Our
insurance markets are already taking on water from Trump sabotage, and
disaster looms in front of us. This is not a Verify First bill that we take up today; it is a patch
on this sinking Titanic ship. It is not a Verify First; it is a ``Vilify First'' our immigrants,
and it is really just the next chapter in Trump's anti-immigrant
crusade, which he tweets about on a regular basis. Our Republican colleagues celebrate this Immigrant Heritage Month,
June. They celebrate the fourth anniversary of 68 Members of the United
States Senate, in a bipartisan way, approving comprehensive immigration
reform. They do it with this ``Vilify First Act.''
And while I want to protect taxpayers and think we have a
responsibility to ferret out and prevent every dime of fraud that might
be out there, I also feel a responsibility to struggling families that
I represent who already have so many barriers in the way of getting
medical coverage to their children. Not everyone is as fortunate as Jimmy Kimmel, although he had the
misfortune of a child born with serious medical needs, he at least had
the ability to do something about it.
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