Respectfully, those negotiations should be simple, because securing the border's not hard - all that's required is for DHS to comply with the law as written and detain every migrant encountered at the border and the ports.
Still, 82 percent of aliens encountered by CBP at the Southwest border remained in continuous detention in FY 2013, as did 70 percent in FY 2014 and 66 percent in FY 2015, while total yearly encounter figures remained below 500,000.
In FY 2019, well more than half of the aliens apprehended at the Southwest border - nearly 473,700 migrants or 55.6 percent of the total - were in FMUs.
Fewer than 31,250 aliens encountered at the Southwest border were returned under MPP between June and September 2019 - 84 percent of them aliens in FMUs.
Biden quickly suspended and then terminated MPP, and instead released the vast majority of aliens CBP encountered at the Southwest border who were not expelled under Title 42 - 88.5 percent of the total by my conservative estimates, or 3.3 million migrants according to a recently passed House resolution.
There were undoubtedly geopolitical and other factors that contributed to the surge of aliens at the Southwest Border, but Defendants' position that the crisis at the border is not largely of their own making because of their more lenient detention policies is divorced from reality and belied by the evidence.
For a small fraction of that cost, GOP negotiators could shut down the border, if they only demand that every alien encountered at the border be detained - which the law already mandates.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Dont-Believe-Hype-Securing-Borders-Not-Hard
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