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Anyway, I didn't actually watch it, but a friend texted me to ask if I saw him calling out "thousands of illegals killing people" and said people cross the border because they know it will be 6 years before they go to court? That sounds like Trump s***, someone tell me the context pls.

My amateur understanding is that the 6 years part is at least founded in truth? It's something like: if you enter the U.S. and claim that you're seeking asylum in the U.S., because staying in your home country would be dangerous for you, then by law the U.S. must give you a hearing in court to formally adjudicate your claim. And those courts have an enormous backlog. Trump got around that law by declaring a state of emergency (over COVID), but COVID is no longer an emergency, so it's up to Congress to actually change the law.

I'm pretty sure that both the House and Senate border proposals include revisions to the asylum laws, as well as more funding for the court systems that handle asylum cases. But the House bill made no attempt to be a compromise that Democrats would accept, so it was always doomed in the Senate. Meanwhile, the bipartisan Senate bill attracted the ire of Trump (it would be an election year win for someone that isn't him) so, not only is it presumably doomed in the House, it can't even get out of the Senate.