Posted on 05/23/2014 4:06:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) gave House Republicans six weeks to pass amnesty legislation before President Barack Obama starts to use executive actions to ease deportations and change immigration laws.
“We’ve waited 329 days, we’re willing to wait another six weeks,” Reid said, according to Politico. “But at the end of six weeks, if something hasn’t been done, then there’s gonna have to be a move made. And it’s too bad we have to do that, because we all know things can be done administratively, but it’s better to change the law.”
Schumer, who has previously said there could be legislation by "June or July," concurred.
“They have about a six-week window, from June 10 after the last Republican primary until the August recess. If they don’t pass immigration reform them, the president will have no choice but to act on his own,” he said, according to The Hill.
Schumer, along with Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), has said that this year is the last chance to pass sweeping amnesty legislation. The New York Democrat has also suggested that Congress pass the Senate's amnesty bill, which the Congressional Budget Office determined would lower the wages of American workers, but delay the implementation of it until Obama leaves office in 2017. Reid also endorsed Schumer's suggestion, which would give amnesty to all illegal immigrants who arrived in the country before 2014.
House Republicans have said they would not proceed on amnesty legislation until they could trust Obama to enforce the nation's immigration laws....
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The 'Rats have recognized that the only thing that can save them from a bloodbath in November is the GOP doing something incredibly stupid.
Ergo, try to force Boehner and the House leadership into doing something incredibly stupid.
Will the Republican base shouting in one ear be enough to overcome Harry Reid and the Chamber of Commerce whispering sweet nothings in the other ear?
The Republic is on the line...
Wouldn’t that be an act of war? For whose ears is this trial balloon intended?
If Congress is only for show - and power lies with the President - abolish Congress. Why spend money on a bunch of fakes?
And while we're at it, let's offer 60 million Chinese citizenship if they promise to vote Republican? Then we can pompously turn to Democrats and tell them they should court the NRA vote if they want to win future elections.
I suspect the suck-up idiots at the New York Times and Washington Post would ‘catch’ that we're not totally sincere about our ‘Asian Dreamers’... No more sincere than the Democrats... who's excuses and lies they buy forever.
I guess he never got the memo.
Usurpation is only viewed that way when a group can convince a majority of the nation and/or those holding the checks of power not to challenge it.
The Chancellor will not be denied, there is no strength to resist is the Weimar Republic.
He obviously has a foto of Boehner with a goat.
Boehner's a Muslim? :-)
“The R’s don’t have the balls to do anything.”
They want immigration reform. They want to legalize all the undocumented.
They just want to do it in such a way that absolves them of complicity.
The GOP and the Dems are on the same page on this and on many other issues.
While our “news media” (yes, I use the term news jokingly) feast on weather, climate, Redskins, racebaiting, and other silly diversions, the drivers of the US march on completing their tasks.
It doesn’t concern you. Just shutup and watch Housewives.
/s ~ for the challenged.
The AMERICAN PEOPLE NOT WANT immigration reform, black communities don’t want it, white communities don’t want it, LEGAL
Hispanic communities don’t want it!!!! So how will this help them in the elections????
He does if no one stops him : / and clearly no one in the legislative branch, or the judicial branch has any intention of doing such a thing.
Our nation and our freedoms have been usurped by a class of political elites, who stand in awe of Barack HUSSEIN 0bama. They never in their wildest, self serving dreams imagined simply RULING the American people.
And he does it. He doesn’t even make any attempt to hide it. He even tells us all before he does it, like a stern teacher, or boss giving you a “choice” that is no choice at all.
The Political Elite worships at his feet.
i wish they’d ask schumer et al why it’s better to change the law than do it w/ executive order.
if they want it so bad, why don’t they just do it w/ an order right now?
they want to Rs to share the decision. they apparently did learn at least one thing from passing 0-care with only D votes.
The new function of Congress is to give advice to the President and assist him in implementing his decrees.
“”They want immigration reform. They want to legalize all the undocumented.
They just want to do it in such a way that absolves them of complicity.
The GOP and the Dems are on the same page on this and on many other issues.””
Yup.
Dear Lord, please guide and strengthen us in this.
Tatt
Boehner is waiting for Eric Holder to do something.
Immigration reform = 100 years of dim rule.
Remember Schumer grilling Sam Alito on “Unitary Executive” theory? I guess he’s all for it now.
5-10,000,000 new Hispanic voters. You do the math.
Obama has already acted unilaterally on amnesty.
He did it because it was 2012 (a POTUS) election year,
He will do what he wants when he wants, these Dems claiming that the GOP controls him are just blowing smoke
0bama as a pen and a phone and all we have is this apparently worthless Constitution.
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