Posted on 07/10/2013 9:18:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Facing deep resistance among House Republicans to citizenship for the estimated 11 million immigrants in the country illegally, GOP leaders are trying to muster support for a stripped-down immigration reform bill that would offer citizenship only to those brought into the country as children.
The plan, which would almost certainly be a nonstarter for President Obama and Democrats who control the Senate, makes clear there will be no quick agreement on a Senate-passed bill and illustrates how wide the gap remains over fundamental immigration reform. …
The proposal, pushed by Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), has gained ground among Republicans. Cantor discussed it during a free-flowing, two-hour, closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Wednesday in which lawmakers lined up dozens deep in the Capitol’s basement to air their views on the best way to proceed. …
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Closed door session? They wont discuss this in public because they know there will be hell to pay.
As some clever freeper wrote last night regarding the amnesty bill...
“Blue -slip the bill or pink-slip for you”
I may be ad libbing but... tweet that to Boner!
let the GOP die now
Exactly. Cantor is slimier than slime.
No. The House should pass absolutely nothing on immigration—Cantor is simply trying the back door to amnesty through reconciliation.
Anything the House passes on immigration this term will end up as amnesty through reconciliation with the Senate bill. Why can’t you get that?
I heard Michelle Bachmann explaining this on the radio. As she said, we already made it a law to build 700 miles of fence, and it has already been paid for. Except NO FENCE was built. And any new immigration law will be the same.
Just like with Obamacare, stuff in the law that doesn’t suit Obama will be postponed, delayed, ignored, etc.
I read somewhere else that a condition was that the illegals will be granted temporary citizenship, and if the border is not secured within 5 years or some such period, that citizenship will be revoked.
Yeah right - they are going to revoke them! They won’t build the fence, and then moan about how evil it would be to make these people “illegals” again.
Agreed on the enforce the current laws, and secure the border. THEN we’ll talk.
NO DAMN BILL.
Is that too complicated?
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