Posted on 10/01/2013 1:50:23 AM PDT by markomalley
In the midst of the government shutdown debate, House Republicans are "quietly" working to advance immigration reform "beneath the radar."
"Don't start an obituary for immigration reform just yet," Fox News Latino declared on Monday.
"Despite the appearance that would suggest everyone in Washington is focused on one thing, work is going on on other issues beneath the radar," said Tamar Jacoby, head of ImmigrationWorks USA, which is described as "a coalition of small businesses that supports comprehensive immigration legislation."
According to Fox News Latino, "while the spotlight on Congress is on the partisan brawl over government spending and President Barack Obama's health care law, some Republicans in the House are quietly working to bring some momentum to work on fixing the immigration system."
Outside groups like Jacoby's and lawmakers have all insisted in recent days that "three months after the Democratic-led Senate passed a sweeping immigration bill, the issue is showing signs of life in the Republican-run House."
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said conservatives must be "ever vigilant" about the House's efforts to move amnesty provisions and comprehensive immigration reform forward, especially on days where there is nothing yet planned on the legislative calendar.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
So the CR hassle is being used for cover to get Amnesty passed? The Republicans seem stonily determined to give the Socialist Democrats a permanent voting majority one way or another.
How can they pass comprehensive immigration reform, when the president will just pick and choose which portions of the law he will enforce?
And don’t give me any baloney about rigid requirements and hard triggers. Obamacare all sorts of rigid requirements and hard schedules, and president ignored those.
Regardless of Obama’s behavior, amnesty is a travesty and that is what they are trying to alternatively sneak and force through.
They’re going to bring in ultra-arch-uber-conservative Catholics from Mexico who love family values! This is good for Conservatism! They’re going to vote for R’s because R’s know what’s best for us and they love family values! Yay Team R! Beat Team D!
More family values voters can’t be bad!
If it isn’t 100% Deportation...It’s Illegal Alien Amnesty
Yes there are still quite too many Economic Anti-American GOP in the House to rest comfortably. Heck the GOP in the House would have caved on the CR if it wasn’t for Senator Cruz
Don't even get me started on this.
Source: CIA World Fact Book
Source: DHS Yearbook of Immigration Statistics 2012
The US is such a racist country...we don't allow anybody come here at all, do we? (/sarc)
> Before you start patting the GOPe for finally developing a backbone, don’t get tunnel vision...they are still scum.
Yes but they are the only voices we have at the moment so we’ll have to settle for this scum until we can call in replacements.
If they manage to get this one through, we won't be able to call in replacements.
This initiative needs a Syrian-War level of response. Let them know WE NOTICE.
You know the difference between a politician and a prostitute? A prostitute is honest about what she does.
Rand Paul’s immigration speech
03.19.13 | Hon Sen Rand Paul (KY)
Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2998395/posts
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
[but he’s not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
Why are we surprised-—if we are surprised
This has been their plan all along......how Machiavellian of them
Someone recently noticed Paul Ryan has been missing from the budget debate........Now we know where he was——planning our demise from another direction
Can Ted Cruz help us?
Paul Ryan is a heap of dung, that jackass made fool out of me and a lot of other people...
You know, darling, I feel we were saved, by God, from an election of Traitors in Our Midst, in both 2008 and 2012.
In 2008, had McCain been elected, America would by now be a radioactive wasteland. This maniac would have started a nuclear war.
In 2012, had Romney/Ryan been elected, they would have proposed horrible, America-destroying legislation — like amnesty — and would have no opposition to the efforts. The Republicrats and Demicans would have passed them all easily.
Better the opposition propose this stuff. Then we can at least have a CHANCE of fighting it.
Ryan fooled me, briefly.
Yes, you are right.........
We are not being surprised or gobsmacked by someone we thought we could trust (like Bush)
We are being socked in the teeth and are fighting back!
Yes, you are right.........
We are not being surprised or gobsmacked by someone we thought we could trust (like Bush)
We are being socked in the teeth and are fighting back!
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