Posted on 02/07/2011 5:21:11 AM PST by rabscuttle385
Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) have rekindled their alliance on immigration reform, taking some early steps to test the political will for addressing the contentious issue this year.
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“It’s in the infant stage,” Graham told POLITICO. “I don’t know what the political appetite is to do something.”
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And in one closely watched comment, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) let it slip recently that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) “seems to think that there’s a shot at this.” It led to a round of speculation that the McCain of the past, the senator who ushered a comprehensive bill through the chamber in 2006, might be ready to come back.
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The involvement of heavyweights like McCain and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) may be the only way to lend broader credibility to the effort.
“Conservatives are hacked off with Schumer for so many reasons,” said the Rev. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, who supports comprehensive immigration reform. “Both carry baggage. There need to be some new faces that carry” the issue, such as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).
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McCain said he won’t rejoin the talks until Congress approves a 10-point border security plan, which he and Kyl introduced last year, and the governors of the states adjoining Mexico certify their borders as secure.
“The smart move for the country and the administration would be, take McCain-Kyl and make it law,” Graham said. “Let everybody know we are putting resources in the border and we’re going to fix it. And then move on to the other parts.”
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Murkowski confirmed to POLITICO that her staff has been contacted by Schumer aides to discuss the issue, but the discussions haven’t involved her yet.
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I have wondered the same thing. Maybe South Carolina is more liberal than we thought?
“What is it with these guys? “Test the political will.” You test it every year, and every year you get shot down, it’s pretty obvious what the “political will” is. Then you start all over again. What part of “no” don’t you understand?”
Wearing the people down, just like they did for homosexual “rights.”
Conservatives need to understand that “KORPoratists” are not now and never were conservatives. That is the sad charade. They use conservatives to vote for their puppet anti-Constitution corporatist candidates like Lindsay Grahman and McCain and many others.
The amnesty is all about cheap labor for big business that is subsidized by taxpayers, just like the stadiums for the overpaid NFL.
The Chamber of Commerce gets cheap labor and every American subsidizes the huge social costs of education, ER health care, law enforcement, etc.
Neither Party will start to make serious examples of holding employers accountable. Until they do they will keep coming. Put an end to the jobs and services and they will self deport.
What took these two Obama lackies so long to start pushing amnesty again, or did they ever really stop???
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