Democrat-led House passes Dreamers bill in rebuttal to Trump

[DonViejo]

By TED HESSON 06/04/2019 07:20 PM EDT

The House passed legislation Tuesday to provide a path to citizenship for Dreamers brought to the United States as children.

The bill — dubbed the Dream and Promise Act — was approved, 237-187, along largely partisan lines. Nearly all Democrats voted for the legislation, with five not voting. The Democratic majority was joined by seven Republicans.

In the closing minutes of the vote, several hundred pro-migrant attendees in the House gallery erupted in chants of “Sí, se puede“ and “Yes, we can“ — a familiar rallying cry of the immigrant rights movement.

The bill is the House Democratic majority's answer to President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda. Trump and his top officials have pressed Congress, unsuccessfully, in recent months for billions to build a border wall, and changes to asylum and detention laws to discourage the arrival of migrants from Central America.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/04/democrat-led-house-passes-dreamer-bill-in-rebuttal-to-trump-1503738

[watoos]

1. So the logic is to show the American people

that Congress is doing its duty and working for them regarding passing domestic legislation in the House that will never see the light of day in the Senate, but that same logic doesn't apply for Congress doing its duty to hold a corrupt president accountable because it will die in the Senate. Got it.