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Elissa Slotkin: “The thing that we've been working on as a healthy bipartisan…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

Rep. Slotkin Speaks on House Floor about Bipartisan Immigration Reform

Published February 5, 2024 | Video Starts at 05:10

If you have to say youre in control of your caucus, youre not in control of your caucus. Donald Trump told him he didnt like the bill. He told Mitch McConnell he didnt like the bill. And The thing that we've been working on as a healthy bipartisan negotiation falls apart in a day because Donald Trump wants to make ads about it. He wants to do political rallies about it. He wants to use it as a club against Joe Biden. (05:10–05:21)

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Asserts that bipartisan immigration negotiations fell apart due to Donald Trump's political motives.

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“Our immigration system is broken. It's not working for literally anyone.”
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“It's not working for our businesses who desperately need vetted immigrant labor.”
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“It's not working for the immigrants who are walking 1000 miles, in some cases to cross our border.”
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“It's not working for our border agents and for our customs and border folks who are trying to manage an astounding number of people coming…”
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“It's not working for our communities who are having people bussed to them.”
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“It's not working for the strain on those cities and the services.”
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“We can say with clarity and certainty that immigration in a nation of immigrants is broken.”
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“Washington departments and agencies over many, many years have used this issue to play politics rather than actually doing anything about…”
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“Two months ago, in December, I thought we finally had gotten over a major hump.”
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“The speaker of the House, the speaker of this body, wrote to President Biden personally, saying that if the president wanted more things on…”
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“In the Senate, a group of Democrats and Republicans did what people pay them to do, which is sit in a room, negotiate, argue, debate over…”
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“Yesterday we got our first look at what that proposal actually is.”
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“No piece of legislation is ever perfect. But it does help us, this deal, curb who's coming in, get people working legally in our businesses…”
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“In the meantime, these people would be paying taxes, paying into Social Security, paying into Medicare.”
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“Just two months after the speaker laid out this existential problem with border security where he said, quote, what is happening at the…”
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“Donald Trump told him he didn't like the bill. He told Mitch McConnell he didn't like the bill.”
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“There is a term for this in the military. It's called dereliction of duty. It's a fireable offense.”
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