To-Do over Tallent (Boehner's new Amnesty Czar and her Cheap Labor Lobby paymasters)

National Review ^ | 12/6/13 | Andrew Stiles

[jimbo123]

Much of the reporting on House Speaker John Boehner’s hiring of Rebecca Tallent to “lead immigration efforts in the House” has focused on her experience as a senior aide to Senator John McCain (R., Ariz.) and her work with the late senator Ted Kennedy (D., Mass.) on the failed immigration-reform efforts of 2006–7. Less has been made of her most recent position as director of immigration policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), a think tank founded by a group of former Senate majority leaders from both parties. This association, critics say, is far more relevant to the current immigration debate — or lack thereof.

Opponents of the Gang of Eight legislation have long complained that the debate over immigration reform is portrayed in the media almost exclusively as a question of whether or not to give illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship. There has been almost no discussion, for example, about the significant increase in low-skilled immigration called for in the Senate bill.

[Venturer]

Boehner has got to go.

[OrioleFan]

Boehner needed a shoulder to cry on.

[Vaduz]

We already have a pathway to citizenship no short cuts allowed for a reason.