We cannot expect DHS to do longterm strategic planning with shortterm funding measures. The Department needs reliable funding to operate efficiently and effectively. The House majority is unfortunately playing politics with our homeland security because the President has taken an action that every President since the 1950s has taken: He has provided commonsense direction to our immigration enforcement efforts. The Presidents Executive actions on immigration are fundamentally aimed at keeping families together. making our communities safer. and using our resources efficiently. It is hard to understand how someone could oppose that. The Presidents actions will ensure that our immigration enforcement efforts are used to secure the border. prevent threats to national security. and protect public safety. These should be our top priorities. and I support those efforts. but if Members of the House take issue with them. they should draft and adopt immigration reform. just as the Senate did on a bipartisan basis 18 months ago. Our path forward is simple: Pass a clean funding bill. If my colleagues want to fix our broken immigration system. then lets take up a bill. but lets not use this critical funding bill to play partisan politics. The dedicated men and women of the Department of Homeland Security deserve better. The American people deserve better.
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