This year, more than 253 restrictive voting bills have been introduced in legislatures across 43 states and counting, according to the Brennan Center, a nonpartisan law and policy organization, This is one of the reasons HR1 is crucial to the democratic process.

The identifier H.R. 1 short for House of Representatives 1 may refer to any of several pieces of legislation considered by the United States House of Representatives. The numbering system restarts every two years with each new meeting by the elected members of Congress.

Racist and gender-based violence, white supremacy, and xenophobia have afflicted our nation since its inception. We must all name them, condemn them, and do everything within our power to halt them, wherever and in whatever form they occur.

An overwhelming amount of research by organizational scientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and demographers conducted over the years shows us that socially mixed groups and those with a diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation are much more productive and innovative than homogeneous ones.

Americans are seeing a definitive change from the previous practices of the Republican administration, BORDER KIDS.

A shift in detention patterns. Following President Biden's first month in office, the number of people arrested by ICE and booked into civil detention fell 62 percent In contrast, there was an increase of 55 percent in those arrested by the Border Patrol after the administration began allowing some asylum-seekers to enter the United States.

In the 1960s Castro sent hundreds of unaccompanied children to the United States. We welcomed them and were told Castro would send their parents next. He never did, and we made sure all these children were placed with families.

They are now all citizens and, many successful professionals and business people, all are #USA taxpayers.

The same was done for Viet Nam refugees after Saigon fell. What is the Christian thing to do? What did Jesus say about the treatment of children?

By; David Walby

A filibuster is a political strategy in which a US senator threatens to speak for hours on end to try and delay efforts to vote for a bill.

The filibuster is a powerful legislative device in the United States Senate. Senate rules permit a senator or senators to speak for as long as they wish and on any topic they choose, unless "three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn" usually 60 out of 100 senators vote to bring debate to a close by invoking cloture under Senate Rule XXII.