Nikki Haley raises $4 million over ‘unhinged’ Trump comments leveled at her: ‘We had a little fun’
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said on Saturday that she has raised around $4 million thanks to former President Trump’s “temper tantrums” this week. Speaking to an audience in Maudlin, South Carolina, Haley spoke positively of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primaries, where she gained nine delegates versus Trump’s 12. “It became a two-person race in New Hampshire, and we got to 43%,” she explained. “And what happened after that was a sight to see because on election night, we were super excited. We had moved 25 points in the three weeks leading up to the election.” Her opponent, Haley said, was not pleased. HALEY FACES GROWING CALLS TO LEAVE 2024 RACE AS RNC NEARLY CONSIDERS DECLARING TRUMP THE PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEE “Donald Trump was totally unhinged on this,” the Republican contender said. “Seriously, [he] threw a total temper tantrum and was talking about revenge,” Haley added. “So, after he talked about revenge and had a little something to say about me. That’s fine. We raised $1,000,000 online right after he did that.” Haley, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under Trump, said that she was able to raise an additional $3 million for her campaign from more comments that Trump made this week. “The next day, unhinged again, [Trump] says, ‘For anybody that supports Nikki Haley, you will barred from MAGA.’ So we had a little fun with that. We started selling t-shirts that said ‘Barred Permanently.’” HALEY CAMPAIGN LASHES OUT AT RNC, RONNA MCDANIEL OVER RESOLUTION TO DECLARE TRUMP PRESUMPTIVE GOP NOMINEE “We sold 10,000 T-shirts. We raised another $1.6 million.” The candidate then criticized Trump for allegedly trying to “push [her] out” using the Republican National Committee. “[Donald Trump] can’t bully his way to the White House,” It’s not going to work,” she continued. “And after he did that, we raised another $1.4 million.” The former South Carolina governor has been strategically questioning Trump’s credibility. On Friday, Haley took aim at the former president’s “confused” mental state after he reportedly said that E. Jean Carroll was running for office. “Wait a second, did Trump just say the person suing him is ‘running for office?’ Is he confused again?” Haley wrote on X. “I was not in a New York City courtroom yesterday, any more than I was in charge of security at the Capitol on January 6. I was in South Carolina meeting with voters. They’d like to see a debate between me and Trump.” Fox News Digital’s Brandon Gillespie contributed to this report.
Trump blasts Biden-backed border bill at Las Vegas rally: ‘Rather have no bill than a bad bill’
Former President Trump called out President Biden at a Las Vegas rally on Saturday, while lambasting the new White House-backed bipartisan border bill. On Friday, Biden announced that he would “shut down the border” once Congress passes a bipartisan immigration deal that would purportedly give the president authority to do so. In a press release, Biden acknowledged that “the border’s been broken.” “What’s been negotiated would — if passed into law — be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country,” the president said. “It would give me, as president, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.” Speaking to a Las Vegas audience, Trump argued that the bill would actually make the migrant crisis worse. MAHER PANEL DEBATES NIKKI HALEY AS TRUMP’S VP: SHE MAKES ‘DICK CHENEY LOOK LIKE THE DALAI LAMA’ “The so-called border security deal Biden is gushing out and pushing out is not designed to stop illegal immigration,” the Republican claimed. “It’s designed to continue the invasion of America while sending billions of dollars to Ukraine and other countries.” Trump also disputed Biden’s claim that he does not already have the executive power to make sweeping changes. “The fact is that if Joe Biden truly wanted to secure the border, he doesn’t really need a bill,” Trump said. “I didn’t need a bill. I did it without a bill. I did it with the current laws. I used Border Patrol.” TRUMP URGES STATES TO SURGE NATIONAL GUARD TO TEXAS AS ABBOTT STANDOFF WITH BIDEN ACCELERATES The Trump Organization owner also said there was a “zero chance” he would support the deal. “There is zero chance I will support this horrible open-border betrayal of America. It’s not going to happen,” Trump said. “And I’ll fight it all the way.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “[The Senate was] getting ready to pass a very bad bill and I’ll tell you what. I’d rather have no bill than a bad bill,” the Republican candidate added. “And that’s what was happening in the House…[House Speaker Mike Johnson] said it’s dead on arrival in the House. We want either a strong bill or no bill.” Fox News Digital’s Timothy H.J. Nerozzi contributed to this report.
