Members of Congress seek to ‘bring sanity’ to system but decline to give details on plans to reform or abolish agency A group of congressional Democrats on Wednesday pushed for immediate efforts to rein in the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement operation and “bring sanity” to an immigration system that Donald Trump said, after his party’s midterm drubbing, had been “too tough” in certain aspects. Just over a week after the midterm elections in which the US president’s harsh crackdown on…

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      “I have very aspirational dreams and hopes for immigration reform. But I am also a pragmatist. And as we have – as we continue to have – Donald Trump in the White House, and without a supermajority in the Senate, we need Republican support. So any comprehensive immigration reform must be bipartisan,” said congresswoman Veronica Escobar

      Reading collaborator bullshit like this it’s looking like the best we can hope for is that nothing at all happens from this and a Dem who isn’t a fucking idiot works with other Dems to craft some actually decent legislation

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        But she’s not wrong. Any immigration reform will have to be veto proof, which requires the Republicans to cross the aisle. Otherwise it’s just performative.

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      Thanks doomer, very useful service you all provide. What method of suicide would you recommend for everyone while I have you here?

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        I’ve heard good things about hydrofluoric methods. That way, I can extract fluorite crystals from the deceased and sell them for some quick cash. Never let a good business opportunity go to waste!