The group, led by Sen. Kyrsten Sinema spanned the political spectrum.
The group, led by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, spanned the political spectrum.
The group has vowed to form a bipartisan coalition that will work to flesh out a possible plan in the new Congress. Anything the senators come up with will require bipartisan cooperation to clear the necessary 60-vote threshold, given the current 51-49 split between Democrats and Republicans. An 11th hour proposal, led by Sinema and Tillis, would have provided tens of billions for border security and asylum request processing, as well as a path to citizenship for Dreamers. But it never came to the floor during the lame-duck session before the last Congress ended.
But with the House now controlled by Republicans, Congress is likely to be at odds over any immigration proposal out of the Senate.Sinema said Monday that she expects any negotiated package to be added onto an immigration bill sent over from the House. That means finding at least 60 senators to support the package and then getting those modifications back through the lower chamber.
President Joe Biden walks with U.S. Border Patrol agents along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso Texas, Jan. 8, 2023.On Monday, the bipartisan group of senators in El Paso said they were prepared to take up that work.
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