Posted on 08/03/2013 3:35:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
House Republicans are facing heavy pressure from both sides of the immigration debate as they return to their home districts for August recess with no clear indication as to how they’ll vote on the issue.
The decision to pass comprehensive immigration reform has essentially been in the hands of the Republican-controlled House since the Democrat-led Senate passed such a bill in June.
House Republicans were under pressure before they even left their Capitol Hill offices to start the five-week recess, which is traditionally dedicated to face-to-face talks with hometown voters.
The American Federation of Government Employees sent a letter Tuesday to House lawmakers urging them not to work with senators on their “dangerous” bill.
Among the major concerns is that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is not equipped to process the potential onslaught of new applications.
Another is that the Obama administration might implement immigration law passed by Congress “in a fashion of its own choosing,” considering that it bypassed Congress last summer by stopping the deportation of young, law-abiding immigrants brought to the United States illegally by their parents or others, the union letter suggests.
The Senate bill includes billions of dollars for border security, new workplace enforcement requirements, a revamped legal immigration system and a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally.
Many House Republicans oppose granting citizenship to people who crossed the border illegally or overstayed their visas. And GOP leaders have already rejected the Senate bill, instead proceeding with narrow, single-issue bills, starting with border security.
House Speaker John Boehner has said he wants a vote on immigration reform.
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Yup. But knowing exactly how to use and play Rubio, Graham, Flake and McCain and the others that voted for it.
If you’re one of those guys, it’s has to be a pretty big ego boost knowing that you can control sitting US Senators like they do. Not saying that in a good way, but definitely something to tell you progressive buddies while having a cocktail and good Cuban cigar.
” Except for a few conservative Tea Party types, the GOP-e RINO herd has just about killed off any semblance of Reagan conservatism remaining in the Republican party.”
Reagan-conservatism wasn’t averse to making deals a la the immigration quid-pro-quo of legalization for enhanced border security. The difference is Reagan did it to actually solve the problem and secure the border, and modern GOP-e Republicans are going along with it to stop losing the Hispanic vote by 50 points.
The “people” should ask these “lawmakers” why they keep supporting Boehner when he is a total failure.
I see that Cincinnati is now a very poor city, news to me, but people there support Boehner. Why?
All of these are good ideas that are fully repudiated by the American people who are just “softies” at heart looking for their own government bailout programs.
Why should there be any question by republicans on this issue?
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Because most of them are weak, confused and conflicted. This is something that the Democrats have known and exploited for years.
“Why should there be any question by republicans on this issue?”
Because most of them support it.
John Boehner is another capitulating GOP congressional moderate
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Unfortunately he is the Speaker. The fact that Republicans elect as their leader an unprincipled appeaser like Boehner tells you everything you need to know about the Republican Pary.
The party wants our votes and our money, but not our principles.
I say they are especially conflicted having been bought with surreptitious campaign/office donations.
Where’s mine? That’s all anyone cares about in this country.
Exactly. A good, to the point, post.
And *I* want a vote on jettisoning his treasonous, collaborating azz OUT as Speaker of the GOPe House.
The "pressure" to sell-out America, the US Constitution, and every principle near & dear to the American Founders.
The Republican House are literally voting on an "AYE" or NAY" on the Execution of the Republic.
Any vote on this or any immigration bill is a TRAP The only thing this bone head is going to understand is a mass exodus of conservatives from the Republican party .
Any immigration bill that passes the House will be purged or merged with the Senate bill and sent to Barry.
Boehner is not fooling anyone with this "We won't take up the Senate bill" crapola.
” The “pressure” to sell-out America, the US Constitution, and every principle near & dear to the American Founders.
The Republican House are literally voting on an “AYE” or NAY” on the Execution of the Republic. “
EXACTLY!
We shall draw the line in the sand, hold the fort and shout the truth from the hills till we no longer can.BUT we need more help here. Far more help.
We are the RAF fending off the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. We are the US Ranger Airborne holding off the German Army outside Bastogne. We are Natanael Green driving Cornallis crazy and Gen. George Washington holding off the Brits...
What we do necessariliy means exposing the "nice-guy", "Christian" Trojan Horse liars who played us for fools for 8 years -- not including the 4 GH NWO Bush years that enabled the rolling avalanche of destruction of US sovereignty.
Namely, the captain of 'Operation: Destroy USA Sovereignty was George W. Bush, it's Admiral, Poppy NWO-GH Bush, Jeb, Babs, and his entire reptilian NWO double-agent family of globalist traitors who've worked to SHOVE Amnesty down our throats AND sanitize the Saudi-Islamic enemy. But it gets worse...
You have a family who kissed the azz of the Saudi Family and let 15/19 Saudi terrorists off the hook, demanded that America praise Islam as a "Religion of Peace", let Bubba Clinton become relevant by pairing him as ambassador with Poppy...AND finally the coup de grace: He and his GOPe minions allowed Gangsta-0 off the hook by authorizing this Commie-Muslim-Racist Enemy-Within a license to infect and the WH with his viral hatred of America. All accomplished and planned behind CLOSED DOORS!
Now if THAT isn't enough circumstantial evidence to indict the entire Bush family as the biggest Quisling/Benedict Arnold/Ethel Rosenberg traitors of all-time, then what is?? The bi-partisan, collaborative Treason run deeeeep. The irrational, aggressive, obsessive push for Amnesty for illegal invaders reveals just HOW deep.
Thanks, and keep posting the truth!
This IS nothing but a TRAP, and GOPe weasels will use every trick in the book to frame their version of AMNESTY as an innocuous, "fair" solution. Allowing the camel's snout, head, torso, then azz to enter the tent is NO solution; It's a National Death Sentence. IF that happens, any Exodus from the GOP once Amnesty is implemented will be irrelevant. It'll be GAME OVER, "Mission Accomplished".
You’re welcome brutha. You too! (and thanks for putting up with my long-winded rants :-)
Boehner's a phony, just following a script. And so are all of the GOPe frauds.
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