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President presses Congress for funding, touts new detention law and expanded deportations
Summary
The president described a suite of border measures — a declared national emergency, deployments of military and Border Patrol, and a law he named the 'Lincoln Riley Act' mandating detention of dangerous noncitizens — and urged immediate congressional funding for a larger deportation operation.
The president used his address to intensify his administration’s focus on border enforcement and immigration detention, telling lawmakers the country faces an ‘‘invasion’’ at the southern border and that his administration had achieved sharply lower illegal crossings after deploying forces there.
He said he had declared a national emergency on the southern border ‘‘within hours of taking the oath of office’’ and that those deployments had ‘‘repelled the…
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