{"id":19465,"date":"2024-05-23T13:03:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T17:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=19465"},"modified":"2024-05-23T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T17:04:00","slug":"merkley-republicans-playing-politics-with-crisis-at-southern-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-republicans-playing-politics-with-crisis-at-southern-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley: Republicans Playing Politics with Crisis at Southern Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2013 Oregon\u2019s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley today issued the following statement regarding his vote on bipartisan border security legislation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe crisis at our southern border is a direct result of a systematic effort by MAGA Republicans to obstruct every meaningful attempt to enact immigration reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cToday, I will vote to support opening debate on critical issues like how best to improve our asylum system, address the flow of fentanyl coming into our country, and fulfill our promises to people who helped us in Afghanistan. I am ready to act to help fix our broken immigration system. Republicans, who have repeatedly killed bipartisan efforts to do so, are clearly not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf Republicans had not obstructed this bill, I would have sought votes on amendments to address the full scope of America\u2019s broken immigration system, including protections for our Dreamers, comprehensive reforms for the treatment of children, a solution to critical worker shortages, and a pathway to citizenship for undocumented, longtime-contributing residents of this country. I have deep concerns about some of the substance of this bill, but I believe it is the duty of the Senate to publicly debate the tough issues before the American people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter today, one thing should be clear about the problems at our southern border: Democrats are willing to put in the work to fix them, Republicans are not.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2013 Oregon\u2019s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley today issued the following statement regarding his vote on bipartisan border security legislation: \u201cThe crisis at our southern border is a direct result of a systematic effort by MAGA Republicans to obstruct every meaningful attempt to enact immigration reform. \u201cToday, I will vote to support opening debate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":17053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-19465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-foreign-policy-and-national-security"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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