Ted Cruz put the kabosh on any trade bill backdoor immigration provision by filing S.Amdt 1384 to S.Amdt 1221 to the TPA.
Obama can try and violate immigration laws if he has a chance to negotiate a trade bill using TPA but he will be stopped by amending the federal injunctive order presently in force.
You do know that TPA was in existence since FDR and was renewed consistently until Harry Reid killed it for GW Bush?
You do know that Obama would only have effectively 9 months to negotiate a trade bill when it takes at least 18 months to finalize (confirmed by Phyllis Shlafly this morning) and he is banking on Hillary Clinton continuing with the leftist agenda negotiating who in turn is banking on millions of illegals getting to the poll to vote democrat?
You do know that Senator Sessions voted for the Iran bill which is truly in the domain of ‘treaty’ and thereby gave up treaty power of the US Senate in doing so? (I like and admire Senator Jeff but he is heeding the call of his constituents and they are not on mark in his current stance on trade.)
And you do know that there is a glut of crude oil in the USA in addition to an ENORMOUS surplus of NG that is burned/flared/wasted while S. Korea and Europe are begging for the USA to ship it to them as LNG and that Obama/democrats will not allow these and so many other things to be exported because it empowers conservative industries?
Admittedly there are many sides to this debate but reading through your posts I have found NOTHING of value or substance that adds to the discussion.
The biggest frustration for me is that we have been on a full site uproar for three weeks about this thing and still we have the majority of the commenters that don’t know anything about the history of this type of legislation. We then get posters with an agenda pretending that a sea-change in trade negotiations is underway and the Senate is “giving up their authority under the Constitution” when they are merely making their process free of the log rolling contention as they have done for 75 years and doing it with a shared process agreement with the House.
What in the heck happened to the researching and self-educating FR posters we used to have that would keep us all from looking like fools by shutting down the idiocy?
Proposed and defeated. But good try.