Posted on 05/14/2014 2:49:47 PM PDT by jazusamo
Audio at source.
(CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said today that the United States, as a country, "cannot prohibit a pathway to citizenship" for illegal aliens.
“As a country, we cannot, let me say, we cannot prohibit a path to citizenship,” Pelosi said Tuesday at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation annual economic summit in Washington, D.C.
“I don’t think we as a country want to be a country that says, ‘You can do our work, but you can’t have the rights of a citizen in our country,’” said Pelosi. “It’s more about who we are as a nation.”
Pelosi joined other politicians, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) to discuss the economy and other topics, including immigration reform.
Nancy Cordes, a congressional correspondent with CBS, asked Pelosi if she would be open to the House Republicans introducing legislation that would put pieces of immigration reform up for consideration that might not include a “pathway to citizenship.”
“It has to be comprehensive immigration reform,” Pelosi said. “Now, the Senate bill is not a bill that I embrace lovingly.
“However, it’s bipartisan. It passed the Senate. It’s something that could be signed into law immediately, and I’ve urged the speaker to take up that bill,” Pelosi said, referring to S. 744, the Border Security and Immigration Modernization Act, which cleared that body in June 2013.
Pelosi said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other Republicans might present an alternative to the Senate bill before this session ends, but it would have to include a pathway to citizenship to gain her support.
“But to your direct point about citizenship; the Senate Bill is effectively a legalization bill with a path to citizenship. It’s long, arduous and takes a good deal of time,” Pelosi said.
“What I’d like to see is a bill that does something similar to that,” Pelosi said. “I don’t think we as a country want to be a country that says, ‘You can do our work, but you can’t have the rights of a citizen in our country.’
“It’s more about who we are as a nation,” Pelosi said, adding that illegal aliens want to be “relieved of deportation.”
“As a country, we cannot, let me say, we cannot prohibit a path to citizenship,” she said.
Spot ON~!
I am so sick of seeing this attitude about our sovereign nation. Sickening that the left feels we OWE these people citizenship in OUR country when they break our laws, disregard the rules and then demand freebies, which some are handing out for sure.
And stay out da Bushes, too. Amnesty this! NO WAY.
You’re right, very little to nothing that comes from Pelosi makes sense.
Be careful what concessions you make. Upping the legal immigration would be very devastating to our nation at a time when we’re already flooded with new arrivals.
We actually need a moratorium on new arrivals, on the order of twenty to thirty years.
We are in desperate need of assimilation. Until we have it, no more.
Pelousey : who vetted OBama
Pelousey : who vetted OBamCare "
Need I say anymore about amnesty ... ?
Deport illegal aliens with no path to citizenship. Pelosi has a point. You can't legalize the status of the lawbreakers and then assign them second class citizenship. The Stupid Party thinks they can legalize the lawbreakers and then delay or prevent citizenship, which is just the cherry on top. The Democrats will destroy them like Pelosi indicates. And the courts will support them.
Legal immigrants already have a path to citizenship, by law.
We need to have a path from welfare and criminality to rat voting
The line starts in their home countries.
We absolutely can and we absolutely should.
You POS.
There is a path. The path is the widest path on earth. Some choose not to follow it. They should not be rewarded in any way.
Subversive trash like botox-brain Pelosi, John Boehner, The Squatter, and many other members of the ruling Uniparty live in an echo-chamber where all they hear are the lies they tell each other. These people are craven treasonous trash.
Au contraire. Legal immigration is making the Dems the permanent majority party. Every year we bring in 1.1 million legal, permanent immigrants, 87% of whom are minorities. Immigrants and minorities vote two to one for the Dems. Every year we bring in hundreds of thousands of future Dem voters.
Immigration's Impact on Republican Political Prospects, 1980 to 2012
18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
18 U.S. Code § 2381 - Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Fast and furious was a plan to create so much havoc that the public would put pressure on their representatives to take the public's weapons away.
The president is releasing 37,000 violent illegal aliens from custody to put pressure on legislators to agree to a so called comprehensive plan.
Pelosi and her party have no principles or direction other than to loot the treasury and defeat the republicans. They don't seem to realize that they and their families are going to have to live in this country like the rest of us.
If the Treason party and RINOs pass immigration “reform”, Republicans will never win another election.
It is mandatory if one wants to live and work in this country legally.
They will lose on both a structural and philosophical basis. Double whammy.
their own cost? surely, you jest.
What kind of insane world do we live in where this would encourage anyone to go for amnesty??
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