This uncertainty hurts morale and puts families in financial jeopardy. It is time for Republicans to end this brinkmanship and help pass a clean Homeland Security budget free of unrelated policy riders. Then we should get to work on comprehensive immigration reform. The immigration system we have now doesnt reflect our timehonored values as a melting pot of diversity and innovation. It hurts our economy and national security. In short. our immigration system is broken. But for millions of immigrants who are living in the shadows. who are working every day to support their families. who have been brought up here from a young age. who are serving our country in the military or pursuing the dream of higher educationthese people deserve a path that allows them to earn citizenship. That is why we need to work together on comprehensive immigration reform. It will give more families and individuals a real shot at the American dream. It will encourage immigrants who are educated here to innovate here. This is an important debate. and we should have it. and we should not have it at the expense of the safety and the security of our Nation. I call on my Republican colleagues to bring forward a clean Department of Homeland Security funding bill. free of unrelated policy riders dealing with immigration. Lets give the people of our country the confidence that the Department of Homeland Security is going to protect against alShabaab launching a successful attack against the Mall of America. that a terrorist group cannot now be put together. thinking. perhaps erroneously. that the Department of Homeland Security has taken its eye off the ball while worrying about the funding levels that are necessary in order to secure our country. I lived through this in Boston.
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