I swear that nobody in the Republican Caucus has never played poker, and has never negotiated for a house, a car, a boat, a horse.
For pete’s sake they can pull together a tough, hard, thorough border control bill—lots of fence, heavy duty border patrol, deportation, meaningful job screening, and so on-—and call it Immigration Reform Step One.
If the Dems and Obama don’t like it, too bad. That means THEY are opposed to reform.
Instead the Republicans cringe and whimper about reform being impossible. What a punk-@$$ position that is.
What the rheumy bumbling boozehound Boehner can’t seem to grasp is that every pose, every slander, every attack by the Left is also an opportunity.
Pretend to agree with them and present your own bill!
They passed the Secure Fence Act in 2006. It was never implemented. The Reps want to double the size of the guest worker programs to satisfy their corporate paymasters. They are willing to use amnesty as a bargaining chip to get more guest workers. Neither party really wants to secure the border or to develop a system to track and deport visa overstays who comprise 40% of the illegal aliens.