Biden only cares about border because it has now become a ‘political liability’: Rep Tom Emmer
House Majority Whip Tom Emmer on Saturday claimed that President Biden is only interested in discussing border security, “because it has now become a political liability for the White House.” “You’ve got an administration now that since they took office more than three years ago, they have completely opened the southern border through some 64 executive actions,” Emmer told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto. “They effectively undid all of the work that had been done by the previous administration to seal the border. You’ve got a record number. Over 300,000 came across the border in December.” He also called claims that former President Trump has asked Republicans not to back a bipartisan Senate approved border deal false and is a narrative from someone who, “wants to give cover to the [Biden] administration.” He said Republicans want to see the text of the bill to make sure that, “what we do on the southern border is a substantive fix, not just words.” FLORIDA GOV RON DESANTIS CALLS BIDEN BORDER DEAL A ‘FARCE,’ SAYS IT WILL WORSEN MIGRANT CRISIS Emmer posited that reinstating Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy would stop “70% of the flow across our Southern Border overnight,” adding that “catch and release” should also be removed. After Cavuto pointed out that some conservatives have suggested, “some deal is better than no deal,” Emmer said, “The only reason President Biden is even interested in discussing this issue is because it has now become a political liability for the White House.” BIDEN PROMISES TO ‘SHUT DOWN’ SOUTHERN BORDER IF CONGRESS APPROVES BILL GOP CLAIMS WOULD ‘INCENTIVIZE ILLEGAL ALIENS’ Emmer balked at a border security statement the president released on Friday that said the proposed bill would give him “emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed,” which he said he would do right after signing it. “If you’re giving the president additional parole authority to admit up to 50,000 people a year, if you’re doing the 5,000 plus one on the border over a certain period of time and giving them discretion and if you’re not ending catch and release, if you’re not restoring Remain in Mexico, I’m going to have a very difficult time getting the votes that are necessary even if it comes to the floor,” Emmer explained. “Donald Trump secured the border when he was in the White House, Neil,” he added. “This administration has undone all of the great work that was done.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP House Speaker Mike Johnson also suggested on Friday that the bill could be “dead on arrival.”
‘War criminal’: Arab Americans rebuff Biden campaign outreach over Gaza
Arab Americans are angry. And they let United States President Joe Biden know it when they shunned his campaign manager as she visited Michigan to reach out to their communities this week. Many elected Arab-American officials, including municipal leaders and state legislators, declined to meet with Julie Chavez Rodriguez, arguing that as long as there are mass killings in Gaza, they will not discuss the elections. “It’s unfathomable at this point in time that we’re trying to talk about electoral politics with a genocide unfolding,” said Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, a Detroit suburb. “This is not a time to talk about politics. This is a time for our humanity to be recognised, and for us to be sitting down with decision-makers and policymakers to talk about a change of course of what’s unfolding overseas. And it does not happen with campaign staff.” Arab-American local officials in Southeast Michigan told Al Jazeera that their constituents are furious and frustrated with Biden’s policies in Gaza – anger that could prove detrimental to the president’s reelection chances. Dearborn – home to large Palestinian, Lebanese, Yemeni and Iraqi communities – is known as the capital of Arab America. Hammoud noted that all four countries are being bombed by the US and its Israeli allies. The mayor added that Arab Americans and the broader community in Dearborn feel “betrayed” by Biden’s unwavering support for Israel. “I have residents who have had to dig their grandmothers up from under the rubble after Israeli fighter jets bombed their homes,” Hammoud told Al Jazeera. “We have residents who hail from Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem, which is being ethnically cleansed. What do I tell them? What is the message to them?” Abdullah Hammoud became Dearborn’s first Arab-American mayor in 2022 [Paul Sancya/AP] Michigan’s importance The meeting that was being organised between Arab-American leaders and Chavez Rodriguez was subsequently cancelled after pushback from the community, several officials told Al Jazeera. Arab Americans in Dearborn and other Michigan cities could play an outsized role in the US presidential elections, where the system is based on winning individual states. Michigan, home to more than 10 million people, is a key “swing state” – not guaranteed to vote Republican or Democrat – and it is often won by fine margins. In 2016, former President Donald Trump beat his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton in the Midwestern state by fewer than 11,000 votes. So the estimated hundreds of thousands of Arab Americans in Michigan could sway the outcome of the election. In recent election cycles, presidential candidates, particularly Democrats, started acknowledging the importance of the Arab vote: running ads in Arabic, meeting with community advocates and addressing Arab Americans’ specific concerns. In 2020, Biden released a platform