Last night, nihilistic vandals, a.k.a. the Republican House of Representatives, passed a bill that can best be summed up as "Deport! Deport! Deport!"
The vote marks the third time in the 113th Congress that House Republicans have passed legislation that would, effectively, require the deportation of so-called Dreamers. They are the only immigration-related bills that have been allowed votes in the full House in 2013 or 2014.
"This, in all honesty and candor, is one of the most mean-spirited and anti-immigrant pieces of legislation I've seen in all of my years in the Congress," said Rep. John Conyers (MI), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. [snip]
"Where are our hearts?" said Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), a civil rights hero, in a fiery floor speech. "Where are our souls?"You won't find any hearts and souls on the other side of the aisle, Rep. Lewis. They need to pay dearly for this.
Bishop Eusebio Elizondo of Seattle, who heads the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' immigration policy group, called the Republican bill “a low point for our country. It eviscerates American values of justice and due process and stains our record as a defender of human rights globally.”
Of course, the bill is dead on arrival in the Senate; but the drooling crackpots in the House Republican caucus were fully aware of that. They're playing to their nativist, racist base while trying to force President Obama into executive actions that they will doubtless find "impeachable offenses." Just watch.
