He has worked for years on doing something about the criminal justice system. He has been joined by a bipartisan group of people to get something done. but. again. the Republican leader is too interested in doing things that mean nothing than doing something that means something. By pursuing legislation targeting socalled sanctuary cities. Republicans are legislating Donald Trumps vision that immigrants and Latinos are criminals and threats to the public. Republicans want red meat going into the convention and desperately want to pivot from the epidemic of gun violence plaguing our nation and the epidemic of Zika. but Americans deserve a real solution to our broken immigration system. not political games and dogwhistle politics. If Senator MCCONNELL wants to bring this legislation forward. we are going to take a serious look at it. Maybe getting on the bill might be the right thing to do. If we get on that. and the Republican leader said he wants a robust amendment process. well. we will be happy to give him one. We will have a number of amendments on guns. we will have a number of amendments on Zika. and we will do something about comprehensive immigration reform. So we are going to take a look at that. We may just get on that bill and find out if we are going to have this robust amendment process. but lets address comprehensive immigration reform. guns. Zika. and other issues. We are happy to do that.
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Immigrants and Latinos are criminals and threats to the public.