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Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Democrats Block Emergency Funding for Border Crisis

Democrat Senator Pat Leahy bluntly told GOP Senators that Democrats are blocking $4.5 billion needed to manage the Central American migration emergency until Republicans submit to their pro-migration demands.

“We’re willing to put [up] the money,” the Vermont Senator said at the June 11 hearing at the Senate’s judiciary committee. But, he added:

"Now whether a supplemental gets done is up to the administration. If they continue to block bipartisan legislation, nothing happens. I hope the Republicans will finally realize we have to do this, Republicans and Democrats, together … We want long term solutions."

The May 1 funding request sought $3.3 billion to process and temporarily house many thousands of so-called “Unaccompanied Alien Children,” plus $2.2 billion for border agencies to register, shelter, and transport the huge flow of migrants as they walk through the catch-and-release loopholes at the border.

“The border is at its breaking point — we need funds,” said Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

GOP Senators are expected to push for Senate passage of the legislation mid-June. But the package still needs approval from at least seven Democrat Senators, plus the House’s Democrat leadership.

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3 comments:

TheRealRay said...

The enemy has a face and it's not our great President Trump...

Anonymous said...

There needs to be top to bottom immigration reform. Republican legislators seem to be side skirting the subject all together.

Mitch McConnel has been holding the Senate hostage for years now. He needs to be voted out. Anyone that states they will grind the government to an absolute halt simply because their party didn't win is not for democracy.

Anonymous said...

But if the Democrats concede the money, they won't have anything to campaign on i.e. Kamala Harris declaring how inhumane "caging" children and separating families is. This is all they got folks...getting tiresome isn't it?