Why? Because some Republican Governors and attorneys general have filed a lawsuit to block this new program. The Supreme Court has been clear that Presidents have the authority to set Federal immigration enforcement priorities. I am confident all of the Presidents decisions in this matter will be upheld. It is hard for me to understand or explain why the Republicans are so determined to stop any reform of our broken immigration system. For years. Republicans in Congress have refused to even consider legislation to fix our broken immigration system. I spent a good part of my life. 6 months or more. working in a bipartisan group to write an immigration reform bill for Democrats. for Republicans. We brought it to the floor of the Senate. It passed with 68 votes. Fourteen Republicans. virtually all of the Democrats voted for it. It really addressed every aspect of immigration. Parts of it I didnt like. but overall it was a very good and balanced bill. When it came to the floor. the Republicans said: Wait a minute. No immigration reform until you get tough at the border. Well. the record says and shows we are already pretty tough at the border. Illegal immigration is down dramatically. But in an effort to make this bipartisan. we agreed to even more enforcement at the border. Think about this for a second. Today. there are more Federal law enforcement agents on our border with Mexico than the combined total of all Federal law enforcement agents in every other agency. and we increased it in this comprehensive immigration bill. So the argument that we are not getting tough at the border is kind of hard to make. We passed the bill with 68 votes.
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