Senate Republicans are refusing to even consider gun violence legislation that could help prevent the further mass killing of U.S. schoolchildren, but they are demanding a vote on a purely political anti-immigrant resolution. The resolution expresses disapproval at a Biden administration rule intended to improve asylum processing. This is a good thing, so Senate Republicans oppose it.
The vote could happen as early as today, Thursday. So Republicans are telling us there’s no time to vote for the dead children of Uvalde, but there’s always time for some immigrant-bashing.
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Immigration rights organization America’s Voice is among the advocates urging Senate Democrats to unite on a “no” vote.
“Americans are mourning innocent lives lost in another mass shooting, another tragic incident where an entire classroom of grade schoolers is wiped out in a matter of minutes,” said Deputy Director Vanessa Cárdenas. “Yet instead of doing something meaningful to address the epidemic of mass shootings in our country, Republicans chose this day to demand a vote on a bill that probably has no chance of passing the House or being signed by the president.”
The group said that if resolution is enacted, the Biden administration’s rule will be tossed and the federal government “will be prevented from reissuing a ‘substantially similar’ rule in the future unless Congress authorizes it to do so via subsequent legislation.” This is not at all hopeful considering how many humane, pro-immigrant bills have failed to get to the president’s desk.
So-called pro-life Republicans are also refusing to act for children as they defiantly continue to use the same garbage rhetoric used by racist mass killers. Ted Cruz, Louie Gohmert, Ronny Jackson, and Chip Roy are among the worst of the worst repeating the “invasion” rhetoric used by the Buffalo mass murderer. Republicans have moved on from Buffalo. When it comes to Uvalde, they are now in a disinformation campaign promoting fewer doors and who knows what other bullshit until they can move on from that too. Yet there’s always time to shit on immigrants.
“Just two weeks after another gunman hunted and killed Black people because he believes ‘his’ country is being ‘invaded’ and white people are being ‘replaced,’ Republicans feel it is their top priority to send a message that they oppose any Biden policy to address immigration or asylum in any way,” Cárdenas continued, “even if it is a policy that they would normally support. We strongly urge a ‘no’ vote on today’s Senate disapproval resolution vote.”
“19 children and 2 teachers were slaughtered yesterday in a predominantly Latinx neighborhood,” tweeted Justice Action Center. “Instead of taking swift action to honor their lives and prevent mass violence, the Senate is instead focusing on scapegoating immigrants. Where are our priorities?”
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