Posted on 04/19/2015 3:14:32 PM PDT by VinL
Republicans lost the 2012 presidential election during their primaries. By the time Mitt Romney secured his partys nomination, the seeds of his defeat had already germinated. The challenge for Republicans in 2016 will be to keep that from happening again. And no issue is more fraught with dangers for Republicans than immigration.
Of the three announced Republican candidates Sens. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul Rubio is probably in the best position to avoid the mistakes of the past.
OPINION
Pauls problem is that he has been all over the board on immigration. Although he has recently said he favors legislation that would give work permits to many of the 11 million immigrants now in the U.S. illegally, Paul wants to revoke birthright citizenship. But the nation has, from its founding, embraced birthright citizenship, albeit denying it to the descendants of slaves until passage of the 14th Amendment. A constitutional amendment revoking birthright citizenship has no chance of adoption, and those who argue that simple legislation would suffice ignore the plain language of the 14th Amendment, the legislative history and debate at the time of adoption, and Supreme Court precedents.
Cruz, on the other hand, has made opposition to illegal immigration a cornerstone of his political identity, pushing to shut down the entire Department of Homeland Security to prevent funding for President Barack Obamas executive amnesty. But even Cruz has adopted a softer tone in the aftermath of the announcement of his presidential bid, saying he favors a legal guest-worker program a position opposed by restrictionist anti-immigration groups, such as NumbersUSA and the Federation for American Immigration Reform.
So how would Rubio fare in the immigration debate within the party? Rubio (snip)
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To be honest, even Cruz said that’s not his intention. He just wont give them citizenship. There is not ONE republican calling for deportation. I think Ted’s offer is a great one. You get to stay in the greatest country on earth even though you get here illegally and cut the line in front of millions, and your kids get to be citizens.
When it comes to compassionate emigration, there is a problem. So many Hollywood types said they would emigrate if W was reelected but apparently they stopped at the border. Oh the humanity!
If that is truly the Cruz position, then he lost my vote. We need to enforce our laws period. The proponents of amnesty are wont to create the false choice between a blanket amnesty and mass deportation of 12 to 20 million illegal aliens. In reality, we have other choices and alternatives that dont reward people who have broken our laws with the right to stay and work here and an eventual path to citizenship. The 12 to 20 million illegal aliens did not enter this country overnight and they will not leave overnight. Attrition through enforcement works. We have empirical data from experiences in Georgia, Colorado, and Arizona proving that it does.
Linda Chavez is a long time member of The Cheap Labor Express. Pure propaganda designed to get you to give up your country and the rule of law.
The Cheap Labor Express will be funding many similar efforts by The Ministry Of Propaganda.
Here is my compassionate plan:
Stay home! Work out your own problems. We don’t want them here.
There already is a plan, passionate or not, follow it.
What about compassionate plans for legal Americans who have and will
continue to lose their jobs to illegals?
There wasn't a hiatus per se. We just admitted enough immigrants that it was similar to replacement level for those who died or emigrated.
* Projections and graph courtesy Population Environment Balance, Sources: U.S. Census Bureau; Statistical Yearbook, Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services. Average 195,000 per year from 1921-1970.
Since 1990 we have admitted about 30 million LEGAL PERMANENT IMMIGRANTS. In 1970 there were 9.7 million foreign born; today, it has quadrupled to 41 million. The 1965 Immigration Act changed the demographics of this country forever.
First... CLOSE THE BORDERS!!!!... then we can discuss all the ‘compassion’ everyone wants
Where’s the compassion for the thousands, if not millions, of Americans without jobs to support their families and feed their children? HMMM? All of these millions, who I might add, are the first responsibility of the United States Government.
Linda Chavez has made it her ONLY agenda, in the past few years, to write about amnesty, amnesty, AMNESTY for ILLEGALS!
She’s a broken record and needs to just shut up and go away !
Lets just give the country to Mexico and be done with it. The friking GOP and DNC wont be happy until the Mexicans run it anyway. Its hopeless.
Since the number of working-age natives grew, but the number working did not, the share of working-age natives holding a job declined significantly. The decline in the employment rate of natives began before the 2007 recession, falling from 73.7 percent in 2000 to 71 percent at the peak of last expansion in the first quarter of 2007. Or, put a different way, the employment rate for natives never returned to the 2000 level after the country went into recession in 2001. In the first quarter of this year the rate was an abysmal 66.4 percent.
I would never lie to a fellow freeper. I was taken aback when he said it but he did. I will still vote for him.
Then they want more compassion, and we gullibly offer it...and they break the new rules.
The line must be drawn here.
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