No, Mr. Gowdy.
Nothing needs to be done outside of secure the border and enforce current law.
If you do anything other than that, you can take a flying leap.
I agree 100% ... No Bill is the Best Bill in the House... Why? Because Boehner and others will pass a Trojan Horse good sounding bill and it will go to House-Senate Conference where the Senate Bill will be stuffed into the House Bill and that will be it... voted on and passed and signed. It is TOO DANGEROUS to pass a Immigration/Amnesty Bill in the House - it will be misused. Better to HAMMER Boehner and Ryan and others - Hammer so hard as to get Boehner to resign as Speaker. This would throw the House legislative process into chaos for most of the rest of the summer and maybe beyond. Get new Speaker who will listen to Conservatives and go out to the states and have drawn out Town Hall meetings sames as was done before to kill the Senate Amnesty Bill. We need a Massive Phone campaign
[regarding immigration, Gowdy says] "I think you have to find a synthesis between the humanity that I think defines us as a people, and the respect for the rule of law that defines us as a republic"...
Gowdy... says three images come to his mind when he considers immigration: Vietnamese fleeing Communism in the wheel wells of airplanes; Cubans dying on makeshift rafts off the Florida coast; and a woman from Sierra Leone whose hands were cut off because she tried to vote.
"Peoples' desire to improve their lives resonates with me, no matter where they're from," Gowdy said.
...Gowdy said he expects to conduct his first few hearings as fact-finding missions to inform what he hopes will be a Republican-backed immigration reform bill...
...He disputes allegations that illegal immigrants are draining certain government services reserved for citizens, such as unemployment benefits and Social Security. Illegal immigrants don't qualify for such benefits.
And the farmers and growers in his Upstate South Carolina district can't find and keep American employees, so allowing immigrants to work here legally is essential, Gowdy said.
He said deporting all 11 million illegal immigrants would require government action that would "shock the conscience of some of the folks who are most forceful in arguing for it."
"You want them knocking on your front door?" he said. "You want them going to elementary schools and rounding up the kids?"
...[He's non-committal on amnesty right now, but regarding the "path to citizenship" says] "It would depend on what that path involved and depends on the factors you would immediately want to look at," he said. "Law-abidingness, for one. And connection to the community. I'd also be curious as to how many of them desire citizenship."
NO HOUSE BILL!! BLUE SLIP THE SENATE BILL!! STOP AMNESTY!!
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