Chuck Schumer: GOP’s H.R.2 Border Bill Threatens World DemocracyNeil Munro 27 Nov 2023
The GOP’s demand for enforcement of U.S. border law is a “partisan” threat to worldwide democracy, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said in a letter to the Senate.
“We cannot let partisan politics get in the way of defending democracy; that would be playing right into the hands of [Russian President Vladimir] Putin and [China President] Xi [Jinping],” Schumer said in the November 26 letter describing his plans for December.
He wrote:
The biggest holdup to the national security assistance package right now is the insistence by our Republican colleagues on partisan border policy as a condition for vital Ukraine aid. This has injected a decades old, hyper-partisan issue into overwhelmingly bipartisan priorities. Democrats stand ready to work on common-sense solutions to address immigration, but purely partisan hard-right demands, like those in H.R. 2, jeopardize the entire national security supplemental package.
The legislation is delayed because Democrats are demanding roughly $14 million to accelerate the inflow of illegal migrants into Americans’ workplaces and communities. The plan is a top priority for Schumer because immigration is a top priority for the Democrats’ alliance of donors and progressives — especially in Schumer’s New York and other blue cities that use migrants as a compliant and cheap replacement for the U.S. middle class.
In contrast, nearly all Republican House members, and a majority of Republican senators, are demanding popular legal reforms to block the administration’s use of loopholes to import at least six million illegal migrants for wages, resources, and jobs that would otherwise go to ordinary Americans. The useful but incomplete reforms are included in the House’s H.R. 2. stabilization bill.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/11/27/schumer-gops-border-bill-threatens-world-democracy/
