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General Category => Immigration/Border => Topic started by: rangerrebew on December 16, 2018, 02:59:29 pm
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House Freedom Caucus Looks to Plug Loopholes
A lame-duck Hail Mary?
By Andrew R. Arthur on December 14, 2018
As the 115th Congress draws to an end, it looks as though members are getting serious about tackling the loopholes that are being exploited by aliens seeking entry along the Southwest border, which I detailed in a May 4, 2018, Backgrounder captioned "Catch and Release Escape Hatches, Loopholes that encourage illegal entry".
The House Freedom Caucus (HFC) is reportedly planning on offering an amendment on the year-end spending bill to end "catch and release" and provide $5 billion for unrestricted border-wall funding, according to an opinion piece published on December 11, 2018, by Reps. Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows on the Fox News website.
A draft of that amendment shows that it would address many, if not most of, those loopholes.
https://cis.org/Arthur/House-Freedom-Caucus-Looks-Plug-Loopholes
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Sounds like good news to me.
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Sounds like good news to me.
Looks more like a bargaining chip. This will never see the light of day. The HFC is a minority of a Party about to become a minority itself, in the House.
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We've still got time to do alot of things, but the current GOP Congress is too statesman, sanctimonious, sonorous, and stained glass to dare take any action.