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As Speaker Boehner and House Republicans prepare to undermine protections afforded to children fleeing persecution and violence and end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the call from Thomas Wenski, the Archbishop of Miami, should ring in their ears:
As Boehner and the Republican Conference shift further to the extreme right, House Democrats have stood united in calling upon the GOP to end their callousness and properly address the border crisis with H.R. 15, bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform.
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Yesterday, Speaker Boehner & House Republicans wasted American taxpayers' time and money passing a resolution to allow them to sue the President of the United States, paving the way for impeachment proceedings. What could they have been doing instead of this partisan charade? Pass the Senate-passed version of the Highway and Transportation Funding Act to achieve a long term reauthorization bill, for one. Prominent transportation groups are pleading with the Speaker and the Republicans to address this urgent economic priority.
As Boehner and House Republicans take up their callous bills in response to the humanitarian crisis on the southern border, prominent groups have expressed their strong opposition and concern over them. See what some had to say: