Top Democrat tells Republicans he’ll rush immigration bill through Congress

The Washington Examiner ^ | March 27, 2013 | Joel Gehrke

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Sen. Pat Leahy, D-Vt., indicated that he will expedite immigration reform by skipping by further committee hearings on the legislation in a sharp letter to a leading Republican lawmaker — a letter characterized by a striking amount of trash-talking about immigration issues and politics.

“I intend to proceed to comprehensive immigration reform with all deliberate speed,” Leahy wrote to Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., in a letter today informing Sessions that Republicans will only have one week to consider the immigration bill —

[snip] “If any of the more junior Senators need time to get up to speed, I will look forward to them discussing their specific readiness problems with me directly and I will look forward to working with them as well,” he said.

Sessions rejected such a schedule. “The Chairman’s suggestion that we don’t need hearings on this new proposal because we have held immigration hearings in the past misses the entire point: the massive proposal being cobbled together by a group of Senators in secret must be independently judged and reviewed by the Judiciary Committee in the full light of day,” he stated in response to Leahy’s letter, a process that would take months, in his estimation.

[RetiredArmy]

When I was stationed in Munich, Germany back in the middle 1980s, one of my German female employees told me that Turks were taking over all the buildings in her neighborhood. An apartment building across the street from her house had like 40 apartments in it and Turks moved into one and that mama and daddy and their 8 kids soon increased to 40 as all the relatives came in. In a year or so, Turks had the entire building taken over. That is the way it started and the way they took over one apartment, one building, one neighborhood at a time till they had it all. Turks took over that entire section of Munich. Probably control most of the entire district now days. It will be the same here.