It seems a discussion is in order of the Laken Riley Act that I happily voted against on the House floor today. It is a bill that served no purpose than to stir up anger. But let’s quickly review why:
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We call this kind of legislation: just for the show. It hardly does anything to the situation and certainly doesn't make things better. Over half of the people voting for it, haven't even read it let alone understood the consequences of it.
It is just as wasteful as the CR bill was. I dont know why President elect Musk was in favor of this and not in favor of the CR. This bill was just plain demagoguery feeding into the lies that all migrants are felons. Thank you for standing up to these insidious bills
Let’s not forget the Racist White Democrats in the South switched parties to the Republican Party after the Civil Rights Act was passed.. and of course it was one of those racist Southern Republicans that wrote this bill…🤷♀️
Georgia passed this same bill here & gave police full immunity for false arrests when they did so.. Yet while this was tragic they also seem to ignore doing anything about the other 700 plus murders reported by the GBI & many directly related to gun violence that their own weakened laws have enabled
Sean is this the same Laken Riley act that Georgia passed that gave police full immunity from false arrests of anyone they believe to be an illegal immigrant— or basically any non white person even though plenty of white people are also undocumented…??
Yet my congressman, Brian Fitzpatrick, voted for this bill & proudly posted it on FB. This R rep claims to be moderate, while all his votes are in line w/trump. We just can’t seem to rid ourselves of this pox.
I’m sorry not all Democrats stood up for due process. I’m not all surprised not a single member of my former party did. They don’t give a F about the Constitution and rule of law.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I’m so glad that you’re my rep. It seems you’re one of the few that actually has a clue about what’s going on. Keep on doing what you’re doing, Sean.
The bill returns the alien to the Department of Homeland Security ONLY if they aren’t DETAINED by federal, state, or local authorities. It prevents aliens being released before a finding of guilt or innocence. It protects citizens from repetitive offenders. Does that anger you?
News alert it is US citizens & US manufacturers that account for 70% of the automatic weapons used by drug cartels in Mexico and other countries.. Maybe we should focus on our part— oh wait we can make a profit so it’s ok. Mexico has only 2 locations and strict gun laws🤔
Hmmm… it isn’t the undocumented immigrants that are the problem Bugspray… some of us actually check the facts instead of believing Fox News propaganda.. 🤷♀️
POC commit more crimes per capita than Caucasians. I don’t argue for giving Whitey a pass just because they commit less offenses. Same with immigrants. If the government frees suspects and they continue committing crime then the government should be held accountable for its inaction.
Oh and the South has such a great
Track record of enforcing those laws on all -
Please… The good old Jim Crow
South that talks a good game but facts show the opposite…
Here is a real issue that is about to get much worse than it already is thanks to Trump’s anti immigrant stance…and I will be laughing since it this the GOP led states that will get the worse impact and you did it to yourselves…
You are correct- the real issue is the racist Southerners that you pretend you aren’t but everyone else sees the truth- and Trump has brought you closet racists back out from hiding in the dark….🤷♀️
There was a Bipartisan bill proposed by the Senate that addressed real issues not the made up BS that that Ga lawmakers proposed.. One that had REAL solutions to multiple issues we face as a country instead of the ones that Trump & compare about to make MUCH worse..
Oh we know full well that it doesn’t- we have watched it in action for the last 9 years… And neither does trying to deal with those who live in an alternate reality as we watched after 1/6…. and have seen since… Again your words mean nothing since your actions speak the opposite…
Am sure you still believe the old Reagan lies about how all those on federal assistance are the blacks in the Ghetto.. News alert that is a lie since more white
People on that assistance than POC - and many in rural GOP areas…
Your comment is incorrect-
but feel free to read actual FBI 2019
Data.. White people kill as many as POC do.. but you sure like to downplay that fact and believe
Otherwise… The big white person denial game I have noticed is quite prevalent here in the South…
You mean those POC actually get arrested and prosecuted unlike many white people who are treated way more leniently by the court systems… Let’s not forget how long the good old KKK ( your party before they switched to the Republican Party after the civil rights act was signed) was full of whites..🤔
You will do anything to try and shift blame for the facts won’t you? Hasn’t been POC shooting down children at schools… the latest one here was obviously a Maga influenced one with all your trans BS when no trans in their school.
Yet the facts show the majority of US crime is committed by US citizens NOT immigrants .. And allows those taker GOP led states to sue for even more money then they actually contribute to that federal budget today.. Another GOP money grab..
And they do absolutely nothing to prevent that and those GOP led states sure work hard to make sure those accused can access guns when they aren’t detained🤦♀️
Considering citizens outnumber immigrants that’s a given. By my read, the state AG can sue only when the government doesn’t maintain custody of the immigrants and they continue to commit crimes. That seems reasonable to me.
