The Uniparty surrender ...
Posted on 02/04/2015 12:07:55 PM PST by Jim Robinson
(Reuters) - A U.S. Senate Republican on Wednesday proposed breaking the impasse in Congress over President Barack Obama's immigration policies by blocking only his 2014 executive order affecting the undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents.
The amendment from Senator Susan Collins of Maine would not affect Obama's 2012 program that helped undocumented child immigrants, widely known as the "Dreamers" program.
The amendment marked a crack in Republican solidarity behind a House of Representative-passed bill that would defund the actions that Obama took both in 2012 and 2014 to lift the threat of deportation for millions of people.
The fight raging in Congress over Obama's immigration policy has delayed passage of a Department of Homeland Security funding bill; the agency faces a Feb. 27 deadline when money runs out.
Collins said she could not support the provision in the House-passed legislation that would undo the Dreamers program for undocumented children.
“I just think it's not right to send them back to their home countries when many of them have known no other home than America, and they didn’t make the decision to come here, their parents brought them here," Collins told reporters.
"That's the sweet spot for getting this bill passed," she said, referring to the funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the immigration programs.
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Sweet, too bad a few hundred red blooded Americans don't drive down to the border and haul about 1500 little border jumpers to Msssssss. Collins residence and see how she feels about the issue then. /sarcasm
No, no and no.
The Uniparty surrender ...
Hmmnn Let me think about that one.
Uh Yes. Yes they do.
I could support that.
Thank you, KC .... for the ping, not for the post content :)
Nothing the GOP-E does surprises me any more.
Okay Sue, you win.
They can all stay at your place.
YOU PAY FOR THEM!!!!
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