House Republicans will gavel in the new 119th Congress on Friday with a priority list of 12 bills to bring to the floor, many of which would allow President-elect Donald Trump to broaden his mass deportation operation.
Six of the dozen forthcoming pieces of legislation packed inside the House rules package would amend border and immigration laws, a focus of the incoming Trump administration.
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The majority of those six bills would make more illegal immigrants within the United States eligible for arrest and potentially deportation, likely expanding who could be removed from the country come Jan. 20 beyond just convicted criminals and those who an immigration judge has already ordered be
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