Congress’ penchant for kicking the immigration can down the road is unsustainable and unfair to American citizens, legal immigrants, and everyone who respects our generous immigration system and hopes to make this country their home.
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Day after day, parents give their children to smuggling cartels, employers have no reliable way of verifying an employee’s work eligibility documents, and adults who drag children through dangerous border crossings are rewarded with release into America’s interior.
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The status quo isn’t practical. It’s not compassionate. And it’s absolutely not sustainable.
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If we don’t offer real solutions that consider legal status and enforce immigration law, we will undoubtedly repeat today’s discussion a few years from now—and history will judge us for shirking our responsibility.
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I hope today produces honest conversations about the consequences illegal immigration has for American citizens, those who aspire to become American citizens, and people who suffer when others abuse our system.
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And blew it. GOP gets in the way of any bipartisan work being done.
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@RepDougCollins! Dr, Nurses
,STEM workers in EB2 GreenCardBacklog looking at 150 yrs wait for citizenship. Time to pass bill #HR1044#S386. Nurses are serving & volunteering in your constituency Gainesville with uncertainty in#H4EAD who r in backlog.https://youtu.be/Q4xAOjnPu3A - 6 more replies
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Your party has been doing the same thing!
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