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Most Democratic Senators and the partys Senate leadership will oppose the two modest bills. But the bills will become law if the 52 GOP Senators are joined by at least eight Democrats who calculate that GOP-funded campaign attack ads in the 2018elections are a greater risk to their careers than the inevitable pre-election anger from the Democrats anti-reform, anti-GOP base.

In the June 29 House vote, 166 Democratic legislators voted against Kates Law, but 24 Democrats voted for the law, which raises potential jail sentences for repatriated illegals who sneak back into the United States.The bill is named after Kate Steinle, an attractiveyoung womanwho wasmurdered by an illegal alien in 2015 who had returned to the United States multiples times after being sent home.

Only three House Democrats voted for the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act, which alsopassed June 29. The sanctuarybill allows the federal government to withdraw several categoriesof funds from jurisdictions which hinder the enforcement of immigration law.

White House officials and immigration reformers from advocacy groups NumbersUSA and the Federation for American Immigration Reform are promising an intense P.R. campaign before the eventual Senate vote.

The dilemma facing the Democratic Senators was highlighted by TheHill.com, in an article about the DemocraticSenators who will decide the bills fates:

A top House Democratic aide predicted that Kates Law would be used in campaign ads against vulnerable Democrats.

The ad writes itself, said the aide. Theyre gonna use Kate Steinles picture in a Willie Horton-style ad, referring to a controversial 1988 TV ad used by President George H.W. Bushs campaign against Michael Dukakis

Their targets would likely include Democratic Sens.Claire McCaskill(Mo.),Bob Casey(Pa.),Sherrod Brown(Ohio),Bill Nelson(Fla.) andJon Tester(Mont.) each up for reelection next year in states won by Trump.

Notably, the article also quotes VirginiaSen. Tim Kaine, who promisedDemocratic opposition but did not predict that his party would stop both bills.

Democrats are not going to stand for harsh anti-immigration measures, were not, he said. If theyre not willing to meaningfully dialogue with us about immigration reform, youre not going to see us embracing their super-partisan anti-immigration bill.

Kates law is popular. Fifty-six percent (56%) of Likely U.S. Voters favor a five-year mandatory prison sentence for illegal immigrants convicted of major felonies who return to America after being deported just 27% oppose such legislation, while 18% are undecided, saida 2015 pollby Rasmussen Reports.

Read the TheHill.coms article here.

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