Another Dive into the Ugly 2019 DHS Funding Bill
By Dan Cadman on August 1, 2018
Several of my colleagues here at the Center for Immigration Studies have commented on some of the objectionable provisions in the 2019 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill that recently passed the House Appropriations Committee (see here, here, and here).
I want to augment their remarks on how truly dismal the final product is. It's hard to believe that this is a bill crafted under Republican stewardship. What could the committee's leadership have been thinking?
It's ironic that several (although by no means all) of the objectionable provisions were last-minute additions passed by voice vote on amendments introduced by Democrats who then, having gotten their way on these anti-enforcement provisions, went on to vote against the overall bill on party lines, knowing it would pass anyway because of the Republican majority. So it is that the Republicans allowed them to have the best of both worlds. It's like allowing someone to turn your backyard into a minefield.
Here is a sampling of the amendments voice-voted into the bill:
https://cis.org/Cadman/Another-Dive-Ugly-2019-DHS-Funding-Bill
