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A RENEWED, INTENSIFIED CRISIS AT THE BORDER. The Twitter feed of Fox News reporter Bill Melugin has been an extraordinary place for the last few days. Melugin has spent a lot of time reporting from the U.S.-Mexico border, and recently he began telling readers about a surge in illegal crossers at the international bridge in Del Rio, Texas.

The crossers are coming by the thousands, Melugin reported . "Per source, the number of migrants waiting to be processed has now swelled to approximately 8,200," Melugin tweeted Thursday morning. "It was 4,000 yesterday AM. Doubled in one day. Border Patrol overwhelmed, and I'm told the situation is 'out of control.'" Melugin included dramatic photos showing the extent of the situation:

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Early reports say many of the migrants massing at the border are Haitians, which just serves to illustrate the point that the border crisis is not just a matter of crossers from Mexico or Central America. Officials say they have seen people from at least 90 countries from all around the globe illegally crossing into the United States. The Washington Post reports that authorities are expecting "thousands more in the coming days."

The crowds are coming as a direct result of Biden administration policies. Upon taking office in January, the president un-did President Donald Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy. He suspended Trump asylum agreements with Northern Triangle countries. President Joe Biden has made clear that many illegal crossers will be allowed to stay in the U.S. He has stopped handing out notices to appear in court to those who are released into the country. He temporarily halted deportations. He weakened rules allowing U.S. officials to return illegal crossers in the interest of controlling the spread of COVID-19.

And now, amid the continuing crisis at the border it never went away, even if news coverage turned to other things Democrats in Washington are planning extraordinary measures to increase the pace of immigration in the U.S. In this way:

Advocates of comprehensive immigration reform desperately want to amend the Immigration and Naturalization Act in order to legalize illegal immigrants and open the nation's doors to more immigration. But lawmakers have considered such proposals several times over the last 15 years and chosen not to pass them, opting instead to keep the law as it is. In other words, Congress has repeatedly acted by not acting.

Now, Democrats have come up with a new plan to make an end-run around Senate rules and pass the most far-reaching immigration measure in decades. The plan is this: Congress has to pass a budget. The rules allow senators to use a process called reconciliation to bypass the filibuster and pass the budget with a simple majority. But the rules also say reconciliation can only be used to pass a measure that is germane to the budget, that it must have some "fiscal impact."

The general understanding is that Congress cannot use reconciliation to pass just any policy measure attached to a budget. It has to be germane. Still, lawmakers can propose using reconciliation for all sorts of things. It is up to the Senate parliamentarian to decide whether the proposal is germane and thus can be included in a reconciliation measure with the rest of the budget.

That is what Democrats are trying to do now. They have written a measure that would be a historic expansion of immigration and are seeking to attach it to the budget bill. That way, the immigration bill will never be debated on its own, nor will there be a specific vote for or against it. It would simply be included in the giant budget bill, and senators who voted for the budget would also be voting for the biggest immigration change in memory. And now, the time for decision comes against the backdrop of a newly growing crisis at the border.

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