Republicans load spending bill with hard-line measures targeting asylum

From Politico.com

A 1,300-page spending bill released by Senate Republicans Monday night contains provisions to restrict asylum and other hard-line immigration changes that make it unlikely to generate bipartisan support.

Republican spending bill will give Democrats even more reason to spurn the legislation.
“This is a Stephen Miller special,” Kerri Talbot, a director with the D.C.-based Immigration Hub, told reporters Tuesday. “It’s a Trojan horse with many extreme immigration proposals included.”
The bill doesn’t appear likely to end a partial shutdown of the federal government that stretched into its 32nd day Tuesday.
One policy change in the bill would bar Central American minors from seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, except under certain circumstances. Instead, children from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala would be required to apply from their home countries.
Furthermore, the bill would toughen the overall standard for asylum for children from those countries. The secretary of Homeland Security would need to consider an asylum grant for those minors to be “in the national interest,” a hurdle that would be heaped on top of existing requirements.
The depth of restrictionist policy changes in the bill drew immediate fire from pro-migrant advocates.


“Hard to see this as anything but bad faith,” Wolgin tweeted. He added that Senate Republicans could have produced a bill with a narrow immigration trade off — border money in exchange for protections for certain undocumented immigrants. Instead, the legislation contained “pages of new restrictions

The legislation also could block undocumented immigrants from obtaining TPS in the future. The measure includes language that would require applicants for the status to be “lawfully present” in the U.S.

In regards to just DACA, everyone should read these tweets

https://twitter.com/David_J_Bier/sta...47660759646213

Yeah status quo is better than anything they offering. Permanent solution or nothing.

damn, some of these criteria make the bridge act seem better

"Provisional Protected Presence"

Garbage.

I'm not down with PPP.