Until the rat version from the senate comes to the house, he "can't" support it. And you have no idea how he would have voted had it ever come, and since it won't come that's not a problem.
I see no reason to expect Cannon won't vote for the republican-crafted compromise even if it doesn't look anything like the senate bill. He had a preference for allowing more illegals into the country, but he didn't sink the house plan before over it, and he won't sink a "pence" plan now, in my opinion.
Or at least, he wouldn't have, before he was targeted and called names and had to spend money and political favors to make it through his primary. Now he is BEHOLDEN to the people who he had to turn to -- the "pro-shamesty" people you like to call them.
How that helps us is beyond me. Like someone else said, if you go after the king, you better kill them. Well, if you go after someone for not being sufficiently on your side, you better get rid of them, because when you are done they won't be on your side at all.
It would be hard to blame Cannon for turning pro-amnesty at this point. Which he wasn't so bad on before.
But I readily admit I am for a guest worker program, and I am for letting some illegals STAY in the country while waiting in the back of the line for citizenship. So I'm not on the same side as the true close-down-the-borders group.
I do want to send most illegals back home, either immediately or when their guest worker permits expire. I want a wall, I want to triple the border security, I want to triple the number of people working in the government to assess people for citizenship.
I want to get good, hard-working people who love our country and want to be a part of it INTO our country and made into citizens.
I want to keep OUT people who think spanish is a great language, who love their culture and just like our money and jobs.
I like America as a melting pot, not a Salad. I believe in ONE culture, the culture of america, not the "multi-cultural" balkanization of our country.
So I am smack-dab in the middle of this whole immigration thing, having views considered extreme by BOTH sides of the question, but seeing the house approach as a better starting point.
Although the idea of making it a felony to BE in the country illegally is stupid to me, as is the idea of it being a felony to provide medical and humanitarian assistance.
I just don't think people should be jailed for walking over a border. Send them home, don't throw them in jail for a felony. Seal the border -- don't use jail time to to it, really do it.
I kind of like the Pence plan. I liked the "general notion" of the President's plan as he outlined it during the campaign.
The Senate bill is a horrible monstrosity that only PRETENDS to be what I support while actually managing to be a law that DOES threaten to destroy our country (we say that a lot, usually it's just hyperbole, but somehow the Senate managed to do it). Actually , the Senate did so because the democrats wanted to make sure the law would never pass, because they think the issue is good for them.
Are you kidding me? He already spoke out in support of the senate version.
Do you know the first thing about him? For God's sake the man was given an award by La Raza. Does that sound like someone who isn't an open border supporter to you?
The whole point behind charging them and convicting them of a felony is to speed up the deportation proceedings and prevent them from obtaining citizenship from that point on. It was never the intent of the felony provision to actually incarcerate them here. It was to be able to speed their return to whatever country they came from.