Over the weekend, bipartisan congressional negotiations unveiled a border control bill that would toughen asylum standards, hire thousands of new officers to fast-track the case process, and likely impose an emergency shutdown of the U.S. border. Even though the bill reads like a right-wing policymakers’ wish list, Fox News is pushing for the bill’s defeat and spreading a false claim that one of its provisions would allow for 5,000 migrants to cross the southern border each day.
In reality, the provision in question would force federal authorities to automatically reject asylum applicants when border encounters reach certain levels.
Furthermore, when the bill’s sponsors have actually gone on Fox News in order to explain this misconception, the network has repaid them by repeating the falsehood and attacking them across its programming.
The bill’s provision would require the secretary of Homeland Security to shut down claims for asylum along most of the southern border. The Associated Press explained that the secretary would have the power to “prohibit entry for most individuals if an average of more than 4,000 people per day try to enter the country unlawfully over the course of a week. If the number reaches 5,000 or if 8,500 try to enter unlawfully in a single day, use of the authority would be mandatory. … If the proposal were passed into law, the new...
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