Democrats Are Already Rolling Over for Trump. Republicans Are Loving It
Donald Trump will soon start his second term as president. Don't expect a strong opposition party or healthy "resistance" movement this time, at least not in Washington during the "shock and awe" start of his new administration. With 10 days before the president-elect is sworn in, Democrats in Congress are already capitulating to Trump harder than virtually anyone expected - and Republicans are ecstatic over the degree to which Trump and the GOP's wins have "paralyzed" the Democratic elite.
On Tuesday, four dozen House Democrats joined Republicans in passing a viciously right-wing immigration bill - legislation that, just last year, was seen as a conservative messaging bill. Six Democratic lawmakers flipped their positions, voting for the legislation after rejecting it last year. There's a strong likelihood that the immigration bill will pass in the Senate, too, after most of the Democratic caucus voted to begin debate on the legislation.
The Laken Riley Act, cynically named after a Georgia nursing student who was murdered by an undocumented immigrant, is a smorgasbord of extreme conservative immigration ideas. First, the legislation would require the federal government to detain undocumented immigrants accused of theft without bond, regardless of whether they are convicted. Perhaps more dramatically, the legislation would empower conservative state attorneys general to sue the federal government over supposed failures to enforce immigration laws - and to demand that courts ban visas from certain countries if those countries refuse to cooperate with the United States on deportations.
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