Barbara Comstock Backs Anti-Immigrant Resolution to Tear Apart Families
Last week, in a rare, historic vote to send an amicus brief on behalf of the House of Representatives to the Supreme Court against President Obama’s immigration actions, House Republicans voted in favor to tear apart hardworking immigrant families. Absent from the vote, Congresswoman Comstock (VA-10) said she would have voted for it if she was present in a written statement. This clearly political, Trump-inspired sentiment behind the brief is betrayed by Comstock’s anti-immigrant rhetoric that has helped fuel Donald Trump’s success.
“Congresswoman Comstock may try to separate herself from Donald Trump in the eyes of Northern Virginia voters, but her support for this cruel resolution echoes Donald Trump’s hateful and extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric,” said Jermaine House of the DCCC. “Hardworking families in Northern Virginia deserve a Member of Congress who isn’t a proud member of the Party of Trump and will support common sense immigration reform.”
Unfortunately, Congresswoman Comstock has a record of going against immigrant families. Her support for the brief shouldn’t take us by surprise; after all, she did suggest we should track immigrants like FedEx packages.
Last week’s vote concerns President Obama’s immigration orders: an extension to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) for eligible children who had been brought to the United States through no fault of their own, and the new Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA), which shields eligible immigrant parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents from deportation and grants them with temporary work permits. It is estimated that unfreezing DAPA and expanded DACA would result in tens of billions of dollars in economic growth.