What made HR2 better Robert?
What was in HR2 that was not in the senate bill?
What was in the Senate bill not in HR2?
I bet you have no idea, and are just parroting what you were told to say.
I don't know what was in HR2....I ADMIT! I didn't bother checking because Republican congress critters didn't include my Representative or Democrats, in their bill.
The Senate Bill was written by a very conservative Republican, with 1 Dem and 1 Indie as advisors.
SHOCKINGLY it was an EXTREMELY GOOD BILL, contrary to Trump and his acolyte's lies about it....all for last minute political posturing, after the bill had been worked on for the previous 6 months with no complaints, until Trump gave them his tweet, with his marching orders, to kill it....you support yellow belly cowards Robert...
Here is some of what is in the Senate bill, which should have been approved and up and running this past March.
Even before a bipartisan group of senators unveiled the text of a foreign aid and immigration overhaul bill on Feb. 4, it faced significant opposition from former President Donald Trump and other Republican leaders. We'll explain what was in the legislation and the facts on two popular talking...
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The Bill, in Brief
The
$118 billion bill, called the Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, sought significant changes in border policy. It
included money to build more border barriers, to
greatly expand detention facilities, and to
hire more Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents, asylum officers and immigration judges to reduce the years-long backlog in cases to determine asylum eligibility. It sought to expedite the asylum process, essentially ending — in most cases — the so-called “catch and release” policy whereby migrants are released into the U.S. pending asylum hearings.
And it would have increased the standard of evidence needed to win asylum status.
The bill also would have supplied more funding to interdict fentanyl and human trafficking, and it included $60 billion in aid for Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel.
“It doesn’t have everything in it I wanted, it doesn’t have everything it it my Democratic colleagues wanted,” one of the architects of the bill, Republican Sen. James Lankford, said from the Senate floor before the vote was taken. “But it definitely makes a difference.”
In the lead-up to the vote, Lankford accused his Republican colleagues of opposing the bill on political, rather than policy, grounds.
“It is interesting: Republicans, four months ago, would not give funding for Ukraine, for Israel and for our southern border because we demanded changes in policy,”
Lankford said on CNN. “And now, it’s interesting, a few months later, when we’re finally getting to the end, they’re like, ‘Oh, just kidding, I actually don’t want a change in law because it’s a presidential election year.’”
The bill was also supported by several groups that typically align with Republicans, such as the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the
Wall Street Journal editorial board. The
National Border Patrol Council, a union that represents about 18,000 border patrol agents, also
endorsed the bill.
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And regarding the 5000 illegals allowed in
LIE that Trumpers MADE UP......
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Does Not ‘Accept’ 5,000 Illegal Immigrants a Day
Leading up to the vote, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise on social media
said the bill “accepts 5,000 illegal immigrants a day.” Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn added her voice to the opposition,
posting that she would “never vote to make illegal immigration legal.”
Those comments misrepresented the bill.
The bill stated that temporary border emergency authority would be automatically activated by the Department of Homeland Security secretary if there is an average of 5,000 or more migrant encounters a day over seven consecutive days — or if there are 8,500 or more such encounters on any single day. In December — according to the
latest data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection — there was an average of more than 8,000 encounters a day of migrants who crossed the border illegally between points of entry.
“It’s not that the first 5,000 [migrants encountered at the border] are released, that’s ridiculous,” Lankford said on the Senate floor. “The first 5,000 we detain, we screen and then we deport. If we get above 5,000, we just detain and deport.”
In a social media post on Feb. 5, Trump wrote, “Only a fool, or a Radical Left Democrat, would vote for this horrendous Border Bill, which only gives Shutdown Authority after 5000 Encounters a day.”
He’s wrong about the 5,000 encounters threshold. Although that is the threshold for mandatory activation of the emergency authority, the bill also would have extended “discretionary activation” to the Homeland Security secretary once there is an average of 4,000 or more encounters over seven consecutive days.
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