Posted on 01/28/2014 11:02:53 AM PST by jimbo123
The House Republican leadership’s broad framework for overhauling the nation’s immigration laws will call this week for a path to legal status — but not citizenship — for many of the 11 million adult immigrants who are in the country illegally, according to aides who have seen the party’s statement of principles. For immigrants brought to the United States illegally as young children, the Republicans would offer a path to citizenship.
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House Republican leaders will circulate it at a three-day retreat for their members that begins Wednesday on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Several pro-immigration organizations that have been briefed on the guidelines say they are not intended to serve as a conservative starting point for future negotiations, but as a gauge of how far to the left House Republicans are willing to move.
The principles say that Republicans do not support a “special path to citizenship,” but make an exception for the “Dreamers,” the immigrants brought into the country illegally as children, quoting a 2013 speech by Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House majority leader. “One of the great founding principles of our country was that children would not be punished for the mistakes of their parents,” Mr. Cantor said at the time. “It is time to provide an opportunity for legal residence and citizenship for those who were brought to this country as children and who know no other home.”
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Traitorous scum.
Vent.
Call your legislators and just get honest. Don’t hold back.
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if I were a liberal Democrat in 2014, I’d be laughing and crapping on everyone too....
Is this really what you voted for America?
Hey everybody: how’s that quest for a more moderate, centrist government going? :)
I can see Cantor, McCarthy, Flake, Portman, Hoeven, Corker, Kirk and several others simply switching to Democrat, claiming the "party of hate" has forced them to pull away.
The "several" others could become many others if they sense the tide is changing.
They don't care if their party commits suicide as long as they can continue to win elections.
Tried calling this morning, all lines busy, mailbox full. Once again they ignore us, so I will ignore them. I put 22 years in the Marine Corps for this? I want a “do-over”
“The Gods of the Copybook Headings”
Thank you so much for that.
Don’t know how I managed to remain ignorant of this poem all these years.
Or maybe I just forgot.
“I put 22 years in the Marine Corps for this?”
Semper Fi, jarhead, from a retired squid.
When it’s time to stand to, I’ll be there. Even if I have to be carried, I’ll be there.
Of course, the Democratic Party is pursuing a suicidal platform themselves, i.e. in terms of national suicide.
“Hey everybody: how’s that quest for a more moderate, centrist government going?”
You mean the one that’s way over to hell and gone past Robin Hood’s Barn to the right of the right wing of the “Republican Party?” Over there closer to the center?
Is this really what you voted for America?
I don’t recall seeing an amnesty plank in the 2012 GOP platform. Silly me for missing that one.
I don't know what the answer is, but most of what I hear around here is obsolete and about a decade out of date.
Yet something absolutely must be done. Where I live, the battle is already lost, but the rest of the country still has a chance.
It’s in the New York Times, it must be true!
Cantor’s dreamer bill has been out there a long time. The Times isn’t making this up.
What is new the cock and bull trial balloon from the GOP that legalization without citizenship is NOT amnesty.
Yes. But I (and I think they) view it more as premeditated murder.
Obama and those closest to him hate our country.
Schumer, Reid, Pelosi and other clowns simply figure, 1) someone will get to be in charge, whatever is left (no pun intended); and 2) they got theirs already, so what the hell?
You’re right about Cantor.
I just never trust the NYT, I don’t care what they’re trying to pass off as factual and accurate.
Another ex-squid that feels the same way. Feel like I wasted some very good years of my life.
I would also stand tall with you guys but im afraid we are in a very small minority.
Their LEGAL status is ILLEGAL.
Otherwise the rule of law and thus the primacy of the US Constitution and most of the foundations of our society are dead.
They wouldn't be able to vote so they wouldn't care what happens to the government. They would still be reluctant to speak up when crimes are committed in their neighborhoods for fear of losing their tentative status. They would still have to be cared for, free of charge, in ERs. They would most likely qualify for workers comp and unemployment and even Social Security, or would get these care of further liberal legislation.
We would turn America into another Europe.
Temporary work visas for a relatively small number of people in fields where there is truly a shortage of talent might make sense. But long term non-citizen status is a recipe for disaster.
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