Immigration advocates staged a sit-in, or an occupation as Denverite described it, at U.S. Sen. Micheal Bennet’s Denver office Wednesday.
They were protesting the inclusion of border security in any immigration bill that would give amnesty to illegal immigrants brought into the country by their parents.
#Immigration rights activists have begun a sit-in at Sen. Michael Bennet’s office – “as long as we need to” – asking to speak to him directly for a #cleandreamact. pic.twitter.com/3tOkAFqXwX
— Kevin Beaty (@KevinJBeaty) February 7, 2018
Now that their plan to attach the amnesty language to the budget bill failed miserably, they want a separate bill that just addresses amnesty. No wall, no additional border security, just amnesty.
Judging by media reports of their protest, they failed to get that promise from Bennet. He gave them some mumbo jumbo about how Democrats don’t hold the majority in the Senate so they can’t do anything — except shut down the government, block funding, or block any legislation for that matter.
But Bennet didn’t mention that Democrats can and often do that.
No one is reporting how long the protest lasted, or if the occupiers are still in Bennet’s office.
Protesters have arrived outside calling for a #cleandreamact pic.twitter.com/cwyL5tRTow
— Kevin Beaty (@KevinJBeaty) February 7, 2018
We suspect the whole incident lasted only a few hours and everyone went home. Otherwise, the media would have made a bigger deal about it, like they did when protestors disrupted the offices of Republicans and refused to let the building close for the night.
Right?
If my understanding is correct, these Democrats are protesting the inclusion of Border Security in any DACA bill and that they want a clean bill. I call that BS. First of all, they’re not going to get a CLEAN DACA bill that doesn’t include funds for the Wall, the revocation of the Visa Program and the Revocation of Chain Migration. These Democrats do not understand that Trump’s Immigration Bill is very generous considering that instead of 800,000 DACA Recipients being considered, Trump’s bill considers 1.6 Million (almost twice the amount), plus the fact that they have to apply and wait anywhere between 10 or 12 years to complete their citizenship. If these DACA Recipients, who are now in their mid-20’s to early 30’s agewise, had applied for citizenship then they would have been half way there. Why didn’t they apply for citizenship? You want to know why? Because it would screw up all the Government Benefits they are presently getting. I have no sympathy for these illegals who wouldn’t take it upon themselves to apply for citizenship considering that they’ve been adults for at least 10 years. They’re no longer CHILDREN.