Citizen calling and faxing efforts over the last week have helped encourage
several Republican Senators in joining Sen. Jeff Sessions in his call
for a vote on Pres. Obama's executive amnesties!
Most notably,
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) issued a statement this week
urging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to bring H.R.5272 to the floor.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and passed by
the House on their final day of session before leaving for the August
recess, would defund future DACA applications and renewals and future
work permits for illegal aliens.
The House has
passed two bills to address the humanitarian crisis on our southern
border, and the Senate should vote on them. That's why I began the
process of putting them on the Senate's legislative calendar shortly
before the current recess, and I urge Majority Leader Reid to schedule a
vote on these bills as soon as the Senate returns.
-- Sen. Mitch McConnell
Sen.
Ted Cruz (R-Texas) authored the Senate version of the Blackburn bill,
S.2631, and this week wrote an op-ed for a Texas Tribune publication
that not only called for a vote to end DACA, but also blamed it for the
ongoing border surge.
In 2011, before this
policy was enacted without approval from Congress, roughly 6,000
unaccompanied children were apprehended at the border; in 2014, with the
policy in effect, an estimated 90,000 children will cross the border,
many of them smuggled by vicious criminals.
-- Sen. Ted Cruz
Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, also joined Sessions' effort.
Majority
Leader Harry Reid and Senate Democrats should allow a vote on the
House-passed anti-DACA Bill. I am a cosponsor of a Senate version of
this legislation and believe America's elected representatives should be
allowed to debate and vote on whether amnesty should be given to
millions of illegal immigrants.
-- Sen. Jerry Moran
Sen.
Sessions' colleague from Alabama, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), who
serves as the Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and
vocally opposed the Senate's emergency supplemental bill, also called
for a vote.
We must focus on enforcing the
immigration laws currently on the books, securing our border, and
ensuring that we do not reward illegal immigration. It is my hope that
the Senate will expeditiously pass the House-approved bill that would
block President Obama from continuing or expanding DACA.
-- Sen. Richard Shelby
Sen.
John Hoeven (R-S.D.), co-author of a border amendment that helped
secure the necessary votes to pass the Gang of Eight's bill last summer,
also urged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to bring the
anti-DACA bill to the floor for a vote.
We
believe that we should be allowed to vote on the House-passed bill. We
need to enforce our immigration laws and secure the border.
-- Sen. John Hoeven
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) joined in through a press release on Wednesday.
We
have a true crisis at our southern border. Yet Harry Reid is blocking
Senate votes on the two bills the House has passed and has put us in
recess instead. I call on him to have the Senate vote on those two
common-sense, House-passed bills immediately.
--Sen. David Vitter
Reports
continue to speculate on the scope of an expanded executive action by
the Obama Administration that could grant amnesty and work permits to an
estimated 5-6 million illegal aliens.
With
control of the Senate at stake during November's mid-term elections,
voters should continue to force Senators to take a public stand on Pres.
Obama's executive amnesties. A few Democratic Senators who are up for
re-election in toss-up states have expressed concern with plans to
expand the DACA program, but most Democrats have either not taken a
position or left it to Pres. Obama's discretion.
Over the final weeks of August, please continue to call your Senators
if they have yet to take a position on Pres. Obama's proposed executive
actions. Starting next week, we'll also be asking activists to visit
their local Senators' offices to demand they hold a vote on the House
passed anti-DACA bill. If you are interested in ORGANIZING a group office visit please look here to see if there is an office near you, then email Melanie Oubre here.
| chris chmielenski |
| Fri, Aug 15th |
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