Posted on 03/05/2013 11:32:25 PM PST by 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.”
No Bush! No Rubio! No path to citizenship for illegal alien trespassers!! No amnesty!!
Amen!!
Do those things and illegal aliens will deport themselves and pay for it themselves.
Amen.
I think it’s a trick to see if the scumbag rats bite. The scumbag rats don’t want anything that would prevent the illegal alien hordes form voting, and this “stay forever, but you’ll never be a citizen and cast a legal vote” gambit would necessarily have to be coupled with strong voter ID legislation which would, in fact, have to be part of the “comprehensive” reform package.
The rats will NEVER go for anything like that, because the rats want the “voter registration” offices they plant next door to welfare offices to be busy.
So, it would be pretty ironic for the GOP to propose a really liberal plan to let the illegal alien hordes remain here with the proviso they can never vote, only to see the rats shoot it down. Of course, the plan would still be loser for the GOP even if the rats did go for it because, as somebody else noted, the illegal alien hordes have litters, and those litters would be natural born citizens who grow up to vote Democrat.
Jeb Bush claims it would be useless to seal the border until we create a legal immigration system that brings in as many immigrants legally as there are illegal aliens. Then we can seal the border and then we can do something about the illegal aliens. WTF? That's just stupid.
Jeb Bush is openly hostile to the conservative cause.
It puts those people in a defacto citizenship and will allow them to vote, though they are not citizens.
It still cheapens legal citizenship and they get to stay here doing what they were doing, not being punished for a myriad of crimes and is just ridiculous.
They are still taking jobs and welfare etc. from legal Ameyican residents.
Call congress. Shut down switchboards
They are still taking jobs and welfare etc. from legal Ameyican residents.
Call congress. Shut down switchboards
They are still taking jobs and welfare etc. from legal Ameyican residents.
Call congress. Shut down switchboards
They are still taking jobs and welfare etc. from legal Ameyican residents.
Call congress. Shut down switchboards
Uh, they don't become new Democrat voters, ever.
This specific idea was my position long before Bush or Rubio ever mentioned it. Those guilty of entering our country without permission should never be in a position to change its laws. Minor children brought by them should be eligible to become citizens eventually, as they were not guilty of making the decision and taking the action to enter illegally.
Jeb Bush is a New World Order Globalist who is openly hostile to our independent, sovereign Constitutional Republic.
If Romney was the single, worst possible candidate to run against obongo, then Jeb will prove to be an even bigger loser against cankles in 2016.
If you were Democrat, this would be brilliant. If you were a cultural Marxist, who wanted to destroy America, this would be brilliant. But if you are a Republican, this is an act of lunacy and treason.
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