Posted on 12/26/2017 1:58:23 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Conventional wisdom says that Democrats hold all the cards when it comes to the upcoming debate on Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals.
The reality, however, is that former President Barack Obama’s illegal edict to legalize undocumented youth will automatically expire in March, meaning it will be the Democrats who will be scrambling for votes to save it.
Consequently, all the Republicans have to do is sit back and make a list of the demands Democrats will have to compromise on if Democrats wish to keep DACA alive.
This presupposes, of course, that Republicans can act like conservatives and not like a bunch of RINOs that many have morphed into you over the past many years.
For example, Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., remarkably was doing the Democrats’ bidding this past month, using passage of DACA as leverage before he would vote for the Republican tax bill.
Think about this. Was this Republican senator holding out to get enhanced tax cuts for small businesses, or protections for property taxpayers? No, he was placing the goals of 800,000 undocumented individuals over the needs of 170 million citizen taxpayers.
The ugly truth is, too many Republicans have been complicit in allowing the illegal immigration problem to snowball out of control. Democrats promoted open borders because they believed one day these immigrants would obtain citizenship and become an insurmountable majority voting bloc for generations to come. Meanwhile, Republicans acquiesced to ensure a steady flow of cheap labor to boost profits for the business community.
These pro-illegal immigration RINOs were living in a bubble, far removed from the rank-and-file Republican voters who wanted a leader who really meant it when he said we need to enforce our immigration laws. Enter Donald Trump.
Trump refused to tiptoe on the politically correct tightrope. And though his rhetoric was often over the top, he hit a chord. While other Republicans were parroting the Democrats mantra of “comprehensive immigration reform”, rank-and-file Republicans knew this was code for “amnesty.”
The base overruled the Republican establishment, electing the one candidate who they felt was serious about enforcement. Since then, many Republican officials have “gotten religion” on the issue. Now comes the test with the upcoming DACA vote.
The 1986 amnesty was supposed to be the last of its kind, but it sent the message that it's worth crossing the border illegally, because, in time, a new generation of lawmakers will provide yet another amnesty. Thus, we had 11 to 20 million additional undocumented aliens flooding over the southern border since.
If Republicans are going to entertain another amnesty, dangerously sending the message that illegal crossings pay off, they had best get concessions that will ensure the flow of illegal entry will be controlled once and for all.
Here’s what Republicans must get:
1) End of sanctuary cities.
Receive a legislative concession from Democrats that any city defying the federal government on this issue will lose its federal funding.
2) Kate's Law
Pass this law that imposes mandatory five-year sentences for deported criminal illegal aliens who try to make it back into the states.
3) The Wall and border security.
Fences work or we wouldn't put them up. Ask the Israelis, who saw terrorist attacks drop precipitously after its wall was built. The one-time spending on the Wall will pay for itself very quickly due to the elimination of the billions that would otherwise be spent annually on still more illegal new arrivals.
4) E-Verify.
A wall wouldn’t even be necessary if E-verify was enforced both prospectively and retroactively. If you don’t have either a valid Social Security or Alien ID number (or other legal dispensation), you shouldn’t be able to hold a job in America. Congress must require every employer to utilize the E-Verify database and if they fail to do so, punish them with hefty fines that provide the necessary deterrent.
This presently available option is the remedy to the illegal immigration problem. And the frustrating thing is, it’s been available for quite some time. There simply has been a lack of will from both parties to actually enforce it.
Now the proof will be in the pudding. If Democrats want amnesty for all undocumented youth, they should first have to compromise and allow these items to be passed so we are ensured this is the last amnesty this nation will ever have to provide.
Steve Levy is executive director of the Center for Cost Effective Government. He served as Suffolk County Executive, as a New York State Assemblyman, and host of "The Steve Levy Radio Show."
You FReepers make me wanna puke. Why do you want to compromise on this? You know the Left’s groups will file suit to weaken any deal made.
What in the world is "remarkable" about that???
It's what Flake always does!
Fortunately, he'll be replaced soon, and whoever replaces him is bound to do a far better job.
Ha. ....make that Chain Deportation
Exactly. The parents or other family who brought them here are responsible for the situation. No need to reward the parents or family with citizenship.
Current republican leadership wont because they are uniparty with the rest of the democrats.
Gotta end chain migration and anchor babies too.
Oh, and no amnesty until and unless all others are fully implemented.
And even then, the 50% fraud rate among those given DACA so far have to be rooted out.
After that, I’d require a decade in the military.
5.Language requirements You need to be able to hold a basic conversation in English.
Applying in person Your English is checked at your appointment. If your English is not good enough, the case officer will tell you what you can do next.
6.Character requirements To get citizenship, you need to show you are of good character. If you have never been in trouble with the law, either here or overseas, you do not need to do anything more to meet this requirement. If you do not tell the Citizenship Office something that they find out later when they do their checks, you may not get citizenship. Or if you already have citizenship, it could be taken away from you.
Excellent point. This is a two step process: 1. give them limited amnesty, then 2. after limited amnesty, demand full citizenship with no strings attached shortly after — after all, you must be racist if you disagree will be what they will be chanting.
People must agree to no citizenship. And don’t forget fines and penalties. They need to catch up on their social security, medicare/medicaid obligations. Just like the rest of us.
No compromise period. End DACA as you campaigned and promised by signing an EO overturning the unconstitutional EO signed into law before him.
Our President has gotten weak knee’d in this regard
Forget the Democrats.
Invoke The Reid Option - I mean Nuke Everything.
There are enough cheap labor express / open border Rino's in both houses to pass a general immigration reform with amnesty in exchange for concessions in name only. Congress knows who their true overlords are and they are not the voters.
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Read my lips: NO DEAL!
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No `deals’ with criminals. They have to go back and we do everything else mentioned in the article list as well.
Start negotiating with illegals and Uniparty and we’re stuck with them, their parents and every friend and shirt-tail relative who can hie to a cartel safe-house; no wall or real border security; or Kate’s law; and even bigger sanctuary cities.
The only concession we suggest we may consider: that the DACAns won’t be penalized/automatically barred from consideration for (real) immigration status because of their law-breaking once they make it to the front of the immigration line after waiting their turns like every other applicant.
Time to start mixing metaphors—to stop cutting bait and start fishing, to plug the holes and skin the moles: the illegals and their enablers. Scofflaws on both sides of the borders, human traffickers and narcotics peddlers, Mexican cartels and the US Chamber of Commerce have been screwing with us for a quarter-century. It’s time to move on them. NO deals.
I demand renunciation of American Citizenship by every last Democrat before a deal on DACA.
Then, at least, we can deport them all.
Otherwise, my plan is to beat them fair and square. No Deal.
The only deal is WE WIN, YOU LOSE.
The states must be forced to develop a system to ensure illegal aliens are not voting. If the state does not put such a system in place, then any DACA type granting of residency should be withheld for that state.
NO DEAL!
I LUV the way you think!
... she said that she actually liked most of the illegals except for the Dreamers ...
So she likes most of the illegals who actually broke the law, but doesn't like the ones who never broke the law.
My God, that has to be one of the dumbest 'effing things I've ever heard.
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