No immigration reform this side of 2017: McConnell

The Irish Echo ^ | August 2, 2015 | Ray O'Hanlon

[re_tail20]

Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell has ruled out any action on immigration reform in the current Congress.

Speaking to reporters at a press conference, McConnell made it clear that reform advocates will have to wait.

And he point the finger of blame at President Obama.

“Not this Congress. I think when the president took the action he did, after the 2014 election, he pretty much made it impossible for us to go forward with immigration reform this Congress,” said the Kentucky senator, this in reference to President Obama’s executive actions on immigration – actions which have since been tied up by court rulings.

“The concern that we expressed about that I think was validated by the fact that he (Obama) is currently under a court order not to go forward with what he decided to do.

“And so the atmosphere for dealing with that issue in the wake of what he did is not appropriate to get the kind of immigration reform that we probably need to address,” McConnell said.

“Hopefully in the next Congress we’ll do it, where we’ll have for sure a different president,” McConnell added.

The Echo was alerted to the Majority Leader’s words by Keith Carney who was attending the press conference.

Carney runs a broadcast news organization on Capitol Hill called FedNet which provides daily Radio/TV coverage of Floor debates, press conferences and hearings.

Regardless of congressional inaction, or indeed because of it, immigration reform, and its ever present companion, border security, looks set to be a front burner issue in the 2016 presidential election campaign.

[Leep]

are = our + other mistakes.

[Cyman]

Isn’t that a load of your overburdened shoulders, Mitchie? You can cure a problem by just saying it is not a problem OR there is nothing, as one of the most powerful men in the world, I can do about it. That’s it, that the ticket.

[Cyman]

Impotence is your strong suit Mitch.

[JayAr36]

Just goes to show us who is directing the turdle. Time for him to go back under his desk for another term.

[Fiddlstix]

Both McConnell and Boehner make me sick to my stomach! They are nothing more than traitors to America!
I guess I need to make another Thread about McConnell
YUK!

[Diogenesis]

The GOP. What is it good for?

Being submissive to treason, and
covering up Benghazi,
and launching the IRS (by McCain) on Americans.

It is good for nothing good.

[ballearthout]

Lol. The GoPe will never stop playing their shell game. We can’t do anything because of Obama. But if Obama put forth legislation to give illegals a free lunch program, they’d all have a big squabble about it, then give Obama everything he wants. What a joke.

[Major Matt Mason]

We can't, we can't , we can't. The excuses are always at the ready. Meanwhile, Obama will most likely continue doing what he feels like doing, even after he is told by the courts to stop.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

See what Senator Sessions' report has to reveal about the one million green cards handed out each year and the gangs' of eight immigration reform efforts to at least triple it.

[quote]

Yet the immigration “reform” considered by Congress most recently

• —the 2013 Senate “Gang of Eight” comprehensive immigration bill—
• would have tripled the number of green cards issued over the next 10 years.
• Instead of issuing [the usual] 10 million green cards,
  • the Gang of Eight proposal would have
  • issued at least 30 million green cards during the next decade
  • (or more than 11 times the population of the City of Chicago).

[end quote]

IIRC this was the guffawing goofballs' original effort back when they thought their "reform" would pass and Bush would sign it into law.

[Pajamajan]

USELESS-SLUG BUMP

[odawg]

“Mitch McConnell has ruled out any action on immigration reform in the current Congress.”

Immigration reform for this fool means amnesty. It is code talk to avoid saying “immigration enforcement”. He would choke before he said that, or faint if he slipped and said it.

[usurper]

I think when the president took the action he did, after the 2014 election, he pretty much made it impossible for us to go forward with immigration reform this Congress.

What an idiot.

We could be sending an endless number of enforcement bills to the president and forcing veto after veto. The Dems consistent refusal to enforce the borders would cost them dearly in the next election.

But NOOOOO we will just sit on our hands and do nothing and hope the American people reward us in 2016.

[Calpublican]

[[just signs executive orders ]]

The administration likes to call them “Executive Actions.”

It sounds so much less dictatorial.

[Calpublican]

[[Both McConnell and Boehner make me sick to my stomach! ]]

Me too!!!!

[Boogieman]

Basically Mitch is saying: “We would have passed amnesty, but Obama riled up those darn Tea Partiers so we couldn’t slip it past them. I would have been much sneakier and gotten it done.”

[oldvirginian]

Exactly.
We have perfectly good immigration laws on the books already.

The problem is *no* enforcement.
They can pass all the bills they want, but they are absolutely worthless without vigorous *enforcement*.

If a congress led by McConnell and Boehner passes any legislation, it will either have no teeth (enforcement) or will be a gift to Imam Obama.

[jch10]

And, who believes that lying McConnell?

[elpadre]

correction:

absolutely - Congress can move forward concurrently with court action. It does not have to be consecutively done after the court has ruled.