for Arab-American communities, promising to recognise the equality of Palestinians and Israelis and protect civil rights at home. He also sent his wife Jill Biden and running mate Kamala Harris to Dearborn to reach out to the Arab community there. Despite grievances with his staunch support for Israel, Arab voters appeared to back Biden overwhelmingly. For example, in predominantly Arab polling locations in Dearborn, Biden won more than 80 percent of the votes, city data shows. That support helped him reclaim Michigan for the Democrats. But as we head to the 2024 elections in November, which will likely be a rematch between Biden and Trump, Biden’s popularity among Arab Americans is tanking. An Arab American Institute poll in October showed Arab American support for Biden plummeted to 17 percent after the war and some activists suspect that it may have sunken even further since then. While Arab-American advocates stress their communities are not driven by a single issue, they say the scale of the carnage in Gaza and Biden’s uncompromising role in it makes it difficult – if not impossible – to support the 81-year-old president again. “Arab Americans will not vote for Joe Biden, no matter what. That’s it. They’re done with Biden,” Sam Baydoun, a Wayne County commissioner who also declined to meet with Chavez Rodriguez, told Al Jazeera. “That’s the bottom line. Joe Biden is not going to be able to regain the trust of the Arab-American community.” Biden’s support for Israel Biden has provided unconditional political and financial support to Israel since it started its war on Gaza on October 7. The president is requesting more than $14bn in additional aid for the US ally and the White House is still working with Congress to secure the funds. Moreover, Palestinian rights advocates have accused him of contributing to the dehumanisation of Palestinians. In October, Biden described the thousands of civilian deaths in Gaza as “the price of waging war”. In a statement marking the 100th day of the conflict earlier this month, the US president focused on Israeli captives in Gaza, failing to mention Palestinians altogether. The Biden administration has also vetoed two United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for de-escalation in Gaza where more than 26,000 Palestinians have been killed. This week, the Biden administration also suspended funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) based on unconfirmed Israeli allegations that some UNRWA workers participated in Hamas’s October 7 attack against Israel. At the same time, Washington has categorically ruled out halting or conditioning aid to Israel, even after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly defied Biden in rejecting the two-state solution. Still, the Biden administration argues that it is pushing Israel to minimise civilian casualties and trying to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza where the population is on the verge of famine according to rights groups. Abraham Aiyash, the majority leader of the Michigan House of Representatives, dismissed Washington’s claims that it is trying to help the people of Gaza. “‘Trying’ has led to nearly 30,000 dead, massive destruction of civilian infrastructure and a more emboldened far-right, fascist government in Israel. So if the United States is ‘trying’, I would be afraid of what it would look like if the US wasn’t trying,” Aiyash, who is
Florida Gov Ron DeSantis calls Biden border deal ‘a farce,’ says it will worsen migrant crisis
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis criticized the Senate border deal endorsed by President Biden in a video on Saturday, calling it a “farce.” On Friday, the president acknowledged that he would “shut down the border” if a new bipartisan immigration deal is passed by Congress. Biden claims that he does not have that power already. “For too long, we all know the border’s been broken,” Biden said in a press release. “It’s long past time to fix it.” “What’s been negotiated would — if passed into law — be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country,” he added. “It would give me, as president, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed. And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.” SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH BIDEN IN TEXAS BORDER WIRE CASE; BORDER PATROL UNION BLASTS THE DECISION In a video posted on X, the former Republican 2024 presidential candidate accused Biden of being negligent. “This border deal is a farce,” DeSantis argued. “Joe Biden already has the authority to shut the border down. He could declare a national emergency. He could stop the invasion cold if he wanted to. He does not want to.” “This so-called deal purports to give him tools so that he could actually close the border. The reality is, is it’s green-lighting up to 5000 illegals every single day,” he added. “That’s 1.8 million plus over the course of a year, which they’re codifying into laws, saying that’s an appropriate number of illegal entries.” CRITICS BASH SCOTUS DECISION ALLOWING FEDS TO CUT RAZOR TEXAS INSTALLED TO STEM ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSINGS DeSantis argued that the “appropriate” number of illegal entries is really zero. “Our policy should reflect that, that we do not want people coming to this country illegally,” DeSantis said. “We should not be giving benefits and work permits to people that have come to this country illegally.” “So Biden has the authority. He doesn’t have the will. He doesn’t have the political philosophy to want to actually solve the problem,” he continued. Fox News Digital’s Timothy H.J. Nerozzi contributed to this report.
