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A Signal From Central Valley That GOP May Act on Immigration
KQED ^ | 1/26/14 | Tyche Hendricks

Posted on 01/26/2014 1:11:36 PM PST by jimbo123

As House Republicans prepare to wrestle with their differences on immigration at an annual retreat next week, one GOP lawmaker from the Central Valley is signaling there may be movement on an issue that has split the party. At the same time, a high-profile group of bipartisan leaders met in Silicon Valley Thursday to unveil a report showing immigrants are key to a robust U.S. economy.

The report by the Bipartisan Policy Center was released by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, both Republicans, and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros, a Democrat. They argued that America’s population is aging and needs immigrants to keep the labor force growing. A healthy economy, in turn, will enable the United States to maintain its global political and military preeminence.

“Immigrants not only add to the sheer numbers — so they continue the growth process,” said Cisneros, “but they tend to be younger — therefore they form families, therefore they have children, so they create the generation to come.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; amnestypimps; gopestablishment; lofan; rinos
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1 posted on 01/26/2014 1:11:36 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

I hate these effin bastards. Fighting for the glory of having sold U.S. citizenship to third world invaders.


2 posted on 01/26/2014 1:12:59 PM PST by raybbr (I weep over my sons' future in this Godforsaken country.)
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to unveil a report showing immigrants are key to a robust U.S. economy

Sure they are, 30% of the prison population helps keep guards employed I guess.

All that welfare, free schools and free ER's also help keep government minions employed.

What a bunch of fools.

3 posted on 01/26/2014 1:14:14 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: jimbo123; KC_Lion

We are about to witness the end of the 2 party system


4 posted on 01/26/2014 1:14:59 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: GeronL

They do the best they can to keep our citizens out of the E.R. At the same time they do their best to increase the impact of illegal immigrants on those same E.R.s.

Why we’ll just make them citizens.

And then these new citizens will still need to be subsidized in the E.R.s.

All the negative impacts of illegal immigrants will remain. They’ll just be dirt poor citizens then, and getting the same damned government programs, and more because now they’ll be legal and qualified for more.


5 posted on 01/26/2014 1:17:17 PM PST by DoughtyOne (ZERO is still zero, and John Kerry is a mock-puppet!)
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To: GeronL

That was gone ages ago. The semblance was kept propped up as a divide-and-conquer tactic by the left.


6 posted on 01/26/2014 1:18:38 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: GeronL

The Republican Party has managed it’s way into oblivion.

If they do this immigration deal in an election year, I suggest every Republican stay home.

Let’s see how their voting block gels around an illegal immigrant population base.


7 posted on 01/26/2014 1:18:43 PM PST by DoughtyOne (ZERO is still zero, and John Kerry is a mock-puppet!)
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To: jimbo123

I don’t give a FK about immigrants.

Bring em.

Bring em all.

But, they must be subject to the same laws everyone else is held to.

I wouldn’t care about the 30 million people here if they were under the same laws.


8 posted on 01/26/2014 1:20:55 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: DoughtyOne

bump


9 posted on 01/26/2014 1:21:19 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Vendome

They should be under the same laws. Reading about courts letting illegals off the hook from “cultural misunderstandings” tells me we need to cut off the benefits of breaking and entering this country


10 posted on 01/26/2014 1:22:49 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Vendome

Please remember that we now spend at least half a trillion dollars a year on welfare programs for citizens. (And I’ll bet a lot more than that is spent on hidden programs)

Do you really want to bump that up by 30-40 million in one fell swoop, and then bump it up by 2 million more each year as the immigration flood doors are opened?

I suggest a thirty year moratorium is in order.


11 posted on 01/26/2014 1:23:27 PM PST by DoughtyOne (ZERO is still zero, and John Kerry is a mock-puppet!)
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"robust ecom."
hey! you RINOs, If you can't find work, said (out-work) customers
won't buy you cr@p..cheaper labor = immigrant

12 posted on 01/26/2014 1:31:48 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: jimbo123

Cisneros, Chertoff and Rice - criminal, thief and fool.


13 posted on 01/26/2014 1:42:50 PM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything)
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“The report by the Bipartisan Policy Center was released by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, both Republicans, and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros, a Democrat.”

One Worlders.

Take your “Bipartisan Policy Center” and stick it. You are hyper-partisan: you care nothing about the American citizen but everything about importing mass poverty.


14 posted on 01/26/2014 1:43:08 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: jimbo123

Have you noticed all the radical Black leftists that have taken over in the Obama media like Tyche or whateverthat made up name this is!


15 posted on 01/26/2014 1:45:09 PM PST by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: jimbo123
Why are the GOP so dedicated to their own demise?

They have to know immigration is hated by the base.

Are they really that far removed from our daily lives?

16 posted on 01/26/2014 1:49:39 PM PST by Pietro
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If they do this immigration deal in an election year, I suggest every Republican stay home.

Screw that; I'll vote for someone that I think can do a good job — I voted Gary Johnson instead of Romney last time (my state's former governor; he did a good job).

17 posted on 01/26/2014 1:50:25 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: jimbo123

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, again.
No Senate, maybe lose the House if they make this wizard move....


18 posted on 01/26/2014 1:57:03 PM PST by Kozak ("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms in Dixie!)
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To: Vendome
But, they must be subject to the same laws everyone else is held to.

And here's the problem; there are essentially three or four classes of people today:

  1. The elites; the guys that can keep bribe cash in their freezer and not end up w/ more than a smack on the wrist.
  2. The enforcers, the police and bureaucracies: most laws don't apply to them.
  3. The average citizen; whether or not the laws apply to them is a function of their relationship[s] with the two prior groups.
  4. Ex-Felons; these people are much like citizens but held under a set of restricted rights (despite having served their sentence).
  5. Illegal aliens; they share commonalities/properties of the two previous groups.
Given the government desire to control, they want to move everyone into category 4 so that nobody has rights but rather license from the government.
This is what is insidious about the proliferation of felony laws: they have the potential to move large chunks of otherwise law-abiding people into cat 4.
Imagine if they changed the law so that failure to have obamacare was a felony, and they changed the rules so that no existing insurance policy qualified? Instant technical felony for everybody — and they could, with a smile on their faces, blame it on paperwork "all you have to do is come in and sign some forms" (which are confessions of guilt and waivers of the right to jury trial).
19 posted on 01/26/2014 2:00:07 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: jimbo123

This McCarthy creep single handily destroyed the California Gop .This evil creep worked out a special deal with the Dems to ram thru the New State Congressional and state house districts which literally wiped out numerous state and federal Gop seats and any chances of blocking any radical left wing state laws !
This is a vile evil amoral monster who destroyed his own party to save his own district !
This is the type of money grubbing snake that fits right in with Bonehead and Cantor and Issa and Gowdy and Ryan and Goodlatte !
These dangerous creatures need to be removed .


20 posted on 01/26/2014 2:00:35 PM PST by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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