Flake backs Schumer on immigration after Trump tweet
Source: The Hill
Flake responded to Trump's assertion that a "Chuck Schumer beauty," the Diversity Visa Program, allowed 29-year-old suspect Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov to enter the country by reminding Trump that the 2013 "Gang of Eight" immigration reforms, written in part by Schumer, actually would have eliminated the program.
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"Actually, the Gang of 8, including @SenSchumer, did away with the Diversity Visa Program as part of broader reforms. I know, I was there," Flake tweeted at Trump in response.
The "Gang of Eight" was a bipartisan group of senators who wrote a 2013 immigration reform bill that passed the Senate with support from every Democrat and many Republicans. The bill, however, never made it to President Obama's desk as then-Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) didn't bring the bill to a vote in the lower chamber.
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Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/358168-flake-fact-checks-trump-schumer-did-away-with-diversity-visa
GD thread about the 2013 bill and the changes it would have made:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029779140
That's based on tweets from an Obama admin official. I hadn't seen Flake's tweet by the time I posted it.
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Always makes me smile.
