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Michael McCaul (R-TX) is not very impressive on this issue. He is mixing the emotional ‘for the children’ mantra with needs to change existing laws.
We need new laws to deal with the humanitarian crisis. We don’t want large human care warehouses. We need to act on the crisis soon. We need to treat Mexican and OTM children the same. Yada yada yada.
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[Obama is on vacation and the House is only meeting a few times until the November election. Conclusion: Little to nothing is going to be done soon. Look for the Pubbies in the House to throw a $billion or so to the Obama Admin and kick the can down the road.]
I think a lot of this is image and perception. The Democrats paint us as unfeeling and heartless.
Our side should easily say we want a path to citizenship and support these immigrants. The difference is Democrats would simply give everyone citizenship and we would send them home to apply for citizenship using a rational immigration program.
Both sides want to help the children. But the Democrats vision of helping is total amnesty and government supports whereas Republicans vision of helping is sending them home to be with parents and relatives, education and learning to earn for themselves what they want.
I won’t fault Perry or other Republicans until I understand the details of their positions. Immigration reform is needed but it depends on the initial success of protecting our borders and stopping illegals from taking advantage of what we have to offer. Reform means nothing if we continue to encourage open borders and abuses of our institutions.
For those RINO’s, don’t jump on me for immigration reform until you’ve resolved the border security issue. Solve that and we can discuss the way forward from there.
Sorry for the rant.