Sen. Jon Tester is pandering to voters in Montana by co-sponsoring an immigration control bill he would have never supported in a nonelection year.
as a co-sponsor for the Laken Riley Act, a bill that, if enacted, would require the detention and deportation of allThe bill is named for Laken Riley, a nursing student at the University of Georgia who was killed by an illegal immigrant who had committed several crimes in the weeks and months prior.
What is unspoken in Tester’s statement is that he is a Democrat who is up for reelection in a state that is overwhelmingly Republican and where the lax approach to immigration by the Democratic Party has become a major electoral liability. In any other legislative year, Tester would have never signed onto the bill, just as he voted against it when it was offered as an amendment to a must-pass bill. As long as Democrats control the Senate, the Laken Riley Act will never become law, and Tester knows this.With the safe assurance that the bill will never become law, since his party controls the Senate and the White House, Tester is engaging in nothing more than election-year pandering, and his track record shows it.
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