Jeb Bush’s False-Flag Operation

National Review ^ | March 5, 2013 | Mark Krikorian

[rmlew]

Jeb Bush generated quite a bit of publicity for his new book yesterday by suggesting that amnestied illegal immigrants should not be eligible for citizenship. Instead, he’s suggesting they be given some kind of permanent status that would provide them work cards, Social Security numbers, driver’s licenses, and the right to travel abroad and return, but not allow for eventual naturalization — in effect, a kind of permanent guestworker program or a green-card-lite, rather than an actual green card. This is consistent with suggestions from other pro-amnesty Republicans, including Senator Rubio and a group of House members working up an amnesty deal.

Unfortunately, it’s a trick.

Jeb Bush, as you would imagine, has long been in favor of citizenship for illegal aliens. This “evolution” in his thinking is a tactic to offer a “compromise” version of amnesty that is somehow less distasteful to Republican lawmakers, as a way of duping them into voting for it, or giving them cover to dupe their constituents into thinking it’s not really an amnesty. And it’s being offered as an option opposed by the Left, and the Left is playing its role, calling the move a “blunder of huge proportions” and the like.

This enables the organ of the pro-amnesty movement to label it “a middle-ground option” when it is nothing of the kind. (That was also the point of last month’s “leaking” of Obama’s immigration bill.) Once the illegal population is legalized, the game is over — the amnesty will obviously never be revoked, and the Democrats will then launch a campaign against Republicans accusing them (correctly) of imposing on helpless Latinos a Jim Crow–style system of second-class status, something more appropriate to Saudi Arabia. If they go this way, the GOP candidate in 2016 will look back fondly on Romney’s 27 percent of the Hispanic vote — and he’ll have sabotaged his own base as well, resulting in an even further drop in blue-collar white turnout and Republican share.

When I say this whole debate over a “compromise” form of amnesty is kabuki, scripted out months ago by the open-borders crowd, I don’t mean that metaphorically. The pre-planned nature of this struck me at the House Judiciary Committee hearing a few weeks ago. San Antonio mayor Julian Castro (whose part-time job consists solely of chairing city-council meetings, by the way) insisted under questioning that a path to citizenship is the only option that Congress should consider, and was itself a “compromise” between open borders and mass deportation.

But then, his handler, Angela Kelley, head of immigration matters at the Center for American Progress and a key White House proxy on the issue, leaned forward and whispered in Castro’s ear. After that, he changed his tune slightly, saying a path to citizenship was the best outcome but that a lesser status might be acceptable. It wouldn’t surprise me me if Angela Kelley and White House immigration coordinator Cecilia Muñoz have actually done conference calls with staff for Rubio and Bush gaming out this strategy.

The question before us is not how illegal immigrants should be legalized, but whether they should be amnestied at all. And until we have a real enforcement infrastructure in place, the answer has to be “no.”

[Jim Robinson]

I work here 16 hours per day 7 days per week 365 days per year including holidays. No time to work anywhere else and as I said, I’m not independently wealthy. In fact, head over heels in debt. Thanks.

[stfassisi]

Sincerely asking..

What is the ultimate goal you want to achieve knowing that perfection can NOT ever be achieved by any country on earth?

[dfwgator]

Just once, I want to hear a politician say that all we are asking for is to have the very same immigration policies that Mexico has for her Southern border.

[Jim Robinson]

A return to the constitution as the supreme law of the Republic. It ain’t perfect, but it’s a hell of a lot better than the tyranny of socialist fascism, etc., that we’re currently suffering under.

Securing the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

[stfassisi]

It ain’t perfect, but it’s a hell of a lot better than the tyranny of socialist fascism, etc., that we’re currently suffering under.

That is true, but it's the lesser of those evils you said

From The words of the late Bishop Sheen...

Communism glorifies work as the new god to which cult and worship must be paid, just as democracies since the French revolution have substituted freedom for God and made it the supreme goal to be served,so now communism has made labor the deity which men must adore. Freedom is not the goal of democracy,if freedom is understood as freedom from something.

Freedom from something must necessarily be freedom for something. Freedom without law is a license and unlimited freedom eventually ends up in unlimited tyranny. Neither is the work of God,for thieves work and so do beavers,so do gods of soviet concentration camps.There ,therefore must be something besides mere work to distinguish it from animal instincts and crime..That missing element which communists have left out of work is the freedom and value of human personality.

[annalex]

Thank you.

These distinctions: profit, non-profit are artificial. Very few are cases when profit is sought by doing something of no objective value, and also few are cases when one can afford doing good and not get paid. FR remains a place that nurtures conservatism in a unique way and I wish you, Jim to get immensely rich doing what you do.

[johngrace]

I remember reading that some organizations have more autonomy free from government when not designated a non-profit.

I am happy and thank God for this site. It is a pleasure to read and meet others in this Free Republic. I am very grateful for it. I am a donor too. I vote prolife. I want to thank you personally Mr Jim Robinson and crew. I pray for you and everyone here.

Let me just say I prayed and fasted last October during the debates and Election Day. I did not eat those days till after midnight. I believe individually it was powerfully anointed for people but not as a nation. I believe in the spirit I was doing the right thing but the Lord showed myself that especially of all issues the weight of 55 million babies killed weighs heavy on this nation since 1973. Too many politicians give lip service if they do even that action. Individually we are in his hands but collectively as a nation this is a judgement coming. I hate to write these words. Please pray even more. Freeper Cheers.

[stfassisi]

I’m not independently wealthy. In fact, head over heels in debt.

I said a prayer for you at Adoration today

Here is a prayer for you to recite as well

Heavenly Father,

I Come before you today to ask for a financial blessing to improve my life.

My faith keeps me strong, and I know you will provide for me and the people I love.

I do not seek a large sum of money. I do not trouble you for unneeded comforts or luxury. I only ask for enough money to relieve my financial woes and ease this stress.

Give me the means to do your work, and spread your Love. I have so much to give, if only I were allowed the chance. In your name I pray, Amen

[Jim Robinson]

Thank you very much, johngrace! Prayers up for our nation!

[Jim Robinson]

Amen. Thank you very much!

[johngrace]

Powerful Prayer!!I recited it.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

we do not have the financial wherewithal to provide this website and keep it going without donations. The like-minded loyal FReepers who love and use FR always come through for us. Thank you all very much!

Thank God that the donations have kept FR going. When FR goes down, well, it ain’t good. I take it, from FR’s performance today, that John upgraded the hardware this week? My grandchildren were here, and I wasn’t FReeping in the usual way earlier in the week.

It had gotten slow enough to where I was systematically trying to anticipate when I would need a refresh of the latest posts/articles because I wasn’t happy waiting for the update to come back. Now, it’s quick. Great!