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http://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2017/02/16/hispanic-democrats-barred-meeting-ice-director-amid-increased-raidsWASHINGTON Simmering tensions in the Capitol about President Donald Trumps immigration executive orders boiled over Thursday, as several members of the Hispanic Caucus were kicked out of a meeting with a top immigration official by staffers of Speaker Paul Ryan.
Those who were allowed in described a combative encounter with promises of many more arrests and deportations to come.
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The Trump administration either the White House or Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly was given authority over which Democrats would be able to attend the meeting, said Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M.
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AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for Ryan, said the meeting was limited at the request of the Department of Homeland Security to members with jurisdictional interests in immigration enforcement. Because the Hispanic Caucus wanted to be involved in the meeting which it had initially called for Strong said Lujan Grisham was allowed to attend on behalf of the caucus.
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Initially, no Hispanic Caucus members were going to be allowed at the meeting, Pelosi said, until we explained to them that that was not going to qualify as a meeting.
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HipChick
(25,485 posts)riversedge
(70,239 posts)dalton99a
(81,513 posts)gademocrat7
(10,659 posts)SCROTUS is unhinged.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)Last edited Fri Feb 17, 2017, 01:00 PM - Edit history (1)
That's what I seem to be seeing. This is an outrage!
What will they do, have ICE take them into custody for investigation?
I suppose they'll demote members of the Congressional Black Caucus to be only 3/5th of a member each as their next step.
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)If we are being historically accurate.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)I edited the post.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)demmiblue
(36,858 posts)nikibatts
(2,198 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Johnson and non voters need to kick themselves in the ass.
mikelewis
(4,079 posts)2naSalit
(86,641 posts)iluvtennis
(19,861 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Surprise, voters.
dchill
(38,502 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Voting for that idiot. They join the Stein, Johnson and non voters on the clown wagon.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)(do I even need a sarcasm tag anymore?)
Pelosi and ALL DEMS need to keep on top of this. Shutting groups out of the work of the system is a very blatant ploy to shift things to...well, UN AMERICAN!
dhill926
(16,339 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)No labor. No food.
Volaris
(10,271 posts)At those jobs, too. Because full employment, you know.