多数党领袖查克·舒默(Chuck Schumer)在周日晚上发布的一封致同事的信中表示，他将在本周将一批参议员今年早些时候谈判达成的两党边境协议重新提交议会进行独立投票。
在参议院民主党人试图在2024年大选前重新推进南部边境问题之际，就这项立法再次举行投票。
舒默在给同事的一封信中写道:“我们希望这项两党提案能让认真思考的共和党人回到谈判桌前，推进这项两党共同解决边境问题的方案。”“老实说:我不指望所有民主党人都支持这项立法。我们的许多同事不支持这项立法中的一些条款，我也不期望所有共和党人都同意每一项条款。但在处理像我们国家的移民法这样复杂且充满政治色彩的问题时，两党立法往往必须如此。”
现在对这项立法进行投票最终不太可能导致不同的结果。
两党边界法案是由参议员经过几个月的谈判达成的。克里斯·墨菲博士。这项立法是在参议院共和党人方面表示，如果不执行支持乌克兰南部边境的条款，他们不会投票决定向乌克兰提供额外援助之后进行谈判的。
立法者在幕后工作了几个月来协商这项立法。但该法案修改了假释和庇护条款，在发布后几乎立即被参议院共和党会议全体成员否决前总统唐纳德·特朗普敦促.
“这位前总统明确表示，他宁愿为自己的竞选保留这个问题，也不愿以两党合作的方式解决这个问题。舒默在信中说:“与此同时，我们的许多(共和党)同事突然改变了他们之前的支持态度，宣布他们新发现的对两党提案的反对意见。”
参议院共和党人最终改变了方针，批准在没有边境条款的情况下为乌克兰提供资金，因此舒默表示，他现在将对没有任何附带条款的边境法案进行单独投票。
但参议院共和党人上周接受美国广播公司采访时表示，如果舒默重提边境法案，他们不会改变投票支持该法案的观点。
北卡罗来纳州共和党参议员托姆·蒂利斯在2月份最终投票反对推进最终产品之前曾支持两党边界讨论。他表示，舒默正试图转移人们对边界危机的注意力。蒂利斯认为，这场危机最终是拜登总统造成的。
“让我们现实一点。他们正在看民意测验。他们被打败了。蒂利斯说:“拜登因在边境的失败而受到打击。“所以舒默将竭尽全力说‘没什么可看的，这次失败不是真的’，它是真的。他知道这不会过去的。”
Sen. Schumer tells Democrats he'll reintroduce bipartisan border bill
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will bring the bipartisan border deal that was negotiated early this year by a group of Senators back up on the floor this week for a standalone vote, he said in a letter to his colleagues released Sunday night.
The move to hold another vote on this legislation comes as Senate Democrats try to renew their push on the Southern border ahead of the 2024 election.
"We are hopeful this bipartisan proposal will bring serious-minded Republicans back to the table to advance this bipartisan solution for our border," Schumer wrote in a letter to his colleagues. "I will be honest: I do not expect all Democrats to support this legislation. Many of our colleagues do not support some of the provisions in this legislation, nor do I expect all Republicans to agree to every provision. But that is often how bipartisan legislation must be shaped when dealing with an issue as complex and politically charged as our nation’s immigration laws."
It's ultimately very unlikely that holding a vote on this legislation now will lead to a different outcome.
The bipartisan border bill was negotiated over the course of several months by Sen.Chris Murphy, D-Ct., Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., and Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla. The legislation was negotiated after Senate Republicans said they would not vote to advance additional aid to Ukraine without the implementation of provisions to shore up the southern border.
Lawmakers worked behind the scenes for months to negotiate the legislation. But the bill, which made modifications to parole and asylum provisions, was rejected almost immediately after its release by almost the whole of the Senate Republican conference at theurging of former President Donald Trump.
"The former President made clear he would rather preserve the issue for his campaign than solve the issue in a bipartisan fashion. On cue, many of our [Republican] colleagues abruptly reversed course on their prior support, announcing their new-found opposition to the bipartisan proposal," Schumer said in the letter.
Senate Republicans did eventually reverse course and approve funding for Ukraine without border provisions, so Schumer said he will now hold a separate vote on the border bill without anything accompanying it.
But Senate Republicans who spoke to ABC News last week said that if Schumer brought the border bill back up, it wouldn't change their perspective on voting for it.
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, who had championed the bipartisan border discussions before ultimately voting against advancing the final product in February, said Schumer is trying to distract from a border crisis that Tillis believes is ultimately President Biden's making.
"Let's just be realistic. They are looking at the polls. They're getting hammered; Biden is getting hammered for the failure at the border," Tillis said. "So Schumer is going to do everything he can to say 'nothing to see here this failure is not real' and it is real. And he knows it won't pass."
