What is really happening here is the most extreme. antiimmigrant voices in the Republican Party using the crisis as a political cover to repeal a commonsense policy like the DREAM Act. and the Speaker has caved once again to those voices. Representative STEVE KING described the underlying legislation as something that he could have ordered off the menu. Furthermore. the rules are of course closed. setting the record anew for the most closed rules in any Congress. This bill does stop short of catapulting those children into Mexico and then leaving them to walk to their home countries. but it certainly doesnt do very much since the discussion in the House of Representatives for several years now has been what to do about immigration. It really is a sorry path that we have reached the condition we are in right now. a oneHouse bill. a Senate that is gone. and a President who wont sign it. If we learned anything this week. we learned from Speaker BOEHNERs comments on his blog that the President should do more. not less. contrary to the reason why they sued him. and we do hope that the President will do that and bring a more humane solution to this. as almost all religions in the United States have asked us to do.
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