Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) was ridiculed online Wednesday for telling his Republican colleagues during a committee hearing to pass a bill to remove the Statute of Liberty along with their so-called “bigoted” immigration law.
Frost’s comments came during a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing discussing H.R. 2, the House Republicans’ Secure the Border Act, the border security and immigration measure passed by the House last May.
The bill would change existing immigration laws by imposing limits on asylum eligibility. It also would require the Department of Homeland Security to resume construction of a border wall. The measure mandates that Customs and Border Protection (CPB) hire additional agents to maintain a staff of 22,000, and requires CPB to submit a strategic five-year technology investment plan to make sure its agents are equipped with the best equipment.
Every Democrat in the House voted against the bill. As CBN News has reported, the Biden administration is considering the revival of Trump-like border policies that are drawing outrage from congressional Democrats and immigrant advocates who say the ideas would gut the U.S. asylum system and spark fears of deportations for immigrants already living in the U.S.
Senate negotiators and the White House appear to
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