Texas again rebuffs Biden admin’s demand for ‘full access’ to disputed border area
Texas has again rebuffed demands from the Biden administration for it to have “full access” to the Shelby Park area of Eagle Pass amid an ongoing standoff between the federal government and the state. The Department of Homeland Security had written to Attorney General Ken Paxton this week seeking “full access to the Shelby Park area currently obstructed by Texas” after Gov. Greg Abbott’s administration had taken control of it earlier this month. DHS has repeatedly sought access to the area, and in response last week Texas said it will allow entry to any Border Patrol personnel responding to an emergency. In response, DHS said it wants unrestricted access during emergencies, as well as regular access to the port of entry, the boat ramp and border barrier entrances. BORDER PATROL HAS ‘NO PLANS’ TO REMOVE RAZOR WIRE SET UP BY TEXAS AMID FEUD WITH BIDEN ADMIN The letter also identified parts of the area where it claimed to have acquired real estate interests and therefore should be able to access them. “Because the Department owns property rights to the areas depicted on the attached map, we demand that you immediately remove any and all obstructions on it, . . .” the letter said. Paxton, in response to that letter, dismissed the legal basis for the demand. He disputes the claim that the federal government has rights over the areas claimed by the administration. “With respect to parcels identified in your maps that are actually in the vicinity of the park, publicly available records suggest the United States does not even purport to own what your latest letter claims,” he wrote in a Friday letter. He went on to request that the agency supply maps and deeds showing the areas it claims the U.S. government owns and how officials are blocking access to them. He also dismisses claims by the administration that it needs access to the area to patrol the border. “But you (unsurprisingly) omit the statutory language that your agency continues publicly to disregard: Border Patrol is tasked with ‘patrolling the border to prevent the illegal entry of aliens,’” he said. “As I said before, this office will continue to defend Texas’s efforts to protect its southern border against every effort by the Biden Administration to undermine the State’s constitutional right of self-defense. You should advise your clients to join us in those efforts by doing their job and following the law,” he said. The letter comes as part of a multi-faceted standoff between the two sides when it comes to how to deal with the ongoing border crisis. The Supreme Court this week sided with the administration when it granted an emergency appeal to allow agents to keep cutting border wire set up by Texas after a lower court had blocked such moves. However, Border Patrol currently has “no plans” to remove the wire unless in an emergency, a senior CBP official told Fox on Friday. ABBOTT DECLARES TEXAS HAS ‘RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE’ FROM MIGRANT ‘INVASION’ AMID FEUD WITH BIDEN ADMIN The Biden administration has also sued over the Texas law, recently signed by Abbott, that allows state and local law enforcement to arrest illegal immigrants. There has been another legal feud over the establishment of buoys by Texas in the Rio Grande. Abbott has said Texas has a right to “self-defense” against what he says is federal inaction about a migrant “invasion.” “[President Biden’s] actions have caused an unprecedented invasion that we must defend against,” Abbott said on Thursday. The Biden administration has said that Texas is interfering with the federal enforcement of immigration law. “Enforcement of immigration law is a federal responsibility,” a DHS spokesperson said this week. “Rather than helping to reduce irregular migration, the State of Texas has only made it harder for frontline personnel to do their jobs and to apply consequences under the law. We can enforce our laws and administer them safely, humanely, and in an orderly way.” Fox News’ Griff Jenkins contributed to this report.
