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Posted on 02/10/2014 12:44:10 PM PST by smoothsailing
BY WILLIAM KRISTOL
New York Democratic senator Chuck Schumer, an author of the Senate immigration bill, may have succeeded in helping Republicans kill his own bill.
On Meet the Press Sunday, Schumer said that Republicans "don't trust the president to enforce the law, particularly the enforcement parts." So, he explained, "There's a simple solution. Let’s enact the law this year, but simply not let it actually start ‘til 2017 after President Obama’s term is over. But you could actually have the law start in 2017 without doing much violence to it. You'd simply move the date back from December, 31 2011 to December 31, 2013, as to when the deadline for people who could get either legalization or citizenship [is], so we could go after the new people who come in later. And it would solve the problem. … You don't trust Obama? Enact the law now, put it into effect in 2017."
So even Schumer is willing to have no legislation go into effect until 2017. In other words, the main sponsor of the Senate immigration bill, who has previously pretended immigration reform is urgently important, is acknowledging that in fact there is no urgency to act.
But if nothing needs to go into effect until 2017, then Republicans have an even simpler solution: Do nothing. Don't enact legislation until 2017.
After all, why should Republicans pass a law now that won't take effect for three years? If Republicans win the presidency in 2016, then they'll have a chance to enact immigration legislation based on conservative principles. So it's better to wait until 2017—which is when Schumer is willing to put off implementation until anyway.
And Schumer can take solace in the fact that if Democrats win the presidency in 2016, the GOP will be reeling so badly from a third consecutive presidential defeat that the new Democratic president will be able to work his will on immigration. He'll be able to get the current legislation passed to take effect immediately. And if Schumer responds that it's important to set a legalization date now so as to (allegedly) deter further illegal entries, then Democrats could announce now that any legislation they enact in 2017 would have a legalization date of Dec. 31, 2013, as Schumer suggests.
So what's the Schumer case for acting now? He doesn't have one. And Republicans can cite Schumer: There’s no urgency for immigration legislation now. Following Schumer's own logic, Republicans can kill his bill.
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Anyone not supporting 100% Deportation is supporting Amnesty...and that will keep conservatives home
You got Amnesty Liberals like Rand Paul playing into the hands of Schumer and the DNC
I support the 100% Deportation of Chuck Schumer.
LOL, Chuckie “ShamWow” Schumer!
Exactly true !
There is no rush to change to status quo from a democrats stand point. As things stand now... the president has granted the illegal defacto amnesty because of his refusal to deport, and because every day that goes by more of more of these illegals are having children that are US citizens by law... which means the democrats win either way.
Do those things and illegal aliens will deport themselves and pay for the trip.
Translation: We understand that Republicans have to wait until after the 2014 Primaries before they can help us set up our permanent majority through “immigration reform”.
The RINOs use strawman arguments. We can deport 12 million in 1 year or zero in 1 year. No middle ground. I thought RINOs wanted to compromise.
They should be deporting anyone feds catch who has committed some sort of fraud.
False Personation of a U.S. Citizen (18 U.S.C. § 911).
Fraud and False Statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001).
Social Security Fraud (42 U.S.C. § 408).
High Speed Flight from Immigration Checkpoint (18 U.S.C. § 758).
Driving without a License.
Aggravated Identity Theft (18 U.S.C. § 1028A).
If we hire them, they will come. Forget the border, fix the employer.
The only conceivable reason UpChuck wants to enact a law now to take effect in 2017 instead of waiting until 2017 is that he believes he can get a more liberal law with today’s Congress than with 2017’s. Hopefully, he’s right!
Just playing to the utter stupidity of the left’s constituents.
I hate this loathsome creep.
There is even a more simple solution: just enforce the laws on the books to protect and secure our borders! Enforce the law to get rid of those on welfare, but not entitled to welfare. It will cost the government less money, and there will be more jobs for US citizens!
There never was an emergency except to stop the "leaking" of illegal aliens and terrorists across our borders. That is the last thing that the Democrats want!
True dat. It's not like the immigrants are going anywhere.
They do not care about dates, as they have shown with Obamacare. Pass it and they will bring forward amnesty the day after.
If we pass an amnesty bill now with a “start” date of 2017, wouldn’t we have a massive influx of illegal aliens from every desolate corner of earth?
Geeze, even the Schumer must think the Rats are going to get slaughtered in the mid-terms.
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