WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on Congress and immigration (all times local): 9 a.m. President Donald Trump is urging House Republicans to pass a far…
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on Congress and immigration (all times local):
9 a.m.
President Donald Trump is urging House Republicans to pass a far-reaching immigration bill, just days after he said the GOP should abandon legislative efforts until after the midterm elections.
Trump tweeted in capital letters Wednesday: “HOUSE REPUBLICANS SHOULD PASS THE STRONG BUT FAIR IMMIGRATION BILL, KNOWN AS GOODLATTE II, IN THEIR AFTERNOON VOTE TODAY, EVEN THOUGH THE DEMS WON’T LET IT PASS IN THE SENATE. PASSAGE WILL SHOW THAT WE WANT STRONG BORDERS & SECURITY WHILE THE DEMS WANT OPEN BORDERS = CRIME. WIN!”
The tweet gives potential new life to a measure that was widely expected to lose in voting Wednesday.
Trump Friday told his fellow Republicans in Congress to “stop wasting their time” on immigration legislation until after the November elections.
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A far-reaching Republican immigration bill is careening toward likely House rejection.
A defeat would be a telling rebuff of GOP leaders, who crafted the measure as a compromise between the party’s conservatives and moderates.
GOP lawmakers are already considering the alternative of passing legislation by week’s end curbing the Trump administration’s contentious separating of migrant families.
The House plans its showdown roll call on the Republican immigration bill for Wednesday. Democrats are set to vote solidly against it.
The measure would give some young immigrants a chance of citizenship, finance President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall and bar the Homeland Security Department from taking children from immigrant families caught entering the U. S. illegally.
House Speaker Paul Ryan says the measure is “a great consensus bill” but Democrats call it “punitive.”
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