•    "I will not vote for the bill coming to the Senate floor this week because it includes several provisions that will violate Americans’ shared values. These provisions would not make us safer. This bill also misses key components that can go much further in solving the serious immigration problems facing our nation. The proposed bill would exclude people fleeing violence and persecution from seeking asylum and instead doubles down on failed anti-immigrant policies that encourage irregular immigration. It does not provide relief for Dreamers, farmworkers, or other longtime American residents, nor take steps to attract and retain the world’s brightest young minds. It would not completely relieve problems at the border because it does not address the root causes of regional migration. Any discussion on immigration reform must include these common sense, popular policies that would make meaningful changes to our immigration system." Sen. Cory Booker (Democrat, New Jersey)

•    "Instead of considering H.R. 2 — House Republicans’ legislation that would immediately secure the border — Senator Schumer once again wasted time today voting on an immigration bill that doesn’t secure the border, incentivizes further illegal immigration, and has no chance of passing either the House or the Senate. After more than three years of claiming the situation at our southern border was not a crisis while millions of illegals poured in, Congressional Democrats are attempting to throw an election year Hail Mary to cover for their embrace of President Biden’s open border policies." Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (Republican, Louisiana, District 4) 

•    "This bill would eviscerate our asylum system by eliminating critical and longstanding due process protections like judicial review, rushing people through an expedited asylum process at a significantly higher legal standard and with new mandatory bars at the screening stage, and excluding many people from even seeking the protection of asylum when the new expulsion power is in effect, no matter how meritorious their claims may be. This dangerous new expulsion system– like Title 42 before it– will arbitrarily cut people off from protection, lead to more chaos and confusion at our side of the southern border, and feed human trafficking on the other side. Many people are already waiting many weeks or months for a scarce port appointment in dangerous conditions; as the Title 42 experience demonstrated, shutting down the border will only leave more people in danger and with no reason to wait for a port appointment." Source: American Civil Liberties Union