Posted on 12/05/2013 6:10:38 AM PST by xzins
Many CHQ readers might be inclined to bestow the dubious honor of being the Republican Party’s most important supporter of amnesty for illegal aliens upon two establishment Republicans; Senator John McCain and Lindsey Graham, or – to the great disappointment of the many Tea Party movement voters who backed them – to otherwise conservative Senators Marco Rubio and Jeff Flake.
But we think that assessment is fair, but it misses a key piece of information that has been kept skillfully out of the public eye.
McCain, Graham, Flake, and Rubio are influential, but none of them hold a leadership position within the Senate or Republican power structure on Capitol Hill.
But House Majority Leader Eric Cantor does, and a very powerful one at that, and Cantor is all in for amnesty for illegal aliens, starting with the so-called “Dreamers,” illegal aliens who were brought to this country without their consent as children.
Why is Cantor’s support for amnesty so crucial to the potential for an amnesty bill moving through Congress, especially during a year-end rush of legislation?
Simple: the House Majority Leader, in addition to having an influential platform for advocating amnesty for illegal aliens, and a powerful position from which to strong arm votes, also traditionally schedules bills for the House.
According to Breitbart’s Matthew Boyle, Cantor has been writing the KIDS Act [the GOP version of a bill granting amnesty to young illegal aliens] for months, but has not introduced it since announcing that he was working on amnesty legislation with House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (VA-6). Goodlatte is, like Cantor, from Virginia – a state where Cantor wields enormous political power over his GOP colleagues. Read the Breitbart article here.
Cantor has largely kept his efforts off the radar of his constituents, and national conservative supporters of the rule of law and American exceptionalism, but he outed himself in a recent interview with reporter Bob Rayner of the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
According to Rayner’s reporting, Cantor said one of his priorities will be “incremental improvements” in the country’s broken immigration system, beginning with the Kids Act, which would create a path to citizenship for people who were brought to the United States illegally when they were children. “We should not be holding kids liable for the acts of their parents,” Cantor said according to Rayner.
Now here’s the kicker in Bob Rayner’s article, including a little bit of editorializing on Rayner’s part we include for context:
“We have to broaden our appeal,” he (Cantor) said during a visit last week with the Times-Dispatch Editorial staff. The House majority leader, a Henrico Republican, said his party must make consistent and concerted efforts to improve its standing with women and minorities. That comes as no surprise to anyone who has glanced at the exit polls from the past few elections.
Clearly Cantor’s motivation isn’t “fixing” a broken immigration system, which of course would begin with enhanced border security, it is about trying to bribe voters of Hispanic heritage with the betrayal of American exceptionalism that amnesty would entail.
What’s more, as First Lady of the Conservative Movement Phyllis Schlafly observed in a column not too long ago, there’s no evidence that the bribe, once paid, will actually work.
Phyllis Schlafly documents that “An enormous body of survey research shows that large majorities of recent immigrants, who are mostly Hispanic and Asian, hold liberal views on most policy issues and therefore vote Democratic two-to-one. Their motivation is not our immigration policy; it is economic issues.
“The 2008 National Annenberg Election Survey found that 62 percent of immigrants prefer a single government-run health care system. The 2010 Cooperative Congressional Election Study found that 69 percent of immigrants support Obamacare, and the Pew Research Center found that 75 percent of Hispanic and 55 percent of Asian immigrants support bigger government.”
It is also worth noting a Harris poll Mrs. Schlafly cites that “found that 81 percent of native-born Americans believe the schools should teach students to be proud of being American, compared to only 50 percent of immigrants who had become naturalized U.S. citizens. Only 37 percent of naturalized citizens (compared to 67 percent of native-born citizens) think our Constitution has a higher legal authority than international law.
The Pew Research Center reported in 2011 that, of all groups surveyed, Hispanics have the most negative view of capitalism in America -- 55 percent. This is even higher than the supporters of Occupy Wall Street.”
What’s the bottom line in Mrs. Schafly’s article?
The data do not support the notion that immigrants are social conservatives.
As Mrs. Schlafly notes in quoting Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute, "It is not immigration policy that creates the strong bond between Hispanics and the Democratic Party, but the core Democratic [Party] principles of a more generous safety net, strong government intervention in the economy, and progressive taxation."
