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Dream Act passes House
The Washington Times ^ | June 4, 2019 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 06/04/2019 4:21:47 PM PDT by jazusamo

With chants of “Yes we can” raining from the rafters, House Democrats on Tuesday powered through legislation to cancel deportations and grant future citizenship rights to millions of people, in a vote that nodded more toward 2020 politics than to substantive policymaking.

The 237-187 vote was momentous, marking the first major legalization to pass the House in nearly a decade, and underscoring the ground Democrats feel they have gained on an issue both sides expect to be at the center of the presidential election.

With President Trump calling for action to solve crisis at the border, Democrats countered by casting their eye inward at the 11 million illegal immigrants who already made it across America’s boundaries and have found places in the shadows.

Democrats on Tuesday singled out more than two million of them for legalization, in what party leaders said was the first step toward a more comprehensive solution.

“We have the opportunity to be a part of history, to be on the right side of history,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told colleagues as she rallied support.

That history is not likely to be made this year, however.

Republicans who control the Senate won’t bring Mrs. Pelosi’s bill to the floor, and the White House vowed a veto anyway.

“No compromise is possible without both sides coming to the table,” the White House said in a policy statement this week.

The way Democratic leaders shepherded the bill through the chamber suggested they weren’t interested in a compromise. They allowed just two hours of floor debate and blocked the GOP from offering any amendments, effectively daring Republicans to either vote for the bill as-is, or else be labeled “anti-immigrant.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; daca; dreamact; dreamers; frontpage; illegalaliens; illegalsinvasion; noyoucant; pelosi; traitors; ushouse
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Pelosi's back in her 0bamacare form.
1 posted on 06/04/2019 4:21:47 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo

This will make the Invasion 100 times bigger


2 posted on 06/04/2019 4:24:02 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: jazusamo

Not just the college students either. ALL of them. Even had Republican support.


3 posted on 06/04/2019 4:25:20 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: jazusamo

Give thanks to God that the Senates don’t own the Senate as well, and that Hillary didn’t win.

This, however, is what we will get if we don’t vote and they do gain majorities.


4 posted on 06/04/2019 4:25:56 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: butlerweave

Only if the quisling GOP Senators pass it as well.


5 posted on 06/04/2019 4:26:11 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: jazusamo

Yes, let us reward lawbreakers. If you rob a bank and have no income it is important we let you out “for the children.”

The illegal PARENTS need to tell the kids they are paying for the parents’ crimes.


6 posted on 06/04/2019 4:26:11 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Dang, that the Democrats don’t own the Senate.

I guess I was thinking about the guy that poured ketchup all over his sleeping girlfriend.


7 posted on 06/04/2019 4:26:59 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: jazusamo

LOL!

President Trump will not only sign such a bill (assuming he Senate passes it) but will use it during the next election.

President Trump - one man standing alone to end the invasion of our nation.

The Democrats have just shot themselves in the foot


8 posted on 06/04/2019 4:28:04 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: jazusamo

The Senate should take the bill, add some nails, shape it into suppositories and send it back to Pelosi with instructions on where Demonicrats can put it.

Oh, wait! The Senate is controlled by Republicans.

They can just send a bouquet of flowers and a box of chocolates instead.


9 posted on 06/04/2019 4:30:52 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: jazusamo

Children, in every sense.


10 posted on 06/04/2019 4:32:26 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: butlerweave

Think it will ever be enacted?


11 posted on 06/04/2019 4:32:36 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: jazusamo

This bill is going nowhere. It’s like watching the Republicans when they were in control in the house create going nowhere legislation. They are all idiots.


12 posted on 06/04/2019 4:34:54 PM PDT by hawkaw
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Elections have consequences!

This will never fly in the Senate, and, hopefully, the American people will not support Democrats in 2020 precisely because of this insanity!

HST, let this be fair warning to ALL AMERICANS!

This is the kind of nonsensical law that Democrats WILL pass after they winn an election!

A vote for ANY Democrat, whether it be in a local, state or federal election, is a vote against America!

America cannot survive a Democrat victory in 2020!

13 posted on 06/04/2019 4:35:04 PM PDT by Taxman (We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
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At least 237 traitors to the USA there. No telling how many of the 187 nays would have supported it if they didn't have to worry about their next election.

No doubt Romney and his ilk will be pushing this through the Senate. .... and I wouldn't want to bet either way on whether it will pass.

I sure hope that Trump is still President when/if this gets through the Senate, and can veto it. If they successfully impeach and convict him first, I have little doubt that Pence (or whoever) will sign it.

14 posted on 06/04/2019 4:35:22 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: jazusamo

Kids who were brought here as children should be allowed to stay.


15 posted on 06/04/2019 4:36:30 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: jazusamo

11,000,000. A number that magically never grows.


16 posted on 06/04/2019 4:36:40 PM PDT by Rastus
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Republicans voting Aye:
Bacon
Diaz-Balart
Fitzpatrick
Hurd (TX)
Newhouse
Smith (NJ)
Upton

Republicans not voting:
Green (TN)
Hern, Kevin
Herrera-Beutler
Mullin


17 posted on 06/04/2019 4:36:54 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: rktman

It’s being “enacted” to the tune of about 1,000 illegals a day gaining access thru our southern border (last I heard).


18 posted on 06/04/2019 4:37:04 PM PDT by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: jazusamo

The US will bust up into ethnic country enclaves.


19 posted on 06/04/2019 4:38:12 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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>> daring Republicans to either vote for the bill as-is, or else be labeled “anti-immigrant.”

Whatever. The Democrat Thug Party is anti-American — the true takeaway.


20 posted on 06/04/2019 4:38:35 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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