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Democrats Are About to Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way

Democrats Are About to Surrender to Trump in a Hugely Damaging Way

The immigration bill the Senate is taking up has some horrible provisions. With worse on the way, Democrats should not be caving like this.

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by Greg Sargent

Trump opens his trap
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By all indications, at least nine Senate Democrats will vote to advance the Laken Riley Act, a sweeping measure that mandates the detention of undocumented immigrants who have committed nonviolent crimes, all but ensuring that it will move forward. This is a classic GOP “message bill”: It forces Democrats to…

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