evidence: They argue the situation at the border will not improve unless lawmakers create more legal pathways for migration given that deterrence policies deployed under former President Donald Trump’s administration didn’t stop migrants from trying to enter the country. [...] But Senate Republicans are unlikely to agree to that without other policy solutions. "You’re just throwing good money after bad [policies] if you don’t change your asylum laws," Judiciary ranking member Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said. A group of Senate Republicans, led by Oklahoma’s James Lankford, held a press conference Thursday to push for restoring many of the same Trump-era policies in the House bill, like the Remain in Mexico policy and a ban on releasing migrants while their immigration court proceedings continue.