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    Boehner endorses push for citizenship for children of illegal immigrants

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    By Russell Berman - 07/17/13 12:25 PM ET


    Boehner said it is “too early to predict” whether the House would vote on a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants as part of its overall effort to address the issue, and the Speaker signaled leadership had yet to decide on a way forward amid deep divisions among Republicans.
    Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Wednesday offered an endorsement for a proposal to grant citizenship to children who were brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents.

    “This is about basic fairness,” Boehner said one week after convening a two-hour meeting to discuss immigration with his conference.

    “These children were brought here of no accord of their own, and frankly they’re in a very difficult position,” he said. “And I think many of our members believe that this issue needs to be addressed.”

    Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) are crafting a bill to deal with children brought to the U.S. illegally. They have said it will differ from the Dream Act in the Senate, which would grant citizenship to children brought to the U.S. illegally who meet certain requirements.

    The Judiciary Committee plans to hold an initial hearing on the issue next week.

    “It’s an issue of decency and compassion,” Cantor said. “Where else would these kids go?”

    Democrats have said the move to legalize children is a welcome step, but they are warning they won’t support an effort that would ignore the millions of other illegal immigrants.

    "If they're going to talk about doing something for Dreamers that's short of even what the president did? I mean, come on. We've been there, we've done that, that's so yesterday," the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, Xavier Becerra (Calif.), told reporters.

    "We hope that they're prepared to join us in today's world and not talk about, you know, the 20th century," he added.

    Becerra is a member of a bipartisan House group negotiating a comprehensive immigration proposal that, he has said, includes a path to citizenship for the 11 million illegal immigrants now estimated to be in the country. That group is still putting the finishing touches on its 500-page bill and is likely to wait until after the August recess to release it, aides said.

    “We’re running out of time,” another Democrat in the group, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (Ill.), said. He said the negotiators would meet again next week, but he wouldn’t make predictions beyond saying the group was “close” and there would “definitely” be a bill.


    Boehner said it is “too early to predict” whether the House would vote on a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants as part of its overall effort to address the issue, and the Speaker signaled leadership had yet to decide on a way forward amid deep divisions among Republicans.

    “The committees are doing their work,” Boehner said. “We’re going about this in a common-sense, step-by-step approach, and we’re trying to be deliberative about how we deal with all of these issues, both fixing the problem of border security [and] internal enforcement, how to fix a broken legal immigration system, and yes, we’ve got the problem of those who are here that are undocumented.”

    The House Judiciary and Homeland Security committees have approved five individual immigration bills, and Boehner said House leadership would “at some point make sure we get these bills to the floor in an organized fashion.”

    But on a path to citizenship, he said, “It’s too early to predict what we will or won’t do.”

    Aside from the Cantor-Goodlatte bill in the works, none of the committee measures deal with how to handle the illegal immigrants now in the country.

    Boehner on Wednesday also offered some encouragement to business groups and members of the Senate “Gang of Eight” who are trying to persuade House Republicans to support comprehensive immigration reform.

    “The more education we have for our members, the better we’re going to be able to facilitate dealing with a very thorny issue,” Boehner said. He noted, as he has before, that more than two-thirds of House members have not dealt with immigration reform before, because they arrived after the last major push in 2007.

    Source: http://thehill.com/video/house/31167...gal-immigrants
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    Left Releases House GOP Target List for Amnesty

    The idea here is that if Speaker John Boehner does, in the end, allow a vote on the Senate bill, or something else that does contain a path to citizenship, you would need only a few dozen House Republicans to support it for it to pass, since most House Dems would vote for it. Boehner has publicly ruled that out, but there are some grounds for doubting whether a decision has actually been made.
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    “If you, say, name people who are hardworking, seek education, love God, love their families and value freedom, — it’s Hispanic-Americans, just like other Americans.”
    Mitt Romney
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    But why are Republicans collaborating in erecting the scaffolding on which their party is to be hanged?

    And Republicans who resist will be accused of being anti-Hispanic, and will then do what comes naturally — capitulate again.
    Will the GOP Embrace Amnesty?

    Friday - April 19, 2013 at 12:33 am

    By Patrick J. Buchanan

    During President Eisenhower’s first term, 60 years ago, the United States faced an invasion across its southern border.

    Illegal aliens had been coming since World War II. But, suddenly, the number was over 1 million. Crime was rising in Texas. The illegals were taking the jobs of U.S. farm workers.

