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Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2016 -- Motion to Proceed

Floor Speech

Date: Nov. 4, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Immigration Criminal Justice

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Mr. President, the new mandatory minimum sentences this bill would create would have a crippling financial effect--that is an understatement--with no evidence that they would actually deter future violations of law. This legislation would require about 20,000 new prison beds--20,000--12 new prisons and cost over $3 billion.

This is yet another attack on the immigrant. The reason this bill did not go through the Judiciary Committee is because Republican Senators objected to it going through the committee. In the House, Speaker Ryan said he cannot trust the President to do immigration reform. In the Senate, after passing a bipartisan bill in 2013, all we have seen from Republican leaders and their caucus are bills to attack immigrants and to tear families apart. So I object.

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