ADVERTISEMENT The last four years of misguided policies have exacerbated the already broken immigration system and highlighted the critical need for reform, Biden said in a statement Thursday, saying the bill would address the wrongdoings of the past administration and restore justice, humanity, and order to our immigration system.
But even with a Democratic-led Congress, passing an immigration bill will be a heavy lift given that Senate Democrats would need to secure 10 GOP votes to pass the bill through the regular legislative process.
The bill would deliver on several of Biden’s campaign promises, including providing a path to citizenship for the young people brought to the U.S by their parents as children, known as Dreamers.
The remarks come after the introduction of the immigration proposal, which seeks to deliver on a list of Biden’s campaign promises, including providing a path to citizenship for the young people brought to the U.S by their parents as children, allowing immigrant farmworkers and those with Temporary Protected Status to swiftly obtain green cards and allowing undocumented immigrants to apply for green cards after five years.
The bill has garnered broad opposition from Republicans, though some in the GOP support specific aspects of the legislation, raising the prospect that the proposal could be broken up to deliver smaller victories.
Former Ohio GOP Chairwoman Jane Timken is joining the race to replace retiring Sen. Rob Portman
Timken was widely expected to make a run for Portman’s seat. Prior to launching her campaign, she resigned from her role at the Ohio Republican Party and hired a handful of Portman’s former campaign aides, most notably Corry Bliss, who managed the senator s successful 2016 reelection bid.
Timken announced her candidacy in a video that leaned heavily on former President Trump
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“We can’t let America become a socialist country,” she says in the roughly two-minute video. “I’m running for the United States Senate to stand up for you. Just like when I stood next to President Trump and supported his America-first agenda.”
The mighty effort to get over the Donald Trump
For the Never Trumpers, who had been hiding under camouflage for the past four years, it was in all respects a dismal showing. Even with the president gone and virtually the entire media slinging muck at him as if he had personally stormed into the Capitol and killed five people (at least four of the five who died were his supporters), only seven Republican senators threw a dart at the ex-president’s back and voted to convict him of the spurious charge of inciting an insurrection.
It is worrisome that anyone would have voted to find him guilty. Incitement is a well-defined legal concept; Trump’s Jan. 6 speech and prior conduct does not meet any of the criteria for it. An insurrection is the violent overthrow of authority, and there is not one scintilla of evidence that Trump desired that. The 57 senators who voted to convict him of an incitement he did not utter to an act he did not wish, for the purpose of removing him from an o
“The conclusion I reached on the final verdict will not surprise anyone who read my reasoning in the first impeachment trial: I consider an attempt to corrupt an election to keep oneself in power one of the most reprehensible acts that can be taken by a sitting president,” wrote Romney, the only GOP senator to vote to convict Trump in both of his impeachment trials.
“The second impeachment resulted from the President’s continued effort to do just that. The President’s conduct represented an unprecedented violation of his oath of office and of the public trust,” he added.
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