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Republicans vote against move to stop ICE deporting US citizens

www.newsweek.com

House Republicans have voted down an effort to block immigration enforcers from using federal resources to detain or deport U.S. citizens.

During a House Judiciary Committee meeting on Wednesday, Democrats tabled amendments to a sweeping budget bill that President Donald Trump has dubbed "one big, beautiful bill."

One amendment introduced by Representative Pramila Jayapal, the Democrat from Washington state, sought to make clear Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cannot detain or deport U.S. citizens under any circumstances. GOP lawmakers killed that amendment.

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At least the line is clearly visible now. It's just us vs them.
- always has been.
  
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- Fascists to the right and do nothings to the left.
  
  The question is. If you got to choose between the two. Which would you choose. Democrats are awful, but imagine how nice it would have been for nothing to happen. Ukraine and Palestine not become worse. Our allies not alienated. Roving squads of redcaps not on the street kidnapping innocent people, AND THEN FORCING THE PUBLIC TO PAY FOR THEIR BONDAGE IN A FORIEGN NATION. DENIED JUSTICE. Nothing, man; what a dream.
  
  So I’m guessing you’re a do-nothing?
  
  Here I am, stuck in the middle with BoThSiDeS!!!
House Republicans are traitors
- Traitors should be hanged.
- US gonna have to find a way to make these people accountable if they ever want to get out of this shit. But I'm afraid it's already to late,the fascist state will protect those who bend to the dictator.
The main message from Trump supporters is they don't regret anything even if they suffer, long as the right people get hurt. It is impossible to have meaningful society built with people like that as a collective.
When do we start acknowledging the GOP are Nazis and the Dems are controlled opposition?
Asking for the disabled and elderly.
- And also queer people and non-white people.
Funny since their leader (Trump) came here illegally and so did the Musk family! While we have a douche Canadian calling himself “Ted”… fleeing to Mexico to avoid blame in TX. The GOP party is straight up liars, rapists, and uneducated hypocrites. Basically, just all around TRASH! The “American Experiment” has clearly fucking failed! Let’s clean house and move the fuck on!
- Trump isn't an immigrant. I don't like the man either but he was born in Queens.
Well no shit. How is this headline news? Who's disillusioned enough to think that the Republicans wouldn't? Republican is now just a euphemism for fascist.
- Stop allowing it to be normalized or desensitized. It should be outrageous every.single.time.
  
  This is Lemmy. Whenever someone furthers fascism it should be written off as routine, while whenever anyone acts against it we should be outraged because they didn't wave a magic wand and solve all problems everywhere immediately.
"Republicans vote for ICE to continue kidnapping US citizens"
Replace double negatives where possible
Stop calling them “Republicans”. They are Nazis.
- Exactly. The Republican Party no longer exists. Its now the MAGA Nazi Party, and the Democrats should start routinely referring to them that way.
  
  Half the Democratic party secretly agrees with them
- They always were. At least since Nixon.
PLEASE reach out to minorities for future elections. Evidence like this shows how racist the GOP is; they have to stop voting against their own interests...
- Sorry, but my minority neighbor who voted for trump isn't just going to succumb to logic.
  If logic was involved in the first place, we wouldn't be here.
  
  You don't know that. It's easy to say "we can't reach these people" and for the most hardcore MAGA freaks, that's true. But most people are capable of paying attention and learning from their mistakes. This shitshow is already producing a lot of Trupgret. Just look at GOP folks at town halls and prominent Republicans that would have never dared to criticize him before. It sucks but we have to keep trying to reach them...
In 5 years, Americans who fuck up while visiting Europe or Asia and get deported will have a meltdown thinking they're being sent to Latin America.
Another question is why isn't an active mass violation of human rights (what is a crime in any other industrialized nation) being responded to by the Democrats.
If your representative is Republican, assure that by their refusal to support such a law they are committing a massive wrongdoing against humanity.
If your representative is Democrat, remind them that without immediately responding to this with action and refusal to engage in any other administrative duty, they are complicit.
The future is watching closely the present moment in time, and will not be kind to those who could have acted and yet stood idly by.
Glad I made enough popcorn to watch the downfall of murica

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