Biden vows to ‘shut down the border’ if Senate immigration bill is passed

But the House speaker said deal involving border security and aid to Ukraine is dead on arrival' in its current form

Joe Biden said on Friday that the border deal being negotiated in the US Senate was the toughest and fairest" set of reforms possible and vowed to shut down the border" the day he signs the bill.

The bipartisan talks have hit a critical point amid mounting Republican opposition. Some Republicans have set a deal on border security as a condition for further Ukraine aid.