Advocates worry Republicans may derail reconciliation process with anti-immigrant amendments

Senate Republicans responded to news that Joe Manchin and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer were going forward on a reconciliation bill addressing climate change and some health care costs by attacking U.S. military veterans suffering from toxic exposure, blocking the final passage of legislation that had overwhelmingly sailed through the chamber just a couple of weeks ago.

Daily Kos’ Laura Clawson wrote Thursday that vindictive Republicans are also planning to pull support for other measures they’d previously indicated were getting a thumbs-up. During a press call that same day, immigrant rights advocates and their allies worried about what Republicans might try to put into the package in order to derail it, including amendments that would continue Stephen Miller’s anti-asylum Title 42 policy indefinitely.

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