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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And we already have constitution that is suppose to protect us from invasion. And we already have immigration law making this all illegal even to the point in some cases of making the penalty a death sentence for those involved.
Obviously such laws are worthless.
Uh, no.
The problem is the Republican party has joined forces with the Democratic party now with the exception of a few members. They exist to give people the illusion they have a choice
Here’s a thread I posted today showing how many things Republicans have ignored, and this is just a partial list. .......
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4201124/posts
They’ll get the asylum and just ignore the laws. No deal.
No - no amnesty and no path to citizenship for anyone entering the US illegally - not now, not ever!!!
all that is needed is the federal government actually fallowing the laws when it comes to immigration and border security...any law passed would just be ignored..
Someone should inform the communist Democrat party that amnesty was no more after the 1986 amnesty.
And if the Republicans agree to this they’re done for
thank you for posting this. A lot of useful information here that people need to see. I wasn’t aware of most of this.
They haven't had to demand that for the past 50 years of open violent lawless borders. But now they do?
Seems a bit odd.
Amnesty never. That’s like saying if you rob me then you’ll get to keep the loot and I’ll tell all of my criminal friends to rob you too. Amnesty is obscene.
y/v/w
no path to citizenship: but i don’t even want them contributing to cultural shift. I don’t even want them to contribute to sprawl and traffic. deportation is merely a repatriation to one’s homeland not a horrible thing the ‘left’ makes it out to be.
I am ok with amnesty though. 90 days to arrange transport of assets that can be moved or sale of assets which cannot be moved. leave the country and there will be no prosecution for taxes evaded, non-violent crimes committed (e.g. overstaying a visa), etc.
“..Republicans should call their bluff and raise them mass deportation....”
^THIS^!!!
And the communist RAT AINOs need to leave right along with em!!!
Ahhhh. Just like they did in the Ffifties. And Sixties. And Seventies. And Eighties.
Etc. Etc. Etc.
They have never, ever, ever, Ever lived up to their promises.
Ever.
And they won’t this time either. But the Stupid Party will take them at their word.
yeah. the more i think about it, domestically, and in hind sight, that was probably the highest stakes game the RR played for America in his time at the helm. higher than even with the Soviet Union. he saw the arc of history, the forces already tearing America apart, and what evil was trying to accomplish and how it was accomplishing it.
he threw the dice...
All of the usual RAT scumbags are on board.
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