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PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts) Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:23 PM Aug 2014

Reid: House border bill DOA in Senate

Source: The Hill

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said even if House Republicans get the votes necessary to pass its emergency border spending bill, there isn’t enough support in the Senate for the “wrong-headed” measure.

“The House appears to be getting from bad to worse as the House Republican Majority hunts for votes,” Reid said on the Senate floor Friday. “House Republicans will vote to deport children that have been living in the U.S. for their entire lives all in a pathetic attempt to appease the Tea Party.”

House Republican leaders are scrambling to get enough votes to pass their $659 million bill that aims to address the influx of immigrant children being detained at the U.S.-Mexico border. They’re hoping to hold a vote Friday before leaving for the five-week August recess.

Democrats oppose immigration reforms Republicans are considering attaching to the spending bill, including amending a 2008 human trafficking law to make it easier for authorities to send back children from Central America to their home countries.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/214058-reid-house-border-dead-in-s

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Reid: House border bill DOA in Senate (Original Post) PoliticAverse Aug 2014 OP

Once again the freaky media ignores the futility of the fascist House, it could pass the Unicorn Fred Sanders Aug 2014 #1

I said these kids at the border are going to be the death of the GOP in 2014 CanonRay Aug 2014 #2

Only if pro-immigration reform groups vote kansasobama Aug 2014 #3

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

1. Once again the freaky media ignores the futility of the fascist House, it could pass the Unicorn

Reply to PoliticAverse (Original post)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:26 PM

Aug 2014

and Fairies Immigration Act and the fucking turds in the media will dutifully applaud the effort and then blame Obama for the shit trail the unicorns and fairies leave behind, shovels in hand.

CanonRay

(14,104 posts)

2. I said these kids at the border are going to be the death of the GOP in 2014

Reply to PoliticAverse (Original post)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 12:29 PM

Aug 2014

Their attitude towards these children make them look like the complete a-holes we know they are.

kansasobama

(609 posts)

3. Only if pro-immigration reform groups vote

Reply to PoliticAverse (Original post)

Fri Aug 1, 2014, 01:13 PM

Aug 2014

In the past, non-Presidential years have seen apathy even in immigrant groups. That is a real danger here.

Last thing we want to see is Obama declaring an executive order but pro-immigration reform voters do not show up in mid-term election. I have seen this too many times.

By the way, can anyone explain why Florida governor race still has GOP ahead? Did our voters forget how the Tea party governor made it hard for us to vote during Presidential election? What is needed to motivate some of our friends?

Hope I am wrong. I want to be wrong.

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