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“The ongoing influx of migrants puts serious strain on CBP resources and forces Border Patrol Agents out of the field and into processing and administrative roles,” Sinema said during a recent U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs hearing.
Sinema declined Tuesday to provide additional comments to The Republic.
The centers proposed in the draft framework would be similar to ones detailed in the bicameral Bipartisan Border Solutions Act, legislation Sinema helped introduce in April alongside Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.
The facilities would hold migrants as they have their immigration cases make their way through the court system and toward adjudication, which could take months or years. In 2022, it took roughly three years on average to process a case in immigration court, according to Syracuse University's Transaction Records Access Clearinghouse.
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