold, the Department of Homeland Security would be required to exercise a new emergency authority that bars migrants, except unaccompanied minors, from crossing the border between ports of entry. Those who lose their asylum cases in immigration court can appeal to judges on the Board of Immigration Appeals. Video Ad Feedback GOP lawmaker on border bill: This is all gamesmanship 03:56 - Source: CNNGiven the growing chorus of criticism on both sides of the aisle weighing in just a day after its release, this latest border bill may very well be as “dead on arrival” as some lawmakers have claimed. But the bill has picked up some high-profile support from the National Border Patrol Council, the union that represents Border Patrol agents and has endorsed Trump in the past.

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Crossings in recent weeks are down overall along the entire U.S. border, including areas without such a heavy security presence. The arrival of GOP governors to Eagle Pass rounds out a weekend that has kept the small border city of roughly 30,000 residents in an unwitting spotlight. The number of crossings in Eagle Pass has recently fallen to a few hundred a day. Mexico has bolstered immigration efforts that include adding more checkpoints and sending people from the northern border to southern Mexico. Melissa Ruiz, 30, arrived at the Piedras Negras shelter, across the river from Eagle Pass, along with her four children.

Persons: — Kyle Willis, “ It’s, It’s, ”, Willis, Greg Abbott, Joe Biden's, Joe Biden, Ron DeSantis, Biden, John Modlin, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Donald Trump, MAGA, Melissa Ruiz, Ruiz, Maria Verza, Mexico City anf Elliot Spagat Organizations: Texas National Guard, Texas Gov, Florida Gov, National Guard, U.S . Border Patrol, Border Patrol, –, U.S . Biden, Eagle, AP, Associated Locations: PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico, U.S, Texas, Grande, Eagle, Piedras Negras, Park, Tucson , Arizona, Mexican, Rio Grande, Central America, Ecuador, Peru, Honduran, Piedras, Mexico City, San Diego

☆ Texas Will Expand Effort to Control Land Along Mexican Border, Abbott Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( J. David Goodman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Greg Abbott of Texas said on Sunday that he was expanding his effort to establish state control over areas near the Rio Grande in an effort to deter migrants. A top Texas official said state law enforcement officers were also looking to move in on riverside ranch land north of the city that migrants have continued to use for crossing. Texas has deployed National Guard troops and state police officers up and down the Texas border since 2021, and began stringing concertina wire along the banks of the river the next year. “As we speak right now, the Texas National Guard, they’re undertaking operations to expand this effort,” Mr. Abbott said during a news conference at the park. We are expanding to further areas to make sure we expand our level of deterrence and denial of illegal entry into the United States.”

Persons: Biden, Greg Abbott, Abbott, Mr, “ We’re, ” Organizations: Gov, Texas, National Guard, Texas National Guard Locations: Texas, Rio Grande, Eagle, . Texas, Shelby, United States

☆ The Texas Border War and the Battle Within the Supreme Court - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Linda Greenhouse | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Most people know by now about the border war between Texas and the United States playing out along the banks of the Rio Grande. Less obvious, but no less consequential, is an emerging border war inside the Supreme Court. At the physical border are 29 miles of coiled razor wire on the United States side of the river, put in place by the Texas National Guard on orders from Gov. It has had the added and hardly unpredictable effect of barring access to the border by the federal Border Patrol agents. The state lost in Federal District Court on the grounds that the United States is immune from suits of this type.

Persons: Greg Abbott, Abbott Organizations: Texas National Guard, Gov, Republican, federal Border Patrol, Federal, Court, United States, Appeals, Fifth Circuit Locations: Texas, United States, Rio Grande

☆ At Rally for Border Security in Texas, Fears of ‘Invasion’ and ‘Civil War’
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-03 | by ( J. David Goodman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A line of trucks and campers, cars and vans — from South Dakota and North Carolina, Washington and Pennsylvania — snaked over farm roads on Saturday before gathering on the winter-brown grass of a ranch, steps from the Rio Grande, in the rural community of Quemado, Texas. The gathering marked the final stop of a days-long journey: a convoy of conservative Americans who drove to the border to demonstrate their frustration, fear and anger over what they saw as a broken immigration system. The location in Quemado had been chosen for its proximity to the city of Eagle Pass, a flashpoint in the pitched confrontation over border security and immigration between the Biden administration and Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas. Other convoys this week reached the border in Yuma, Ariz., and San Ysidro, Calif., all with the goal of spurring tighter controls on migrants crossing the border.

Persons: Biden, Greg Abbott of Organizations: Gov Locations: South Dakota, North Carolina, Washington, Pennsylvania, Rio Grande, Quemado , Texas, Quemado, Eagle, Greg Abbott of Texas, Yuma, Ariz, San Ysidro, Calif

Greg Abbott's escalating feud with the Biden administration over immigration enforcement, some governors are considering deploying National Guard members to the border — again. Republicans say tougher actions along the border are needed in response to record levels of illegal crossings, but sending guard members to the border is not new. DeSantis is one of more than a dozen Republican governors who have sent state National Guard units to the southern border since 2021. Here's what to know about National Guard on the border to date:Photos You Should See View All 45 ImagesWHAT IS HAPPENING AT THE TEXAS BORDER? During a rushed deployment of Texas National Guard members at the start of the mission, some also complained of low morale and uneventful patrols.

Persons: Greg Abbott's, Biden, Ron DeSantis, Abbott, Kristi Noem, Brad Little, Joe Biden, Kim Reynolds, Maura Healey, Sean Murphy, Julie Carr Smyth, Gary Robertson, Hannah Fingerhut, Michael Schneider Organizations: —, Texas Gov, National Guard, Florida Gov, U.S, Border Patrol, Texas, Shelby, Texas National Guard, Supreme, WHO, Florida Division, Emergency Management, West Virginia ., West Virginia . South Dakota GOP Gov, Idaho Gov, Lone Star, Iowa Gov, Guard, GUARD, Democratic Gov, Operation Lone Star, Associated Press Locations: AUSTIN, Texas, Florida, Eagle, TEXAS, U.S, Mexico, Shelby Park . Texas, Rio, Arkansas , Oklahoma , Nebraska, Virginia, West Virginia, West Virginia . South, Abbott’s, Dakota, In Massachusetts, Oklahoma City, Columbus , Ohio, Raleigh , North Carolina, Des Moines , Iowa, Orlando , Florida

☆ Trump and his allies are wielding immigration as a political weapon against Biden, and Ukraine is paying the price
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Negotiations on a deal on the border and aid could collapse thanks to Trump. AdvertisementRepublicans and Democrats have spent weeks carefully negotiating a massive, bipartisan immigration and foreign aid deal, leaving Ukraine in a wait-and-see position on critical support. As both sides moved closer toward a possible agreement, former President Donald Trump stepped in to torpedo attempts at a compromise. Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesDespite the border deal being notably to the right of the Biden administration's stances on immigration, the bipartisan bill could be a win for Biden ahead of the election. He appeared to be referring to a contingent of GOP lawmakers who have loudly denounced future US support for Ukraine.

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