The GOP and Immigration: Part of a Much Bigger Problem

There is little doubt that they are unreliable. Conservatives want iron-clad border-security measures firmly in place before any legalization process begins. Yet GOP members of Congress are eager to switch it around, and then accept milquetoast security.

It is strange. After all, congressional Republicans are not bad on taxes; they’re not secretly looking to hike the rate you’ll pay the IRS in April. They’re not bad on regulation; they are serious when they say they want less, not more red tape.

Why immigration? This is, after all, a party-based democracy, and the GOP is the party that represents the conservative grassroots. Yet the two diverge on this issue -- pretty substantially. What is going on?

The answer usually comes back: business interests. They want the cheap labor from legalization, and all sorts of other groups -- agricultural or fishing concerns, for instance -- want new carveouts for their own industries. They ply members of Congress with money, lobby them aggressively, provide them with cushy jobs after they leave office, and presto: the base asks for one thing, the party offers another.

This is all true, but it misses a larger story, one that highlights just how difficult it will be for conservatives to really change the way government works.

If you ever visit Washington, D.C. you might discover it is a study in contrast. Go down to the National Mall, tour the Congress, walk past the White House, and the buildings all reflect a kind of simple, almost austere republican virtue. Nothing too fancy -- nothing like Buckingham Palace or Versailles. Just sturdy yet impressive structures that reflect our belief that the people temporarily occupying those buildings are no better than anybody else.

Why are GOPeers squishy on immigration.....the answer is business interests who want cheap labor, and groups from agricultural and/or fishing concerns who want new carveouts for their industries...

THE CHEAP LABOR EXPRESS

COMING TO AMERICA-- murderers, rapists, pedophiles, thieves and drug dealers, paid agents of foreign govt's advocating the overthrow of the US govt. Coming to infest your communities, schools and workplaces w/ drugs, crimes and disease.

They're Coming to America but not on the LI Limited. No running water and flush toilets on those trains. How did the "new students and employees" handle body wastes on the trip over the border?

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Those who advocate open borders should take heed. Huge quantities of heroin and cocaine have flooded across our borders, smuggled by pernicious drug trafficking organizations who've set up distribution networks allover the United States. Tens of billions of dollars from the drug trade, flow into the coffers of transnational drug trafficking organizations and international terrorist organizations.

There have been thousands of accusations of human rights abuse, extortion, and even reports of murder on the freight trains transporting undocumented migrants to the US border.

The real eye-opener is that these freight train companies are involved in the Narco trade, and one report makes it clear that the companies are aware of the abusive practices their train operators are engaging in. The border swarm is all about human trafficking, narco-trafficking, and government collusion.

The trains involved are publicly-traded companies, traded on NASDAQ, with "very influential stockholders", such as the billionaire Clintons and billionaire Mexico resident, Carlos Slim. Other stockholders include,T Rowe Price, Bank of America, and General Electric.

Why immigration?

Because it’s not about immigration.

It’s about cheap labor importation.

Most of the GOP has been bought off by The Cheap Labor Express.

They work for them, not us.

They are traitors to the citizens.

The last 4 Presidential elections have been staged to prevent us from electing a President who would stop the invasion.

That is the only way to stop it.

We MUST elect a President who WILL enforce the laws.

Actually this is not news as it has been known for decades now. But it’s good to repeat it for the newbies that are peeking into politics for the first time wondering if there is any reasoning behind ‘The Interest Group society’ which the writer penned here.

When one becomes a ‘Member of Congress’ it is quickly observed that there are tens of thousands of voices around Washington DC that compete with and for each ‘Member’. Doing something “for the good of the country” is viewed as idealistic, delusional, impractical, inexperienced, unrealistic. Building a network of powerful interests, media ties, and a campaign war chest is viewed as the only activity that a ‘Member’ can undertake.

But Jay Cost points out the bigger problem is ‘The Interest Group society’ and he is spot on about that.

Now what is to be done?

Fortunately, there is a napalm bomb solution to the subversive character of the Nation’s Capitol. Acquaint yourselves with the following terms, posters and links and concepts:

* History, background, consequences of the 17th Amendment
* Article V
* ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council)
* COS Project (Convention of States)
* FR Poster Publius
* FR Poster Jacquerie
(there are many other fine posters for Article V)
* Mark Levin’s Tour de Force Speech (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdZuV8JnvvA)

* And the following Constitutional Amendment Proposal:

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To redress the balance of powers between the federal government and the States and to restore effective suffrage of State Legislatures to Congress, the following amendment is proposed:

AMENDMENT XXVIII

Section 1.
A Senator in Congress shall be subject to recall by their respective state legislature or by voter referendum in their respective state.

Section 2.
Upon a majority vote in two-thirds of state legislatures, federal statutes and federal court decisions shall be overridden.

Section 3.
Term limits for Senators in Congress shall be set by vote in their respective state legislatures but in no case shall be set less than twelve years.
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If Section 1 above is replaced with a repeal of the 17th Amendment, that may be even better but it may be a hard sale. Recalling US Senators gets the job done for state legislatures and it also requires interaction with the voters as they retain the right to vote for their US Senator.

With the above amendment, there would be no Obamacare, no same-sex marriage nonsense and so on. Most of the social issue tyranny would go away. And importantly with respect to Jay Cost’s commentary above, the beginning of the end of the ‘Interest Group Society’ aka the Federal Leviathan, the scale of the corruption in Washington, DC can be permanently adjusted back down to historical manageable proportions.

This is, after all, a party-based democracy. Jay Cost is right. I think Aristotle would agree. It certainly isn't a federal republic.

Cost wrote a decent column, yet it ended flat.

If conservatives really want to roll back the size and scope of big government, it is this culture -- this interest group society -- that we have to dismantle.

Once again, from another conservative, "We must . . . ." There is no end to conservative ideas on what to do. What is absent is how to do it. INTEREST is what drives everyone. There is zero chance that can be changed. The Framers knew that and designed the government around that fact.

Why is that so difficult for so many to understand?

As long as all of congress is popularly derived, the US will go the way of other corrupted republics since the first millennium BC. It is as certain as sunrise tomorrow.

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