Posted on 11/03/2010 9:31:20 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Of all the possible changes to come out of the election, the biggest potential shift in immigration policy will probably come from which party controls the House. Now that change is official: Republicans will lead the House, meaning immigration legislation will be in the hands of likely Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who will chair the immigration subcommittee.
Republican positions on immigration — and particularly the positions of hardliners like King — will be a major change from how current Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other leading Democrats handled the issue. House Republicans have said they will focus on border security and immigration enforcement over potential reform to the legal immigration system.
King tends to be on the extreme end of anti-illegal immigration rhetoric: He favors changes to birthright citizenship to keep U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants from receiving citizenship and argues more states should pass immigration crackdowns like Arizona’s SB 1070. King has pushed for more border enforcement and an electrified fence along the border to keep illegal immigrants out. “We do that with livestock all the time,” he said.
As head of the immigration subcommittee, King wants to call various leading Obama administration officials to hearings to ask them about immigration enforcement and, presumably, imply the administration does not want to deport people.
Of course, King won’t have ultimate power over the House Republicans’ priorities on immigration. Boehner will set a good deal of the agenda, and is likely to follow some of the plans hinted at in the Pledge to America, a vague but enforcement-heavy document released in September.
We FINALLY might get a WALL BUILT
:-)! Steve King is MINE and NONE of you can have him!!!!
I hope they heard us. The new Immigration Policy should be: ENFORCE THE LAW AS CURRENTLY WRITTEN!
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The nail in the coffin for this “comprehensive immigration” nonsense aka automatic citizenship for illegals. They can si si puede’ all they want..
True conservative immigration reform would include;
1. Reducing legal immigration: The absurd Diversity Visa Lottery should be abolished outright. Family reunification should be limited to spouses (a male husband of a female American or a female wife of a male American), dependent children, and parents. Without a reduction in legal immigration, the GOP will face demographic oblivion.
2. Crack down on asylum seeking fraud
3. Making it harder for refugee populations to be dumped on areas and communities that don’t want them. It’s a business, and unfortunately some churches are involved. And we shouldn’t have situations where former Senator Brownback would try to settle refugee populations...as long as it wasn’t in Kansas!
4. No path to citizenship for illegals
5. A correct interpretation of the 14th Amendment and no birthright citizenship for children born to illegals
6. Finishing the fence and being tougher on employers who hire illegals
7. No Guest Worker Program that allows the ‘guests’ an option to stay permanently; this would of course mean that the ‘guests’ cannot bring their family with them while working here.
There’s more, but it’s late.
This is sweet!!
Time to advertise for whistleblowers.
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Aren’t the Dems planning on passing amnesty in the lame duck session?
This is great news.
I hope King tells Luis Guitierrez to shove amnesty and his Latino fascism up his backside.
However, my biggest fear is that because amnesty is no longer a possibility, either now or the foreseeable future, the illegals are going to start engaging in terrorism in the United States. They have already started a war of attrition against our welfare state and they currently thumb their noses at our laws and sovereignty, so terrorism is a natural next step in their war against us.
Of course, the traitorous left will call it civil disobedience and engage in terrorism with them, and Obama will do absolutely nothing about it.
Support for 1070 would sky rocket !!!
http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/1975
King tends to be on the extreme end of anti-illegal immigration rhetoric”....
NOTHING extreme about King’s position!
We could sure use a few clones of King, Poe, DeMint, Brewer, etc.
> ...meaning immigration legislation will be in the hands of likely Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), who will chair the immigration subcommittee.
And WHICH BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT shall enforce that new legislation?
Might it be the same branch of government that refuses to enforce our EXISTING laws?
And tries its dam*est to allow those illegals the right to vote? get drivers licenses? suck up U.S. jobs? get free health care? free education??
Then it becomes “comply or no money for you.”
“...the illegals are going to start engaging in terrorism ...”
Nah, that’s a Muslim thing. There’s a simple solution to this problem, but no one seems to want to talk about it. Put people in jail for employing illegal aliens and the jobs would evaporate and they wouldn’t be sneaking into the US.
COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT.
And.
A PATHWAY TO DEPORTATION.
How about enforcing current law which includes a double-layered fence?
This is going to be fun to watch. This man is fearless.
I still put more blame on government policies of free health care for illegals, other free taxpayer-financed services, education, etc.
Why should business be responsible for solving the problem when government is going to continue to offer the freebies as magnets?
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