We are just a week into the new Congress. and the Republicans are already back to their old games. but this time. they are playing politics with the security and safety of the Nation. We get it. They are frustrated with the Presidents executive order which attempts to reunite families and bring a rational. prioritybased approach to our immigration system. Given the Constitution. the laws. and the legal precedents. the Presidents actions are clearly well within his executive powers. If they dont like it. they can pass an immigration bill. which would clearly supercede the actions of the President. but they wouldnt even try. That is what this is all about. It is about making false statements about the President. demonizing immigrants and their families. and trying to score political points back home. That is a disgrace. but it gets even worse. Not only are the Republicans stalling on immigration reform and leaving millions of families in limbo. but they are holding up funding for the entire Homeland Security Department. They are threatening the safety of Americans at our airports. They are making our borders less secure and are potentially leaving us more vulnerable to attack. This is particularly shocking. given the tragic events in Paris last week. Holding the security of the American people hostage to the demands of the antiimmigration fringe of their party is totally irresponsible. This is not the time for political games. We live in a dangerous world. and the security of the Nation is serious business. Reject this political stunt. Pass a clean Homeland Security bill that we all agree on. Then. if you want to. pass an immigration bill that would supersede what the President has done. but dont give us all of this nonsense about blackmailing the country by threatening our safety and saying. "Unless we get the immigration provisions we want." which we know the President wont sign. "there will be no Homeland Security bill. potentially no Homeland Security Department funding. and no guards at our borders." That is absurd.
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Republicans are demonizing immigrants and their families.