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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 02:31 PM Jan 2019

Republicans load spending bill with hard-line measures targeting asylum

Source: Politico



By TED HESSON 01/22/2019 12:28 PM EST

A 1,300-page spending bill released by Senate Republicans Monday night contains provisions to restrict asylum and other hard-line immigration changes that make it unlikely to generate bipartisan support.

Democrats already were poised to reject President Donald Trump’s proposal to pass his $5.7 billion funding request for a border wall in exchange for temporary protections for some Dreamers brought to the United States as children. But hawkish measures embedded in the Republican spending bill will give Democrats even more reason to spurn the legislation.

“This is a Stephen Miller special,” Kerri Talbot, a director with the D.C.-based Immigration Hub, told reporters Tuesday. “It’s a Trojan horse with many extreme immigration proposals included.”

The bill doesn’t appear likely to end a partial shutdown of the federal government that stretched into its 32nd day Tuesday.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/22/republican-spending-bill-asylum-restrictions-1103837

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Republicans load spending bill with hard-line measures targeting asylum (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2019 OP
Keep It Up Dumbshits montanacowboy Jan 2019 #1
Haven't these people realised that they no longer have control of the House of Rep? ... SWBTATTReg Jan 2019 #2
Wasn't it Gomer Pyle grumpyduck Jan 2019 #3
... BumRushDaShow Jan 2019 #4
Dear god are they depraved Cosmocat Jan 2019 #5
No senate legislation created with zero democratic input will ever see a beachbum bob Jan 2019 #6
I hope the Dems hold the line. It is this bullshit they were elected to stop. sfwriter Jan 2019 #7
May I curse? akraven Jan 2019 #8
And why didn't they pass something like this before they lost the House of Reps in the recent... SWBTATTReg Jan 2019 #9
They want the shutdown to continue not fooled Jan 2019 #10

SWBTATTReg

(21,859 posts)
2. Haven't these people realised that they no longer have control of the House of Rep? ...
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 02:36 PM
Jan 2019

Doesn't matter what rump wants, or what the Senate wants. They can't get it w/o the House of Rep.

Cosmocat

(14,543 posts)
5. Dear god are they depraved
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 02:45 PM
Jan 2019

make it so horrible that any sane person could not vote for it - ensuring their party will vote for it and then scream dems don't want to engage.

Not even the first thought about policy and doing the work of the people.

They don't even have the capacity to think along the lines of using congress for anything more than deranged partisan politics.

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
6. No senate legislation created with zero democratic input will ever see a
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 02:45 PM
Jan 2019

vote in the House. Trump owns the shutdown, trumps the GOP and McConnel and no end to shutdown in sight. We all must show our resolve to topple tyranny. Hearing whining now by democrats ain't the way. We did not shutdown the govt.

 

sfwriter

(3,032 posts)
7. I hope the Dems hold the line. It is this bullshit they were elected to stop.
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 02:46 PM
Jan 2019

I hope the Karma bus finds Stephen Miller and Ann Coulter soon, while I am still around to see it.

akraven

(1,975 posts)
8. May I curse?
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 02:54 PM
Jan 2019

Fishing industries in Alaska are going down. Guess where y'all might get fish again?

Spam?

SWBTATTReg

(21,859 posts)
9. And why didn't they pass something like this before they lost the House of Reps in the recent...
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 03:34 PM
Jan 2019

elections? Because they knew that they wouldn't be able to get the votes to pass the bill originally. In their own controlled Senate and House. They couldn't even get anywhere then...

What makes them think they can do better now? They must all need glasses...can not seem to view the bad optics right in front of their faces.

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