The House is about to pass a Republican bill that would crack down on illegal migration at the border.

WASHINGTON — The Republicans in the House of Representatives on Thursday were poised to push through a sweeping bill that would curb illegal migration at the U.S.-Mexico border. a possible border influx.

Republicans, narrowly avoiding an embarrassing mutiny within their own ranks on the bill, used the floor debate to sharply rebuke the Biden administration’s border policies. They rushed to floor the bill on Thursday, aiming to hold the vote before Title 42, the pandemic-era policy that allows for swift expulsion of migrants, expires. The vote is scheduled for this afternoon.

“The catastrophe facing our border is due not only to the end of Title 42, but also to the complete, complete abdication of this government to do even the bare minimum to secure our southern border, and it is negligence and incompetence,” Representative Mario Diaz-Balart, a Florida Republican and an author of the GOP bill, said on the House floor.

The legislation — expected to be universally rejected by House Democrats — has no future in the Democrat-led Senate, where lawmakers have been quietly and so far unsuccessfully working toward a bipartisan agreement on a measure that combines border security improvements with an expansion of capabilities. for migrants to legally enter the United States.

Two Democratic representatives – Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee, and Jerrold Nadler of New York, the leading member of the Judiciary Committee – denounced the bill as “cruel”, “inhuman” and “unworkable”.

And California Democrat Representative Zoe Lofgren said, “We all want to have an orderly system; the disorder is clearly at the limit, but this bill does not solve that.

“It’s mean, but it doesn’t fix it.”