Republicans: The Party of ‘Mass Deportation’ Threatening Our National Security
From New York Times:
Behold the Republican Immigration Strategy: Mass Deportation…It's a new year, with a new Congress, but the same old Republican Party hard line on immigration. Harder, actually…The G.O.P. is not just seeking to undo the executive actions Mr. Obama announced last November, for young immigrants known as Dreamers and many of their parents. The party also wants to repeal earlier actions going back to 2012, protecting hundreds of thousands of Dreamers and the families of active-duty service members.That is a lot of people to force back into the deportation line. What's striking about this early Republican move is that it is not just stray artillery fire from the party's wingnut brigade, led by Representative Steve King of Iowa, but a product of the House leadership…So much for the G.O.P. not being the scary party. This counts as a definite screw-you to immigrants from the party that keeps saying it wants to moderate its stance toward new Americans, and thus broaden its appeal beyond angry white people, but can never bring itself to do so.
From Los Angeles Times:
Paris attack complicates GOP strategy against Obama's immigration plan…Trying to stop President Obama's immigration plan by withholding funds from the Homeland Security Department was always going to be a politically dicey move for the new Republican-led Congress…But the terrorist attack in Paris this week complicated that strategy.
From Clevand.com:
With the terror attack this week in France, congressional Republicans were put in an awkward position regarding continuing funding of the Department of Homeland Security.
From Washington Post:
Republicans set to ramp up call for more deportations?...We already knew that House Republicans were preparing legislation designed to block President Obama's executive actions shielding millions from deportation. But now the news is breaking that Republicans may go further than that: They are…mulling legislation that apparently would attempt to roll back the enforcement priorities underlying those executive actions.
From Bloomberg:
House Republicans Target Child Immigrants in Tea Party Nod…House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, is planning a vote…to reverse orders shielding some 5 million people included in Obama's November orders. The proposal also covers a 2012 directive addressing young undocumented immigrants and a series of 2011 memos that gave priority to terrorists and criminals for deportation…The move is also an attempt to shore up support within the conference to proceed to a broader overhaul of U.S. immigration laws...
From Fusion:
House Republicans are preparing for a huge immigration battle against President Obama…Republicans plan to vote on a proposal to roll back Obama's deportation relief programs for undocumented immigrants and end an administration policy that aims to reduce deportations of non-criminal undocumented immigrants…
From Wall Street Journal:
The package taking shape in the House represents an expansive pushback against the president. It would kill his plan, announced in November, to temporarily shield millions of people from deportation, primarily parents of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have been in the U.S. for at least five years. It would also kill a 2012 program that offered similar shelter to people brought to the U.S. illegally as children—a sharp turn from two years ago, when leading House Republicans were discussing a GOP version of the Dream Act, which offers a permanent legal status for this group.
From National Journal:
House GOP Makes an Aggressive Opening Bet on Immigration…Assuaging the conservative wing of their conference, House Republicans will vote to dismantle a series of White House immigration actions ranging back to Obama's first term. Among them are a measure from 2012 that defers deportation for undocumented immigrants brought to the country at a young age and Obama's executive action from last year that will grant temporary work status and deportation deferrals to millions more immigrants.The measures will be tacked on to a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security through the end of the fiscal year, setting up a showdown…In August, the House took a similar vote to repeal DACA, a measure which passed with a wide margin of Republican support…Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, the new chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released his own, similar immigration legislation on Thursday…A McConnell spokesman said…that the leader had no further comment on the issue…
From La Opinion Editorial:
The new U.S. House of Representatives has a very clear stance on immigration. First, eliminate the deportation deferral program, and then expel both the young DREAMers and the undocumented parents of U.S. citizens…President Obama's executive action put to rest last year's doubts about legislative leadership. The GOP's internal debate is still being won by the hardliners, who are even more emboldened…The Republican majority's project not only seeks to eliminate protection for millions of people with relatives in the United States. It is also trying to revive every previously discarded measure to facilitate immediate, certain deportation…This kind of legislative extremism on immigration is always explained as a gesture to please the conservative base. It's much more than that. It is also an attack on the Latin and immigrant communities, whose repercussions are as specific as inhuman and painful…