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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the House Discharge Petition

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06-02-2018, 03:49 PM
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I know it's Faux News, but @ChadPergram tends to report solidly on Twitter and many of you here seem to follow his feed. NEXT WEEK IS THE FINAL COLLECTION FOR THE REMAINING 6 SIGNATURES.

"House rules dictate the body can only consider a discharge petition on the second and fourth Mondays of each month. The original House calendar slated the House to meet on Monday, June 11 – the second Monday of June. But House Republican leaders scrapped that date and re-tooled the week so the House would meet next Friday, not Monday. Little was said about this sleight of hand at the time. But the concern was obvious. The GOP brass didn’t want discharge petition supporters to get two chances in June to go over their heads and deposit an immigration debate on the floor.

So the next available date for a discharge petition to ripen for consideration comes on the fourth Monday of the month: June 25. However, House rules dictate that a discharge petition must command the necessary signatures seven legislative days in advance (e.g. - days when the House meets). In reality, this means supporters of the petition must marshal 218 signatures by around June 11. The next eligible discharge petition date in the queue falls on July 23."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018...ition.amp.html

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what damage have they been doing to immigrant populations do you think, i'd love to hear this.
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What a shitbag move. Fire them all. There should be referendums to fire congressmen.
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what damage have they been doing to immigrant populations do you think, i'd love to hear this.
All the generous policy they keep rolling back. Example, you can no longer administratively close your case. They also plan on removing a lot of EAD category.

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The Trump administration has decided to do away with a once-common practice that allowed judges to close deportation cases involving people with longstanding ties to the US — and no criminal backgrounds.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the change on Thursday, though it’s been in the works for months.

Reuters reported last June about federal prosecutors moving to put cases back on the docket.

In his announcement, Sessions said that immigration judges “do not have the general authority to suspend indefinitely immigration proceedings by administrative closure.”

The practice that he scrapped — known as “administrative closure” — had been widely used under President Obama as a way to focus on more serious cases and reduce the immigration court backlog. Most of the people who got their cases shelved had children or spouses living in the US and later got permits to work.

Sessions made the decision to scrap the policy on Thursday while issuing a public order for a deportation case involving an unaccompanied minor from Guatemala.

A judge had granted the individual administrative closure, but since immigration courts fall under the jurisdiction of the Justice Department, the AG was able to offer up his ruling.


https://nypost.com/2018/05/17/sessio...-closed-cases/
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All the generous policy they keep rolling back. Example, you can no longer administratively close your case. They also plan on removing a lot of EAD category.
i mean...
you kinda just made a point on why that happened in your post.
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All the generous policy they keep rolling back
i wasn't expecting a lot of those things to last up til now. surprised it took sessions that long.
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i mean...
you kinda just made a point on why that happened in your post.

i wasn't expecting a lot of those things to last up til now. surprised it took sessions that long.
Yea, the most generous policy is the one that give 800000 illegal aliens protection and work permit. Session and Trump is working hard to end.
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