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🧵 Today, House Republicans passed their extreme border bill – a cruel and counterproductive piece of legislation that would divert resources away from the border while bringing back the worst immigration policies of the Trump administration. 1/6
08:16 PM - May 11, 2023
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Joaquin Castro
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In response to Joaquin Castro.
Their bill (HR 2) would severely restrict asylum at the border and abandon most asylum-seekers to the brutality of the cartels.

If their bill became law, Ukrainians fleeing from Putin's invasion, Uyghurs escaping genocide in China, and Christians fleeing Iran would all be turned away. 2/6
08:17 PM - May 11, 2023 (Edited)
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Joaquin Castro
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H.R. 2 also would end legal protections for tens of thousands of Afghan families who have started new lives in the United States where they are safe from the Taliban. These folks risked their lives for us, and Republicans just voted to send them home to die. 3/6
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08:18 PM - May 11, 2023
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Joaquin Castro
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H.R. 2 does nothing to address the root causes of migration and will not fix our broken immigration system. 4/6
08:19 PM - May 11, 2023
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With fewer legal pathways to come to the United States post-H.R. 2, more asylum-seekers would rely on the same kind of human smugglers who left 53 people to die in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio last summer. 5/6
08:19 PM - May 11, 2023
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