‘Tides are shifting’: Push to codify key Trump-era policy snags dozens of cosponsors, including Dems

FIRST ON FOX: A measure to reconstruct the Trump-era "Remain successful Mexico" policy, introduced precocious successful the House, is racking up cosponsors arsenic it becomes the latest migration measure to prime up bipartisan enactment successful the chamber.

Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, a freshman lawmaker, introduced the Remain successful Mexico Act this month.

The measure would necessitate the Department of Homeland Security to reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols, which were introduced during the archetypal Trump medication and required migrants to hold successful Mexico portion their asylum cases were heard, portion of an effort to extremity the signifier known arsenic "catch and release." The protocols were scrapped by the Biden administration, which argued they were cruel and ineffective. 

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Then-President Donald Trump, left, speaks with U.S. Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott arsenic they enactment successful a ceremonial commemorating the 200th mile of borderline partition astatine the planetary borderline with Mexico successful San Luis, Arizona, connected June 23, 2020. (SAUL LOEB/AFP )

President Donald Trump has signed an bid requiring the protocols to beryllium restored, but codifying the argumentation successful national instrumentality would marque it importantly harder for critics to past repeal it nether a antithetic administration.

However, with the measure present earlier Congress, it has already picked up implicit 100 cosponsors, Fox News Digital is told. That includes 2 Democrats, Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez, D-Wash., and Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine.

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"I americium overwhelmed with gratitude that implicit 1 100 of my colleagues person shown bipartisan enactment for my REMAIN successful Mexico Act that codifies President Trump’s enforcement borderline enactment into law," Gill said successful a connection to Fox News Digital.

President Donald Trump made confederate borderline information a apical precedence of his administration. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci | Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images)

"The tides are shifting nether President Trump—Congress knows we indispensable fortify our nationalist security, forestall fraudulent asylum claims, and enactment our citizens first," helium said.

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The measure is 1 of a fig of pieces of migration authorities that person been introduced, with expanding signs of enactment from Democrats aft a twelvemonth successful which illegal immigration was a apical contented for voters and resulted successful Republicans controlling the House, Senate and White House.

On Wednesday evening, the House passed the Laken Riley Act, which requires the detention of amerciable immigrants accused of theft-related crimes. It had antecedently passed the Senate. In the House, 46 Democrats voted successful favour of it.

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The House is expected to beryllium progressive connected amerciable immigration, reflecting a flurry of orders coming from the White House. Those orders see declaring a nationalist exigency astatine the border, sending troops to the borderline and canceling a slew of Biden-era parole programs.