G.O.P. Congressman in South Carolina Takes a Risk With a Foray Into Immigration

NYT ^ | Feb 21, 2014 | Julia Preston

[upchuck]

GAFFNEY, S.C. — After the sterling conservative voting record he has established during three years in Washington, Representative Mick Mulvaney, a Republican, can take a few political risks in his South Carolina district, one of the most conservative in this reliably Republican state. This week he did just that.

Mr. Mulvaney convened a town-hall meeting in this country town on the troublesome issue of immigration, with an audience of Latinos. He held forth for an hour, parsing policy and answering questions about the prospects for immigration legislation in the House — entirely in Spanish.

Even more surprising to the spellbound crowd at the First Baptist Church, Mr. Mulvaney said he and other conservative House Republicans were open to some kind of legal status, although not a path to citizenship, for many immigrants living in the country illegally.

But he also said it would not happen this year: Republicans just do not trust President Obama to carry out any law they might enact.

“We are afraid that if we reach an agreement,” the congressman said, making the most of the Spanish skills he acquired years ago in college, “he will take the parts he likes and he won’t take the parts that he doesn’t like.”

The politics of immigration are gradually shifting in South Carolina and some other Southern states, where not long ago most conservatives passionately rejected legalization as amnesty that rewarded lawbreakers. Like Mr. Mulvaney, a number of Republicans are moving toward the view that the immigration system needs fixing, and that 11.7 million illegal immigrants will not be deported and need a path to legal status.

[TADSLOS]

Mulvaney is mining a mother lode of American distrust Obama himself generated......by his Godzillian Obama/Care blunder

It's no blunder.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Anything to keep from enforcing existing law. Just make another law.

[SharpRightTurn]

I had high hopes for Mulvaney and, in many cases, he hasn’t disappointed.

However, since amnesty is a nation destroyer it’s not just another issue that can be avoided.

Mulvaney appears to be ready to join Trey Gowdy in going over to the Dark Side on amnesty.

Is there something about being in the Beltway that makes you not give a damn about the American worker and flooding the country with immigrants when so many Americans are jobless?

[buckalfa]

"Mulvaney appears to be ready to join Trey Gowdy in going over to the Dark Side on amnesty."

Pretty much. Chamber of Commerce and Ag interests have great influence in the Upstate of SC. Mulvaney and Gowdy are not immune to political/campaign finance pressure. Another thing to consider is that SC is slowly going the way of Virginia, a Red State turning purple. SC's GOP House delegation undoubtedly sees this and perhaps are hedging their electoral bets for the future.

[Liz]

Hate-America Obama certainly envisioned Obama/Care (and amnesty) as a vote-getter---to fulfill his dream of a permanent Democratic majority.

AS FREEPER GOPJ INSIGHTFULLY POSTED: "Obamacare was designed to benefit Democrats" (and hand-picked Democrat voting blocs---blocs that fulfill Obama's plans for a permanent Democratic majority):

<><> Blacks, browns, minorities, the melanin-underclass, benefit because of low, or no, income,

<><> Gays benefit for preexisting conditions, like HIV, and other STD's.

<><>State-dependent women benefit - Dems work hard to undermine marriage, to make them state-dependent, to make them qualify.

<><> Union lefties were given exemptions.

Last but not least....

"Liberal Elites" get the best doctors - their offices cleared of us middle-class riff-raff. The new Elites won't have to wait to see a doctor as Republican riff-raff are sent to the slaughterhouse.

SUMMING UP: Liberal elites got the gold. Republicans, conservatives, patriots, tea partiers, job-holders, the middle class, small business owners, etc....we got the shaft.

You say you don't vote Democrat? You get to pay for everything.

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Today, all except those Tea Party types, swallowed hook, line and sinker Obama's repeated promises that Americans could:

(1) keep their existing health plans,
(2) keep their own doctors that they like,
(3) keep their 25-year-olds on the family health plan,
(4) never be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition,
(5) sign up instantly on his "tech-savvy" government Web site,
(6) buy insurance only after becoming seriously ill,
(7) save $2,500 per family in annual premiums in the bargain,
(8) all without any new taxes.

Five years in the making and O's issued some 35 changes, to date---as the Godzillian O/Care monster rampages through America's well-oiled healthcare system.

[TADSLOS]

This and amnesty will be the catalysts for CWII. Both of these leftist programs are specifically designed to destroy the middle class, establish complete government control and incompatible with a constitutional republic. These conflicting ideologies are on a collision course. It’s just a matter of time and a trigger.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

The Lindsey Graham primary challengers should commit to going after Gowdy and Mulvaney for the ones who finish outside the top 2.

[ObamahatesPACoal]

I think there is a lot of stuck on stupid Republicans like Rand Paul. Id be happy to get rid of Schock, Kinzinger, Ellmers, Mulvaney and Gowdy for 2 years and replace them with a conservative. The GOP will still have 230 House members with a few gains elsewhere.

There are already enough Americans, illegals and foreign workers for most farms.

Mulvaney denies on facebook:
“Pretty cool… aside from the fact I have no idea where Drudge got the idea the meeting was about amnesty. The word amnesty isn’t mentioned in the article, wasn’t offered as an idea at the meeting, and in fact is not what I support. “

http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/06/17/2170721/marchant-latinos-immigration/

The proposed immigration overhaul “is very unpopular in my district,” said Marchant, who represents suburbs west of Dallas. “The Republican primary voters, they’re being pretty vocal with me on this subject.” Besides, he said, “if you give the legal right to vote to 10 Hispanics in my district, seven to eight of them are going to vote Democrat.”

http://www.examiner.com/article/troubling-comments-from-texas-lawmakers-suggest-legislating-racsim-not-far-flung

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/21/blake-farenthold-immigration-midterms_n_4817679.html

Even Blake Farenthold has pulled back on his hispandering.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/21/blake-farenthold-immigration-midterms_n_4817679.html

“But that population isn’t as influential as it once was. According to U.S. Census figures, the 2012 remapping of Texas increased the voting-age population for whites in the district by more than 100,000 voters, while reducing the number of Hispanics who could vote there by about that same number. Recent figures show the district currently has 243,991 white voters compared to 233,071 Hispanic voters.”

[The_Media_never_lie]

...some kind of legal status for bank robbers entering banks illegally...?
...some kind of legal status for mafia hit men killing folks illegally...?
...some kind of legal status for drug pushers selling heroin illegally...?
...some kind of legal status for moonshiners making whiskey illegally...?

How about the children of these criminals who also break our laws? The children are innocent. Why are we punishing these children by incarcerating their parents?