Posted on 11/30/2011 12:42:25 PM PST by Fred
The Republican chairman of the Immigration Reform Caucus blasted GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Tuesday for calling to allow some illegal immigrants to remain in the country.
Speaking on CNN’s “John King, USA,” Rep. Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.) likened the former House Speaker’s plan to drilling a hole in the bottom of a sinking boat to let the water out.
“Newt, I don’t care who you are,” Bilbray said. “Quit sending the mixed message that we are going to somehow reward or accommodate you if you broke the law while there are those waiting patiently and playing by the rules, waiting to come into this country legally.”
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So you agree to partial amnesty? Can you give us some deatils, Oh glorious One?
Oh, and good luck with that.
I don't care if they've been here 25 years or 25 minutes, Off they go and they can do it right this time.
Take names, fingerprints and mug shots of every single one, and if they return illegally, ten years at hard labor.
Or they can use the "Mexican Solution." Their family (in Mexico) can ransom them back to Mexico for $150,000 each.
Don’t you think the 1986 amnesty was a mistake? It was supposed to be a “one-time” amnesty that would resolve the illegal immigration problem. We now have four to ten times the number of illegal aliens who are waiting for a second amnesty. When you reward something, you get more of it. Ed Meese was the Attorney General under Reagan.
No, but I can recognize the moron who forgets the quid pro quo that Congress vowed but failed to deliver (strict Immigration reform, and no repeat.)
I will join you in criticizing Reagan's gullibility. He was tougher with the leadership of the Soviet Union!
Bilbray is right.
The first was the 3 for 1, spending cuts for tax increases deal, with the later implemented immediately and the 3 fold cuts promised never delivered.
The second was the 1986 Immigration Reform & Control Act (IRCA), with the reform/legalization/amnesty implemented immediately and the control promised in the bill never implemented.
Funny how the open border Republicans are trying to resell the immigration reform-enforcement "deal"/sham again - and not the 3 for 1 spending-tax "deal"/sham. After all Reagan was fooled by both. I guess for some, profit comes before sovereignty.
He’s not chairman of a COMMITTEE; he’s chairman of a CAUCUS. The headline is purposely deceptive to create the impression he heads a committee”
Does that prevent him from introducing his own bills?
He can introduce any bill he wants. And if he does not not backing from a “committee” he can make that known.
So, whats holding HIM back?
“He can introduce any bill he wants.”
True, but usually they need ‘co-sponsors’ and to know that the bill has a chance of being taken up by the relevant committee(s), with some chance of getting thru the committee(s) to the floor. Otherwise, it’s just grandstanding (as this interview appears to have been). It’s one thing to go on a CNN interview (of all places) but quite another to introduce a bill into the Congress.
Nice try.
Newt's plan more closely resembles McCain-Kennedy than mine. I read all 900 plus pages of the 2007 McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill as well as the 2006 Hagel-Martinez amnesty bill. It seems you are easily fooled by Newt's nonsense and Orwellian use of language. We tried an amnesty and it didn't work. And bringing in more and more foreign workers while 25 million Americans are looking for fulltime employment is insane. There are already 8 million illegal aliens holding jobs in this country.
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