Senators Reject Most Border Changes to Immigration Plan
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A Senate panel rejected Republicans’ broadest attempts to add stricter border-security rules to a proposed immigration law, while accepting a change seeking a 90 percent apprehension rate along the U.S.-Mexico border.
In a preview of the coming Senate floor fight over the immigration bill, Democrats who control the Senate Judiciary Committee demonstrated yesterday that they’re open to some Republican attempts to stiffen the bill’s border-security provisions. They rejected more significant revisions.