GOP Appropriators Block Most Democratic Plans to Expand Migration

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The bill also funds border security for eight other countries,
52% : For example, the homeland defense spending was negotiated by GOP Sen. Shelley More Capito (R-WV) and Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN).
40% : The bill does not include GOP rules barring the funding of the Democrats' loose-enforcement rules, does not bar the inflow of more visa workers, does not dent funding ti pro-migration non-profits, and it does not penalize officials for not completing the border wall -- even as it does fund border walls in several other countries, he said.
38% : The bill is "Congress' blatant attempt to conceal and quickly pass a bill that continues funding the violence of immigration enforcement at obscene levels, all while hoping to evade public scrutiny and backlash," according to a business-backed coalition of progressive pro-migration groups.
37% : They blocked Democrats ' plans to cut funding for immigration enforcement, and to take back prior spending on the border wall, he said.

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