    Under Gen. Joseph May Swing, the Immigration and Naturalization Service launched “Operation Wetback” and began rounding up and deporting Mexican border-crossers by ship and bus. By the end of Ike’s second term, illegal entries had fallen by 90 percent.

    Eisenhower, who had tapped his nuclear hole card twice — first, to force the Chinese to agree to a truce in Korea, then to halt their shelling of the offshore islands in 1958 — was a no-nonsense president.

    Measured by population and gross national product, Eisenhower’s America was but half the size of today’s America. Yet, in the 1950s, we were in many ways a stronger and more self-confident country.

    We had universal military service, and few complained. As for the deportation of the Mexicans, they had broken in, they did not belong here, and they were going back. End of discussion.

    Contrast the rigorous response of Ike’s America to an invasion across our southern border to the hand-wringing moral paralysis of our political elite in dealing with 11-12 million illegal aliens in our midst.

    We are to stop using terms like illegal aliens, we are told. For it shows insensitivity. And compassion commands that we bring these folks “out of the shadows” and “put them on a path to citizenship.”

    One understands Democrats’ motives in pushing this amnesty. Perhaps nine of 10 illegals are from Third World countries, and folks of Asian, African and Hispanic descent voted 4-to-1 Democratic in 2012.

    Sen. Chuck Schumer and Democrats are writing an immigration bill that will create millions of new citizens who will vote to bury the Party of Ronald Reagan forever.

    But why are Republicans collaborating in erecting the scaffolding on which their party is to be hanged?

    A year ago, the GOP platform declared, “We oppose amnesty because it would have the effect of encouraging illegal immigration and would give an unfair advantage to those who have broken our laws.”

    What has changed since then?

    Yet, today, with Cuban-American Sen. Marco Rubio providing cover — a “very positive force,” purrs President Obama — Republicans are about to trash their platform and vote an amnesty for 11-12 million illegals. Why?

    One reason is the fear, bordering on panic, since Mitt Romney lost the Hispanic vote 71 to 27. Republicans attribute their unpopularity among Latinos to their opposition to amnesty, rather than their commitment to peel back the social programs on which minorities heavily depend.

    Another force for amnesty is corporate America. Thousands of businesses have hired illegals in violation of U.S. law. Amnesty for their illegal workers means, de facto, amnesty for them.

    Moreover, U.S. corporations and agribusiness also want the right to import foreign workers. And under this new immigration bill, H1-B visas for highly skilled engineers and computer programmers will double to 110,000 a year, and the cap can rise to 180,000. Visas for H-2A agricultural workers will go to 337,000 over three years.

    Silicon Valley is not interested in middle-aged Americans who lost jobs in defense industries. They want young foreign students with newly minted advanced degrees, who will work for less.

    Thus, with 14 percent of our U.S. labor force — more than 21 million Americans — unemployed, working part-time but seeking full-time work or having stopped looking, Congress is going to vote an amnesty for 12 million illegals and bring in a million new immigrants a year — and hand them green cards.

    What happened to putting our own country and people first?

    Moreover, under the new law, unlimited visas will be issued for spouses, children and parents of permanent residents and citizens.

    With all these workers and dependents pouring in, the downward pressure on U.S. wages, stagnant since Gerald Ford was president, will intensify. And the steady rise in the scores of millions of beneficiaries of social welfare programs will continue.

    What do Republicans get in return for capitulating and embracing amnesty? The Democrats solemnly promise to secure the border this time.

    In short, the administration will do its duty and protect the states from another invasion, if the Republican Party will abandon its principled opposition to amnesty. The Republicans will be faithless to those who voted for them on a pledge not to support amnesty, if only Obama will promise a good-faith effort to do his constitutional duty.

    Prediction: Once word goes out that the illegals will no longer be sent back, there will commence a new stampede to the border. And once the new law is on the books, Democrats will move to truncate the time for the former illegals to become U.S. citizens.

    And Republicans who resist will be accused of being anti-Hispanic, and will then do what comes naturally — capitulate again.

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    Liberals never learn. Normal people however would learn that if they tried to push something and couldn't get support to pass it in the past that if they try again they should tone it down and ask for less and be willing to settle for less in hopes of gaining support. But liberals seem to be the opposite. When they can't get support then fail and fail again instead of backing down a bit asking for less they ask for more and more using the same argument.

    Now isn't that fairly close to the definition of insanity?

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