Thread: Video: Bill O’Reilly endorses immigration bill with Hoeven-Corker amendment

Video: Bill O’Reilly endorses immigration bill with Hoeven-Corker amendment

POSTED AT 10:01 PM ON JUNE 20, 2013 BY MARY KATHARINE HAM

From “The O’Reilly Factor” tonight, advocates of the bill are already touting it.

Bottom line: O’Reilly is on board with the idea of a need for immigration reform to fix the current system and buys that Hoeven-Corker gives the necessary security measures to make that reform effective. I’m in a similar boat in that I’m in favor of reform, in the abstract, but I’m unconvinced Hoeven-Corker or much else about this bill gives assurances that it will do much of what it advertises beyond mass legalization. The CBO report on the bill (pre Hoeven-Corker) admits it would only stop 25 percent of illegal immigration and would leave some 3.5 million illegal immigrants already here ineligible for legalization. I’m unclear on how this is a solution to the problems presented by the status quo if we end up with 11 million people “living in the shadows” again in 10 years. That sounds, well, just like the status quo.

Here’s Bill:



O’Reilly and Laura Ingraham then get into it over the bill. Enjoy!

2nd Video at the Page Link: http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/2...ker-amendment/

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/2...ker-amendment/

Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7

Video: Bill O’Reilly endorses immigration bill with Hoeven-Corker amendment

POSTED AT 10:01 PM ON JUNE 20, 2013 BY MARY KATHARINE HAM

From “The O’Reilly Factor” tonight, advocates of the bill are already touting it.

Bottom line: O’Reilly is on board with the idea of a need for immigration reform to fix the current system and buys that Hoeven-Corker gives the necessary security measures to make that reform effective. I’m in a similar boat in that I’m in favor of reform, in the abstract, but I’m unconvinced Hoeven-Corker or much else about this bill gives assurances that it will do much of what it advertises beyond mass legalization. The CBO report on the bill (pre Hoeven-Corker) admits it would only stop 25 percent of illegal immigration and would leave some 3.5 million illegal immigrants already here ineligible for legalization. I’m unclear on how this is a solution to the problems presented by the status quo if we end up with 11 million people “living in the shadows” again in 10 years. That sounds, well, just like the status quo.

Here’s Bill:



O’Reilly and Laura Ingraham then get into it over the bill. Enjoy!

2nd Video at the Page Link: http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/2...ker-amendment/

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/2...ker-amendment/

Mr O'Reilly
No it not time to vote I say no the gov don't care about the US & another thing the illegal Immigrants that are in our Country now . they have Been in our country for year's also should go back home
why they don't about Our law at all closee border down I saw On TV two cop
walking along the road . & down the road the illegal immigrants can jump the wall .come on Now
get your head out of the sand It not only mexico it all the other country also (I happy 7-11 it doing the job right )
No DR Lic or Dream act wake up US & PEN Dot

O'Reilly is a progressive he does try to hide it but much of the time it comes through, he has no idea of the results of the bill nor does he wish to learn Laura was correct as she has read the bill.

12:58 PM 06/21/2013
Caroline May
The Daily Caller



Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions said on the Senate floor Friday that Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s immigration endorsement contained misconceptions.

O’Reilly came out in support for immigration reform Thursday evening.

“Senator Rubio told me on the phone today that it would be at least 13 years, 13, before people in the country illegally right now could gain full legal working status, and even longer to achieve citizenship,” O’Reilly said in his Thursday endorsement. “Talking Points supports immigration reform, even though I well understand the new law will be somewhat chaotic, and it will be a magnet for even more people to come here illegally, which is why we need stepped up security along the border.”

Sessions called O’Reilly out Friday morning for his understanding of the timeline, saying that while “Bill O’Reilly’s Talking Points Memo is consistently a high-quality memo” and “very insightful,” O’Reilly demonstrated some of the “misconceptions” people have about the Senate immigration bill.

“It’s not sufficient to pass this legislation based on talking points, on spin from the sponsors of the bill. We have to say, ‘okay, does it really do that?’ and ‘How does it do it’ and ‘Can it be made better?’ and ‘Are their weaknesses?’”

Sessions then dissected O’Reilly’s understanding of the 13-year timeline.

“’There would be at least 13 years before people in the country illegally right now could gain full legal working status,’” Sessions quoted O’Reilly.

“Not so. Not so at all. Not even close,” Sessions responded to the quote. “Within a few months everyone applies for the [Registered Provisional Immigrant] status, the provisional status, will be given a social security card and the right to go to work and be lawfully in the country and cannot be deported unless they commit a serious crime. It’s virtually immediately, not 13 years.”

Sessions then took on O’Reilly’s assertion that it would take even longer for illegal immigrants to achieve citizenship.

“That’s not accurate either. It does take — this is how the citizenship and green card status works, permanent legal status. So, within months everybody that qualifies under the 11 million will be given R.P.I. provisional status, virtually immediately,” he said. “They will be able to take any job in America, move anywhere they want to in America, displace workers in America, compete for jobs wherever. That’s what will happen under the bill.”

“But for about 2.5 million who are people who came here as teenagers, the so-called Dreamers, they get citizenship in five years, they’ll have citizenship in five years, that’s 2 million, 2.5 million. And certain ag workers, those individuals who are illegally here become permanent legal residents permanently, They get their legal right to work immediately,” Sessions continued. “But in five years they get permanent legal status and the other eight to 10 million illegal immigrants would be eligible for green cards or legal permanent residence in ten years, not 13. So there is an immediate amnesty that precedes all this.”

“Legal status and the right to work is immediate. It’s not 13 years out there,” Sessions said.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/21/se...isconceptions/