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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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To: Rational Thought

“Tad” = times 3 or 4.


61 posted on 06/04/2019 6:27:22 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

NOT gonna happen!


62 posted on 06/04/2019 7:24:33 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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To: jazusamo

If that’s true I hope the Senate refuses to join in with it.If not hopefully the President will just veto it.


63 posted on 06/04/2019 7:29:15 PM PDT by puppypusher ( The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: jazusamo

DOA in the Senate.


64 posted on 06/04/2019 7:48:28 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: gunsequalfreedom

No they shouldn’t.


65 posted on 06/04/2019 8:01:47 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

In your home.


66 posted on 06/04/2019 8:45:43 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: hal ogen
Kick them out. They can apply legally. Are a bleeding heart or what? That kind of thinking only empowers LIB lunatics .

A kid comes here as a two-year-old and is now 17-years-old. He is no more able to get around in the country where he was born than you are. Even if your really felt that way, to round up that kid and "send him back" is a political impossibility. Dream on if you think it will ever happen.

67 posted on 06/04/2019 9:46:31 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: mass55th
Why? Millions of children who were conceived here, were not allowed to be born.

I'm as pro life as you are.

68 posted on 06/04/2019 9:47:34 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: amihow

A kid that has been here since two-years-old and is not in his teens, how do you send a kid like that back. He knows nothing about the country where he was born. Very likely does not even speak the language and for sure does not know a thing of the local customs. He grew up here. The Dems and Republicans screwed up, not that kid.

Sending all Congress Members that created this mess out of the country is far more attractive to me.


69 posted on 06/04/2019 9:50:35 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: jazusamo

“daring Republicans to either vote for the bill as-is, or else be labeled “anti-immigrant.”

I’m hoping they would be labled
as anti-illegal alien.


70 posted on 06/04/2019 10:31:38 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

I know you’re pro-life. At this point in my life, I’m really pro life since my youngest son is recuperating from cancer surgery, and is undergoing 6 months of chemo treatments. He can’t work, and although he has health insurance, he has no idea how much his medical bills will finally be, so I really don’t give a rat’s ass about illegal aliens, kids or not, who were allowed to come here, and get everything handed to them, or why they should be allowed to stay.


71 posted on 06/04/2019 10:33:04 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

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

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Their parents are invaders who broke our immigration laws to enter our country illegally, and like all felons they should be sent to jail - and then deported.

And the ilegal invaders can take their “children” - many of whom are adults in their 30s or 40s by now - back with them.


72 posted on 06/05/2019 1:04:18 AM PDT by AC86UT89
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To: Reno89519

I wouldn’t be so sure Trump won’t sign it.


Don’t think so. It would be READ MY LIPS moment. His base will tolerate a lot, but not that.


73 posted on 06/05/2019 3:49:04 AM 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
more waste of our tax money. The dems are a crying shame.

If we ever hang one of these traitors maybe, just maybe, the people in DC can get back to doing We the People work.

74 posted on 06/05/2019 3:55:36 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: SkyDancer
The US will bust up into ethnic country enclaves.

Not until after one hell of a blood bath. It is coming.

It is not one of those "what ifs" but "when" scenarios.

75 posted on 06/05/2019 3:59:48 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: Pilgrim's Progress; jazusamo

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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.
>

Ummm, it wasn’t THAT long ago that Ryan was pushing for a Dreamer (aka amnesty) vote; boy, was FR up-in-arms then. Damn, who held both chambers @ that time again??

Seems not only the Left has selective amnesia\plantation residents.


76 posted on 06/05/2019 5:25:59 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: eartick

Well it’s already happening. Look at Minnesota - Somalia where the cops don’t want to enter.


77 posted on 06/05/2019 5:50:42 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: SkyDancer

Militarize the southern border until the situation is stabilized. Can’t Trump do this under the cover of his emergency declaration?


78 posted on 06/05/2019 6:36:10 AM PDT by jester221 (Stupid pills, with all due respect, should have an obama-proof lid)
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To: jester221

Democrats and the Left (including judges) hate America and will do everything they can to thwart Trump in protecting us.


79 posted on 06/05/2019 6:44:41 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: jazusamo
11 million illegal immigrants

Uh, no... try 20-25 million.

80 posted on 06/05/2019 7:40:25 AM PDT by ScottinVA (The most urgent gathering threat to America: the Democrat Party)
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