Thank you, U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin, for introducing and supporting bipartisan bills targeting human rights and immigration border issues. It’s so refreshing to see a representative who looks for bi-cameral solutions to important problems. Working together in government is rare.
Here are a few:
The Do No Harm Act clarifies that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act is intended to protect religious freedom without allowing the infliction of harm on other people. It would amend RFRA in order to restore the original intent of the legislation by specifically exempting areas of law where RFRA has been used to bypass federal protections.
The Safe Schools Improvement Act (SSIA) would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to require school districts in states that receive ESEA funds to adopt codes of conduct specifically prohibiting bullying and harassment, including on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender.
U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin announced two new bipartisan bills she is leading to address the crisis at the southern border. Led by Slotkin and Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales or Texas:
The Emergency Migration Response Act would direct DHS to treat migration surges similar to natural disasters: as events that demand a swift, coordinated, response from across the U.S. federal government.
The Border Security and Migrant Safety Act would create an intelligence analytic cell to provide necessary insight on concentrated surges of migration to the southwest border and require DHS to partner with neighboring countries to counter malicious actors like transnational criminal organizations. Illegal criminal organizations made $1.7 billion in the last year by smuggling migrants just from the three Northern Triangle countries of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
Donna Gadbaw Mitchell
Brighton
