Last night's Democratic 2020 Presidential debate, the first of two this week in Miami, covered many issues from climate change to gun control, but none were more shocking than the candidates' responses to immigration questions posed by the moderators. Below are excerpts of each candidate's statements on the topic of immigration.
Last night, after clenching an eleventh-hour deal with the Congressional Progressive Caucus and Congressional Hispanic Caucus on the emergency border spending package, Speaker Nancy Pelosi was able to avoid an embarrassing interparty split and ensure the bill's passage. This afternoon, the Senate rejected the House emergency spending bill, by a vote of 37-55, and passed its supplemental bill, S. 1900, by a vote of 84-8.
In an op-ed posted today to the Washington Examiner website, Chief Political Correspondent Byron York questioned what comes next for those who vehemently denied that there was a legitimate crisis at the southern border. The situation at the border is so terrible in part because those in power, and those cheering them on in the media, have resisted measures to reduce illegal immigration.
Concerns about immigration and its impact on crime and taxes have soared to the highest level ever recorded, according to a new Gallup survey. The polling company said that more Americans than ever before cited immigration as their top concern in the most recent study.
The White House Office of Management and Budget has started reviewing a proposed rule that would allow lengthy detentions of migrant children, according to the agencies website, as reported by Politico. The rule aims to free the Trump Administration from the restrictions of the 1997 Flores settlement agreement.
Last night, President Trump officially launched his re-election campaign in Orlando Fla. to a stadium filled to the brim with nearly 25,000 spectators. President Trump told his supporters that Democrat calls for amnesty for illegal aliens, an open border, and a never-ending flow of cheaper, foreign workers to compete against Americans is the "greatest betrayal" to the working and middle class.
Bruno Lozano, the Democratic mayor of Del Rio, Texas, a small town in the U.S. Mexican border is fed up with the lack of action taken by the Federal Government to solve the current crisis at the Southern Border. During a town hall meeting with the staffs of Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), Mayor Lozano rebuked the Federal Government and lawmakers.
On Monday the New York Senate passed the "Green Light Bill," which is designed to give illegal aliens what New York considers the "right to a driver's license. Last week, the New York State Assembly passed the bill with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo, last night Gov. Cuomo signed the bill into law.
As the humanitarian and security crisis at the U.S. southern border shows no signs of slowing down, reaching record high levels not seen in over a decade, the U.S. may be facing another surge. However, this one does not originate from Central America; instead, it comes from Central Africa.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) promised a freestanding funding bill to address the humanitarian crisis at the southern border today in an interview with "Fox and Friends." The bill would appropriate $5 billion to address humanitarian concerns, not security concerns at the border.