'Terrible': Columnist takes sharp aim at Dems now backing 'exploitatively' titled GOP bill

A GOP-led immigration bill has gained some support from Democrats that purports to strengthen enforcement against undocumented immigrants who commit minor crimes. Rampell said Democrats now "fear appearing weak on illegal immigration and soft on crime" — and are mistakenly throwing their support behind the proposal, which she called a "terrible, demagogic bill." Worse, it would complicate law enforcement’s ability to prioritize public safety threats and give cranks in state government the ability to shut down legal immigration, nationwide," argued Rampell. "In other words, the Department of Homeland Security would be required to jail even falsely accused people indefinitely, at taxpayer expense," Rampell said. "Specifically, it would allow state officials to seek a court order to shut down all legal immigration from any country that has proved troublesome for U.S. immigration enforcement," she said, adding that a state could, say, sue to block researchers and engineers from a country like India, which hasn't fully cooperated on deportations.