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 Americas 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 wont bring Mrs. Pelosis 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 werent 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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The trucking industry is finished for white Americans. They are dwindling. Wages are too low because lack of immigration controls have brought down wages, even for highly skilled flat bed operators..
So what do you have driving 80K gross weight vehicles across our highways? Less skilled, less professional immigrants that don't care about fellow Americans or your lives because they are here for only the money. Your life means jack shit to them and I am a direct witness to this that is already known in the industry.
It’s all theater as this will go nowhere in the Senate. But this will likely encourage more illegals to arrive thinking they will be safe.
As much as we like to blame the Democrats for this mess with illegal aliens, there is not enough blame put upon the GOP. They want illegals here to please their masters in the Cheap Labor Lobby.
Nothing was done the first two years under Trump when we controlled everything. Paul Ryan made sure of that.
Bush did not secure the border after 9-11.
Even Reagan granted amnesty.
The GOP is just as bad.
so Nancy pulled it out of her Knickers ,blew the dust off it and passed it again ,LOL
Why? Millions of children who were conceived here, were not allowed to be born.
There are more than a thousand on average daily coming through just the NM section of the border daily, so it is likely four to ten times that number for the entire border.
And this retarded bill dies in the Senate, God willing..but knowing some of the Republican Senators are open border jackasses has me worried but I still think it dies in the Senate
But those unborn are likely to vote Republican so Dems dont care if they are slaughtered in the womb..these “Kids” who are brought here with their illegal alien parents vote Democrat so that is all that matters
You’re absolutely right. I’ve long said that the Democrats aren’t interested in letting these babies be born, because they’d rather destroy generations of “possible” voters, and take up the cause of illegals they know will vote Democrat.
Didnt Democratic-controlled House show that they didnt really care about Dreamers when PDJT offered support for Dreamers if House funded the peoples southern border wall, the House refusing wall funding regardless of Dreamers?
So are Democrats using Dreamers as a pawn again?
Corrections, insights welcome.
Just more anti American treachery from the DC communist party.
CIB -173rd we get it. Would you serve today? Frankly, I could not with these LGBT types and all these idiots riding up and down roads/MSR’s. You and I fought in II Corps and West. Dak To was no picnic for the 173rd. The hills around it cost you dearly. I had a friend, a CPT, who was awarded the DSC there.
He never forgot the men he lost. May you find peace.
Basically, the rabidly irresponsible, anti-American democRats voted to encourage more illegal immigration into the USA.
Illegals vote Democrat, their children vote Democrat, their childrens, children vote Democrat, and so on and so on that is why the Dems love open borders
Democrats don’t care about illegals. Only their votes.
This will make the Trump victory 100 times bigger. Whether the GOP-e want to be a part of it is their look-out.
What in the HELL makes you think for five seconds the Senate will not pass this??? They just today STABBED our POTUS in the back over the tariffs for Mexico, GIVE ME A DAMN BREAK republicans WANT our borders WIDE OPEN dont kid yourself!!!
Kick them out. They can apply legally. Are a bleeding heart or what? That kind of thinking only empowers LIB lunatics .
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