Check your numbers.
The Bill limits the criteria for asylum and processes those eligible to TRY for asylum MUCH more quickly with the “surge” of money for doing so.
If the numbers threaten to overwhelm the system the border gets shut down.
And with the changes on asylum criteria , few of that “5,000” get to stay.
And oh by the way… let’s not forget that we WANT those workers to work in meat packing plants, fields, building our homes.
That last is a fact of life whether you like it or not.