Posted on 06/23/2013 7:52:16 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Schumer predicts mass demonstrations if House blocks path to citizenship By Alexander Bolton - 06/23/13 10:00 AM ET
A senior Democratic senator predicted Sunday there could be massive demonstrations in Washington if House Republicans try to block a bill to grant legal status to millions of immigrants.
Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the lead Democratic sponsor of the Senate immigration reform bill, said House Republicans would likely spark massive civil rights rallies if they try to quash measures to create a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants already in the country.
“This has the potential of becoming the next major civil rights movement. I could envision in the late summer or early fall if Boehner tries to bottle the bill up or put something in without a path to citizenship — if there’s no path to citizenship, there’s not a bill — but if he tries to bottle it up or do things like that, I could see a million people on the Mall in Washington,” Schumer said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Schumer said business leaders, evangelical leaders and CEOs of high tech companies would join the public call for action by the House on immigration.
Schumer has counted about 67 votes for the Senate immigration bill and believes close to 70 will support final passage later this week.
“I do believe that having a significant number of Republicans will change the dynamic in the House. Individual Congress members from red districts, if they see their senators voted for it and they decide to do the right thing, there will be huge pressure on [Speaker John] Boehner [R-Ohio] not to block immigration reform,” said Schumer.
Schumer predicted that Boehner will have to bring legislation very similar to the Senate bill to the House floor, even if a majority of his conference would not support it.
“He will have no choice as the pressure mounts over the summer,” Schumer added.
He said Boehner would have to abandon the so-called Hastert Rule and bring legislation granting legal status to millions of illegal immigrants even if less than half of the House GOP conference is willing to vote for it.
During the Los Angeles riots in the wake of the infamous 1992 Rodney King trial, Waters described the violence (in which 58 people were killed) as "a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice." She held “economic, social, cultural and political” factors responsible for the disorder.[1] She dismissed the mass black looting of Korean-owned stores by saying: "There were mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes…. They are not crooks." Chanting the radical slogan "No justice, no peace," she attributed the rioters’ underlying rage to the federal government’s allegedly longstanding “neglect” of America’s inner cities.[2]
Waters further asserted that racial injustice was rampant in America. She claimed that the L.A. tumult could rightly be called a “rebellion” or “insurrection,” but not a riot. “Riot implies to me wild, crazed, uncalled-for actions,” she explained, “and I’m not so sure that’s quite appropriate for what took place in Los Angeles.”[3] It was “unfortunate,” she said, “that “it takes things like this rebellion to wake people up.”[4]You know, let them burn the country down if they don't get their way. Conservatives just need to protect their own property in a similar fashion to the Korean shopkeepers during the "insurrection" cited above.
I say give all the illegals legal residence in Kalifornia. This way they still only have 57 electoral votes and the administration gets to reap what they sowed.
Demonstrate all you want.
If you are illegal, you have to go home.
Period.
What a warped, twisted, sick mind — denying foreign invaders citizenship is a “civil rights” issue.
By foreigners.
Interesting in that the DHS was created to protect the American people from enemies outside the borders after 9/11. In true form, the liberals have morphed it into a tool to be used within our borders against Americans. Only in Obamanation.
No need. The Democrats will be toast in the next election of the country is treated to video of thousands of protestors surrounding the capitol and waving Mexican flags.
Let them protest.
Shumer is a sh*t stirring POS and as the bill is crap it was a given....riot, burn, bitch and blather....oh my.
If the GOP allows this to pass they are officially done....over. They think for one minute that these new citizens will be grateful enough to vote for THEM they are insane.
My opinion.
Picking up all the garbage they leave behind will create some jobs!
Bring it on. Suggest they start in Dearborn.
Only Chucky Schmucky could conflate this to be a “civil rights” issue. In truth, illegal aliens have no civil rights here under the Constitution, with the exception that they be treated humanely when we deport them.
‘He probably has the rent-a-mobs on speed dial’
Huh...I thought it was illegal to scream ‘Fire’ in a theater.
I WANT PROTESTS, RIOTING, and BURNING OF OUR CITIES.
Then, maybe, Americans will get a MUCH BETTER idea of just who will are next wave of citizens will be if this passes.
Rubio said illegals don’t have a right to demand anything.
My thoughts exactly...
Race baiting
So does that mean the union representing the badge monkeys will be upset?
Why? Are they handing out information on health exchanges and voter registration cards?
Schumer is a sewer rat.
Let them riot, it will point out who needs to be killed!
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