Posted on 05/27/2014 8:50:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via the Right Scoop, Reid floated this deadline on Friday too. Dick Durbin, another member of the leadership, has also been talking it up. The clock starts on June 10th, when most Republican primaries will be over and the party will once again be free to betray its conservative supporters, and ends when Congress leaves town for the August recess. If Boehner hasn’t passed a bill by then, Obama’s going to do something on deportations — probably something marginal and gestural, just to show lefties that he cares, but one never knows with a guy who’s gotten as comfortable as O has with executive action.
Do you suppose these endless Democratic threats about an impending moratorium on deportations might be influencing the rate of illegal immigration these days? Let’s check in at the Texas border:
A shift by immigrant smugglers to target the tough-to-defend U.S.-Mexico border in southernmost Texas has accelerated this year as the Border Patrol scrambles to shift its resources from states farther west, according to an internal agency report obtained by The Associated Press.
From Oct. 1 through May 17, agents in the southernmost tip of Texas made more than 148,000 arrests, on pace to match last year’s total in less than eight months, according to the intelligence report. That compares with nearly 63,000 arrests in the Tucson, Arizona, sector, which it surpassed for the first time just last year. The Rio Grande Valley sector averaged nearly 1,100 arrests per day from May 11-17, according to the document.
What these numbers look like on the ground is a near-constant flow of people across the Rio Grande.
It’s not just Texas. The Border Patrol started seeing higher rates of border-crossing last year, when the Senate first got cracking on immigration reform. That’s a feature, not a bug, of lefty table-pounding about this. The more amnesty dominates the policy agenda in the U.S., the more of a rush there’ll be by would-be illegals to sneak in under the wire before any new policies, whether legislative or executive, take effect.
Now, a strategic question for Boehner: Does he call Obama’s bluff by walking away from reform this summer or does he pass something small, like ENLIST? The fear if he walks away is that Obama will do something dramatic, Latino voters will rally for Democrats, and suddenly not only have the midterms gotten more difficult but any amnesty bills passed by the GOP next year will seem like an afterthought to O’s action. Chances are, though, that O’s move on deportations will be modest so as not to spark a backlash among white voters and that Latinos will largely ignore it (or even be irritated by how modest it is). In that case, if you’re Boehner, why not walk away for now and focus on the lame-duck session? Republican voters will be grateful on election day and then you can betray them later. On the other hand, passing ENLIST has its own advantages. It’s big enough that the party could sell it to Latinos as proof of its goodwill but small enough that it would amnestize only a tiny sliver of the illegal population. It would give Democrats fits, too, because they don’t want to hand the GOP a political victory unless they’re getting a lot of illegals legalized in return — but they also don’t want to be seen as opposing a bill that represents a rare Republican gesture towards amnesty. The risk to Boehner, though, is that conservatives might rally against ENLIST and that might hurt the party, both in angering some voters into staying home this fall and also “proving” to immigration fans that there’s no form of legalization that conservatives will support.
My hunch is that they’re going to push ENLIST tentatively in June and see what the reaction is, both inside Congress and out. If Boehner can bring dozens of Republicans onboard (if not a clear majority) and grassroots righties seem no more than mildly annoyed, he’ll go for it and then dare Reid and Schumer to reject the bill on grounds that it doesn’t amnestize enough people. If Democrats walk away, he can walk away too saying, “I tried.” No harm done for the midterms. Or at least, not much.
Oh please, let Obama usurp more power
Let it be now
How about that . . . Schumer threatens the GOP with unconstitutional action from an unconstitutional (p)resident.
Upchuck is such a horse’s @$$.
Why on earth would they need to threaten? If what he’s doing is constitutional, and above board, then why not just do it now? Why the wait, Obama? Are you being benevolent?
What is he going to do, start deporting illegal aliens? Because right now, he is not only not deporting them, he is releasing known violent illegal alien criminals into the country.
“Schumer to GOP: You’ve got a six-week window to pass amnesty or Obama will act on his own”
OH NO’S!!
Scr$w you, Chuckie.
Der Furher (or at least his arse) speaks.
Whoever we get in 2016, may s/he at least call RotoRooter and release our US Constitution from the WH toilet drain.
So let the S.O.B. Try and do it by executive order.These Executive orders can be invalidated as fast as they are created.All we need is a party willing to slap him down.
I call him Carl Schaumberg.
Those who’ve read, “Unintended Consequences,” would know why.
Yep, that's all we need. Easy peasy.
Reid, Schumer, Durbin, and Obama: The executive and legislative representatives for mexico. Throw in Juan “batshit crazy” Mc Cain and Jeb “commiting felonies is an act of love” Bush, and I would say that mexico has quite a few members representing them in congress. I don’t think that these asshats realize that mexico IS NOT A PART OF THE UNITED STATES!
I just love hearing threats like this from patrician leftists like Schumer. Here’s a leftist Jew, not unlike the character in Winds of War, who denied the danger until it was too late.
Who now denies the danger of unbridled immigration for short-term personal political gain. Who denigrates the country that allowed his people refuge from the grip of death and genocide and yet finds it expedient to flood his people’s refuge with interlopers whose eventual takeover will cause him and his people even more misery.
What fools we people elect. What fools we allow to prosper and infect.
Trip that trigger, Chuckie.
So when are you and the rest of the incompetent redundant elected legislators resigning en masse?
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