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Boehner and House Republicans Aim to Pass Immigration Bill by Summer
thenewamerican.com ^ | 4/22/14 | Warren Mass

Posted on 04/23/2014 5:55:59 AM PDT by cotton1706

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To: txrefugee

No, Boner likes all this. More likely that Boehner has pics of a good many Republicans.


21 posted on 04/23/2014 6:39:36 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Organic Panic

From Wikipedia:

The United States requires that an individual go in person to a U.S. embassy or consulate outside the U.S. and sign before a consular officer an oath or affirmation that he intends to renounce his citizenship, although exceptions are legally permitted in times of war and under special circumstances.[21][22] During the expatriation procedure, the individual must complete several documents and demonstrate in an interview with a consular officer that the renunciation is voluntary and intentional.


22 posted on 04/23/2014 6:48:03 AM PDT by Lisbon1940
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To: cotton1706

Leave it to the spineless, gutless pubbies to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.


23 posted on 04/23/2014 6:57:04 AM PDT by kenmcg
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To: cotton1706

A good bill - modernizing legal immigration and doing nothing else would be an excellent step. I doubt that this is what they are talking about.

A good bill - providing vigorous enforcement of existing laws and doing nothing else would be an appealing though useless step. I doubt that Obama would follow the law even if the House passed another “and we really mean it” bill.

Otherwise, there is no point in new immigration laws while we have a lawless administration that will cherry pick the parts they like and ignore the rule of law otherwise.


24 posted on 04/23/2014 7:17:36 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: oust the louse

An open letter to the GOP Members of Congress

As a Representative or Senator in Congress, you took this Oath:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."


"Support and defend the Constitution" it says. Did you see that? That document requires, per Art.4, S.4, that

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."


An invasion is what we are suffering. That invasion has accelerated with each "comprehensive immigration reform" previously enacted. Instead of another disastrous reform that yet again increases the incentives for millions more to try their luck crossing the southern border, a Representative who took his Oath and the Constitution seriously would be pressing for what the American people have repeatedly said they want - not what Senators Schumer and McCain, Mark Zuckerberg, Mexico, some border state farmers and homebuilders or the Chamber of Commerce rent-seekers want. That is:
  1. secure the border in a transparently verifiable way;
  2. end the anchor-baby interpretation of the 14th Amendment;
  3. enforce eVerify without exception and with severe penalties;
  4. no government benefits beyond critical emergency care (and that ought to be billed back to the home government); and
  5. NO "Path to Citizenship" - EVER - for anyone who has entered the US illegally.
Any bill that does not accomplish these five things is unacceptable. It is de facto amnesty. And it will inevitably encourage millions more illegal entries.

If the GOP is complicit in this amnesty fiasco, either by taking up the Senate bill or through some piecemeal slight of hand with a series of House bills such as we hear are being cooked up of late, or as riders on other necessary legislation, the GOP will cease to exist. It will not survive through the 2016 elections. The people will shun the over-tanned, glad-handing, backslapping quislings and look elsewhere for leaders who actually have the spine for the fight. Make no mistake - to me and to many, many others, amnesty is the GOP's Rubicon. Cross it at your electoral peril.

25 posted on 04/23/2014 7:22:37 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Fawn
I can’t believe they are THAT STUPID!! I’m never voting Republican again....what for??

Bless your heart, and you sound so, errr, rational?

26 posted on 04/23/2014 7:29:09 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: cotton1706

Just in time to tick off the conservatives before Midterms. Real smart.


27 posted on 04/23/2014 7:46:25 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: oust the louse
They are not that stupid are they?

They are just one of the heads of the globalist demon. Money is their religion and their politics. They need to spend more time back in their home countries.

28 posted on 04/23/2014 9:30:49 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: cotton1706

Not going to happen. Wouldn’t be prudent.


29 posted on 04/23/2014 9:36:53 AM PDT by citizen (There is always free government cheese in the mouse trap.....https://twitter.com/kracker0)
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To: USS Alaska

Post away...because pretty soon you won’t be able too.


30 posted on 04/23/2014 3:33:44 PM PDT by Fawn ("My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6)
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To: Lisbon1940

This is great news. I shall renounce my US citizenship in Tijuana. Then, sneak back across my border and live in the shadows.


31 posted on 04/23/2014 11:38:59 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Organic Panic

ROTFLOL.


32 posted on 04/23/2014 11:49:28 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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Rand Paul's immigration speech
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.

Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.

Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.

Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.

If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...

This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.

Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reform
Latinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...
[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]

33 posted on 04/25/2014 3:21:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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