“Well, it’s not over. We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it’s not over,” Reid said.
Funny. That’s exactly what conservatives have been saying about him, Pelosi, Holder, Obama and the rest of this regime for 6 years now.
Once upon a time, Nevada was very ably represented in the US Senate by Patrick Anthony McCarran (the namesake for the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas). Though he was a Democrat, Pat McCarran was almost the polar opposite of Harry Reid, in that during his tenure in the US Senate (1933-1954) he was both anti-New Deal (one of the more resistant to FDR’s blandishments) and a staunch anti-Communist. He admired both Francisco Franco of Spain and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek of China, and placed the blame for the loss of China in 1949 on Communist infiltration of the State Department. In many ways, he laid the groundwork for Joe McCarthy, but Senator McCarran had the bad judgment to die in 1954.
Senator McCarran had a considerable amount of bad press from the media of the time, some even calling him “the worst Senator in America”. But Harry Reid would not even make a boil on Patrick McCarran’s backside.
Patrick McCarran also was one of the authors of the McCarran–Walter Act, a bill that imposed more rigid restrictions on entry quotas to the United States. It also stiffened the existing law relating to the admission, exclusion and deportation of “dangerous” aliens as defined by the McCarran Internal Security Act. This was the law until the program was shredded by Ted Kennedy in 1965, to make it easier for Irish who had illegally entered the US to remain in one of the first of major “amnesties”.