There are no ICE detention centers in Hawaii, so the federal government has placed immigrants in prisons. ICE in February signed an agreement with the Federal Bureau of Prisons—part of the Justice Department—to reserve space for ICE detainees, according to the Honolulu Civil Beat, which reported residents from out of state being transferred to Hawaii as early as June.
Immigration lawyers in Hawaii told the Civil Beat that they are concerned residents of other states are not getting effective counsel in Hawaii; even if they had a lawyer, it’s difficult to stay in touch thousands of miles away, they told the Civil Beat.
Bush had the same problem in 2001 and still managed a flood of legislation during the 107th Congress, despite McCain’s grandstanding.
The mentality of “This majority isn’t a real majority because I don’t know how to whip votes” is more destructive to the Democratic agenda than any amount of Republican obstruction.
Are we going with the this is a team sport crap again?I dont think it is anybody job to “whip votes”. We need multiple competing parties in congress ,not a bunch of yes men and women who just vote how they’re told.
What do you think the Chief Deputy Whips are assigned to do?
im jumping in here that if the democrats were not diverse enough to have disagreements I likely would not like the party. There is the reason democrats have a harder time passing things and that is because they are not a one thing only party which the republicans are (lower taxes on the rich). There are all sorts of things the republicans used to have as whats important to them that they have abandoned except for lowering taxes. Everything else is just fucking around for them and mainly meant to divide the majority of non rich folks.