House Republicans have voted down an effort to block immigration enforcers from using federal resources to detain or deport U.S. citizens.
During a House Judiciary Committee meeting on Wednesday, Democrats tabled amendments to a sweeping budget bill that President Donald Trump has dubbed “one big, beautiful bill.”
One amendment introduced by Representative Pramila Jayapal, the Democrat from Washington state, sought to make clear Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cannot detain or deport U.S. citizens under any circumstances. GOP lawmakers killed that amendment.
In 5 years, Americans who fuck up while visiting Europe or Asia and get deported will have a meltdown thinking they’re being sent to Latin America.
Words matter. They are not deporting citizens. They are kidnapping and quite possibly murdering. It’s a crime. Acknowledge this for the crime that it is. Call it human trafficking. But deporting it is not.
At least the line is clearly visible now. It’s just us vs them.
always has been.
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Fascists to the right and do nothings to the left.
The question is. If you got to choose between the two. Which would you choose. Democrats are awful, but imagine how nice it would have been for nothing to happen. Ukraine and Palestine not become worse. Our allies not alienated. Roving squads of redcaps not on the street kidnapping innocent people, AND THEN FORCING THE PUBLIC TO PAY FOR THEIR BONDAGE IN A FORIEGN NATION. DENIED JUSTICE. Nothing, man; what a dream.
I have always thought that when a professional does his job properly, you don’t even realize he’s there.
He’s doing what NEEDS to be done.
I have 138 “pet” names for Donald. None of them are flattering.
Kamala supported genocide tho. /s
Here I am, stuck in the middle with BoThSiDeS!!!
When do we start acknowledging the GOP are Nazis and the Dems are controlled opposition?
Asking for the disabled and elderly.
And also queer people and non-white people.
And women in general.
The main message from Trump supporters is they don’t regret anything even if they suffer, long as the right people get hurt. It is impossible to have meaningful society built with people like that as a collective.
Funny since their leader (Trump) came here illegally and so did the Musk family! While we have a douche Canadian calling himself “Ted”… fleeing to Mexico to avoid blame in TX. The GOP party is straight up liars, rapists, and uneducated hypocrites. Basically, just all around TRASH! The “American Experiment” has clearly fucking failed! Let’s clean house and move the fuck on!
Trump isn’t an immigrant. I don’t like the man either but he was born in Queens.
They added it to an omnibus bill, is it another flaw of the US system that it’s unable to pass laws that only cover one issue?
Kinda yeah. Every bill is a negotiation. One side isnt going to straight up agree to a bill presented by the other side without pushing them for a little bit more. And one thing leads to another and the bill is too bloated to make sense anymore
But it’s a budget bill though, they could have asked for that as a separate bill
Well no shit. How is this headline news? Who’s disillusioned enough to think that the Republicans wouldn’t? Republican is now just a euphemism for fascist.
Stop allowing it to be normalized or desensitized. It should be outrageous every.single.time.
This is Lemmy. Whenever someone furthers fascism it should be written off as routine, while whenever anyone acts against it we should be outraged because they didn’t wave a magic wand and solve all problems everywhere immediately.
Glad I made enough popcorn to watch the downfall of murica
