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House Republicans are seeking Thursday to pass a sweeping bill to build more U.S.-Mexico border wall and impose new restrictions on asylum seekers, creating a hard-line counter to President Joe Biden’s policies just as migrants are amassing along the border with the end of coronavirus pandemic restrictions and Title 42.

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A U.S. border patrol officer walks through a group of migrants gathered between primary and secondary border fences near San Diego, California.MIKE BLAKE/Reuters

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Aerial shows migrants waiting along the border wall to surrender to US Customs and Border Protection border patrol agents for immigration and asylum claim processing after crossing the Rio Grande River into the United States.PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP/Getty Images

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Migrants cross the Rio Grande to the U.S. side, from Matamoros, Mexico.Fernando Llano/The Associated Press

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Migrants walk toward immigration authorities to turn themselves in as they make their way past Texas National Guardsmen, on the bank of the Rio Grande, as seen from Matamoros, Mexico.Fernando Llano/The Associated Press

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Migrants try to get to the US through the Rio Grande as seen from Matamoros, state of Tamaulipas, Mexico.ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/Getty Images

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Colombian migrants arrive at the El Dorado International Airport after being deported from the United States in Bogota, Colombia.LUISA GONZALEZ/Reuters

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Migrants are escorted past a U.S. border gate and to U.S. Customs and Border Protection buses, after traveling for months and waiting for days at the border near El Paso, Texas.STRINGER/Reuters

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Texas National Guard Soldiers on patrol observe a recently arrived family with small children as they make their way to the intake centre near Brownsville, Texas.STRINGER/Reuters

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Migrants try to get to the US through the Rio Grande as seen from Matamoros, state of Tamaulipas, Mexico.ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/Getty Images

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A migrant gestures to Texas National Guards standing behind razor wire on the bank of the Rio Grande river, seen from Matamoros, Mexico.Fernando Llano/The Associated Press

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Migrants wait for asylum hearings at the US-Mexico border as seen from San Ysidro, California.SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP/Getty Images

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Migrants' cell phones are charged by aid workers in the US as they wait for asylum hearings at the US-Mexico border in San Ysidro, California.SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP/Getty Images

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Aerial image shows migrants as they wait for asylum hearings, at the US-Mexico border, as seen from San Ysidro, California.SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP/Getty Images

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A migrant woman holds her child as asylum seekers gather to cross the Rio Bravo river to turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents, in Matamoros, Mexico.DANIEL BECERRIL/Reuters

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Migrants wait for asylum hearings at the US-Mexico border in San Ysidro, California.SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP/Getty Images

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Migrants wait for asylum hearings at the US-Mexico border in San Ysidro, California.SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP/Getty Images

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Migrants try to get to the US through the Rio Grande as seen from Matamoros, state of Tamaulipas, Mexico.ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/Getty Images

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Migrants stand near the border wall after having crossed the U.S.-Mexico border to turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ/Reuters

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Migrants wait in the cold at a gate in the border fence after crossing from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico into El Paso, Texas.Andres Leighton/The Associated Press

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Migrants enter the Rio Bravo river to cross the border and turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents before Title 42 ends, in Matamoros, Mexico.DANIEL BECERRIL/Reuters

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Mexican authorities patrol on the banks of the Rio Bravo as migrants gather to cross the border and turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents, in Matamoros, Mexico.DANIEL BECERRIL/Reuters

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Migrants sit in a dusty field, as they wait to be picked up by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers near the U.S. border wall near El Paso, Texas.STRINGER/Reuters

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Migrants try to climb up a fence after crossing the Rio Bravo to turn themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents before Title 42 ends, in Matamoros, Mexico.DANIEL BECERRIL/Reuters

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A migrant walks past security wire to enter an area to be picked up by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers near El Paso, Texas.STRINGER/Reuters

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