IT'S SO MUCH EASIER TO ACCEPT THE LIES & DISINFORMATION PROMOTED
BY THE MASS GOP & OTHERS THAN TO THINK OR RESEARCH OR QUESTION!
To "R" voters: my apologies for taxing your brains to THINK or READ! FACTS & INFORMATION MATTER!
THE LAKEN RILEY BILL WAS FLAWED & SHOULD NOT HAVE PASSED WITHOUT
AMENDMENTS...DON'T EXPECT THE MASS GOP TO PROVIDE FACTS!
MassGOP Condemns Massachusetts Congressional Delegation’s Vote Against the Laken Riley
DID THE MASS GOP NOTICE THAT LAKEN RILEY BILL DOES NOT MANDATE CONVICTION? IT ONLY SPECIFIES 'ACCUSATION.'
Senate Democrats boil over Laken Riley missteps
“There is huge frustration that the bill didn’t go to committee on something so consequential,” fumed one Democratic senator who requested anonymity to discuss the intense debate that rocked the caucus.
“There is huge concern because we’re talking about the mandatory imprisonment based on an accusation without a person even being charged, let alone being convicted, and this applies to kids,” the senator said. “It’s a sweeping assault on core principles, and it doesn’t even have a judicial review component.”
The senator voiced frustration that Senate Democratic leadership didn’t press colleagues to block the motion to proceed to the bill unless Republicans promised more votes on amendments to change the bill on the Senate floor.
“There is enormous frustration,” the lawmaker added. “They put up the white flag from the very beginning and said, ‘For too many people [in the caucus], immigration is too toxic, and we have to just get through this,’ without really understanding the gravity of this bill and what it represents in terms of violating the norms — indefinite detention, no judicial review, based on an allegation.”
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), who blasted the bill as bad policy, said the lack of opportunity to modify the legislation on the floor — aside from three amendments — represents a broader failure of the entire Senate to meaningfully debate immigration policy.
“I think that this bill reflects the way the Senate has broken down, in some respects, in the fact that we’re not able to have votes on amendments that would have improved the legislation. It’s really problematic,” he said.
Bennet said he initially voted to proceed to the bill “so we could have debate and so we could have amendments, and I feel quite strongly that it would be better to leave decisions about whether [to] incarcerate [individuals] to law enforcement when it comes to nonviolent criminals.”
He was referring to the bill’s language that requires the mandatory detention of migrants without legal status who have been accused of theft but not convicted.
Bennet warned the bill would require Immigration and Customs Enforcement to spend billions of dollars incarcerating nonviolent criminals instead of violent criminals. And he argued it would put state attorneys general in charge of immigration policy, something he said is a federal responsibility.
Other Democrats vented over the swift passage of the Laken Riley Act, which is likely to pass the House and make it to President Trump’s desk.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) joined fellow Democrats in venting frustration over not getting an opportunity to vote on more amendments.
“It is bad policy,” he said of the bill that passed the Senate on Monday. “We had an amendment broadly supported by a big cross section of our caucus that would have fixed the bill.”
He said it would have changed the standard for detainment and deportation from arrest to conviction, “but [would have] allowed arrest to be sufficient if somebody had a history of failing to appear at immigration court proceedings.”
Kaine said, “There is frustration about it.”
“What’s frustrating is so many people signaled, ‘I’m going to vote for it, whether there are any amendments or not.’ And once the Republicans have enough Democrats who are on the record saying they’re going to vote [for a bill] regardless, what motive do they have to really have a robust amendment process … or to try to fix the bill?” he said.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who caucuses with Democrats, said he had concerns “about the bill, the process and the product.”
“This is a bill that has many, many deficiencies,” he said. “The concern is what kind of precedent it sets in terms of criminal justice and the degree we believe in due process.”
Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) said he was concerned with how the bill was handled.
“We should use the committee process where there’s an opportunity to deliberate and discuss,” he said.
“My preference would be that deportation occur upon a conviction, not a charge,” he added.
Full List of Senators Who Voted Against Advancing Laken Riley Act
excerpts:
Laken Riley Act Explained
The bill, reintroduced to Congress by Georgia Republican Representative Mike Collins on January 6, focuses primarily on mandating Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention of illegal immigrants arrested or charged with theft or similar offenses.
