Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell issued a statement Monday saying that the border security amendment the Senate is voting on today still does not do enough to address the issues along the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Despite the hard work and best efforts of our colleagues, I remain concerned that when it comes to the threshold question of border security, today’s assurances may well become tomorrow’s disappointments.,” he said. “And that’s to say nothing of the process that got us here.”
“When I called for a debate on immigration earlier this month, a massive bill, pushed up against an artificial deadline, without any real opportunity for review or amendment isn’t what I had in mind,” he continued. “Since what we do here is far more important than how many votes we do it with, there is simply no reason we need to end this debate now in order to meet some artificial deadline determined by the Majority Leader’s summer schedule.”
The amendment to the immigration reform bill is on track to move forward, and the entire bill is expected to be voted on later in the week.
