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House heads to vote next week on border security legislation

WASHINGTON — The House is moving toward a vote on a bill aimed at securing the U.S. border
with Mexico as majority Republicans try to show they can chart their own course on
immigration, not just oppose President Barack Obama’s.

The legislation passed the House Homeland Security Committee late Wednesday on
a party-line vote of 18-12, and the full House is expected to take it up next week.

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The bill would require operational control of high-traffic areas of the border within two
years, and operational control of the full border within five years. The bill defines
operational control as stopping or turning back all attempted border crossers, which
Democrats said was unrealistic. Some past immigration and border bills, including one
advanced in the last Congress by McCaul’s committee, have sought to block 90 percent
of would-be crossers.

The bill would require operational control of high-traffic areas of the border within two years, and operational control of the full border within five years.
The bill defines operational control as stopping or turning back all attempted border crossers, which Democrats said was unrealistic.
Some past immigration and border bills, including one advanced in the last Congress by McCaul’s committee, have sought to block 90 percent of would-be crossers.

Didn't that bill pass under GW?</s>

Somehow tomorrow never comes, it is like cancer cures and spending cuts, always 10 years down the road.