behind bars before he is considered for parole. the judge will make that decision later today and we will bring you that needs as it comes. after a weekend of disruption, delays at the port of dover have eased but there are concerns over how the border will cope over the easter weekend. some people had reported waiting 17 hours with officials blaming the congestion on slow border processing and bad weather. our reporter louisa pilbeam has more. tired and hungry, these youngsters finally made it to their ski trip in france in the early hours of this morning. stjoseph s high school, from wrexham, one of hundreds of coaches stuck in these barely moving queues at the port of dover over the last three days. it took 16 hours before they made it onto the ferry. we were put in a holding area, where there were limited access to toilets. what access there were, were very substandard. the fear among travellers is this could happen again when the next wave of the easter getaway kicks off on thursd
230 million for border security technology but not used for a barrier. 1.56 billion in border processing funds that can t be used for security. it says the 1.56 building cannot extend border security technology and capabilities except for technology and capabilities to improve border patrol processing. this bill appears to be geared toward facilitating the entry of people into this country as opposed to keeping them out. this is really important. i ve been talking and others are talking about what is the strategy the biden administration has. we talk about they want to manage the crisis and process more people into the country. guess what? the omnibus bill the language you read lays out the strategy. no debating or guessing, they have put it in that bill that the administration backs. they want to process more and manage more. they don t want to solve it. you solve it you give money to the border patrol to solve the
first of all, it s a major promise made in the campaign. as he looks towards a reelection bid, he wants to say he s done something to try to deliver on that. secondly, as we look at the potential future control of the house in particular, likely to be led by republicans, the white house wants to perhaps illustrate what the major political problem has been to try to get legislation done. republicans are largely opposed to anything that as for the former president would put it, looks like amnesty. that would be something if the president were to make a full-throated push in the next congress, republicans would be seen as the barrier to this. but there s also hope. there are some quiet bipartisan efforts led by senator cornyn of texas, senator sinema, a democrat that might be the basis for incremental changes on things like border processing. as of of us know, there s no illusions about how difficult this would be. regardless of whether democrats or republicans control the