Posted on 08/07/2014 5:46:35 AM PDT by cotton1706
Tennessee senator Lamar Alexander is making his final pitch to primary voters with a radio ad in which the two-term Republican claims he has voted to "end amnesty" for illegal immigrants. Alexander has been hit hard on the issue of immigration by his chief GOP challenger, state representative Joe Carr, ahead of Thursday's primary.
"In the last few days of a campaign, don't believe anything new that you hear," Alexander says in the ad. "Last year, I voted to end amnesty. Last week I voted against President Obama's immigration bill." Listen to the ad below:
Is it true that Alexander voted to "end amnesty" last year? That's certainly been the argument from Alexander and other Republican supporters of the Senate's 2013 "Gang of 8" immigration bill, specifically that the current regime is "de facto amnesty." Asked to defend his vote for the Gang of 8 bill, Alexander told THE WEEKLY STANDARD last month that "by doing nothing, you perpetuate amnesty for 11 million people who are here illegally."
Border hawks dispute the idea that comprehensive immigration reform would end amnesty, that in fact a bill written to include some border enforcement mechanisms while offering current illegal immigrants residing in the country before the end of 2011 a pathway to citizenship.
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Seriously. Lamar says all the right things and then goes back to Washington and votes however the Chamber of Commerce tells him to vote. And unfortunately, too many TN voters think he’s a nice guy and don’t really look into whether he votes as he says he does so they vote for him.
Like ending bank robbery by giving all the money away.
“the argument from Alexander and other Republican supporters of the Senate’s 2013 “Gang of 8” immigration bill, specifically that the current regime is “de facto amnesty.” Asked to defend his vote for the Gang of 8 bill, Alexander told THE WEEKLY STANDARD last month that “by doing nothing, you perpetuate amnesty for 11 million people who are here illegally.”
Alexander, the corporate toadie, is hoping this pathetic lie will fool enough low information Republican primary voters to let him finish ahead of Joe Carr.
Alexander’s (and Rubios’s) brilliant logic: “by doing nothing, you perpetuate amnesty”, so of course your only option is to legalize them. One certainly couldn’t close the border, complete the border fence, cut off the magnets (free health care, free schooling, etc.), and cut off employment to illegals in order to force them to self deport, because, well, that wouldn’t leave legalization as the only option to “perpetual amnesty.”
I was proud to vote for his opponent this morning.
Does anyone with an IQ above 1 believe that elected officials ever tell the truth about anything?
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