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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They won’t do either if they get amnesty.
Don’t fall for it. Ronald Reagan did, and it lost us California permanently.
Mass deportation of illegal aliens.
And the dem politicians who are amnesty junkies.
I guarantee that a portion of that cash is being funneled back into the pockets of the politicians who are funneling our taxpayer money over there.
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With any luck, Senate Democrats are going to need some amnesty one of these days..
No question......but he couldn’t say that.
He meant the aid does not return in a way that’s visibly measurable, that benefits the economy.
“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.).”
All of them traitors who should be tried for treason and executed if found guilty. You do not support an attack against this country then support the attackers. Foreign invasion of this country is an attack against the sovereignty of the USA and these pigs support it.
Agree on one condition. The wall is fully built and completed before any amnesty is granted. And then amnesty will only be granted to families whose members haven’t been incarcerated for crimes in this country. If they have, the entire family has to return to their own country of origin. And before amnesty is granted, those families must leave.
In other words, if the Democrats want amnesty, every ounce of criminality be illegal aliens has to be remediated with a fully constructed southern border. See what they say about that.
Ugh. Turban Durbin. An embarrassment to the nation and Illinois. He surfaces during election season only.
Ahhh yes. Hold the American people hostage.
Support #TEXIT. Texas First, Texas Always
The solution to the border problem is deaths, lots of deaths. Kill some women and a few pregnant women and the flow will subside
Death is a highly underrated motivator
Like we didn’t see this coming.
Fckn traitors.
I repeat, NO!
Zero immigration policy changes the system is works just fine changes are loopholes for replacement acts.
same rabbit hole
same lies
LOL, I bet that even if they won all three branches the GOP would not pass such a bill. They won't even impeach the Sec of DHS.
Democrats holding the American public hostage. Do what they want or they’ll continue to flood the country with some potentially dangerous people.
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