This is no time for political trickery and manufactured crisis. This is a time to put America first. the safety of American citizens first. and politics and partisanship should be at the bottom rung of any consideration. but that is not what we are doing. I think it is disrespectful to those who work at DHS. at TSA. at the Coast Guard. at the Border Patrol. ICE. and other agenciesa complete disregard to American people who trust us to govern responsibly. For what? To attack the President. Remember what I said this morning. Holding hostage the security of our homeland will not force the President of the United States to deport every noncitizen in our country. Republicans want to make a priority deportation. but that is not going to make our country safer. I find it a bit ironic that it seems to me that the basic reason we are not going to fund a clean DHSwhich we had. we had a clean. agreed to by both sides in the House and the Senate. we were ready to go. until the Republicans woke up one day. all angry because the President went and issued an executive order. They said: We have got to go get those immigrants. so lets put at risk the funding of DHS. That was in order to stop a program that would allow about 4 million parents of American citizen children4 million parents of American citizen childrengo through a background check. get right with the law and about 1 million DREAMers. that is young people who are in this country and came here as children. So that is why you are holding it up.
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