After outcry from conservatives and Republican lawmakers who weren't willing to betray the GOP's commitment to the rule of law, legal immigration, and border security, an attempt to grant mass amnesty to DACA beneficiaries is, according to reporting on Wednesday night, dead.
Unsurprisingly, the fatally flawed legislative framework that was supposed to gin up support on both sides of the political aisle in the U.S. Senate did exactly the opposite as Republicans who limped across the midterm election finish line with barely a majority in the House and a loss in the Senate were not ready to hitch their names to a bill that was toxic among Republican voters. As Vespa reported, the whole plan was a disaster from the start:
The framework for the bill — no text had even been released — was so bad that even President Joe Biden said he was "encouraged" by the proposal, which told conservatives everything they needed to know. If
Biden thought the framework was a hopeful sign of progress, it's
definitely a deeply flawed idea. Biden still won't admit there's a
crisis at the border and has spent more time falsely smearing brave
border agents than he has trying to stop the unmitigated flow of illegal
immigrants — including a frightening number of individuals on terror
watch lists — into the country. If someone that deluded about reality
thinks your legislative proposal to grant citizenship to DACA Thankfully, for now, it seems enough solidly conservative lawmakers did exactly that, hence the amnesty deal's demise. Now the question remains whether a similar deal will be attempted again in the new Congress that kicks off in January, and whether senators such as Thom Tillis of North Carolina will be able to memory hole this latest attempt to abandon conservatives and border security for some inexplicable desire to look like a team player for the other side. |
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