Now McCaul is calling for his border security bill be passed out of the House. Obama has created the crisis and we will now get legislation rushed thru Congress. We will have to pass it to see what is in it. We are being had.
They push a Comprehensive Immigration bill because it would be a 1,000 pages or more. That way, they can pick and choose what they enforce and what they don't. And, like Obamacare, they can hide a multitude of other items inside it.
Specialized single-action bills -- such as, secure the border -- will never get passed because they provide no cover and little space to hide other provisions inside them.
If they ever had any intention of 'securing the border,' they could do that with existing law. They have no intention of securing the border because that would restrict the free flow of commerce -- wanna bet how pols are getting a cut from the human trafficking and drug trade?
The damage will take place in conference. Reid has never submitted the Gang of 8 bill to the House. He knows that it would be "blue-slipped" because it contains appropriation language, which violates the Origination clause. The Dems and some Reps need a Trojan Horse bill to attach what they want to it.
Those who said that there would be no immigration bill out of the House this session are wrong. This manufactured crisis was the Hail-Mary pass that get things moving. Frightening stuff. They are using tens of thousands of children to get what they want.
Again, it is Obama's version of the Reichstag fire. They are blaming Bush's 2008 law passed by a Dem-controlled Congress rather than Obama's 2012 backdoor Dreamer amnesty that has already legalized the status of 560,000. There is a 99.5% approval rate for applicants.