Posted on 06/22/2018 3:23:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
(CNN) - For weeks, House Republican leaders have been working behind closed doors to thread the needle on an immigration bill that could secure the support of the bulk on their conference.
On Friday morning, President Donald Trump ended all that with a tweet.
"Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November," Trump tweeted. "Dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave!" And, boom goes the dynamite.
Now. The so-called "compromise" legislation -- constructed by House Speaker Paul Ryan to make moderates and conservative happy -- was already on life support before Trump came in and pulled the plug.
A vote on the measure was originally scheduled for Thursday. It was then set for Friday. Then late Thursday, it was postponed until next week as GOP leaders insisted they saw a glimmer of hope to write a bill that might actually pass the House.
That hope is dead now. Imagine you are a conservative Republican resistant to the "compromise" bill because it provides a path to citizenship for DACA recipients. You now have every reason in the world not to come to the table and take a tough vote. The President literally said there was no point!
The question before Ryan and the rest of his leadership team is whether there's even any merit in trying to push for a vote on the compromise bill next week -- or even if it's worth making some of the changes on things like E-verify that their members expressed a desire for over the past 48 hours.
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Yes, I’ve noticed these periodic eruptions of dusty little tear-streaked illegal alien faces, always accompanied by the latest call for immigration “reform”. If they were doing what they’re supposed to be doing, and what many of them (lied) said they’d be doing, there would be nothing to reform, just enforce the damn laws already. Maybe strip them back down, get rid of the “anchor baby” bs and such.
Don’t forget Mike Lee.
It is now that Ryan has been declawed .
Mike Lee has not demonstrated that he is clearly on the side of the citizens and the rule of law.
He has a C+ on NumbersUSA and he is Mormon from Utah, the Mormon church has been a driver of open borders.
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