The Backstab Party
Posted on 12/07/2022 7:21:44 PM PST by Signalman
After surrendering to Democrats on a myriad of hot-button issues, Senate Republicans may get yet another chance to sell out their base before the year’s end — this time, on a last-minute immigration bill reportedly engineered by North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis that would provide amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.
According to reporting from melodramatic Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent, Tillis and Arizona Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema are pressing for the upper chamber to consider their bipartisan “immigration reform” bill before Congress’s current lame-duck session ends later this month.
While the legislation would apparently provide more funding for Border Patrol officers, resources to “expedite the removal of migrants who don’t qualify for asylum,” and an extension of Title 42 (a health policy that permits federal officials to expel illegal immigrants with minimal processing) for another year, it doesn’t stop there.
Among its massive concessions, the legislation would establish a so-called “pathway to citizenship” — which usually denotes bypassing the pathway that already exists — for 2 million illegal immigrants brought to the United States as minors.
These immigrants refer to the recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA was illegally established by former President Barack Obama, who admitted on multiple occasions throughout his presidency that he was “not king” and couldn’t “just bypass Congress and change the (immigration) law [himself].”
While it’s unclear whether the Senate plans to take up the bill before the current congressional session ends, Tillis’s last-minute attempt to ram through an amnesty package before Republicans take control of the House of Representatives next month runs contrary to claims issued by his office earlier this year. Back in June, a representative from the North Carolina senator’s office told Fox News there was “not much to negotiate” on immigration until President Joe Biden “enforce[s] immigration laws” and takes action “to end the crisis at the [U.S. southern] border.”
Judging by the number of illegal border crossings since that statement, however, it’s pretty evident that hasn’t happened. In October alone, Customs and Border Protection apprehended more than 230,000 illegals, marking a 1.3 percent increase from September and a new record high. Those figures don’t even include the estimated 64,000 “gotaways” that evaded apprehension by border patrol officials.
Since taking office, Biden has presided over a record-shattering number of border crossings, with 1.7 million apprehensions reported in fiscal year 2021 and more than 2.3 million in 2022.
Tillis’ office did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment.
While the move to hand out amnesty like candy on Halloween is absurd, it should come as no surprise to conservative voters. Over the past year, Tillis and several of his Republican colleagues have worked overtime to sell out their base on a whole host of issues.
Most recently, Tillis ignored the wishes of his voters and helped spearhead the wrongly named “Respect for Marriage Act,” voting with 11 of his fellow GOP senators to help Democrats pass the bill. With the Democrat-controlled House poised to pass the legislation and send it to Biden’s desk for signature, the measure, once law, will open the door for radical LGBT activists to use the legal system to harass religious Americans for believing in the true definition of marriage.
The move came not long after the Senate GOP overwhelmingly reelected Sen. Mitch McConnell as party leader, despite a majority of likely Republican voters favoring a change in leadership.
But Senate Republicans’ betrayal of their base doesn’t stop there. Earlier this year, Tillis and 14 of his GOP colleagues demonstrated their fecklessness yet again by helping Democrats advance gun control legislation. Among the most notable changes to federal law included in the bill is a provision that “uses taxpayer money to incentivize states to enact red flag laws,” which erode gun owners’ constitutional right to due process.
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Nah, they would never do that! Totally out of character.
Question:
Will Thom Tillis’s Plan To Give Amnesty To Illegal Aliens Be Senate Republicans’ Next Act Of Betrayal?
Answer:
Yup!
I’m done voting!
We get played every time!
Yes- yes it will.
NEVER- I repeat... NEVER, underestimate the duplicity of a Republican; ESPECIALLY- a United States REPUBLICAN Senator!
Remember, the Turtle isn’t happy unless he’s breathing out his cloaca…
I’m from Ill-Annoy and way too familiar with ‘go along to get along’ weenie-less, spineless, squishy Republicans aka “surrender Republicans”. It’s getting old.
Tom, like most GOP Congress Critters, works for his corporate donors. They ask for our votes every 2, 4 or 6 years so that they can keep the corporate money coming. They get rich in office.
That sums it up.
I’m starting to wonder what the point of voting is.
Unless there’s a big change, I don’t see much reason.
Next but not last.
They all want to be rich but don’t consider that if they trash the country there will be no place to be rich in.
It might be the end of the gop as we know it if they do.
“This is why they want Trump out of the way — so they can go do whatever the hell they want and ignore what their voters want.”
Succinct and Spot on.
The Swamp HATES President Trump more than they have ever hated any president. They are all Bought and Paid For. And, President Trump is not and cannot be bought. His Heart is with the Average American. His Agenda is for the Benefit of the American People.
The Power Brokers funding The Swamp Creatures are threatened by President Trumps America First Focus.
The Swamp on BOTH sides of the aisle are funded by people and industries who’ve made their bets on GLOBALISM. President Trump and his MAGA agenda is an existential threat to those people’s Globalist Plans.
Therefore, he and ALL who support his agenda of America First must be stopped at ALL COSTS.
I’ve been done voting for RINOs for a while.
Primary or General.
North Carolina hasn’t had Any decent representation since Jesse Helms!
The whole thin is pathetic, really. Ron DeSantis took on one of the biggest companies in the country (Disney) and then won re-election 59 to 41 against Charlie Crist. I don’t see why the GOP thinks there is such a downside to being an actual people’s party (as opposed to Democrats and Communists, which are People’s Parties in name only).
Maybe it’s better if the GOP actually stuck to politics and forced their corporate donors to actually spend more time running their corporations and less time in the incestuous relationship known as the Cheap Labor Express.
Yup!
Follow the money.
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