Posted on 06/04/2019 4:21:47 PM PDT by jazusamo
With chants of “Yes we can” raining from the rafters, House Democrats on Tuesday powered through legislation to cancel deportations and grant future citizenship rights to millions of people, in a vote that nodded more toward 2020 politics than to substantive policymaking.
The 237-187 vote was momentous, marking the first major legalization to pass the House in nearly a decade, and underscoring the ground Democrats feel they have gained on an issue both sides expect to be at the center of the presidential election.
With President Trump calling for action to solve crisis at the border, Democrats countered by casting their eye inward at the 11 million illegal immigrants who already made it across America’s boundaries and have found places in the shadows.
Democrats on Tuesday singled out more than two million of them for legalization, in what party leaders said was the first step toward a more comprehensive solution.
“We have the opportunity to be a part of history, to be on the right side of history,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told colleagues as she rallied support.
That history is not likely to be made this year, however.
Republicans who control the Senate won’t bring Mrs. Pelosi’s bill to the floor, and the White House vowed a veto anyway.
“No compromise is possible without both sides coming to the table,” the White House said in a policy statement this week.
The way Democratic leaders shepherded the bill through the chamber suggested they weren’t interested in a compromise. They allowed just two hours of floor debate and blocked the GOP from offering any amendments, effectively daring Republicans to either vote for the bill as-is, or else be labeled “anti-immigrant.”
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This will make the Invasion 100 times bigger
Not just the college students either. ALL of them. Even had Republican support.
Give thanks to God that the Senates don’t own the Senate as well, and that Hillary didn’t win.
This, however, is what we will get if we don’t vote and they do gain majorities.
Only if the quisling GOP Senators pass it as well.
Yes, let us reward lawbreakers. If you rob a bank and have no income it is important we let you out “for the children.”
The illegal PARENTS need to tell the kids they are paying for the parents’ crimes.
Dang, that the Democrats don’t own the Senate.
I guess I was thinking about the guy that poured ketchup all over his sleeping girlfriend.
LOL!
President Trump will not only sign such a bill (assuming he Senate passes it) but will use it during the next election.
President Trump - one man standing alone to end the invasion of our nation.
The Democrats have just shot themselves in the foot
The Senate should take the bill, add some nails, shape it into suppositories and send it back to Pelosi with instructions on where Demonicrats can put it.
Oh, wait! The Senate is controlled by Republicans.
They can just send a bouquet of flowers and a box of chocolates instead.
Children, in every sense.
Think it will ever be enacted?
This bill is going nowhere. It’s like watching the Republicans when they were in control in the house create going nowhere legislation. They are all idiots.
This will never fly in the Senate, and, hopefully, the American people will not support Democrats in 2020 precisely because of this insanity!
HST, let this be fair warning to ALL AMERICANS!
This is the kind of nonsensical law that Democrats WILL pass after they winn an election!
A vote for ANY Democrat, whether it be in a local, state or federal election, is a vote against America!
America cannot survive a Democrat victory in 2020!
No doubt Romney and his ilk will be pushing this through the Senate. .... and I wouldn't want to bet either way on whether it will pass.
I sure hope that Trump is still President when/if this gets through the Senate, and can veto it. If they successfully impeach and convict him first, I have little doubt that Pence (or whoever) will sign it.
Kids who were brought here as children should be allowed to stay.
11,000,000. A number that magically never grows.
Republicans voting Aye:
Bacon
Diaz-Balart
Fitzpatrick
Hurd (TX)
Newhouse
Smith (NJ)
Upton
Republicans not voting:
Green (TN)
Hern, Kevin
Herrera-Beutler
Mullin
It’s being “enacted” to the tune of about 1,000 illegals a day gaining access thru our southern border (last I heard).
The US will bust up into ethnic country enclaves.
>> daring Republicans to either vote for the bill as-is, or else be labeled “anti-immigrant.”
Whatever. The Democrat Thug Party is anti-American — the true takeaway.
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