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By KTAR
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Lamon of Arizona said Friday that the “Remain in Mexico” policy needed to be made into law to secure the border.
Lamon told KTAR News 92.3 FM’s The Mike Broomhead Show that he was “all in” for Mexico’s agreement to spend $1.5 billion to improve “smart border” border technology.
“Anything that can help,” he said of the agreement. “But if we don’t have the policy in place to return to Mexico … we must have it codified into law.”
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled June 30 that the Biden administration had the right to end the Trump-era immigration policy. Under that Trump-era policy, asylum-seekers have to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration courts.
“Before we do any business [in the U.S. Senate], get that southern border secure,” Lamon said.
