House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) will convene an ad hoc working group of congressional Republicans to formulate a path forward for DACA recipients whose work permits will begin expiring in less than six months, Politico reported Thursday.
Ryan has said that any legislative solution for former DACA recipients must also include increased border security, though he has not presented any details.
An unnamed source familiar with the group’s creation told Politico “it was just one part of a larger look at the matter,” including efforts to work with Democrats.
According to Politico, members of Ryan’s legislative working group will include: House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA); Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA); Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX); Rep. John Carter (R-TX), who chairs that committee’s appropriations subcommittee; Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID); Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI); Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL); Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) and Rep. Martha McSally (R-AZ).
President Donald Trump ended DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, on Sept. 5, and delayed the expiration date of the first recipients’ work permits for six months. The program, implemented via executive action by former President Barack Obama, shielded young undocumented people who met certain criteria from deportation.
Trump has said he wants Congress to “legalize” the program, and he met with Democratic congressional leaders on Wednesday night to discuss a legislative way forward, but it’s still far from likely that such a bill will make its way to his desk given most Republican legislators’ stance on what they call “amnesty” for undocumented people.
Both Trump and the Democratic congressional leaders, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), emerged from the meeting Wednesday night saying they were hopeful for a deal to protect so-called “Dreamers,” or young people who came to the United States as undocumented children. But none have presented details of a plan.
GOP won’t release 800,000 hostages without some white nationalist bullshit first. Story at 11.
No “regular order” for you!
What would Ayn do?
An unnamed source familiar with the group’s creation told Politico “it was just one part of a larger look at the matter,” including efforts to work with Democrats.
If they wanted to work with Democrats why aren’t there any D’s in the group grope.
What is it about the regular committee process that Ryan and McConnell don’t like? Their are bills that have been drafted and if not already should, if they have not already, be assigned to a standing committee. That committee should hold hearings and markup sessions and the bill should be reported out. If there is another committee of jurisdiction the same process should be repeated until finally passed to the floor according the the standard procedures of either the House or Senate.
All these special study groups are a tool that has been employed by the Republicans to allow them to draft legislation in the dark without the public being able to monitor the process.
Just like the blood sucking vampires they are the Republicans can not function in the light of day