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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“Tad” = times 3 or 4.
NOT gonna happen!
If that’s true I hope the Senate refuses to join in with it.If not hopefully the President will just veto it.
DOA in the Senate.
No they shouldn’t.
In your home.
A kid comes here as a two-year-old and is now 17-years-old. He is no more able to get around in the country where he was born than you are. Even if your really felt that way, to round up that kid and "send him back" is a political impossibility. Dream on if you think it will ever happen.
I'm as pro life as you are.
A kid that has been here since two-years-old and is not in his teens, how do you send a kid like that back. He knows nothing about the country where he was born. Very likely does not even speak the language and for sure does not know a thing of the local customs. He grew up here. The Dems and Republicans screwed up, not that kid.
Sending all Congress Members that created this mess out of the country is far more attractive to me.
“daring Republicans to either vote for the bill as-is, or else be labeled “anti-immigrant.”
I’m hoping they would be labled
as anti-illegal alien.
I know you’re pro-life. At this point in my life, I’m really pro life since my youngest son is recuperating from cancer surgery, and is undergoing 6 months of chemo treatments. He can’t work, and although he has health insurance, he has no idea how much his medical bills will finally be, so I really don’t give a rat’s ass about illegal aliens, kids or not, who were allowed to come here, and get everything handed to them, or why they should be allowed to stay.
Kids who were brought here as children should be allowed to stay.
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Their parents are invaders who broke our immigration laws to enter our country illegally, and like all felons they should be sent to jail - and then deported.
And the ilegal invaders can take their “children” - many of whom are adults in their 30s or 40s by now - back with them.
I wouldn’t be so sure Trump won’t sign it.
If we ever hang one of these traitors maybe, just maybe, the people in DC can get back to doing We the People work.
Not until after one hell of a blood bath. It is coming.
It is not one of those "what ifs" but "when" scenarios.
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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.
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Ummm, it wasn’t THAT long ago that Ryan was pushing for a Dreamer (aka amnesty) vote; boy, was FR up-in-arms then. Damn, who held both chambers @ that time again??
Seems not only the Left has selective amnesia\plantation residents.
Well it’s already happening. Look at Minnesota - Somalia where the cops don’t want to enter.
Militarize the southern border until the situation is stabilized. Can’t Trump do this under the cover of his emergency declaration?
Democrats and the Left (including judges) hate America and will do everything they can to thwart Trump in protecting us.
Uh, no... try 20-25 million.
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