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A seven-day average of 5,000 or more would mandate a border closure. If the number exceeded 8,500 in a single day, there would also be a mandatory border closure. What happens if the border is closed?
And some have even created the impression that the bill actually would allow 5,000 additional migrants in a day, or loosen current standards. ... close the border and turn 5,000 people around ...
The border would have to be shut down if those encounters reached a seven-day average of 5,000 or if they exceeded 8,500 in a single day. The border couldn’t be shut down under this authority ...
But under the Senate legislation, asylum would be suspended for those who cross illegally when arrests for illegal crossings average 5,000 per day over seven days along the Mexican border, or ...
The border bill also comes with a big budget – including large amounts of funding for enforcement. ... The authority would automatically kick in if crossings rise above 5,000 on average per day ...
The bill included a "border emergency" provision that would automatically require the border to be closed if border encounters reached an average of 5,000 per day over several days. Trump, Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans falsely claimed the bill allowed 5,000 illegal border crossings per day. [88]
Republicans, seeking to derail the bill, on Monday claimed that the measure would therefore guarantee 5,000 migrant encounters per day. But that is a misrepresentation.
The Memo: GOP’s border bill outrage underscores a political shift. ... and — basically — close down processing and turn people away if encounters at the border reached 5,000 per day. ...