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pat_k

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1. Too many of our leaders remain in a defensive crouch. . .
Tue Jul 8, 2025, 04:22 AM
Jul 8

. . .on immigration. That is why there has largely been a deafening silence on this part of the Murder Budget in the halls of Congress.

They should have been crowing as loudly about this as the Medicaid cuts.

Our party desperately and urgently needs to find consensus on HUMANE immigration reform, including amnesty and a path to citizenship for long-term law-abiding, but undocumented residents, strong border security, beefed up asylum adjudication, and humane conditions and due process for those who are detained prior to deportation or other disposition, and a REASONABLE ICE budget. We need concrete policies/plans to point to that can be held in direct contrast to the cruelty and insanity of the 47 regime.

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