Maybe debating immigration legislation that was probably never going to become law anyway, while the Democrats control both the Senate and the veto pen, was not the most productive way for the GOP-led House to spend its last day in town before lawmakers flew away for the rest of the summer. A “tirade against these poor children” is how House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi characterized it.
But if so, it was a clarifying tirade, and you do have to give Dent credit for speaking the truth about the situation. He spoke of meeting a 5-year-old girl who’d made the harrowing journey, and then in the next breath somehow concluded that sending her right back “is the compassionate thing to do.”
But in the scenario he himself laid out — of parents already here in the United States whose kids in Central America had risked their lives to join them, because violence has gotten so much worse there — compassionate for whom?
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