The Senate’s bipartisan border security and foreign aid package released on Sunday would allocate millions of dollars toward the deployment of innovative technologies along the U.S.-Mexico border, including more autonomous systems and new artificial intelligence capabilities.
The 370-page, $118 billion proposal — which also includes supplemental funding for Ukraine and Israel — would tighten the asylum process, expedite deportations and close the southern border if migrant encounters cross a set threshold.
A one-pager on the bill’s border security components emphasized the limits it would place on illegal immigration, although it noted more broadly that its new authorities would “put powerful new tools in the border security toolbox of any administration willing to secure the border.”
James Lankford, R-Okla., the chief negotiator of the bipartisan legislation, said in a statement that the proposal “provides funding to build the wall, increase technology at the border and add more detention beds, more agents and more deportation flights.”
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