Posted on 06/12/2015 2:36:20 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
The most potent illustration that Republicans have shifted their attitudes on immigration came Tuesday morning when all GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected an amendment from Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to severely limit the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country.
The committee’s overwhelming ‘No’ vote shows that the battle for Republicans’ souls on immigration has shifted away from groups that want to reduce the influx of foreigners, like the Heritage Foundation, NumbersUSA, and Fairness for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), toward free-market groups that applaud increased immigration, such as Americans for Tax Reform and the CATO Institute.
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But it was a big surprise that those rejecting it included hard-core tea-party senators who are almost certain to vote against the immigration bill--Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Mike Lee, R-Utah, John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
Lobbyists were buzzing about the vote as the committee broke for lunch. "Can you believe it? That was amazing," said one lobbyist. "It was a smackdown. That was the defining moment," said another.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...
But he’s voting for a bill that I don’t like, so I don’t want to hear what he might have to say!! [stomps foot]
ILLEGAL immigration.
If they don’t use the word “illegal” properly and distinctly, you know they’re shilling for the Chamber of Crony Capitalists.
“groups that want to reduce the influx of foreigners, like the Heritage Foundation, NumbersUSA, and Fairness for American Immigration Reform (FAIR0:
I’ll bet anything that these “groups that want to reduce the influx of foreigners” want to reduce the influx of ILLEGAL foreigners. I’ll also bet they do not oppose existing LEGAL immigration levels.
“...Sessions found himself all alone in defending the argument that has been used most often by the scrappy grassroots groups NumbersUSA and FAIR. His amendment would have limited the total immigration to the United States to about 23 million over 10 years, not including the current undocumented population...”
We don’t need even the 23 million. We need a moratorium on immigration. These zips wads that want to win elections better learn that we real voters out here are sick of our nice hillbilly towns becoming Mexican towns or worse: Mosque towns.
Free market advocates are delusional if they think hordes of poor, ignorant immigrants swarming into a welfare state will produce prosperity.
Open borders + welfare state = bankruptcy
All these Nigerian Moslems are LEGAL immigrants. I for one don’t want any more.
Uncle Miltie makes a TWP (Thread Winning Post)!!!
We can have a fine argument about how many and with what qualifications. I’ll take even more immigrants ... who are educated, come with capital, and can show that they can create jobs.
I don’t need any more Somalians, either.
The GOP represents employers of illegal aliens.
The Democrats represent illegal aliens.
No one represents the citizens.
For the Republic to survive, the GOP must die.
GOP-RIP
I’d like to have them outline what our “needs” are. Immigration should be something that meets the needs of our country, not to suck in a bunch of people from Third World Countries who see us as a place to live out their days on our nickel.
“I’ll bet anything that these “groups that want to reduce the influx of foreigners” want to reduce the influx of ILLEGAL foreigners. I’ll also bet they do not oppose existing LEGAL immigration levels.” -———
A point well made, and that should have been in the article.
Cruz has said as much, regarding immigration from other countries. The Mexican INVASION is something else.
23 Million?
The present legal immigration is supposedly around 1.1 million annually, and the entire committee refuses to limit it to 2.3 million per year over the next ten years?
If Cruz keeps pissing down my back with this H-1B visa scam I’m done with him. Sick of his nonsense this week.
23 million.
legal or not, in the 1960s, up until a few years ago, we were bombarded to the same degree as we are now about global warming, with dire warnings about the population explosion.
We had to kill the fetuses, reduce the size of our families, put everyone on birth control - we still get judged if we have a large family.
The Catholic Church was roundly demonized for perpetuating the population explosion.
55 million Americans have been killed in this push, and now it is nothing. We can absorb as many aliens who could never give a care in the world for our country and way of life.
What a huge disappointment these horrible politicians are.
In two days, no, one, I’ve gone from saying, ‘I just love Ted Cruz’, to , Nancy Pelosi is more protective of our country than Ted Cruz is.
It is not at all funny.
Cruz favors flooding this nation with immigrants we do not need with current unemployment levels.
Walker agrees with Sessions.....US citizens come first.
Half of all native STEM workers and graduates cannot find jobs in their fields and Cruz wants to increase H1b visas from 65,000 to 310,000? WTH?
A real unemployment rate of 14-20%, scores of millions of citizens, immigrants; legal and illegal; collecting benefits from Uncle Sugar, 19 trillion in debt, hundreds of trillions in unfunded liabilities and they want to import more uneducated and unskilled masses from the third world.
That’s how insane the vote was.
Cruz was talking about how his work permit amendment was just a test to get Democrats to admit they want voters.
Sessions test was better because he was getting these lunatics to admit they want 30 million immigrants in 10 years.
Hopefully no one is still pretending that Cruz might be the one to bring some saniy to our overall immigration policies. He mealy mouths around about the illegal aliens already here, taking the fence straddling, hair splittling, no path to citizenship position.
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