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Posted on 10/15/2013 6:48:40 PM PDT by markomalley
Just when you thought the news from Washington couldn’t get any worse, a reader who is well connected on the Hill writes:
We have it on good authority that Congressmen Cantor and Ryan are determined to pivot to immigration just as soon as a budget agreement is reached. It will be a short-term budget agreement, so if Republicans and conservatives are smart, they can achieve a double-whammy by avoiding default yet keeping the focus on Obamacare and the budget (where we can win) while simultaneously preventing action on immigration that could lead to disastrous policy changes.
Well, that’s the optimistic way of looking at it. The other possibility is that the GOP, emerging bruised and bloody from the shutdown fiasco, will immediately be plunged into another divisive battle over immigration, with Paul Ryan leading the charge for amnesty and, worse, a massive infusion of unskilled labor that will drive down Americans’ wages. Ryan and Cantor have both been squishy on immigration (to put it mildly) for a long time. Our source writes:
Paul Ryan is one of the most liberal Republicans in the House on immigration. On this issue, leadership is using his connection with conservatives in essentially the same way Rubio was used in the Senate.
Great. Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse for Republicans.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Get lost Cantor.
Join the Democrats.
Once they give the entire population of Mexico a U.S. citizenship passport, they’ll then move on to getting rid of the Second Amendment and so on.
They don’t need no stinkin’ passports
Ryan too. I called the office of some of these congressmen prenteidn to be a resident of thier districts and the staff members just acted dumb.
And what's his excuse? Because he has a maid from Guatemala who's illegal? Or his sister-in-law is from Mexico?
It's usually something nonsensical like that. Brilliant public servants we have...
Republicrats are finisned. IT IS OVER. I’m out
According to him, he and others got wind of this last summer, and decided to head it off with the Obamacare wrangling in hopes of snuffing out immigration.
Heck, things are so f’ed up, good luck to the immigrants.
The democrats will rule forever, the republicans will continue their minor role in the sham republic, making promises to their bumpkin constituents on hot button conservative issues they never intend to keep.
This is where little peter-King, will say...see I told you so, those tea party republicans just want to cause trouble.
I will just bet little peter is all in on amnesty.
Ryan wants to give amnesty to millions of invaders who will vote for Rats to steal my family’s income.
He is anathema.
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]
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to get them to leave. Put a bounty on them, with heavy penalties for false arrest. They'll leave in a heartbeat all on their lonesome.
It takes will, he states that he doesn’t have it.
I thought the same thing half way through Bush's last term...
It's a sick farce.
Libertarians place individual liberty ahead of national sovereignty. Yet it takes a government to insure the rule of law. Without sovereignty and inundated with alien voters demanding to violate the residents' property rights, no government can enforce the will of the people because the entrants will vote their collective interest as representing a competing nation. In that respect, open borders debases the very idea of representation because the government cannot then do what its citizens elected it to do.
The immigration issue as such is an exemplar of this principle, in that some 70% of US citizens want the illegals out of the country. Yet our government comprised of an odd bedfellows coalition among those seeking more dependents with which to build a majority to deliver cushy deals for the fabulously rich and those businesses seeking cheap labor (both getting the middle classes to endure and fund the financial and social costs) actually allies with foreign interests at the expense of its own citizens. Effectively, the chumps to pay for it end up without representation.
Yes, Peter King is all in on Amnesty.
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