Guess I should have looked at your profile sooner- am well aware
of how most Southerners have no clue beyond what Fox News has fed them and obviously take it as gospel and never check facts… See it ALL the time down here… Yoh deceive yourselves…🤣🤣
Lol- and what facts have you provided- none but not surprised since that is typical Maga doublespeak- say nothing but pretend it sounds intelligent… Your opinion is not fact …🤷♀️
Please provide an actual number of those that they say they are trying to address since I sincerely doubt it would even be than a handful that as usual they blow up to seem like ore than it is..🤦♀️ Manufacturing problems that don’t exist.. why Tx was using bogus charges to arrest
them 🤦♀️
Good old Abbot promotes that the immigrants are the ones bringing fentanyl into the US when it is actually US citizens that have been arrested for doing so not the undocumented….🤔
Again feel free to read all the other bogus lawsuits they have filed not just this one and you would easily recognize their pattern of trying to control the US while ‘claiming’ state rights’🙄
Of course it is - let’s not deal with the REAL issues but instead make immigrants an issue instead of dealing with the REAL problems..very common attitude in the South from my experience…🤷♀️ Live in the land of denial…
Sorry darling but I saw this same BS used about the Cuban Mariel boatlift and like today it was a lie back then… Typical GOP them against us mentality that allows the wealthy GOP to get the low/ middle income GOP to vote for their 50% tax cuts while they screw their own best
Interests… Fear sells…🤷♀️
740 plus murders in Georgia per GBI only 1 was committed by an undocumented immigrant- not not a peep about new laws to prevent the other or giving police full immunity for false arrests .. Just another Jim Crow 2.0 that Joe included any non white person ( and plenty of them are also undocumented)
Also a well known fact that the majority of the murders are in the Southern GOP led states that have lax gun laws.. Feel free to look it up for yourself so please don’t use the excuse that it is because there are more of us than them…🙄
You haven’t been following all the other lawsuits those same GOP led states have been filing for the last 4 years… there is a pattern there . qmqzing how the states that live off the federal taxes paid by others seem to feel they have the answers to run the country..🤔
Why did 47 of your fellow House Dems, including @repnikkibudzinski.bsky.social and @ericsorensen.bsky.social, vote YES? You should get in Nikki and Eric's faces and tell them to stop voting for MAGAfied bills Sean. It's on all of you decent House Dems to shame these assholes on our behalf.
I think their voters need to remind their Democratic representatives what they expect of them. If the representatives are voting with MAGA, I suspect the representatives feel that their constituents support MAGA or won't understand the nuances.
Look, their voters should hold them accountable. That's a big part of Indivisible. The voters are really the deciding factor. A representative who is unsure of their voters' backing is not going to be the most resolute force in Congress.
Democrats were also largely supportive of the senate border bill last year that effectively banned asylum. I’m not voting for republicans even if they run as democrats. They need to get their shit together.
1. First, undocumented people in the US who are convicted of felonies are already subject to deportation. If that is your concern you should be happy with existing law. As I am.
When we mass deport 'brown people', who's next? Muslims, Palestinians, Asians, Blacks, or the disabled, the ill and infirm (drain on society). I mean, come on and get real with it. This is Hitler and the fourth Reich. #donotstandidlyby #resist #bluecrew #notmypresident #strongertogether #nevertrump
2. Second, the majority of undocumented folks in the US are visa overstays and farm workers, many are in mixed families and they have a VERY low propensity to commit crime. The stereotype is not representative of the population at hand. See this thread: https://bsky.app/profile/seancasten.bsky.social/post/3l5hm6wqb4i23
3. Third, today’s bill would have made it deportable not to be *convicted* of a felony but simply to have been charged with a felony. That completely eliminates due process. And worse puts vulnerable people in even more tenuous circumstances.
4. Suppose, for example that you came to the US on a student visa and had a child with a US national who you then had a falling out with. If you overstay your visa should you be deportable simply because your ex accused you of a crime?
Sean, did you read the bill? It doesn't apply to overstays. It applies to people that snuck across the border, lied to get in, or got in without a visa or authazation
5. Moreover, there are large numbers of undocumented people in America who have disclosed that status to the authorities are are allowed to stay here as long as they don’t get into trouble. Specifically, DACA recipients and those under Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
6. If those folks are convicted of a felony, they are subject to deportation under current law. But under today’s bill all they have to do is have someone misidentify them in a police line up, get charged and they are out - for doing nothing wrong other than trusting us to keep our word.
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Elon Musk
South African-born businessman (born 1971)
How shocking that a white South African man is a racist. /s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
And https://Senate.gov to urge them to read Sean Casten's explainer here.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/119-2025/h6
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-offending-rate-lower-us-born-citizen-rate
Track record of enforcing those laws on all -
Please… The good old Jim Crow
South that talks a good game but facts show the opposite…
Billion in their first year of their anti immigrant laws..
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2024/04/29/florida-loses--12-billion-plus-in--year-1-of-its-anti-immigration-law/
https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/the-states-suffering-most-from-the-labor-shortage
Another one you make excuses
For while claiming to want
Accountability.. Actions speak loader than words bugsprays
People on that assistance than POC - and many in rural GOP areas…
but feel free to read actual FBI 2019
Data.. White people kill as many as POC do.. but you sure like to downplay that fact and believe
Otherwise… The big white person denial game I have noticed is quite prevalent here in the South…
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700
of how most Southerners have no clue beyond what Fox News has fed them and obviously take it as gospel and never check facts… See it ALL the time down here… Yoh deceive yourselves…🤣🤣
them 🤦♀️
Interests… Fear sells…🤷♀️
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202466
Thank you for your vote, but I'll remember that when they faced their very first test, almost a quarter of the dem caucus failed.