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So when the Republicans up the ante in one area. they have to up the ante in another. Nowhere is this crass political opportunism more apparent than right here. This morning we are having a little hearing in the Judiciary Committee aimed atget thisshutting down legal immigration as much as possible. Your sons fiancee. your moms doctor. your neighbors nanny. your grocery stores janitorial crew. if they are coming legally to the United States. Republicans want to stop it. slow it down. and make it cost a lot more. The party obsessed with illegal immigration now has legal immigration firmly in its sight. And if you are from certain countries or are of a certain religion. you must have a special security review. I thought the campaign promise to bar Muslims from traveling here to the USA was a campaign promise that would never be realized unless your leader actually won the campaign. Dont get me wrong. If I thought Republicans were proposing a process to make things more secure and give the U.S. a better immigration system. I would support it. And I think we could pass something that was on a bipartisan basis in Congress today. But come on. guys. Do you really believe that the House of Representatives is trying to craft a sensible bill related to immigration in an election year? Do you think the American people are that gullible? No. The Party of Trump has launched an allout radical assault on legal immigration. and hopes everyone is so scared of the "rapey" Mexicans. the sexcrazed Italians. and the Vietnamese immigrants with Ebola on the one hand and "ziki flies" on the other. Lock down the whole system. they say. Lady Liberty. lower your lamp. cover up your poem. and take a seat because terrorists got in once. which is enough reason to keep everyone out of Americafrom the computer programmer to the ski instructor. to the refugee fleeing systematic violence. If you ask me. maybe it is not the hundreds of Justice Department lawyers who have nothing to do with Judge Hanens courtroom who need onerous remedial ethics training classes. maybe it is Judge Hanens allies here in the House and throughout the Republican Party who could use a mandatory lesson on right and wrong.