Durbin Statement On Successfully Removing Some Harmful Immigration Provisions From Republincans' Reconciliation Bill

WASHINGTON–U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats successfully removed several harmful Judiciary immigration provisions from Republicans’ so-calledOne Big Beautiful Bill Act,including imposing a punitive fee on asylum seekers fleeing persecution, imposing a fee on litigants in immigration court simply for seeking a continuance, which would undermine access to justice and due process, and more:
“Senate Democrats succeeded in removing some of the most punitive and extreme immigration provisions from the Judiciary Committee title. However, Republicans’ budget bill still includes many problematic changes in immigration law that will turbocharge the Trump Administration’s attacks on due process and mass deportation campaign against immigrant families who pose no threat to our country.”
Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats successfully removed the following immigration-related provisions from the Judiciary title:
Republicans’ so-calledOne Big Beautiful Bill Actwill raise prices and slash Medicaid and Medicare coverage for working Americans in order to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, Republicans’ reconciliation bill will force 16 million Americans to lose their health insurance. And the bill will cost $4.2 trillion over the next decade.
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