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Flake Admits Backlash Against Immigration Reform, But Doesn't 'Understand'
breitbart.com ^ | 7/14/14

Posted on 07/10/2014 6:05:11 AM PDT by cotton1706

In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Special Report” on Wednesday, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) discussed the current state of affairs surrounding the issue of immigration.

Flake, the guest of the show’s occasionally occurring “Center Seat” segment, admitted the rise of a populist movement opposing any immigration reform movement that included a version of amnesty. However, he admitted to being perplexed as to why there’s such an opposition stating there’s a need for not only low-skill labor “particularly in the agricultural areas and hospitality areas,” but high-skill labor of “those in the STEM fields.”

Partial transcript as follows:

STEPHEN HAYES, Weekly Standard: You indicated that you're still for comprehensive immigration reform but that nothing can happen in this environment. What do you mean by "in this environment"?

FLAKE: As long as we have crisis like this with kids coming across, you've got to deal with this immediate crisis.

HAYES: Immigration reform wasn't' going to pass before this sort of blew up or before it was on the front pages, was it? Go back three months.

FLAKE: Three months ago we did have a chance. I think the Cantor loss really was the death knell for it. Up until that time I thought we still had a shot at it. But with this crisis, no chance, obviously.

BRET BAIER, host “Special Report”: Jason?

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; elections
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Because it makes perfect sense to everybody in the Washington bubble and at the cocktail parties.
1 posted on 07/10/2014 6:05:11 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Another ‘conservative’ Republican that’s grown in office.


2 posted on 07/10/2014 6:06:40 AM PDT by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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To: cotton1706

Maybe he needs to step out of his gated community once in awhile and hold a real town hall meeting with his constituents. Ya think?


3 posted on 07/10/2014 6:07:29 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: cotton1706
They won't be flooding his kids' private schools, or getting into his gated community (unless they are in a landscaping truck.) So no worries!


4 posted on 07/10/2014 6:07:36 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: cotton1706

I wish I could adequately express the hatred and disgust I feel for the governing elitists that i feel right now.


5 posted on 07/10/2014 6:07:37 AM PDT by pgkdan (ISLAM IS THE RELIGION OF THE ANTICHRIST!)
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To: pgkdan

You are hardly alone.

Where are the jihadi cells when you need them.


6 posted on 07/10/2014 6:08:54 AM PDT by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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To: cotton1706
However, he admitted to being perplexed as to why there’s such an opposition stating there’s a need for not only low-skill labor “particularly in the agricultural areas and hospitality areas,” but high-skill labor of “those in the STEM fields.”

We have millions of Americans who have given up looking for work. Getting illegals out of agriculture would force farm interests to pay more, which would draw in American workers.

We also have thousands of recent STEM grads and older STEM workers not working in the fields of their education.

The reason so many Americans reject what Flake is claiming is that they rightly recognize it for the utter B.S. that it is.

8 posted on 07/10/2014 6:10:00 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: x1stcav

What is that supposed to mean?


9 posted on 07/10/2014 6:10:40 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: cotton1706

...Just another traitor to hang on the nearest lamp post.


10 posted on 07/10/2014 6:10:48 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: x1stcav

Just living up to his name.


11 posted on 07/10/2014 6:11:10 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (we shouldn't fear the government. the government should fear us.)
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To: cotton1706
As long as we have crisis like this with kids coming across, you've got to deal with this immediate crisis.

...and as long as you deal with it by talking about amnesty there will be more and more kids coming across!

12 posted on 07/10/2014 6:12:51 AM PDT by nitzy
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To: cotton1706

The duplicitous Flake, ever an amnesty proponent, began bobbing and weaving on the issue so as to obscure his amnesty loving position when he decided to run for the senate. Once elected to it, however, he quickly reverted to full throated McCainism.

I loathe these guys who intentionally hide their positions at election time, only to do the bidding of Chamber of Commerce types once elected.


13 posted on 07/10/2014 6:13:19 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: cotton1706

Who could be against creating a class of ORC child slaves to support the elite? Who?


14 posted on 07/10/2014 6:13:22 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: TADSLOS

The lamp posts are in increasing need of being decorated.

I loathe the elitist turds.


15 posted on 07/10/2014 6:16:09 AM PDT by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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To: F15Eagle
They are complicit; pure and simple.

Robert Burns' Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation springs to mind.

16 posted on 07/10/2014 6:18:06 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: cotton1706
Liberals like Obama, and Republican establishment pro-amnesty types like Flake actually thought that all the children flooding over the border would cause some massive public wave of compassion and sympathy which would give a huge boost of momentum to push their amnesty bill through. They are shocked...SHOCKED...to discover that it has had just the opposite effect and has hardened the public against amnesty and killed any chance for it in the near future. Which also goes to demonstrate, when the chips are on the table, no matter what the liberal media polls say on the issue, the vast majority of Americans are NOT pro-amnesty leftists...
18 posted on 07/10/2014 6:20:46 AM PDT by apillar
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To: F15Eagle

Anyone who believes they “don’t understand” is a fool.

They are complicit; pure and simple.

WORTH REPEATING. Thanks F15Eagle.


19 posted on 07/10/2014 6:27:03 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: cotton1706

FUF Resign


20 posted on 07/10/2014 6:29:03 AM PDT by PGalt
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