‘Stop killing us!’: Thousands march to protest against femicide in Kenya
Thousands of people have gathered to protest in cities and towns in Kenya against the recent slayings of more than a dozen women. The anti-femicide demonstration on Saturday was the largest event ever held in the country against sexual and gender-based violence. In the capital, Nairobi, protesters wore T-shirts printed with the names of women who became homicide victims this month. The crowd, composed mostly of women, brought traffic to a standstill. “Stop killing us!” the demonstrators shouted as they waved signs with messages such as “There is no justification to kill women.” The crowd in Nairobi was hostile to attempts by the parliamentary representative for women, Esther Passaris, to address them. Accusing Passaris of remaining silent during the latest wave of killings, protesters shouted her down with chants of “Where were you?” and “Go home!” “A country is judged by not how well it treats its rich people, but how well it takes care of the weak and vulnerable,” said Law Society of Kenya President Eric Theuri, who was among the demonstrators. Kenyan media outlets have reported the slayings of at least 14 women since the start of the year, according to Patricia Andago, a data journalist at media and research firm Odipo Dev who also took part in the march. Odipo Dev reported this week that news accounts showed at least 500 women were killed in acts of femicide from January 2016 to December 2023. Many more cases go unreported, Andago said. Two cases that gripped Kenya this month involved two women who were killed at Airbnb accommodations. The second victim was a university student who was dismembered and decapitated after she reportedly was kidnapped for ransom. Theuri said cases of gender-based violence take too long to be heard in Kenyan court, which he thinks emboldens perpetrators to commit crimes against women. “As we speak right now, we have a shortage of about 100 judges. We have a shortage of 200 magistrates and adjudicators, and so that means that the wheel of justice grinds slowly as a result of inadequate provisions of resources,” he said. Adblock test (Why?)
US, Iraq begin formal talks on winding down US-led military coalition
Currently, there are about 2,500 US troops still deployed in Iraq as part of the coalition formed in 2014 to help defeat ISIL. The United States and Iraq have held a first round of talks on the future of US and other foreign troops in the country, with Baghdad expecting discussions to lead to a timeline for reducing their presence. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani as well as top-ranking officials from both the Iraqi armed forces and the US-led coalition met in Baghdad on Saturday. The joint commission began “the commencement of the first round of bilateral dialogue between Iraq and the United States of America to end the Coalition in Iraq”, Al-Sudani’s office said in a statement. “Military experts will oversee ending the military mission of the Global Coalition against Daesh [ISIL], a decade after its initiation and after its successful achievement of its mission in partnership with Iraqi security and military forces,” it added. Currently, there are about 2,500 US troops still deployed in Iraq as part of the coalition that was formed in 2014 to help the Iraqi government defeat ISIL. The US says its aims to set up a committee to negotiate the terms of the mission’s end were first discussed last year. But as Israel’s war on Gaza ramps up, US forces in Iraq and Syria have faced frequent attacks by Iran-allied groups, resulting in US retaliatory attacks and Iraqi complaints of US “aggression” against its territory. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani at the first session of negotiations between Iraq and the US on the future of foreign troops in Iraq [Hadi Mizban/Pool via Reuters] Since ISIL lost its hold on Iraq, officials have called for the withdrawal of coalition forces, especially after a US air strike in January 2020 killed Iranian top commander Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis outside Baghdad airport. Iraqi officials have complained that the US attacks violate its sovereignty. On Thursday, Washington said it agreed with Baghdad on the launch of “expert working groups of military and defence professionals” as part of the joint commission. The three working groups would investigate “the level of threat posed by ISIS [ISIL], operational and environmental requirements, and strengthening the growing capabilities of the Iraqi security forces”, al-Sudani’s office said. US Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrin Singh also acknowledged that the US military footprint in the Arab country “will certainly be part of the conversations as it goes forward”. While the US has said the decision to discuss withdrawal from Iraq was decided upon before October 7, ISIL in Iraq took credit for the decision and said in a statement that it “proves that the Americans only understand the language of force” and promised to continue its attacks. Adblock test (Why?)
