[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Gowdy is chairman of the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee, and as such would almost certainly be in the House conference committee.

The House should pass legislation on the issue, but” that doesn’t mean you go to conference”

How exactly are they going to prevent it from going to conference, other than letting it die of old age (and if that is their plan they can't admit it in public)? I have not heard one of them answer that question.

And if it doesn't go to conference, where does it go? If the House passes a Comprehensive Immigration Whopper with amnesty, like the senate bill but with a little more "Border Surge," the senate Dems might just vote to approve it without a conference.

But Gowdy should know House Dems will not vote for that any bill without amnesty for at least the Dreamers. All they need is for some GOP House members to cave.

Look carefully at 2 articles 10 days apart about Goodlatte, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which oversees immigration:

07-01-2013 Goodlatte: No 'special pathway to citizenship'

July 11 ...he could see a plan in which adult undocumented immigrants are given a temporary legal status and could later apply for green cards and U.S. citizenship.....After attaining that status, Goodlatte said, they could then apply for legal permanent residence and eventually U.S. citizenship through avenues that are already available to foreigners: marrying a U.S. citizen, having a U.S. citizen relative petition for them or having a U.S. employer sponsor their application.

That last sentence is crucial. Goodlatte could argue that it's nor a "special" pathway-to-citizenship (Is he trying to have it both ways?). Today, any illegal alien can marry a US citizen and apply for green card->citizenship unless they have a criminal history or are a member of some dangerous group. Likewise, today employers can sponsor alliens, with some restrictions, supposedly.

The House could create a bill that makes it harder or easier for former illegals to become citizens, but with Obama, and another Dem or squishy R as POTUS in 2017, it may not matter. They would be here indefinitely, with the Left/media/rogue judges/Eos/sympathetic bureaucrats to help them get from 3rd base to home plate.

[Ray76]

Where’s the fence?

There’s supposed to be a fence. Where is it?

The status quo is non-enforcement.

ENFORCE EXISTING LAW.

[chris37]

Mr. Gowdy, you and you ilk are not trusted to do anything.

Nothing.

Shut up and stop enabling the commiecrats, or you are no better than them.

[Jacquerie]

As long as the rats call the tune, set the terms of the debate, conservatives and our nation will lose.

When was the last time we fought on a field of battle of our own choosing?

[cripplecreek]

[jimbo123]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Here's a change from the "status quo."

ENFORCE EXISTING IMMIGRATION LAW.

If you are not going to enforce existing law, there is no reason to believe you will do anything other than cherry-pick a new law and enforce the new things you like and ignore the new things that you don't.

[PieterCasparzen]

Why do we ever need reform, i.e., legislation ?

Just check the landscaper, restaurant, etc., businesses for illegals. You know, like we used to see happening on a normal ongoing basis.

The only legislation we should have is to DECREASE the numbers permitted to immigrate.

We have 300+ million people and not enough jobs for them.

Allowing ANY immgration is simply idiotic at this point, unless one is thinking from the globalist/transnational financial oligarchy viewpoint.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

If you are a constituent of Gowdy or Goodlatte please call their office!

I called my congressman’s DC office this morning, and asked (after many calls with the same request) to speak to someone who knew something about immigration. I finally got to speak to one. He assured me that my congressman would not vote for a pathway-to-citizenship. Whew!

[Girlene]

from the article:

“I wish you would go on plant tours with me . . . and ask the question, ‘Do you have any openings?’ And 99 percent of the time, the answer is yes.” He said that in many cases due to visa restrictions, for farm labor, “It is actually costlier to hire an immigrant. And yet the farm worker is almost invariably an immigrant. You can’t pay an American to pick blueberries.”

So maybe we need to rethink our unemployment compensation and our food stamp programs? If you're hungry enough, or worried about having a place to live, you will work in a factory or pick blueberries.

His last thought about the blueberry pickers doesn't make sense to me. Is he saying it's costlier to hire them as illegals to pick berries, so we need to make them citizens so it will be cheaper???? what is he saying?

[The Sons of Liberty]

Trey Gowdy: House Can’t Just Defend the Status Quo on Immigration

Hey Trey, how about forcing the illegal immigrant usurper in the white hut to uphold and enforce the laws of The United States already on the books like he swore to do! We don't need any more laws, and we sure as hell don't need or want AMNESTY, we need enforcement and a damn WALL!

[Defiant]

if it doesn't go to conference, where does it go?

Hopefully, what he means is that the House can pass a good bill, full of enforcement and penalties and so on, and then send it to the Senate. The Senate can either accept the House bill or not. There is no requirement for a conference to hash out differences.

[stevio]

I agree, we should start deportations, fining businesses, and incentifying people to get off welfare.

[RginTN]

As long as Obama is _resident he will pick what immigration laws to enforce. Republican politicians are stupid to pass any immigration laws while Dems control 2 branches within govt.

[itsahoot]

I told you to keep an eye on this guy, and remember how Grahnmnesty came to power.

Hint...He gave a command performance in the House during the Clinton impeachment.