Our nomination for the Republican Party’s most important supporter of amnesty for illegal aliens? House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. We urge you to call Eric Cantor’s office, the Capitol switchboard is 1-866-220-0044, and tell him you are opposed to amnesty for illegal aliens and that you are now on to the game and his push for amnesty is no longer a secret.
The data do not support the notion that immigrants are social conservatives.
As Mrs. Schlafly notes in quoting Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute, “It is not immigration policy that creates the strong bond between Hispanics and the Democratic Party, but the core Democratic [Party] principles of a more generous safety net, strong government intervention in the economy, and progressive taxation.”
No on believes that except deranged GOP-e RINO’s.
What the GOP-e doesn’t realize is that they are about to become the Whigs.
Even the election numbers show that it was conservatives staying away that led to Romney’s loss and not the Hispanic vote.
Cantor is the major advocate of amnesty in the House. I wonder if it’s a misreading of the bible about aliens in your land that is driving his beliefs?
Odds are, though, that it’s probably connections with big business that wants ultra-cheap labor.
Cantor get lost.
Bring back jobs to America for Americans.
Then, and only then, after the unemployment rate has fallen below at most 5% (several percent lower than it currently is) ... only then can we even consider any more immigration.
Hire Americans.
Now.
Have never been impressed by or trusted Cantor or Paul Ryan. They both seem cut from the same cloth and never seem geniune or trustworthy.
They both represent what is wrong with the Republican party and are full fledged members of the Beltway GOPe.
Flake is being dominated by McCain. We have no conservative representation in Arizona.
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the U.S., in the field of commerce and manufacturing, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
Woodrow Wilson - In his book entitled The New Freedom (1913):
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Just going about their real master’s business.
“There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international ... network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in the past and recently, to a few of its policies... but in general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant enough to be known.”
Source: p.950, Tragedy and Hope.
Professor Carroll Quigley (1910-1977) | Bill Clinton’s mentor at Georgetown University
Why do you think the GOP wants to import tens of millions legal and illegal aliens? They want to dilute, displace, and dispossess social conservatives. They want the Mexican neo-feudal "El Heffe" system in this country where they are completely unanswerable to the peons that provide them with a luxury lifestyle.
Whoever hands out the goodies ($$$$$$) from the NRSC and its counterpart in the House.
I’m familiar with those beliefs and do believe that the internationalists, or globalists are always around trying to influence major policies such as trade and immigration.
Of course, there are many groups trying to influence US immigration policy: Dims who want more future votes, businessmen who want cheaper labor, clergy who want more butts in the church pews, ethnics who want more of their kind in the US to increase their political influence, recent immigrants who want to bring in family members, and the illegal aliens themselves who want amnesty and legal status in the US, plus various others with other motives.
All of these guys—Cantor, Boehner, McCain, et al., along with Democrats—have been paid with “campaign contributions”.
The US Chamber of Commerce and unions want to know why they plunked their money down but haven’t gotten their amnesty yet.
“An honest politician stays bought.” It’s the Chicago Way.
How about audits by disinterested CPAs of their bank accounts as well as the Obamacare website payment schedule?
Issa? Ferris Issa?
Hello?
Well, we know there won’t be any answer to a plea to the House Oversight committee, even if know now that Obama could have had the Affordable Care website done right—and at no charge!—because it would be another `Teapot Dome’ scandal. The Republicrats: they sink or swim together. And if no one’s tapping the treasury or political supporters, no one gets paid.
Isn’t it time to re-boot our venal, mercenary feral system of government?
Boehner is the most critical to passage; can’t be done without him. All the others are window dressers.
Reboot?
Yes.
There was a time not too long ago that Cantor was a member of the House Immigration Reform Caucus opposing illegal immigration. He sold out for campaign $$$.
At home, they voted PRI and PRD by 2-to-1 over the RiNO-ish PAN Party. And they'd vote GOP here?
It's called "breaking wages" and "mass, uncontrolled immigration", and the game's the same as it was when Lyndon Johnson was promoting it back in the early 50's, and so effectively that President Eisenhower was forced to enact an Executive Order to trump "Landslide Lynt'n".
Blowing the hinges off the Golden Gate was LBJ's second or third order of business after Lee Harvey Oswald found the back of JFK's head.
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