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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That meme says it all!
No, hell no!
No way, Jose.
I’d love to see the day when membership in the Democrat Party will be akin to being a member of the Nazi Party.
All Democrats are evil enemies of America as are RINOS.
All on the list are the natural enemies of Americans.
We need to destroy our nation to cement the destruction of Ukraine. GOP grifting scum will sign on, probably.
Tightened laws that they will then ignore like they are now?
It’s a sucker’s deal. Don’t go for it.
That’s insane.
We’ve seen this before. NO WAY!
And can not vote. Period.
Amnesty for 15 million illegal aliens?
They know PDJT is going to deport every last one of them and the cartel horses they rode in on.
Amnesty for human traffickers and slave drivers? AMnesty for those selling children to pedophiles?Let the cartels deepen their hold on America?Let MS13 terrify our school kids and murder them?
Yeah right!
These dirty Dem Senators should be pilloried in Fort Marcy Park. Let the public throw rotten vegetables and worse at them, before administering fetanyl suppositories..
NO. Take your amnesty and stuff it up a pig’s behind.
They are that stupid.
It’s always been the D’s trump card. We’ll destroy the country with open borders unless we get our way.
Reagan fell for it and the promise of border security was laughed at.
Lucy is wanting to pull out the football again.
How about NO!!!
I am too tired to read it tonight, but if they are demanding amnesty for INVADING OUR BORDERS..\
OKAY, DEMS, IF YOU WANT TO GO INTO AN ELECTION...DEMANDING THAT THE ILLEGALS BECOME LEGAL...
SWEETIES,,,that will NOT be a winning platform. Can’t you help, yourselves from being putzes?
I didn’t like that “comprehensive immigration” song and dance
the first time and it’s worse than ever. You are right, it’s a dishonest game. Imagine a million “Palestinian refugees” in addition to the ones they are already letting in.
There are laws on the books already. Defending the border is a basic function of government. If they need a deal just to fund that basic function, they’re unfit.
How did that work out???
Speaker Mike Johnson would likely say “No to amnesty!”
LOCKING BARN DOOR AFTER HORSES ARE GONE
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