Posted on 12/04/2023 5:08:43 PM PST by bitt
With a foreign aid package scheduled to hit the Senate floor as early as this week, eleven Senate Democrats issued a joint statement to demand that any agreement to tighten U.S. asylum laws and improve border security also include an amnesty for illegal aliens. The Democrats who signed the statement included Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Alex Padilla (D. Calif.), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Safety. They were joined by Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
The statement signals the concern that some Democrats have about ongoing negotiations in the Senate, where Republicans have demanded that negotiators include meaningful immigration policy changes as part of a foreign aid package that would spend billions on Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. It reads: “As negotiations surrounding the supplemental aid package progress, we are concerned about reports of harmful changes to our asylum system that will potentially deny lifesaving humanitarian protection for vulnerable people, including children, and fail to deliver any meaningful improvement to the situation at the border.” Ironically, the statement also criticizes Republicans for seeking immigration policy changes as part of the foreign aid package, saying that the addition of policy provisions to the aid package would set a dangerous precedent and forsake our allies. Yet, at the same time, these Democrats are demanding amnesty.
By issuing the stern statement, the Senators hope to rein in their Democrat colleagues negotiating the immigration provisions and ultimately stop them from making meaningful changes to the law. The Democrats’ negotiators include Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.). The Republican negotiators include Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.).
Senators Durbin, Padilla and others promoting open borders are beginning to feel the heat as the White House ramps up pressure for Congress to act on the foreign aid package. On Friday, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters, “We want to see all four priorities taken up by Congress and all four funded. The reason why it’s a supplemental is because they’re all urgent. And as I said earlier, we’re running out of runway on Ukraine, and I would tell you the same thing for Israel.”
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CALL THESE MAGGOTS!
The Democrats who signed the statement included Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Alex Padilla (D. Calif.), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship and Border Safety. They were joined by Senators Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.).
No ! Nope! Nada !
the great RR already made that deal with Tip. y’all lied and reneged on it, so my two cents: ‘Fool me once, shame on you....’
Points To Ponder
Ukraine’s top ally in the US govt, GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell told CBS two months ago:
<><> “a significant portion of US billions in US foreign aid to Ukraine is US spent
<><>tax dollars are being spent in the United States and 38 different states,
<><>b/c we are replacing weapons we send to Ukraine with more modern weapons,
<><>ergo, we’re rebuilding our industrial base.”
REALITY CHECK-—A closer look at the numbers reveals
<><> an overwhelming majority of Ukraine foreign aid is going overseas
<><> and that US aid remains overseas.
<><>of the $113 billion US tax dollars already spent
<><>only a fraction has gone to “rebuilding our industrial base.”
According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget:
<><>of the $113 billion tax dollars sent, $67 billion went to “military defense”
<><>Of that $67 billion, about $27 billion went to “drawdown replenishment,”
<><>meaning a skimpy $15 billion went to US military mfg.
<><>still another $18 billion tax dollars went to the “Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative,”
<><>nearly $5 billion more tax dollars went to other foreign military financing programs,
<><>plus another $2 billion tax dollars went to “other defense.”
Richard Stern budget analyst at the Heritage Foundation, broke down the numbers for The Federalist:
<><>the tax dollar billions we send Ukraine are not labeled “military support,”
<><>the billions are simply foreign aid money,
<><>this is cash US aid that Ukraine can do whatever it wants with
<><>none of that aid or cash has ever come back to the US in any way.”
No. Liars lie.
No no no no no no no no.
These fascists know the only way they win in 2024 is if the ignorant immigrants are able to contribute enough to the fraudulent votes to push them over the line.
The UniParty will try and hand it to them.
Amnesty has always been the Democrat end goal. Dems let in a flood of illegal immigrants as a bargaining chip with desperate Republicans. Republicans should call their bluff and raise them mass deportation.
Sure lucy, i’ll kick that ball.
They will just evade the laws for tightening security and all we will have is amnesty. So, no way.
fooled me twice means you can’t get fooled again.
Where’s Admiral Ackbar when you need him?
Once everyone is deported who needs amnesty?
Thanks. Awesome post.
No.
y/v/w
They tried this before with Simpson-Mazzoli and it was a big lie. Stop this nonsense!!!! Seal the border invasion and never vote Demonrat again...............
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