The Democrats will take the first hit, the GOP elites the next one.
It isn't like the Democrats are on the right side of amnesty either.
he problem is that Repubs don’t have to do anything to win. Don’t vote or even bring up Immigration. They will shoot themselves by entertaining that notion. Letting the Rats talk them into the fray. Stay out. shut down all but the essentials. Give the Rats “NOTHING”.
Of course it does. Legalizing the status of 11 to 20 million lawbreakers who will be given work permits and the ability to sponsor tens of millions of their family members thru chain migration, i.e., family reunification will destroy this country with the stroke of a pen.
And exactly how will these newly legalized lawbreakers obtain health care? How many will qualify for Medicaid? Will they be allowed to use the Obamacare exchanges and receive government subsidies?
The Democrats will take the first hit, the GOP elites the next one.
If the GOP passes an amnesty, I will not vote ever again for the GOP. It will be time for a third party. Rep turnout for 2014 will be depressed by the passage of an amnesty. It will throw the Dems a life preserver.
It isn't like the Democrats are on the right side of amnesty either.
The Dems benefit politically from amnesty and immigration in general. Immigrants vote two to one for the Dems, which will make the Dems the permanent majority party if they are not already when it comes to Presidential elections. When you bring in 1.2 million permanent legal immigrants every year, 87% of whom are minorities and are mostly poor and uneducated, it does and will have electoral consequences. In 1970 one in 21 residents of this country were foreign-born; today it is one in 8 the highest it has been in over 90 years. In a decade it will be one in 7, the highest it has been in our history.
Amnesty DOES affect the American People ....much more than odumbicare, it has for decades because for decades millions of Americans have lost jobs to illegals. But the GOP won’t dare say that or dare say anything accept “lets avoid the shutdown”.
All they have to say unless odumbi offers a balanced budget, we cannot increase the debt ceiling. PERIOD.