Posted on 12/22/2022 9:30:34 AM PST by Red Badger
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) unveiled an amendment to the government omnibus spending bill that would extend the Title 42 immigration policy until a "proper plan" can replace it, potentially easing concerns of some Republican senators who threatened to vote against the spending legislation until concerns surrounding the southern border were resolved.
Sinema's amendment comes just days before Congress must vote on its annual budget ahead of a Friday midnight deadline in order to avert a government shutdown. Lawmakers planned to vote on the $1.7 trillion spending plan on Thursday even as some GOP lawmakers threatened to stall the legislation until they could come to an agreement on Title 42, a public health statute that the Trump administration used to stem the flow of illegal immigration during the coronavirus pandemic.
Title 42 was set to expire on Wednesday but has since been extended by the Supreme Court after an emergency plea from 19 Republican-led states urging the court to keep the Trump-era policy.
Sinema’s amendment could save the Democratic spending bill, handing a win to the party from the Arizona senator who announced she would be leaving the party earlier this month to instead become an independent.
As part of her proposal, Sinema proposes allocating millions of dollars to go toward enhancing the immigration court process, increasing the number of attorneys prosecuting crimes committed at the border, strengthening detention for smugglers and other criminals who are apprehended, funding ICE transportation and detention, and expediting the deportation of illegal immigrants, among other provisions.
The termination of the border policy threatened to stall the annual budget legislation as Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) insisted earlier this week on including an amendment that would keep the pandemic-era policy in place. Lee’s opposition held outsize significance because a single senator can object to fast-tracking a vote on the spending bill, threatening the Senate’s ability to pass the omnibus with just hours before a government shutdown.
Several House Republicans also called on the Biden administration to provide answers and transparency for how it plans to deal with the immigrant crisis at the southern border, according to a letter sent to the Biden administration on Wednesday and obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Title 42 was enacted in 2020 under the Trump administration in an attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19. Under the public health order, border agents were permitted to expel immigrants immediately upon encountering them.
Border Patrol agents made a record-breaking 2.3 million immigrant encounters during the 2022 fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. But that number is expected to be even higher over the next fiscal year, especially if Title 42 is lifted.
Some liberal groups are calling on lawmakers to vote against Sinema’s amendment, making it unclear whether lawmakers will come to an agreement on the spending legislation before the midnight deadline.
So free-thinking and independent!
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Did anybody really believe she’s changed?
The only thing she changed was the letter after her name................
Stocks are plunging as we add a couple more TRILLION to the debt.
What do you expect from a BI-SEXUAL!!!
“some GOP lawmakers threatened to stall the legislation”.
Ooooh, threatened!
How about DO in stead?
The new Congress should be the ones to set this budget.
Allowing the lame ducks to pass this neuters the next congress and the Dims stick it to us again.
She didn’t ditch the Dem party. She still “caucuses” with them, which means she guarantees her vote to keep Schumer as Senate leader and Dems in charge of all the committees. Calling herself “independent” is a ruse to fool ignorant or inattentive voters back in her state
Still a stupid Commie bitch. Nothing had changed.
Guess Sinema wants the women of Arizona to live in a hyper violent South American gangster world.
Guess she’s really scared of Reuben Gallego muscling her out of her little gig here.
She’s a communist. She stole her way in like other Az. Democrats. The press gives her a lot of cover on purpose.
How many here offered to father her child after she dropped the Dem label?
Bueller?
She didn’t ditch anything! She’s a whack job.
How are them apples Calizonians?
No different than 90% of the Repubs.
That's not why stocks are plunging.
They're plunging because the market is very afraid that the Omnibus will get delayed.
It's deflation that's the name of the game, not inflation.
The money supplies across the world are plunging, due to the debt behind them defaulting.
Did she get anything in exchange for her vote? Yes.
Was she superior to any repub in that regard? Yes.
What did she get? Funding for border control and expedited expulsion of illegals. At least it’s a start.
Like title 42 is the only problem
Printing money will NOT pay the debts any where in the world. This is sophistry in the extreme. Markets are “emotions” nothing to do with reason. Fiscal discipline and true profitability are linked, and NOT linked to printing FIAT currency of any nation.
But- this has to happen in order to steer nations of the world again into a world war, wasting resources because the lack of self discipline guides those who would do this to the rest of the peons of the world. History doesn’t repeat but it does rhyme (Mark Twain).
So the answer is to keep injecting ourselves with the money-printing drug?
Some answer!
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