Texas Republican concerned over border security legislation

TEXAS, USA — Congressman Tony Gonzales (R-San Antonio) is concerned the U.S. House might vote on controversial border security legislation as quickly as this week.

Known because the “Border Safety and Security Act of 2023,” the invoice would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to cease anybody from getting into the nation with out legitimate entry paperwork. That contains these with legitimate asylum claims. 

Introduced by fellow Texas Republican Congressman Chip Roy of Austin, the invoice additionally permits a state to sue DHS to implement the requirement.

Gonzales says he’s a tough no on the legislation as a result of he says it would, in essence, ban all asylum claims, even authorized ones.

“One of the first pieces of legislation we vote on bans all asylum claims. That’s a problem,” the San Antonio Republican stated on Inside Texas Politics. “While the asylum process is broken, and we need to reform it, abolishing it is a step too far.”

The “Border Safety and Security Act of 2023” is considered one of seven payments listed within the U.S. House guidelines bundle assured to obtain a vote.

And Congressman Gonzales was the one Republican to vote towards that guidelines bundle, which he says he did for 2 causes.

The first is as a result of it grew to become to clear to him that protection spending cuts had been on the desk after backroom offers had been made with far proper Republicans to clear the way in which for California Congressman Kevin McCarthy to grow to be Speaker after 15 flooring votes.

The second is as a result of he says he didn’t need to see that very same chaos within the House each different month, which he says has already began once more with the talk over the debt ceiling.

Congressman Gonzales joined us for Inside Texas Politics solely hours after the U.S. hit its borrowing restrict, the debt ceiling, forcing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to provoke what she calls “extraordinary measures” to verify the nation pays its payments the following few months.

The Republican says the worst a part of this combat continues to be months away, June or July, when the U.S. would really begin defaulting.

“The earlier we can start the conversation the better. It’s going to be a knife fight. The debt ceiling is going to be ugly. But it’s one of these things where Congress needs to sit down and really hash these things out,” he stated.