Posted on 06/24/2014 3:58:19 PM PDT by Kaslin
The New York Times reports that House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy is considered "the best hope" to win passage of a comprehensive immigration reform bill in Congress after he becomes majority leader in July. It's sort of quaint how the Gray Lady wants to believe in miracles.
If a comprehensive bill -- such as the Senate bill that set a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants -- had a chance of passing, then it was in 2009 and 2010, when Democrats controlled the White House, Senate and House of Representatives. President Barack Obama had promised a bill in his first year in office. If Democrats wouldn't deliver when they owned Washington, Republicans have little reason to do their heavy lifting.
The timing for advocates could not be worse -- and not just because the current House majority leader, Eric Cantor of Virginia, lost his primary election bid after his GOP opponent hit him for supporting a comprehensive immigration bill.
This year, thousands of unaccompanied minors and mothers with young children have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with the expectation that they will be allowed to stay. Some blame Obama's policy to not deport undocumented immigrants who came here illegally when they were children. The White House blames a "misinformation" campaign by opportunistic human smugglers. Either way, the situation is so dire that Democrats are calling the new influx a "humanitarian crisis" that requires a quick and dramatic response.
Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, told the Houston Chronicle last week that he believes that the administration has to allow more deportations -- and quickly. Also, Hillary Clinton told CNN last week, "They should be sent back." That's how ugly the border is.
McCarthy is a true son of Bakersfield, California. Rather than become a creature of Washington, he sleeps in his Capitol Hill office and flies home every weekend. He hears from the Republican base, which opposes amnesty. He was true to that base in 2008, when he was chairman for the Republican National Committee platform, which threatened financial penalties for sanctuary cities.
McCarthy also hears from employers who depend on immigrant labor and California Republicans eager to court Latino voters. Last year, he met with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles after these advocates occupied his Bakersfield office.
On "Fox News Sunday," Chris Wallace pressed McCarthy on whether he'll support a comprehensive immigration reform bill. McCarthy is on record for supporting a path to legalization, but he told Wallace: "I don't believe there should be citizenship. I believe in the rule of law." At the moment, he added, the border is not secure because the government is not enforcing the law.
The forces of idealism are experiencing the blunt trauma of reality. The promise of a path to legalization, coupled with lax law enforcement, has produced unintended, if inevitable, consequences. If there was any doubt that changing the law might result in waves of more illegal immigration, the answer should be clear.
Quoth McCarthy: Until the border is secure, "you can't have an immigration debate."
Obama can then appoint him Undersecretary of Undocumented Underwear:
I can only describe the reality I have known over the pass 7 years as part of a grassroots organization that lobbies on the HIll on immigration. Legal immigration is far more dangerous than illegal immigration. The status quo will make the Dems the permanent majority party. Amnesty just hastens the process.
Then none of it matters, at least as far as our hopes, values, principles and lives are concerned.
None of this electioneering matters, I mean.
So really we’re just kibbitzing here, right? Making friendships, arguing a bit, exchanging information?
And best-case scenario we speak intelligently about our own lives and circumstances in the relative short term...but long term, as far as the country is concerned, all is lost, correct?
and track detain and export tuberculosis carriers.
“If Republicans pass amnesty I’ll drop them as my registered party.”
After what the GOPe just pulled in Mississippi, I’m considering doing it now.
Tell me how the GOPe is any different than the RATs when it comes to dirty politics?
They are not. I am a conservative that believes in the true foundation of this nation. If that makes me extreme, so be it.
The GOPe can never expect my support again.
Whats the difference between “White Alone” and “non-Hispanic White Alone” ?
Hispanic is an arbitrary classification that allows whites to receive affirmative action and minority business set asides.
For example, the Virginia Department of Minority Business defines a minority individual as “an individual who is a citizen of the United States or a non-citizen who is in full compliance with United States immigration law and who satisfies one or more of the following definitions:”
1. “African American” means a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Africa and who is regarded as such by the community of which this person claims to be a part.
2. Asian American” means a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands, including but not limited to Japan, China, Vietnam, Samoa, Laos, Cambodia, Taiwan, Northern Mariana, the Philippines, a U.S. territory of the Pacific, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka and who is regarded as such by the community of which this person claims to be a part.
3. “Hispanic American” means a person having origins in any of the Spanish-speaking peoples of Mexico, South or Central America, or the Caribbean Islands or other Spanish or Portuguese cultures and who is regarded as such by the community of which this person claims to be a part.
The Conservative website “Numbers USA” agrees.
The give McCarthy a “F-minus” grade on immigration.
I've been pounding that message for the last 9 years at Free Republic.
Tragically, it resonates with almost no one.
Since we stopped the Bush-McCain Amnesty in 2005, the Democrats have registered another 6 million new citizen voters.
Fact is, the Democrats now have enough voters to beat us any time they like.
Turn out is their only problem.
When Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and single white women begin to vote at the same rate Conservatives vote, the game is up.
Well it's a pretty low bar...but these days I'll take a compliment when I can get it!
lol...
As mostly all lawyers, this should be all of their motto.
Therefore, "they" are breaking the law by allowing this to happen,
Can we arrest those jokers for that? Can we impeach them?
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