Posted on 06/05/2019 1:24:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Seven House Republicans joined their Democratic colleagues Tuesday in voting for legislation that would grant permanent protections and a pathway to citizenship for more than 2 million undocumented immigrants.
The American Dream and Promise Act grants amnesty to more than 1 million immigrants brought to the country illegally when they were under the age of 18, including roughly 700,000 migrants shielded from deportation by then-president Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) executive action.
The bill also applies to the hundreds of thousands of migrants admitted to the country under Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which is intended for those fleeing violence or natural disasters, and the roughly 4,000 Liberians covered by George W. Bush’s 2007 Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) executive order.
Taken together, the various designations cover roughly 2.1 million migrants, the Center for American Progress said in a Monday statement.
The legislation would grant conditional permanent residency to the eligible immigrants for ten years and provide them a path to citizenship if they meet certain educational and employment requirements. It passed the House 236–187 with unanimous support from Democrats, who were joined by Republicans Don Bacon of Nebraska, Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida, Will Hurd of Texas, Fred Upton of Michigan, Chris Smith of New Jersey, Dan Newhouse of Washington, and Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania.
Republican critics of the legislation passed Tuesday have argued that it further incentivizes illegal immigration and fails to address the threat posed by the record influx of migrants arriving at the southern border.
“This bill does nothing to address our crisis,” said Representative Mike D. Rogers (R., Ala.). “Instead, it tells an entire generation of illegal immigrants that breaking our laws is rewarded.”
Democrats, Rogers said, “would rather reward illegal immigrants than secure our borders, enforce our laws, and fix this crisis.”
The legislation does, however, prevent the provision of state funding for undocumented immigrants’ higher education if the same programs are not made available to all U.S. citizens.
Had to stop reading my blood pressure just went up.
Traitors!
Only one party in DC folks. It’s funny people are surprised any more.
Build the wall first.
And, the Traitors are:
Bacon (NE)
Diaz-Balart (FL)
Fitzpatrick (PA)
Hurd (TX)
Newhouse (WA)
Smith (NJ)
Upton (MI)
They need to be primaried!
Watching Zoe Lofgren on tv declare them all to be “Americans” made me barf.
Lofgren? From Norway? Grandparents came here in what, 1910?
So she has the right to give away a country founded 130 years before her family arrived, and populated 300 years prior?
The woman has no right to make such a decision.
Any DACA amnesty deal should be contingent on sending a Constitutional tax cap amendment to the states.
To give leftists unlimited access to our wages and property is the peak of insanity.
They voted to create 2.1 MILLION Demonrat voters.
Doesn’t the fact that only 7 of them joined the dems indicate that Trump has a veto prof number in the house? So they will not be able to stop the tariffs on Mexico, correct?
The house will pass it. But will the Donald sign it? He better not or he’ll make me angry
Immigration will be a defining issue in 2020. He beeds us to stay unified
Just remember, it took a majority of so-called Republicans to vote these so-called Republicans into office.
ook at the Brexit Party in the UK...Can the MAGA Party in the US start soon enough?
THEIR f-ing dream and OUR NIGHTMARE.
Whenever government gives a number on anything one might as well triple it and consider it never ending nor reducing.
Demographics is destiny and our destiny is this continuous invasion.
V E T O
And, the Traitors are:
Bacon (NE)
Diaz-Balart (FL)
Fitzpatrick (PA)
Hurd (TX)
Newhouse (WA)
Smith (NJ)
Upton (MI)
They need to be primaried!
BUMP!
So if these people are druggies, street corner pharmacists, criminals, etc, they still get to stay?
Fitzpatrick’s phone number is 215-579-812 they do pick up. Ask for them to read his prepared statement.
That was my first thought too.
TRAITORS!
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