Asylum Debate Snarls Efforts to Forge an Immigration Deal in Congress

Despite hopes among some Democrats and Republicans that the expiration of strict pandemic-era border rules would force a compromise, bipartisan talks have sputtered. House Republicans, led by Speaker Kevin McCarthy, have pushed through legislation that would require migrants claiming a credible fear of persecution to wait outside the United States for their cases to be heard.Credit…Kenny Holston/The New York Times A crush of asylum claims at the U.S.-Mexico border is complicating an already intractable immigration debate on Capitol Hill, pulling the two parties further apart and threatening to undermine what some lawmakers have viewed as the best hope in […]

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