Posted on 01/27/2013 10:07:32 AM PST by Steelfish
By Abby Phillip Jan 27, 2013 Senate Immigration Proposal To Include Pathway To Citizenship
Two senators at the center of negotiations over comprehensive immigration reform, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) said on Sunday that a pathway to citizenship is an essential component of a comprehensive reform bill.
“That has to be also part of it,” McCain told ABC News’ Martha Raddatz on “This Week” when asked whether a pathway to citizenship would be a component of reform. “There’s a new appreciation on both sides of the aisle including, maybe more importantly on the Republican side of the aisle, that we have to enact comprehensive immigration reform.”
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In 4 more years we will need another of these amnesty programs for all of those who continue to sneak in.
No program should start until armed guards with orders to shoot to kill are placed on the border to stop more illegals from coming in.
If we are to do this every 3 or 4 years, why not just take down the border gates and make Mexico a state?
During the war it was rumored that John McCain got special treatment in the prison camp because his father was an Admiral, I have no trouble believing that as I see how he double crosses his political party
"4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people," the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the -- day of July, 1798, intituled "An Act concerning aliens," which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force." (emphases added) --Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.
So based on Thomas Jefferson's expert understanding of the Constitution, immigration is a unique, 10th Amendment protected state power issue.
Also note that Jefferson's stance on state power to regulate immigration probably helped him to be elected as the 3rd president.
All of the Mexican illegals can have dual citizenship. Their first loyalty is to Mexico. What bugs me is that most of the illegals are not even asking for citizenship. They want permanent resident status. They don’t want to salute the U.S. flag. They salute the red white and green.
“In 4 more years we will need another of these amnesty programs for all of those who continue to sneak in.”
Precisely.
The term “comprehensive immigration reform” is a semantic smokescreen that would make a crow blush.
But they don’t have the honesty to just come right out and say what they really want. They want what La Raza wants. So they use expressions like `comprehensive immigration reform’ and `a pathway to citizenship’ and `the system is broke, we must fix it.’ They don’t want to fix anything. They want to kick the can down the road, like the budget.
Go ahead, Congress: If you want to see “people coming out of the shadows” ignore the 2nd amendment; keep killing unborn babies; spend us into bankruptcy; tax us `til we’re dry ...
We know who you are and we know what you are: venal dilettantes working 15 hour weeks, twenty weeks a year, slopping at the public trough—unfaithful and irresponsible servants. And we know where to find you.
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It’s not much of a win unless it can pass in the House too. Normally, I’d say that was in doubt, but the GOPe has a suicidal urge to coddle illegals, so who knows?
This not an immigrant pathway to citizenship this is a citizenship pathway to lawbreakers.
The spineless and the leftists attempt to mold laws to legalize the illegal.
No pardons, no Amnesty -let the illegals self deport!
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