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The “deal,” which we noted earlier was awful, just passed the Senate.
Senators who voted AGAINST border omnibus:
DEM:
Booker
Gillibrand
Harris
Markey
WarrenGOP:
Braun
Cotton
Cruz
Hawley
Inhofe
Lee
Paul
Rubio
Sasse
Scott (S.C.)
Toomey— Nate Madden (@NateOnTheHill) February 14, 2019
Democrats who are running for President in 2020 plus Ed “Green New Deal” Markey voted against it. On the Republican side, several conservatives also voted against it, including Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Ben Sasse, and newcomer Mike Braun.
My Take
I’ll openly admit I was very hopeful (gullible?) when I heard there was a border wall deal Republicans supported that would avert another government shutdown and supply funding for the border wall. That was until I read the details.
This bill allows a provision for illegal immigrants who claim to be “potential” sponsors for unaccompanied children to essentially get instant amnesty. Seriously.
Here’s just a sampling of responses on Twitter:
When it's too good to be true…
I was happy when I heard the government shutdown could be avoided and there was some funding for the wall. @realDonaldTrump
Upon seeing the bill… pic.twitter.com/2M2K2XtNEU
— JD Rucker (@JDRucker) February 14, 2019
The immigration deal is not just “not good.” It is affirmatively destructive.
Combining this deal with a national emergency declaration in no way comes close to countermanding the affirmatively destructive nature of Sec. 224(a) and Sec. 232(a).
Awful look here for @WhiteHouse.
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) February 14, 2019
This “deal” provides de facto amnesty for anyone claiming to be even in the household of a potential sponsor of an unaccompanied alien minor AND is thus the “Child Trafficking Promotion Act” cc: @realDonaldTrump
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) February 14, 2019
https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1096152510610460672
What Congress is doing right now is immoral. They've buried a fundamental transformation of U.S. immigration law into a 1,000+ page bill no one has read and decided to vote on it fewer than 24 hours after the text was made public. https://t.co/jrvoN4ZRRz
— Chris Pandolfo (@ChrisCPandolfo) February 14, 2019
Yes, #10USC284 is the only way forward. We've posted 9 articles about it and a handful of conservatives on Capitol Hill have heard us, but it seems like it's not enough. https://t.co/tm2CnBrzUw
— JD Rucker (@JDRucker) February 14, 2019
The details are unbelievably bad. I know some of our writers support the deal, but as editor I have to state officially that this isn’t a border security bill. It hampers border security. It’s unfathomable that so many Republicans support it. Only conservatives in the Senate voted against it. Very sad.
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