Legislation to provide legal status to certain illegal immigrant populations isn’t a new topic—Congress has been here before.
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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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How about those in the cages?????
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