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Freshman Lawmaker’s 1st Bill Would Restore Trump Border Policy

Freshman Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas., introduced his first bill in Congress on Thursday, legislation intended to reinstate President-elect Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy regarding would-be immigrants.

The bill would restore a policy from Trump’s first term that required all asylum-seekers coming through Mexico to remain there until their asylum hearing in an American court. President Joe Biden immediately reversed that policy upon taking office in 2021.

In an interview with The Daily Signal’s Bradley Devlin on “The Signal Sitdown” podcast, Gill reviled Biden’s reversal of that policy, but also argued that Trump’s policies must be enshrined into law if they are going to last into the future.

“We had border security under President Trump. Joe Biden got rid of it. Why is that? It’s because everything’s been done through executive…

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