Cruz blocks Senate Democrats’ attempt to pass DACA bill

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Senate Democrats to pass legislation creating a pathway to citizenship for some 109,000 immigrants living in Texas who were brought to the U.S. as children.

Cruz called it an attempt at offering “amnesty.” He said Democrats already had a chance to write into law protections for so-called Dreamers when President Donald Trump offered to work with them on a deal.

That offer came after Trump moved to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — an effort the Supreme Court blocked earlier this month.


The move puts Cruz at odds with U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, another Texas Republican, who said the Supreme Court ruling offered “a unique moment and an opportunity” and called for Congress to “take action and pass legislation that will unequivocally allow these men and women to stay in the only home, the only country they’ve known.”

The estimated 643,000 Dreamers — many of whom have only known the U.S. as home — are seen as sympathetic by Democrats and Republicans alike. But Congress so far has failed to pass legislation to protect them.

Senate Democrats tried again Wednesday as U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, the Democratic whip, asked for unanimous consent to pass a bill the House passed last year creating a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers.

It’s a process that takes just one objection to stop, and Cruz offered it.

In a speech on the Senate floor, Cruz again blasted the Supreme Court decision as a “particularly disgraceful opinion.”


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Felito at it again. Pure evil as always.

DemoCrAts DOnt DO anYThInG fOr uS!! REPuBLicans ArE ouR tRue FRieNdS!

Best Joke I've heard in a while.

Ditto... Happy 4th of July yall

Thanks, Republican party.

And thanks Republican voters for putting people like Cruz in Power.

He's making room for us, there's not enough room yet so that's why he blocked it but when there's enough room he will unblock it, he loves us.

Is it a joke though?

100% it is.