Posted on 06/12/2013 9:21:29 AM PDT by Fred
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell endorsed a modest amendment to the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill Tuesday, a move that could set the stage for a major concession by the Kentucky Republican and his party on the far-reaching and relatively unpopular bill.
Although Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, the Senate’s majority leader, called the amendment offered by Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn a “poison pill,” a major opponent of the bill dismissed Reid’s description as posturing to help Republicans portray it as a major improvement to the bill.
Cornyn’s amendment, which McConnell promoted at a 2:15 press conference Tuesday, would require the Department of Homeland Security to declare it monitors 100 percent of the U.S. border with Mexico and has 90 percent “operational control” of the frontier.
The amendment does not require country-wide tracking of illegal immigrants who arrive on commercial airline flights. But its acceptance could allow the senators to end debate and pass the bill by July 4.
The amendment is “just political theater to provide cover for Republican congressmen who want to give the plutocracy what it wants… lowered wages and a morally righteous feeling,” Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a research nonprofit that advocates reduction of both legal and illegal immigration, told The Daily Caller.
He’s another one of those politicians that the electorate keeps giving “chances” to.
He’s done as far as I am concerned, I just hope we get a good alternate candidate to vote for. as opposed to just voting against McConnell.
So...al “illegal immigration” becomes “legal immigration?” OK...got it.
McConnell is living up to the standards of his recent predecessors. Bob Dole, Trent Lott, & Bill Frist.
God help us all.
Yes, they won’t be border jumping wetbacks.
This is from Powerline:
UPDATE: A reader adds these comments:
The guest workers provision referenced in Sen. Sessions’s comments is a tremendous disaster. It essentially sets up an industry controlled branch of the executive which can decide when and how many “guest workers” to admit, based on completely phony and, indeed, nonsensical “labor market conditions” to address “shortages.” In effect, there can never be an “illegal immigrant” again. When the scofflaw employers want “more”…the Labor Market Board just huffs and puffs and voila! —- in come the “guest workers” who will never leave and are now perfectly legal.
This new LEEEE-gal immigration regime is all but unlimited in numbers–a throwback to 1889. But we had 38 states then, and only about 70 million is total population. Now we are the THIRD most populous country, after only China and India with about 315 million in total population. There will be a massive influx in population of marginally assimilable third world unskilled workers and their dependents; a crushing of the native-born working and lower class; and massive economic dislocation, to say nothing of the destruction of the environment and transformation of our political system. In 1950 the population was 150 million; by 2050, on this path, it will be easily 500 million! We will have become India or China. What was the population of India and China in 1950?….India: 360 million; China: 560 million…..
But don’t fret–think of the GDP!….lots more taco stands and nail salons….and all the multicultural diversity, and the great ethnic food! Besides, as David Brooks says, you middle class Americans are just going to have to get used to being in more dense, crowded, somewhat disorderly circumstances, that’s all.
That quote should be thrown up in their faces every day.
I keep hearing these ads on Rush’s show, about congress needs to pass the new amnesty bill that’s not really amnesty.
I have some questions regarding what goes for “thought” in DC regarding this ad.
They talk about how the current laws aren’t being enforced. Please explain to me just how we can expect the new laws to be enforced, ESPECIALLY regarding “securing the border.”
They keep saying we need this monstrosity of a law, and they’re going to “secure the borer” as the first step. In every other “immigration reform” bill, they’ve promised that as well, but have never managed to get around to it. Why not just pass a bill to secure the border, and once THAT IS DONE, we can discuss the rest of what they want.
This is just another example of BOHICA - Bend Over, Here It Comes Again.
Mark
“would require the Department of Homeland Security to declare it monitors 100 percent of the U.S. border with Mexico and has 90 percent “operational control” of the frontier.”
McConnell is such a dunba$$. They can declare this right
now. Actually doing it is another story. Every day it
becomes more obvious that the Republican party is just a
false front of opposition to the communist takeover of
the US.
McConnell isn’t any dumber than Dems like Cummings and Mr. Guam is going to sink. He has given up and just doesn’t care. Cruz talked about this GOP defeatism, on the record. They have no interest in opposing the Dems now. The MSM & Barry whipped them.
So McConnell is looking out for himself. Trying to get any deal that enriches himself in anyway possible. So he will always want a deal, even a bad one.
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled McConnell sets stage for immigration concession, goodnesswins wrote:
Needs repeating....
300 MILLION CITIZENS ARE BEING TRACKED BY THEIR GOVERNMENT BUT THAT SAME REGIME CAN’T FIND ILLEGAL RESIDENTS UNLESS THEY MAKE THEM CITIZENS ? STUFF IT MCCONNELL STUFF IT RUBIO
Hope you don’t mind if I post that on my TWITTER and FB...
Heck No that’s why I put it there hoping somebody picks it up. Beside I’m not on either the twit or the face.
Sovereignty should also be brought up
Rove is doing those ads...
We talked about this earlier. I said it could give GOP senators cover to vote for amnesty and you thought Dems would never vote for it. Is it a "poison pill" or an a**-covering for cowardly GOP senators? It would insult the fanatic pro-amnesty factions but can you imagine Napolitano failing to find a way to NOT enforce it?
I didnt say that they would never vote for a bill w this John Cornyn amendment in it.
I responded to you by repeating my own list of poison pills most of which I posted before. see here#48 . I have no reason to trust Corny.
I don't believe in triggers or time delays in bills.
Getting rid of citizenship would kill it for sure, but those who want a bill to pass know it.
OK, but if Dems DID vote for it wouldn't this be at least as "poison" as Rubio's promises? Of course the Executive branch can ignore parts of a law they don't like (and the people don't seem to want to get the tar and feathers), but a lot of "poison pills" succeed just because they sound too "extreme" to somebody.
What I am afraid of is that Dems will try a new tactic: Swallow some "poison pills" (Rubio's promises, Cornyn's amendment, etc.), get the GOP (both senate and house) to vote for this "strengthened" amnesty, and then just ignore the parts they don't like.
I have no reason to trust Corny.
I don't trust him either, but if he starts doing the right things, even for the wrong reasons, I won't complain.
At this point, I’d almost rather have Ashely Judd in his seat. If I’m going to have to listen to the rantings of a raving lunatic, it might as well be her - better looking and doesn’t mind posing nude.
You forgot, “something is better than nothing”.
I always reply to that retarded sentence with, “I agree. So shoot yourself. Better than nothing!”
They better hope a few of the Mexicans vote for them. I never will.
That is why I pointed out the other day that Rubio’s sole focus on border enforcement is flawed(selling out and lying on everything else).
Most of the ones I picked Obama could do now with no bill, if he could do them and defy a bill that still forbids them.
“Cornyn’s amendment, which McConnell promoted at a 2:15 press conference Tuesday, would require the Department of Homeland Security to declare it monitors 100 percent of the U.S. border with Mexico and has 90 percent “operational control” of the frontier. “
The flaw in this is obvious.
Hint :’require the Department of Homeland Security to declare it’
It requires them to 'declare'.
I would never come up with something as weak as this.
Didn't Holder declare he knew nothing about spying on the media?
Didn't that NSA head declare that they were not collecting all those records on us?
This is why I know I never said that I think that Dems would reject that idea.
My ideas are much better, naturally as I made them up (default conclusion)
The Dems are ALREADY ignoring the Dream EO amnesty background checks. During the amnesty debate! Shut them all down 3 days after the election. That is how brazen they are.
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