White House, Senate Dems reject GOP border security proposals: ‘Total non-starter’

Senate Democrats and the White House were quick to put a Senate Republican proposal on border security measures on ice, as negotiations over supplemental funding continued.

Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.

The Senate proposal would require Homeland Security to resume construction of the border wall, which was abruptly ended by the Biden administration in 2021. It would also mandate DNA collection and push for Border Patrol retention by increasing overtime and improving recruiting.  He can be reached at adam.shaw2@fox.com or on Twitter.

The bill would also see significant restrictions in the federal government's ability to release migrants into the interior, and would bar DHS from using class-based criteria to use humanitarian parole – which is used to parole thousands of migrants, including 1,450 a day via the CBP One app, every day. The authority has also been used to parole tens of thousands of Afghans and Ukrainians.