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WATCH: Biden urges GOP to overcome politics on immigration reform | 2024 State of the Union

In his last State of the Union address before the general election, President Joe Biden chided Republicans for stalling efforts to pass legislation on immigration reform. “Get this bill done. We need to act now,” Biden said, adding that likely Republican nominee and former President Donald Trump — whom Biden did not name — has discouraged Congress from making progress on an immigration deal during the presidential campaign. Biden said he would not demonize immigrants or separate families. He also feigned disappointment when Republicans booed the bipartisan immigration bill his administration had pushed forward to “tackle the backload” of immigration cases “so they can resolve cases in six months instead of six years now.” Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6 Follow us: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pbsnews Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/newshour Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/newshour Facebook: http://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe: PBS NewsHour podcasts: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/podcasts Newsletters: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/subscribe

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November. My team again Serious negotiation of the bipartisan group of Senators. The result was a bipartisan bill with the toughest set of border security reforms we've ever seen. You don't think so. Oh, you don't like that, Bill, huh? That conservatives got together and said it was a good bill. Darn that's amazing. Bipartisan but would hire 1500, more security agents and officers. 100 more immigration judges help tackle the back load of two men in cases 4300 more asylum officers and new policie
s so they can resolve cases in six months instead of six years now. What do you guessed? 100 more hi tech drug detection machines to significantly increase the ability to screen and stop vehicles smuggling fentanyl into America, killing thousands of Children. Have saved lives. And the order of the border. Also give me in any new president. New Emergency authority temporarily shut down the border when the number of migrants at the border is overwhelming. The border Patrol unions endorse this bill
. The federal Chamber of Commerce is Yeah. Yeah, you're saying lo look at the facts. I know. I know you know how to read. I believe that, given the opportunity for a majority in the House and Senate I would endorse the bill as well. The majority right now. But unfortunately Politics is derailed this bill so far. I'm told my predecessor called members of Congress and the Senate to demand they blocked the bill. He feels political win he viewed as a political win for me and political loser for him.
It's not about him. It's not about me. I'd be a winner. Not really. Hi. Lincoln. Lincoln Riley, an innocent young woman who was killed By an illegal That's right. But how many of thousands of people being killed by legal To her parents. I say my heart goes out to you having lost Children myself. I understand, But look if we change the dynamic at the border People pay people. People pay the smugglers 8000 bucks to get across the border because they know if they get by, if they get by and let int
o the country, it's 6 to 8 years before they have a hearing. And it's worth the taking The chance of the 8000. But But If it's only six months, six weeks. The idea is is highly unlikely that people pay that money and come all that way, knowing that they will be able to be kicked out quickly. Folks. I would respectfully say to suggest my friend of my Republican friends over to the American people get this bill done. We need to act now. Predecessors watching Instead of pain. Politics. Pressuring m
embers of Congress to block the bill. Join me, telling the Congress to pass it. We can do it together. But that's not 20. Apparently, here's what he will not do. I will not demonize immigrants say they are poison in the blood of our country. I will not. Separate family. Or not. Ban people because of their faith. Unlike my predecessor on my first day in office, I introduced a comprehensive bill to fix our immigration is, um, take a look at it as all these and more secure the border. Provide a pat
hway to citizen for dreamers and so much more. Like my presidency. I know who we are as Americans. We're the only nation in the world with the heart and soul that draws from all the new Home to native Americans and ancestors have been here for thousands of years home to people of every place from every place on Earth. Somewhere. Folks. And a simple choice. We can fight about fixing the border or we can fix it. I'm ready to fix it. The bill now

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