We asked them: Just call the bill. If it is going to be defeated. call it. No. we are not going to consider any immigration reformand they have not. We are in a new Senate now. a new Senate under control of the other party. and what has been the approach to immigration? Unfortunately. little time has been spent trying to find common ground. First. some Senate Republicans threatened to shut down the Department of Homeland Security. This is the Department that not only has us take our shoes off at the airport. they are literally trying to protect us from another act of terrorism in the United States. For months. the Senate Republicans refused to pass an appropriations bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security until the Democrats would accept antiimmigrant amendments. After we repeatedly rejected this approach. they finally relented and passed a clean appropriations bill for this important Department for Americas security. Now here we go again.
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