“The humanitarian issue is real and pressing — Catholics, evangelicals and other people of faith are pressing for relief for the millions of honest, hard-working illegal immigrants living in fear of deportation and separation from their families.”
This is some use of the word “honest” that I’m not familiar with. They broke the law coming here. They continue to break the law staying here. They break the law working here. They break the law getting on “benefits” which are supposed to be for citizens. I am glad they live in fear of deportation. But I expect they don’t really. How many have been deported? We can’t even deport sex offenders and chronic alcoholics who have killed innocent citizens.
The article is a waste of time. The only take away necessary is for GOP to observe Obama's reward for his big victory-- no benefit to his poll numbers even with media hype about "bipartisanship" and all.
Somehow Rubio is still a star according to this article.
That may have been true then, but won't hold into the future.
Hewett is spinning away the fiasco he helped promote. It is the job of a Senator to understand what they have authored. If they don't, time for that Senator to go and get one who does.
conservative Hoeven? he got terrible advice on how statutes actually work when interpreted by the courts, and worse advice on what the fence meant?
NO! He is a RINO and a traitor to his country. He is beyond stupid to take bad advice against a flood of “NO”s from constituents and true Conservatives.
And for all the NSA trolls, FU.
People in ND choose some of the worst senators ever.
Maybe partly true, he'll be a superstar and a Presidential candidate the same way McCain was, and then he'll go down in flames. Right now his best hope is switching parties where the MSM will embrace him as someone who "...stood up to the extremist right wing." but who "...realized the GOP had become far too conservative for him." . If that's his plan, he should check out how it worked for Arlen Spector.
Appeasing misguided tripe all the way from "the need for reform is enormous…" (#1);
to "…honest, hardworking illegal immigrants…." [how can one be an illegal and 'honest' at the same time] (#2);
to "blah, blah, blah fence….. (#4); to "Senator Marco Rubio remains a GOP superstar who will be in much demand [by devious Dems and RINO Republicans] (6);
to (#10) for assuming that a 'reform' of existing laws that have been purposefully ignored and actively subverted by our corrupt government need 'reform' in the first place is infantile – they NEED enforcement and real punishment for violators all.
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What a complete contortion of a sentence. How can one be "honest" while being a criminal, illegal immigrant?
For the record, I'm one of those evangelicals being referred to. No, I'm NOT pressing for "relief" for criminal, illegal aliens who violated our country's laws when they illegally crossed our borders, entered our country, and are now a burden on our social-welfare systems.
If anything, this evangelical wants them to GO BACK to where they belong and stop breaking our laws!
This is far less a "relief" issue and much more a NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUE guised in Illegal Immigration. If this country doesn't protect and defend its borders we're subject to terrorist attack. Period.
I hope Hewitt didn’t hurt himself doing the backflips in this article.
Man, what a hack.
The immigration problem, illegal and legal, is two things, rapid population growth and Socialism. Well, ...three things if we consider that the growing population is voting for more and more Socialism, exacerbating the problem. The solution is to stop the flow of illegal immigrants, and begin reversing it. That won’t do much if we don’t get back to America first immigration policies. Stop importing whole families who will need to be on some kind of social services, and start limiting immigration to people who will enrich this country economically, scientifically, artistically. We aren’t here to be the housing project for the world. Stop this madness, and get back to America first policies.
One more thought on this: The same politicians who are pushing for rapid population growth are also pushing for reduction in energy exploitation. Larger populations need more energy, and it takes more energy to clean up their pollution. Democrats who really want to become the doormat for the world need to stop playing with dead end green energy programs, and start promoting real energy production.