Posted on 06/11/2014 4:53:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Tuesday might have been a bad night for immigration reform -- but not necessarily.
That's the message from Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform. He favors the kind of immigration reform -- including a large guest worker program and more legal immigration -- that many Tea Party activists vehemently oppose.
But it’s not guaranteed, and it depends on the media narrative that emerges, he added.
“Give it ten days,” Norquist said.
If a consensus emerges that Cantor’s stance on immigration lost him his seat, then that’s a big problem for reform proponents.
“If the narrative hardens that that’s what it was about, then it could spook people and put off a vote that might otherwise happen in next month,” Norquist said. “If people are convinced, No, that wasn’t what it is, then it won’t have any effect at all.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Saying Norquist a prominent conservative is like saying Obama a model centrist ......
Nuff said.
Try “law enforcement” before any reform. We pay billions per year for “law enforcement” across who knows how many differnt agencies. Put’em to work on the tens of thousands of pages of laws already on the books........
Probably because his wife is or was a muslim!
i.e. the spin will continue.
There are several different ways in which the direction of immigration reform may follow.
The simplest, but not necessarily easiest, is to simply annex Mexico, much like Puerto Rico. The border may then be freely crossed, both directions, and the authority of the US Military to move against the drug cartels is much expedited. A few drone attacks and coordinated raids on their strongholds should sufficiently break the cartels’ influence, to the degree that it will be safe to live in Mexico again.
First, make the ironclad requirement that English becomes the legal and only accepted language in law and commerce of the United States. Mexicans then become US subjects, not citizens, so long as they remain in Mexico. Crossing the frontier from the annexed lands to the incorporated and recognized states within the United States, changes their status from subject to citizen, but unless they are sufficiently fluent in English language to converse freely, there shall remain many doors closed to them, in employment, in applying for benefits, or in daily commerce.
As the various existing subdivisions within Mexico become fluent in English, adopting it as the official language, and change their code of laws to conform with the US Code and those of the existing 50 states of the United States, they may apply for statehood in their own right.
Another way would be to restrict legal immigration only to those who can bring something to the table that will benefit the US, in terms of education, expertise in some desirable field of enterprise, or capability of full self-support. Other visitors to the US who do not expect to be permanent residents or engage on a path to citizenship, would be regulated and compelled to register their presence at all times while within this country, and show they have the means for returning to their homeland or other destination when their visitation period has expired. This would involve much more scrutiny of those who actually enter the country, and holding in a facility to review their status on an individual basis, before release.
Those who come to America, expecting to gain citizenship, have the duty and responsibility to become Americans. Should they choose NOT to make the emotional and intellectual changes to conform to the principles of the American Ideal, they may return to wherever they came from, or to whatever locality will accept their divergent views.
Grover Norquist is Not a conservative.
Grover Norquist’s troubling ties to Islamic supremacists and jihadists have been known for years. He and his Palestinian wife, Samah Alrayyes, who was director of communications for his Islamic Free Market Institute until they married in 2005, are very active in “Muslim outreach.” Just six weeks after 9/11, The New Republic ran an expose explaining how Norquist arranged for George W. Bush to meet with fifteen Islamic supremacists at the White House on September 26, 2001 .
Frank Gaffney prepared a dossier on Norquist and Suhail Khan, The article is titled “A Jihadist in the Heart of the Conservative Movement.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2993181/posts
Sorry Sistah, if you are backing Amnesty (Comprehensive Immigration Reform) you ain’t a conservative.
Boehner needs to go, Period. Is it redundant to put a period after you write “period”? Anyway, Boehner is and has been in the way. If he does do anything that resembles fighting, it will be a show. His goals are the same as 0’s: to strip us of liberty.
They’re illiterate, disease ridden, and often criminal. Most are here for welfare.
Hey Grover, it was about amnesty and nothing but amnesty.
Despite being outspent at least 10 to 1 Brat won by 11 percent!
Brat made it about Cantor’s amnesty and Brat won. At Cantor’s concession speech his supporters were screaming “What do we want? Immigration reform! When do we want it? Now!”
Amnesty LOST.
ENFORCE THE EXISTING LAWS ALREADY!
Norquist is not conservative, liars.
I’m all for immigration reform if it firmly, forever,closes our borders to illegals, and prevents any illegal immigrant from ever getting a path to USA citizenship and the right to vote in USA elections. No illegal immgrant that has broken USA law on entry into the country must ever get USA citizenship or the right to vote!!! End of story!!!
They want the country secure against the invaders before we let the immigrants in, in an orderly legal process (not an invasion, Mr Obama).
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Too late, I’m afraid. Or have you not read about the tsunami of illegals that Obamugabe is unleashing upon us, as the Soros Administration tries to claim that there are alien minors that just happen to keep showing up at the border? We are toast.
Who cares what Grover says?
More than 1 in 10 of the people currently residing within the borders of the United States is has entered the country illegally and is an illegal alien living here illegally
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No problem. The regime is in the process of making those numbers much larger with all of the illegals it is transporting across the border and housing at military bases. Obama doesn’t need laws, nor do these aliens.
Goodbye, national sovereignty and rule of law. Nice knowing you, USA.
Grover is a “conservative”? Who knew?
Send illegals home... that’s reform.
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