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Top Republicans to Call for Legal Status for Some Immigrants (Leaks from GOP Amnesty Plan)
NY Times ^ | 1/28/14 | JONATHAN WEISMAN and ASHLEY PARKER

Posted on 01/28/2014 11:02:53 AM PST by jimbo123

The House Republican leadership’s broad framework for overhauling the nation’s immigration laws will call this week for a path to legal status — but not citizenship — for many of the 11 million adult immigrants who are in the country illegally, according to aides who have seen the party’s statement of principles. For immigrants brought to the United States illegally as young children, the Republicans would offer a path to citizenship.

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House Republican leaders will circulate it at a three-day retreat for their members that begins Wednesday on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Several pro-immigration organizations that have been briefed on the guidelines say they are not intended to serve as a conservative starting point for future negotiations, but as a gauge of how far to the left House Republicans are willing to move.

The principles say that Republicans do not support a “special path to citizenship,” but make an exception for the “Dreamers,” the immigrants brought into the country illegally as children, quoting a 2013 speech by Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House majority leader. “One of the great founding principles of our country was that children would not be punished for the mistakes of their parents,” Mr. Cantor said at the time. “It is time to provide an opportunity for legal residence and citizenship for those who were brought to this country as children and who know no other home.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; amnestypimps; cantordreamact; gopamnesty; gopestablishment; massamnesty; rinos; treason
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1 posted on 01/28/2014 11:02:53 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

The GOP wants to commit suicide for some reason.


2 posted on 01/28/2014 11:03:47 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: jimbo123

This is by far the worst I have felt about our country. They do this is is OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!


3 posted on 01/28/2014 11:05:23 AM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
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To: jimbo123

GOP to start the Demonuts Propaganda Ball rolling


4 posted on 01/28/2014 11:09:20 AM PST by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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Make No Mistake.....

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5 posted on 01/28/2014 11:09:24 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: jimbo123
Like moths to a flame.

Like a dog to its vomit (see The Gods of the Copybook Headings).

There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.

That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,

And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins

When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,

The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!


6 posted on 01/28/2014 11:09:51 AM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: GeronL
The GOP wants to commit suicide for some reason.

Not really. They're just no different than the Vichy French during the Nazi occupation. They sold their souls to Soros in hopes of getting nice apartments in Elysium once the statists have total control...


7 posted on 01/28/2014 11:09:59 AM PST by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Steely Tom

bump


8 posted on 01/28/2014 11:10:26 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: GeronL
"The GOP wants to commit suicide for some reason."

Rational self-interest. They've been fed millions in campaign contributions, sweetheart insider trading deals, and promised further millions in lobbying/speaking fees after they leave office.

If any of them had an ounce of patriotism before they got to DC, the lobbyists beat it out of them before they got off the plane.
9 posted on 01/28/2014 11:10:32 AM PST by CowboyJay (Cruz'-ing in 2016!)
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To: COBOL2Java

“..They sold their souls to Soros in hopes of getting nice apartments in Elysium once the statists have total control...”

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Most will not realize just how close to reality this comment is...


10 posted on 01/28/2014 11:14:14 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: COBOL2Java

Still a suicidal path.


11 posted on 01/28/2014 11:16:46 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: jimbo123

How would this work, take their word for when they arrived? How could this be a problem? What is a child, as far as I know, I’m still my mommy’s baby boy, even at 72..


12 posted on 01/28/2014 11:23:32 AM PST by carlo3b (Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.. Henry Kissinger)
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To: jimbo123

“The House Republican leadership’s broad framework for overhauling the nation’s immigration laws will call this week for a path to legal status — but not citizenship — for many of the 11 million adult immigrants who are in the country illegally,...”

And a Federal Judge would grant them voting rights within 72 hours of that law being signed!


13 posted on 01/28/2014 11:23:46 AM PST by Beagle8U (Unions are Affirmative Action for Slackers! .)
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11 million adult immigrants

Sure, it's 11 million. Try 25 million.

14 posted on 01/28/2014 11:24:25 AM PST by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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The real “Dreamers” are the RINO bastards that think they can vote for this and still get reelected in 2014!


15 posted on 01/28/2014 11:25:56 AM PST by Beagle8U (Unions are Affirmative Action for Slackers! .)
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To: carlo3b

How would this work? Take a look at how well 0bamacare is working.


16 posted on 01/28/2014 11:26:14 AM PST by forgotten man
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To: Beagle8U

bump


17 posted on 01/28/2014 11:28:14 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: jimbo123
Oh YES, Mr. Obama, since the country isn't going down the crapper fast enough, let us help you add 11 to 20 MILLION new DemonRAT voters to the rolls. Thank you, sir, may we have another?

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18 posted on 01/28/2014 11:29:01 AM PST by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is NOT BLISS. It is the ROAD TO SERFDOM! We're on a ROAD TRIP!!)
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To: Beagle8U

They aren’t “dreamers”: they know how gullible their own voters are.


19 posted on 01/28/2014 11:29:26 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: COBOL2Java

True,they want to keep their lands and slaves!


20 posted on 01/28/2014 11:31:39 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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