Posted on 10/13/2015 11:46:14 AM PDT by xzins
Our friend Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies posed the question, “Would a Speaker Ryan Push Through Amnesty?” in a column in yesterday’s National Review.
Paul RyanAfter a lengthy examination of Paul Ryan’s pro-amnesty record Krikorian concluded that “A vote for Paul Ryan is a vote for Gang of Eight style amnesty that includes massive increases in legal immigration and replacing American workers with foreign-born workers.”
That Ryan has been a proponent of amnesty should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the amnesty debate, and the role of Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio in advancing the idea of granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.
But Krikorian might bring many conservatives up short with his detailed documentation of how Paul Ryan has pushed for open borders and more legal immigration as well as amnesty.
Krikorian wrote, “I think it’s almost certain Ryan would bring an amnesty/immigration-surge bill to the House floor, which would pass with monolithic Democratic support plus enough Gutierrez Republicans to get to 218.”
Mark Krikorian explains this is because for Ryan immigration isn’t a matter of appeasing corporate lobbyists, as with Boehner, or a response to changes in his district’s electorate, as with McCarthy.
Ryan is a true-believer in unlimited employer-driven immigration, says Krikorian. John Fonte writes that Ryan is the leading figure in the faction he labels “neo-Kemp idealists” on immigration. Bob Costa’s long NRO piece in 2013 on Ryan’s central role in pushing for ever-higher levels of immigration, inspired by Kemp, cites an earlier Wired observation that Ryan’s “ties to the pro-immigration mafia ran deep.”
Paul Mirengoff at Powerline notes the curious result of a Ryan speakership:
It would be ironic, but perhaps not altogether surprising, if the Republican Freedom Caucus pushed John Boehner out and stymied Kevin McCarthy for being insufficiently hard-line conservatives, only to consent to Luis Gutierrez’s favorite choice for Republican Speaker.
Krikorian is right about Ryan and open borders. As we noted back in 2013:
We think Pat Buchanan made a great point when he wrote in a July 2, 2013 column, “Why the Reagan Democrats Departed” that, “For a generation, when forced to choose between Middle America and corporate America, on NAFTA, most-favored nation for China, and free trade, the GOP establishment opted to go with the Fortune 500. In the GOP the corporate conservative rides up front; the social, cultural and patriotic conservatives in the back of the bus…”
Unfortunately, along with Paul Ryan’s fine personal qualities comes a penchant for granting the kind of deference to the interests of the establishment Republican Party’s corporate paymasters that Pat Buchanan decried.
Mark Krikorian closed his article by concluding, “Ryan may look at the political price Marco Rubio has paid for serving as the front man for Chuck Schumer’s immigration agenda, and add that to his reasons for passing on the Speaker’s gavel. Both he and the country would better served if he remained as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, where he can do the most good, and the least harm.”
We couldn’t agree more.
Paul Ryan’s record of supporting amnesty for illegal aliens, the open borders policies that are destroying the quality of life for millions of American families, TARP, supporting the Bush administration’s spending binge, supporting the 2011 debt ceiling deal and leading the Ryan-Murray budget negotiation to un-do the one conservative element of that deal that was actually working, shows that, despite the evidence that he lives his personal life according to conservative principles, he cannot be trusted to lead Republicans to govern America according to limited government constitutional conservative principles.
We urge grassroots principled limited government constitutional conservatives to call their Representative and demand they oppose the election of another establishment Speaker, like Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, and instead vote for a conservative, like Rep. Daniel Webster of Florida, for Speaker. The House switchboard is 1-866-220-0044 - call now!
Call your congressmen. Reject Paul Ryan.
Yeah, of course he would, he’s a Repubic.
Just vacate the damn chair and leave it empty.
This country doesn’t need anything else the GOP wants to advance. Seriously, the GOP is a menace.
My 2 Republican senators are 100% as bad. McCain & Flake.
Yes, we have to contact our congressmen. Ryan as speaker would be a huge disaster. Since he doesn’t want the job, I doubt he would do a good job even if he were not a radical amnesty supporter.
In 2012 during the initial illegal invasions, Ryan met with the open borders contingent of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and cheerfully satisfied every plank of their open borders wish list.
Ryan obtained their happy endorsement and obviously will remain firm on that issue, while enjoying the public relations advantage for having the mantle of the Roman Catholic Church rather laid upon his shoulders.
The agenda of the Catholic Church conference in the US, is broadly complicit with the La Raza thinking of socialist/Marxist Democrats AND K Street/CoC Republicans.
DudgeReport headlines on King Ryan.
King Paul: Ryan will run only after Reps pledge ‘unconditional’ support...
No opposition, no demands...
Must show ‘they are prepared to follow’...
Obama would like to see Ryan as speaker...
Conservatives Turn...
‘F’ rating...
BUCHANAN: Why Paul Ryan would fail as speaker...
One of the most important decisions are nation makes is being made under a media love fest with Ryan. Nothing else penetrates.
Ryan is anti-veteran and has tried on multiple occasions to make them the initial (and sometimes only) bearer of the costs of ‘budget cuts’.
Ryan is so pro-amnesty that he is called open borders.
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