Will Israel obey the ruling of the UN’s top court?
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ordered Israel to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza. The United Nation’s top court has ordered Israel to take measures to prevent genocide in Gaza and allow in humanitarian aid. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued the ruling on Friday in a case filed by South Africa. Judges voted overwhelmingly in favour of six emergency measures that included asking Israel to punish those inciting genocide. So, how will this ruling impact Israel’s war on Gaza? And how might other countries pressure Israel to comply? Presenter: Nastasya Tay Guests: Nimer Sultany – Reader in public law at SOAS, the University of London; and editor-in-chief of The Palestine Yearbook of International Law Geoffrey Robertson – Human rights barrister and the founder of Doughty Street Chambers Chris Gunness – Former spokesperson for UNRWA and founder of the Myanmar Accountability Project Adblock test (Why?)
ICE failed to adequately document some major procedures, including hysterectomies, watchdog finds
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) failed to adequately document the medical necessity of a number of major medical procedures — including at least two hysterectomies — a government watchdog found. The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (OIG) launched the investigation after lawmakers raised concerns about whistleblower allegations of “mass hysterectomies” performed on detainees without consent. That whistleblower’s claims, which sparked widespread outrage in 2020 when they were first made, accused one doctor of being a “uterus collector” and called one facility an “experimental concentration camp.” The DHS OIG looked at 533 major surgical procedures conducted in fiscal years 2019 through 2021. EX-FBI OFFICIALS WARN CONGRESS OF ‘NEW AND IMMINENT’ BORDER DANGER When ICE facility staff determine the need for off-site care, they create an authorization referral, and if the provider recommends surgery, there is a separate authorization needed to be approved by an IHSC physician who is either a regional clinical director or a clinical director to ensure medical necessity. The watchdog found that between 137 and 214 procedures had not been approved by the required directors, meaning that the ICE’s Health Service Corps cannot be sure that all major surgeries were medically necessary. Additionally, the OIG contracted with an obstetrician/gynecologist (OB/GYN) to determine the necessity of surgeries. “Our contracted OB/GYN concluded that for two of six hysterectomies performed, the detained non-citizens’ IHSC medical files did not include documentation to support a conclusion that a hysterectomy was medically necessary,” the OIG found. It stressed that the review was limited to six surgeries and that the conclusions “cannot be extrapolated to the population of major surgeries.” MIGRANT CRISIS BROKE NEW RECORD IN DECEMBER WITH 302K ENCOUNTERS, OFFICIALS CONFIRM The investigation found that the surgeries were not always approved and reviewed, because guidance was vague and did not include clearly defined requirements — leading to some approvals being granted via email or verbally and not through the proper process. IHSC has since implemented a policy requiring that all procedures be reviewed and approved through the appropriate system, which had been recommended by the OIG. In a statement to Fox, ICE said it “remains committed to ensuring all those in its custody receive appropriate medical care and are treated with respect and dignity.” It said it concurs with the report and noted the updated policies for the IHSC. “IHSC current policies require Regional Clinical Directors and Clinical Directors to document their review and approval of major surgical procedures in IHSC’s electronic health records system. Specifically, planned major surgical procedures already require prior authorization review and approval documentation by either a Clinical Director, Regional Clinical Director, or their designee pursuant to directives published Dec. 19, 2022,” the spokesperson said. The report comes as the U.S. continues to wrestle with a crisis at the southern border and a record 302,000 encounters in December. The administration is seeking more funding for ICE detention beds as part of a supplemental funding package. That deal is being held up as Republicans demand limits on asylum and the use of parole.