Officials at the U.S.-Mexico border have temporarily suspended freight train crossings in El Paso and Eagle Pass, Texas.
The move comes after authorities reportedly apprehended more than 4,000 migrants in the area Sunday alone. Temporary closures have also been imposed at a port of entry in Arizona and a pedestrian entrance in San Diego.
Meanwhile, Senate negotiators failed to reach a deal over the weekend on a framework for border security improvements.
Senate Republicans say the border is a security threat.
They want tougher security measures as part of a bill to send more funding for the wars in Israel and Ukraine.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said senators don’t want to be “jammed” by a last-minute compromise reached by negotiators.
“We’re not anywhere close to a deal,” Graham, whose staff has joined the talks, said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Graham predicted the deliberations will go into next year. He was among 15 Republican senators who wrote to GOP leadership urging them to wait until the House returns on Jan. 8 to discuss the issue.
Top GOP negotiator Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell also signaled in their letter Sunday that talks
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