Posted on 08/06/2015 10:13:55 AM PDT by jimbo123
If you attend any Republican presidential campaign event these days, you are are but guaranteed to hear a voter ask this:
“What would you do about illegal immigration?”
Florida Senator Marco Rubio was the recipient of this particular, and particularly polite version of the question, and Rubio was ready. As co-sponsor of the most recent stab at major immigration bill, a plan that never got out of congress, Rubio knows this issue is fraught. So fraught, he told the crowd that day in Salem, that talking about creating a legal status for undocumented immigrants, before tackling border security, is impossible.
"Anyone who continuous to insists on doing it all at once is basically out of touch with reality."
The idea that a secure border must precede any major overhaul of US immigration policy has become standard among 2016 Republicans. Earlier this week, Jeb Bush, called it a “non-starter” to think otherwise.
Two years ago, Bush backed the failed senate bill Rubio sponsored that would have given some people here illegally a path to citizenship. Bush has favored the same for children brought here illegally, so-called "DREAMers."
(Excerpt) Read more at nhpr.org ...
I am really glad about this. This way, we will know who will squash these Dreamer’s Dreams and who will not. To me it is the only issue I care about at this point.
I’m surprised that NPR actually called it “Illegal” Immigration in their report.
Someone’s going to get fired for using the “Illegal” word over there.
Last thing they wanted to talk about, LOL!
“If they are law-abiding, God-fearing folks”?
Overlooking the fact that by definition they are not law-abiding, Kasich would now have a religious test for illegals allowed to stay here?
If our nation is essentially replaced by a third world population, "California" becomes the electoral model for the country and it's Game Over. We lose on every other issue, forever.
The key is to realize that it's not just "illegal" immigration from the third world that will end the USA, but all such immigration, including "legal".
"Conservatives" who feel they have to soften their opposition to illegal immigration by saying they support high levels of legal immigration - haven't a clue about the issue. (or they're just lying)
That is exactly the point about Trump....he put the word “illegal” back in the political dictionary.
If it weren’t for him, we’d still be hearing about “comprehensive immigration reform”, “pathways to citizenship”, and every other bullsh!t equivocation of not saying they truth about what these politicians mean to do.
Agree
He handed them lemonade, they will turn it into lemons.
Bottom line is this on immigration....
Obama has been running a “Shadow Immigration System”...
Doing so by “abusing” very limited authority to issue work permits.”... work permits have been ‘intended’ to be a benefit for those who are applying for legal status or as a ‘temporary benefit’, .....Obama has issued them to people who are ‘NOT’ eligible for legal status.... he has used them as a way ‘to secretly give out benefits’ to HUGE numbers of people who are not eligible for a legal status,... He bypass es the law and evades the rules set by Congress that limit the number of people who can take jobs here.
From 1009 to 2014 Obama issued more than ‘7.4 million’ work permits to foreign nationals beyond the approximately ‘one’ million ‘lawful’ permanent residents.....There are easily 700,000 foreign guest workers admitted to the U.S. each year.....
Obama has been approving ‘work authorizations’ for immigrants beyond admission limits and for some categories of immigrants that Congress NEVER intended to work in the U.S.....Green card holders and foreign nationals on guest worker visas do not need work authorizations.
Immigrants that received permits include:
Illegal immigrants granted Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, ....Immigrants granted Temporary Protective Status (TPS),.....Spouses of guest workers, ....various types of foreign students,.... Immigrants granted voluntary departure,... parolees,... as well as asylees and refugees.
Further,.... more than 113,800 individuals ‘with final orders of deportation’ also were ‘granted work permits’ in that six year span.
7.4 million excess work permits issued ......a “parallel immigrant work authorization system” outside the numerical limits and categories set by Congress.
..and Obama is not finished yet flooding them in.....
(information taken from my notes on refugees and immigration)
WHY do we need to create a legal status for illegal aliens? Throw them out of my country!
They already have legal status. Their legal status is “Criminal”.
Doesn’t it really belong front and center? It is a hostile invasion, not a human rights issue.
Oh BOOHOO Donnie hit me in my AMNESTY !!!
Isnt that the bit where Mr Potter says “GO HOME” ???
Not only that, but he's the guy that got it in the public's face. No one else has. And for that the Trump-bashers hate his guts. As much as I'm a Cruz fan, it was Trump who 's getting the illegal alien issue on the table.
The Democrats/Republican machines did their very best to keep it from being an issue. Decade after decade.
They knew this issue would eventually detonate.
It’s why on nearly a daily basis they’ve attempted to indoctrinate everyone with, “Were a nation of immigrants.” They’re simply good hard working family folk and if you opposes it, why you must be racist or isolationist.
It actually worked for many years. Until now.
America started out as a nation of pioneers. Then we instituted an immigration system that has worked great for a few hundred years.
he told the crowd that day in Salem, that talking about creating a legal status for undocumented immigrants, before tackling border security, is impossible.Shows you where his head is. Who said anything about wanting "legal status for undocumented immigrants"?
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