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 Trumps 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. Its a Trojan horse with many extreme immigration proposals included.
The bill doesnt 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
montanacowboy
(6,053 posts)They never learn, this will only make people blame them all the more.
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)Doesn't matter what rump wants, or what the Senate wants. They can't get it w/o the House of Rep.
grumpyduck
(6,198 posts)who used to say, "Surprise, surprise, surprise!"?
BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)Cosmocat
(14,543 posts)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)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)I hope the Karma bus finds Stephen Miller and Ann Coulter soon, while I am still around to see it.
akraven
(1,975 posts)Fishing industries in Alaska are going down. Guess where y'all might get fish again?
Spam?
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)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.