Posted on 07/03/2014 3:53:05 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
Water, Carried: Politicos Seung Min Kim and Carrie Budoff Brown sum up How immigration reform died. Some questions for them:
1) Is it true reformers largely won the August recess [of 2013]? That sure wasnt my recollection. My recollection is that initial opposition to amnesty at town halls was muted, in large part because frightened GOP congressmen simply stopped holding town halls. Reporters sympathetic to the reformers immediately rushed write stories claiming that Immigration Reformers are Winning August.
(SNIP)
You never seem to carry water for opponents of comprehensive legislation. Do we need to leak to you more? Take out ads in Playbook?
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
3) Why do you talk about the record number of deportations under President Obama? You know thats highly deceptive at best, BS at worst. Obama is counting people turned back at the border who wouldnt have been counted in prior years. The L.A. Timesor maybe even the L.A. Times noted: "Expulsions of people who are settled and working in the United States have fallen steadily since his first year in office, and are down more than 40% since 2009." Even counting the book-cooking quickie border returns, the number of deportations under Obama has basically leveled out after ramping up in the Bush years.
In other words, the government is cooking the books.
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