Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

House Republicans Work Immigration Behind Scenes
ABC News ^ | 09/30/2013 | ERICA WERNER

Posted on 09/30/2013 2:48:07 PM PDT by Rusty0604

Immigration overhaul legislation has been dormant in the House for months, but a few Republicans are working behind the scenes to advance it at a time the Capitol is immersed in a partisan brawl over government spending and President Barack Obama's health care law.

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, has been discussing possible legal status for the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally. He's also been working with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a fellow Virginia Republican, on a bill offering citizenship to immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children.

Reps. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, and Ted Poe, R-Texas, are working on a plan to create a visa program allowing more lower-skilled workers into the country.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; gangof8; immigration

1 posted on 09/30/2013 2:48:07 PM PDT by Rusty0604
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Rusty0604

2 posted on 09/30/2013 2:55:25 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rusty0604

I don’t know how many times I have heard the democrats say that Obama care is the law of the land so suck it up.... we have immigration laws that are also law of the land, but it seems they are not enforced, in fact many are mocked, democrats and some republicans seem to ignore these immigration laws of the same land


3 posted on 09/30/2013 3:06:45 PM PDT by JoanneSD
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JoanneSD

And Obama and DHS have directed that parts of the immigration law be ignored. How does he get away with it?


4 posted on 09/30/2013 3:09:40 PM PDT by Rusty0604
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: JoanneSD

Just ask any rat about “THE 2006 SECURE BORDER ACT”... LEGISLATION THAT STATES “SHALL BUILD A FENCE” to which not one inch of fence has been built... Why? Because they refused to fund it. THE SECURE BORDER ACT IS LAW... DOMA IS LAW... THE RATS REFUSE TO RECOGNIZE THESE LAWS SO SCREW THEM! To hell with all dimrats!


5 posted on 09/30/2013 3:20:49 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Rusty0604

Shut it down. Burn it down.


6 posted on 09/30/2013 3:22:28 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Rusty0604

Why?


7 posted on 09/30/2013 3:26:18 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Rand Paul’s immigration speech
03.19.13 | Hon Sen Rand Paul (KY)
Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2998395/posts

...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.

Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.

Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.

Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.

If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...

This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.

Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.

[but he’s not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]


8 posted on 09/30/2013 3:29:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Rusty0604
How does he get away with it?

He has helpers in both parties and not just a few judges are covering for him.

We have the insane notion that Obama can't be impeached because the Senate would never convict, not so, Impeachment is the Grand Jury with the means to investigate, doesn't matter all that much if they get the conviction.

9 posted on 09/30/2013 3:38:45 PM PDT by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Rusty0604

“Reps. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, and Ted Poe, R-Texas, are working on a plan to create a visa program allowing more lower-skilled workers into the country.”

Brilliant now that unemployment is down to 5%.


10 posted on 09/30/2013 3:41:28 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: headstamp 2

“Reps. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho, and Ted Poe, R-Texas, are working on a plan to create a visa program allowing more lower-skilled workers into the country.”

Brilliant now that unemployment is down to 5%.
////////\
Last I checked unemployment was over 7%.


11 posted on 09/30/2013 3:56:39 PM PDT by ckilmer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: headstamp 2

PLEASE CALL POE IF YOU LIVE IN HOUSTON. WE HAVE PROTESTED HIM THREE TIMES ALREADY AND HE IS OBVIOUSLY BOUGHT BY GREATER HOUSTON PARTNERSHIP CARTEL.
http://www.stopthemagnet.com/content/sendoff-dc-congressman-poe-houston-war-veterans-warning-no-amnesty

2412 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-6565
(202) 225-5547 fax
(866) 425-6565 toll free

Harris County East

1801 Kingwood Drive, Suite 240
Kingwood, TX 77339
(281) 446-0242
(281) 446-0252 fax
(877) 446-0242 toll free

Harris County West

710 N. Post Oak Rd, Suite 510
Houston, TX 77024
(713) 681-8763 (TPOE)
(713) 681-1150 fax


12 posted on 09/30/2013 3:59:19 PM PDT by magna carta
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: headstamp 2

Ted Poe, R-Texas, are working on a plan to create a visa program allowing more lower-skilled workers into the country.”

What’s the deal with Poe. I get so tired of having to fight Republicans from Texas. We don’t need any more low-skilled workers in the country and, most of all, in Texas. Sure hope they’ve cleaned out their mailboxes and have started answering their phones again. Next thing you know he’ll be on TV supporting the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Houston along with the wonderful gay mayor.


13 posted on 09/30/2013 4:16:26 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: headstamp 2

Steve King has been arguing with Labrador for a while.

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/309448-1

40 minutes in King and Labrador argue over the GOP winning future elections. Id vote Democrat in the house to get rid of Poe and make the GOP house conference more pro America.

Then vote for whoever the GOP Senate candidate for Texas is.


14 posted on 09/30/2013 4:31:54 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: ckilmer

“Last I checked unemployment was over 7%.”

Did I really need a sarcasm tag?


15 posted on 10/01/2013 1:22:36 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson