Posted on 05/15/2014 6:27:07 AM PDT by cotton1706
Senate Republicans say they'll try to pass immigration reform legislation in the next two years if they take back the Senate in November.
The Republicans say winning back the Senate will allow them to pass a series of bills on their own terms that have a better chance of winning approval in the House.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a central member of the coalition that passed a comprehensive reform bill in the Senate last year, said he would craft a better legislative approach if Republicans control the upper chamber in 2015. That would give his party a chance to pass immigration legislation before the presidential election, when Hispanic voters will be crucial to winning the White House.
But Democrats are threatening that if the House does not pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year the issue will be dead in 2015 and 2016, sinking the GOP brand among Hispanics ahead of the 2016 election.
“I certainly think we can make progress on immigration particularly on topics like modernizing our legal immigration system, improving our mechanisms for enforcing the law and I think if you did those things you could actually make some progress on addressing those who are illegally,” Rubio said Wednesday evening of the prospects of passing immigration reform in 2015.
He said the Senate next year should pass immigration reform through a series of sequential bills that build upon each other to enact comprehensive reform. This approach would be more palatable in the House, he said.
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I’ll be danged if it doesn’t look like the Stupid Party isn’t trying to lose the Senate. They know Conservatives don’t want this, and the illegals will vote for Dems...
Hey, how about we enforce the immigration laws we have on the books first while we are sitting around waiting for the economy to improve.
We could even repeal Obamacare, reduce taxes, and the national debt while we wait too.
Blah blah blah. The first bill must be specifically and solely to close the border. Nothing else. No “reform”, nothing “comprehensive”. Talk about that after the border is closed. Otherwise it’s just business as usual for their cheap-labor pimps and they’re just screwing with us again.
Both parties trying to see who can destroy the country first.
Bend over you middle class suckers. And you thought government works for you. Ha, Ha.
LOL! Yeah. They are REALLY Conservative.
And you REALLY Conservative GOP. I wouldn’t get too sure about taking back the Senate. That’s moved to a 50/50 proposition.
I am totally in favor of immigration reform:
1) Secure the border.
2) Enforce the current laws.
That’s reform that I can live with.
I don't agree.
Federal agencies have proven inadequate for the task of border enforcement. It does not appear that the current politicized, bloated Federal agencies can close the border, regardless of the budget assigned to them.
So the law needs to be changed to allow local authorities more autonomy in immigration enforcement. And I would allow private citizens a role as well, by assigning a 'bounty' of $1000 per criminal brought to justice.
The current Federal agencies can be reduced in size and scope to perform the record keeping associated with loading the deportee's onto train's back to Mexico. They seem to be capable of paperwork.
That way, they won't impede their betters, the private citizens, from enforcing the law.
What makes you think that we Texans will allow that to happen? We still remember the Alamo.
Vote Republican, and have Immigration Reform shoved down America's throat, legalizing 12,000,000+ Criminal Illegal Aliens who'll drive down the working wage of Americans.
Vote Democrat, and get the same thing.
Eff'ed if we vote Republican, Eff'ed if we don't.
Don't like those options. I vote full-on revolution instead!!
‘GOP: We’ll move immigration reform in we take back Senate’
or
“GOP: How we plan to suppress grass roots voting this fall”
I see it every time the managers at a local store crowd to assist the non English speaker, every time my kids have to fill out a form stating they are non Hispanic and ineligible for the perks, scholarship funds, and breaks. Every time I go to apply for a job and find I’m ineligible as I don’t speak Spanish. Every time I’m at Mass and the priest refers to the future of the church as Hispanic. Every time I find out theres a Spanish speaking mass, a Spanish speaking youth group. Every time my kids get shut out of socializing as they don’t speak Spanish.
Every time I say ‘hey, speak English’ and get shouted down by Texans, and every one else around my, reminding me that the Texans really are ushering this in.
Every time I hear from some Texan who remembers the Alamo but denies what is going on around him
I agree. I hate the idea of amnesty but could accept some path to citizenship for children brought here, educated here, and with no criminal history. Like you say, a secure border would have to come first, e-verify, work visas, etc. All criminals would have to go back.
Immigration reform is coming. We might as well accept it and have a strong hand in writing it.
This reads like “the meaning of is”.
OK, I like your plan: especially the bounty part.
Credit Mark Levin
none dare call it treason
I thought Raul had his tongue out. Silly me!
That isn’t going on in my neighborhood. Go to mass where they speak English.
WEll, it sure is here.
THe church we attend is 25000 families. It was built in the 1850s It’s Texan.
You haven’t heard the archbishop. Nor the one before him, I guess. THey are all working very hard in the US government to allow illegals favor. The video yearly that the archbishop gives, and the USCCB condones, and favors, is all Hispanic, asking for money for the Hispanics, while, at the same time, praising the Hispanics as beign the future of the church.
Ive been called, we have, en Masse, 2000 people English speaking, ‘gringos’, to which the Texans laugh.
I am disgusted.
The Alamo. pssht
Why vote GOP in the Senate races when this will be the outcome?
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