Bush administration. yet that is precisely what House Republicans are doing with these poison pill amendments made in order under the rule. Believe me. these pills really are poison. They cater to the Republican Conferences most extreme elements. one of them even targets the DREAM Act students. reversing the Presidents widelyacclaimed and -accepted decision to focus instead on the deportation of dangerous criminals. A fullyear DHS funding bill was negotiated in good faith on a bicameral. bipartisan basis. and it addresses the most pressing needs of the Department and works to protect the country from harm. If Republicans want to make meanspirited and destructive changes in immigration policy. there is a legislative process for doing that. In the meantime. we should be passing a clean. fullyear funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. just as we should have done in December. I urge defeat of the antiimmigration amendments and adoption of the underlying appropriations bill. and I yield back the balance of my time.
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