Posted on 02/16/2017 9:11:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Democrats in the Senate on Thursday introduced legislation to rescind President Donald Trump's executive order prioritizing deportation of "criminal" undocumented immigrants.
Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin and Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hironio introduced the legislation. The Senators said the bill is designed to keep immigrant families together and they urged Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
During a press conference, Cortez Masto said Trump's administration has created an "unprecedented deportation machine" following high-profile immigration raids.
The Democratic-led legislation would also roll back Trump's order targeting so-called "sanctuary cities"-- cities that do not deport undocumented immigrants despite federal law. Trump threatened such cities would lose federal funding.
"The president's executive order sends a clear message to our immigrant families: You are a target for deportation," Cortez Masto said.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Friday defended the actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers following reports of immigration raids.
Demonicrats are just generating more used TP.
Trump really should go all Eisenhower on them and reconstitute Operation Wetback. End DACA immediately, he’ll get no credit for having a heart.
Deport every illegal alien we can find, the rest will get the message like they did in Eisenhower’s day and vamoose back across the border.
Bwaaaaaaaaaaahahaha. I laugh at and ridicule all LIBs...lunatics. Hahahahaha.
Epic fail in 3...2...1...
Yup
Hawaii has a 2500 mile moat around it and you have to have a valid government issued photo ID to get there unless you stowaway on a boat.
I frankly don’t care what a Senator from Hawaii thinks about illegal immigrants being deported from the mainland. They don’t have people swimming across the ocean to take jobs from Americans or steal their identity.
True, but I really believe President Trump is inside the OODA loop.
Call any legislation “comprehensive” and it makes any questionable bill perfectly sound. The media is always in favor of comprehensive anything.
She’s right. It sends a clear message that criminal immigrants are targeted for deportation. The senator from Nevada is brilliant.
That had better be a nonstarter
Once again these leftist hacks prove they have no concept of right and wrong or legal and illegal; possibly even night and day.
They apparently never learned the lesson about keeping their mouths shut rather than let everyone know they are a fool. Too late now; everyone knows.
Perhaps it would help them to study the immigration laws of other countries where many of them throw them in jail and sometimes forget where the put the key.
These guys are delusional.
Since he says he has a globalist vision (for others, not himself).
So the Dems are rolling back the US Code governing immigration?
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