Donald Trumpwill soon start his second term as president.
Six Democratic lawmakers flipped their positions, voting for the legislation after rejecting it last year.
He remade the Democrat Party, an incoming Trump administration official assesses.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, President-elect Donald Trump, and Sen. John Fetterman (from left)ALLISON ROBBERT/AFP/Getty Images; Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC/Getty Images; BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images
President Trump forced them to start seeing things his, and the American peoples, way.
I hope they take bigger, bolder, more attention-grabbing stands to demonstrate how hard theyre fighting for people.
But we also have to listen to voters, and demonstrate that were listening.
Some of these yes votes represent a remarkable shift.
He noted his wife lived in America undocumented for years after fleeing violence in Brazil when she was 7.
I wouldnt have a family if it werent for immigration.
Its what makes America, America.
Fetterman recentlypledged to protectDreamers, or undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.
As journalist Pablo Manriquez notes, the Laken Riley Act would mandate the detention of Dreamers over minor offenses.
And yet, immigration is not the only issue on which Democrats appear ready to roll over for Trump.
He subsequentlyrefused to rule outattempting to acquire Greenland via military means or economic coercion.
Trump alsosaid this weekhe intends to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
