‘Amnesty’ or border crackdown? What’s in the Senate’s $20 billion immigration deal?

Published February 5, 2024 1:38am ET



Senate leadership released the text of a bipartisan compromise on the border Sunday evening, the product of four months of painstaking negotiations.

Elements of the deal, brokered by a bipartisan working group, had been teased in the days leading up to its release. However, the granular details offered by the text itself will determine how much support the bill receives in the Senate. The bill, part of a larger national security supplemental, will be considered as soon as Wednesday.

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