Washington, DC — Last night, in a purely party-line vote, House Republicans moved a budget resolution forward to fund an additional $70 billion in mass deportation funding for the rest of President Trump’s term and without any accountability and restraints. This is on top of the unprecedented windfall of more than $170 billion for immigration enforcement already enacted via the BBB and despite fresh reminders this week about the stakes for TPS holders, DACA recipients, and other immigrants who face increased threats.
According to Joanna Kuebler, America’s Voice Chief of Programs:
“There they go again. A handful of House GOP members have claimed they want to counter the destructive Trump-Miller mass deportation campaign and support long-settled immigrant community members through legislation like the Dignity Act. Yet right on cue, late last night they instead voted for Stephen Miller’s anti-immigrant slush fund without any of the accountability or restraints that a majority of Americans are calling for. While these Members have a chance in several weeks to again vote on the underlying budget, their votes last night showed more loyalty to Trump and Miller than to the will of the American people.
Meanwhile, we’re seeing yet again fresh evidence about exactly WHO the Trump-Miller team is targeting and it includes many of the types of immigrants the Dignity Act GOP Members say they want to support: such as the more than 1.3 million TPS holders, whose futures are in the hands of the Supreme Court, and DACA recipients, who are already being targeted in a practice that threatens to become more common after last week’s ruling at DoJ.
As the Trump team seeks to make as many people deportable as possible by stripping legal status and protections, Members of Congress who say they support an alternative vision need to do more than talk. They need to fight for real accountability and restraints, not a blank check for more cruelty.”
For more, read the America’s Voice statement: “SCOTUS TPS Case Part of a Pattern: Strip Legal Status, Then Detain and Deport” and the AV statement, “A Time to Choose for Key House Republicans on Immigration”
