Posted on 02/11/2013 1:33:20 AM PST by DangerZone
A top U.S. Republican lawmaker said on Sunday he would support granting citizenship to children who are in the country illegally in a sign that conservatives who oppose immigration amnesty will be playing defense as Congress takes on immigration reform in the coming months.
Representative Eric Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives, said Congress could make quick progress on immigration if lawmakers agreed to give citizenship to children - an idea he opposed when it came up for a vote in 2010 as the DREAM Act.
"The best place to begin, I think, is with the children. Let's go ahead and get that under our belt, put a win on the board," Cantor said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Cantor is leading an effort to improve his party's image as many Republicans worry they will be consigned to irrelevancy in coming years if they do not reach out to the fast-growing Latino electorate, which strongly supports immigration reform.
President Barack Obama has made immigration reform a top priority of his second term in office and a bipartisan group of senators is working to draft legislation that would tackle the issue in a comprehensive manner, rather than the piecemeal approach that Cantor suggested.
Republican Senator John McCain, who is involved in that effort, said his group aims to provide a path to citizenship for all of those who are in the United States illegally, not just children, as long as border security is tightened.
"There are 11 million people living in the shadows. I believe that they deserve to come out of the shadows," McCain said on "Fox News Sunday."
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the gop leadership sellout continues.
So 0m0slems daughters would be citizens.
Wrong. Just because I have a kid in someone else’s house doesn’t give them claim to ownership.
Potential voters.
This is ‘code speak’ for illegal’s childrens parents, gparents, uncles, aunts and ALL direct relatives whom can now come to AmeriKa and be citizens.
Cantor is another to put on the list....of traitors and sell outs to the once great experiment
That list is getting awfully long: Rubio, Ryan, Paul, McCain, Graham,...
When our country granted amnesty to 2 million illegal immigrants in the late 1980s, the deal was that exercise would solve the illegal immigration problem once and for all! We would close our borders and have no more illegal immigration.
But, instead, we kept the floodgates open. As a result, we now have at least 20 million illegal immigrants in our country; they were motivated by the open floodgates and the promise of citizenship without the necessity to "wait in line." Is this how our lawmakers operate in connection with our immigration laws?
Why do we even have laws and a process for legal immigration? All that does is get people worked up because they actually foolishly followed the law. They watch those who jumped the line be rewarded.
Are we again going to keep the floodgates open? Or just keep forgetting about those silly immigration laws and make sure we take care of the children?
...for Democrats. The GOPe money men want their amnesty no matte what. Then again, these quislings wouldn’t have any qualms about changing parties if that is what it took to win office.
Never cared for this asshat.
What? Is this the usual overpopulation nonsense?
Terrible argument.
People should come legally to America.
Eric Cantor: AMNESTY LIBERAL
Instead of rewarding Illegal Aliens, its time to deport them
Anyone still voting GOP after Amnesty passes is not a conservative
Exactly.
"The best place to begin, I think, is with the children. Let's go ahead and get that under our belt, put a win on the board" - in other words TOTAL CAPITULATION AND DERELICTION OF DUTY.
Democrat Front member Cantor needs to go!
He personifies the problem with Repubs & why they lose, they are no different than Dems.
your stimulus money still at work
Why do the politicians continuously pander to the highest bidder? Rhetorical question. Whores; just about everyone of ‘em. No one oes the right thing anymore. There always has to be an angle for money, votes, or both for them and the tyranny they support.
Why do the politicians continuously pander to the highest bidder? Rhetorical question. Whores; just about everyone of ‘em. No one oes the right thing anymore. There always has to be an angle for money, votes, or both for them and the tyranny they support.
RHINO Canter
Swing vote doesn’t exist anymore. It’s all the brown vote now. Politicians would sell their mothers if the public wouldn’t find out. Of course the MSM would sugarbush it and lie about it for the RATs
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