What People Are Saying
Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat from Connecticut: "The Laken Riley Act needs to be fixed. It does not work on paper right now. It creates more problems than it solves, and it creates enormous chaos in the immigration system."
Senator Dick Durbin, Democrat from Illinois: "That's why they introduced that bill. It's a 'gotcha' bill. But Thune has said he wants to have amendments and try for bipartisanship. I hope he does."
MASS GOP, AMY CARNEVALE, "R" VOTERS: TRUMP JUST RAISED PRESCIPTION DRUG PRICES!
Where are the BLOVIATORS: HOWIE CARR & the adolescent BLOVIATOR LOGAN TRUPIANO?
Bundled in Trump's EXECUTIVE ORDERS, the Orange Turd just CANCELLED the PRESCIPTION DRUG prices that President Biden negotiated to reduce COSTS for Americans!
It seems like too many still ingest FOX NEWS = FAKE NEWS LIARS & are too lazy to look up FACTS! They likely are unaware of the DOMINION LAWSUIT that MURDOCH settled for $757 million for ELECTION LIES - now that is UNINFORMED!
CORPORATE MEDIA was so anxious to bury President Biden, they ignored TRUMP's DEMENTIA!
Trump repeatedly claimed OBAMA was the President...did CORPORATE MEDIA comment?
Trump claimed you needed ID to buy a loaf of bread; that Jeb Bush got the U.S. into war in the Middle East; that World War II hasn't happened yet; that water destroys magnets; that he won all 50 state (including California) in 2020; that Nikki Haley was in charge of security at the US Capitol on January 6; that Viktor Orban was the leader of Turkey (that would be ERDOGAN);
Trump has confused his own U.N. Ambassador repeatedly....
Trump continues to do business with CHINA because he's got a secret CHINESE bank account....is FOX NEWS = FAKE NEWS LIARS asking? Is Amy Carnevale asking?
What if Obama invited the TALIBAN to Camp David on the anniversary of September 11?
'What if Obama suggested injecting disinfectant as a cure for COVID? What if Obama openly mocked a disabled reporter?What if Obama lost 2.9 million jobs during his presidency while hailing himself the jobs, jobs, jobs president? What if Obama's first national security advisor resigned within the first month for lying to the FBI about interactions with the Russian ambassador? What if Obama refused to divest from his international business organizations? What if Obama paid off a known porn star for her silence about their affair? What if Obama's campaign manager was found guilty of tax & bank fraud & later pleaded guilty to money laundering, tax evasion & witness tampering? What if Obama sent regular after midnight tweets addressing 'negative press covfete' ? What if Obama encouraged his supporters to engage in physical violence at his rallies? What if Obama refused to condemn Neo-Nazis? What if Obama proudly compared his coronavirus briefings, intended to inform a terrified public about how to survive, to a Mike Tyson boxing match? What if Obama used emergency authority to circumvent Congress on a border wall that was never built? What if Obama crudely disparaged opponents and proposed the execution of a respected military leader? What if Obama regularly flattered Vladimir Putin and other global dictators? What if Obama visited one of our territories after a devastating hurricane, complained that it was costing him too much, then showed his empathy by throwing rolls of paper towels at victims of the disaster as though he was participating in a half-time show stunt?
You've been conned!
"R" voters, the MASS GOP don't like to READ or Research, but
the comments above are from .....
THEY ARE PAYING THEIR TAXES:
Massachusetts Gained Nearly $650 Million in State and Local Tax Revenue from Immigrants without Status, Study Finds
CONGRESS presented a BIPARTISAN BORDER BILL that DONALD TRUMP instructed the MAGA GOP to defeat because he wanted it to be an ELECTION ISSUE.
This could have been SOLVED....were it not for TRUMP!
The BORDER BILL also included funding for improved technology that would have detected concealed DRUGS.
Immigrants are NOT wading across rivers & smuggling DRUGS! Americans are bringing DRUGS into the country & finding creative methods to conceal those DRUGS. (LOOK IT UP!)
TPS for HAITIANS & others.....the US/CIA is responsible for a great deal of the exodus from South of our borders....
look up what the US did to HAITI!
The US/CIA trained monsters at the SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS to murder & exploit native populations, rape resources.
Lots of MASSACRES that Elliott Abrams denied.
But you got your CHEAP BANANAS!
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