Could evangelical Christian women hold the key to compromise on immigration reform?
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🗓️ 6 February 2024
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The bipartisan immigration bill with aid for both Ukraine and Israel appears to be DOA. Could evangelical Christian women hold the key to compromise on immigration reform? USA TODAY Border and Immigration Reporter Lauren Villagran explains.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt, ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is February 6th, 2024. This is the excerpt. |
| 0:19.2 | Today how some evangelical Christian women are rethinking immigration. |
| 0:27.0 | Plus, we have the latest from California Storms, and King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer. |
| 0:34.5 | A group of bipartisan senators revealed a proposal Sunday targeting America's southern |
| 0:39.3 | border and pivotal foreign aid. At the border the agreement would expand detention and |
| 0:44.4 | speed up humanitarian asylum programs. It would also make it harder for people to |
| 0:48.8 | qualify for asylum. It would create a pathway to citizenship for documented dreamers or children who first came to the US with their parents under a work visa. |
| 0:58.0 | Border proposals were paired with billions in funding for various US allies. |
| 1:03.2 | The deal has the backing of President Joe Biden, |
| 1:05.6 | Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, |
| 1:08.3 | and Republican Minority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell. |
| 1:11.6 | On the other hand, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and former President Donald Trump |
| 1:16.4 | have openly rejected the bill. |
| 1:18.8 | Meanwhile, as the border debate heats up, a small but growing group of evangelical Christian women are |
| 1:25.2 | rethinking issues around immigration. I spoke with USA Today border and |
| 1:29.6 | immigration reporter Lauren Viegran to learn more. |
| 1:33.0 | Lauren, good to have you on the excerpt today. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah, thanks, Taylor. |
| 1:36.0 | So Lauren, can you start by telling us a bit about Carla Cochran and this spiritual calling, |
| 1:41.0 | she felt, related to the border. |
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