Thread: For Democrats Immigration Promise Hard To Keep

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38776.html

Soccer fans in Nevada watching the World Cup on Univision are suddenly seeing a lot of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is flooding the Spanish-language station with an ad campaign courting Latinos, who could help save his uphill reelection campaign.

But as he positions himself back home as a friend to Hispanics — who could account for 15 percent of the Nevada electorate — Reid is running into a different reality on Capitol Hill: Senate Democrats now concede they probably can’t do much about overhauling immigration policy, despite its importance to Latino voters.

Now, they are starting to look at alternatives to address the thorny issue while appeasing Hispanic voters, whom Reid desperately needs to win in Nevada, after a whopping 76 percent of them supported Barack Obama in the 2008 election.

“I don’t necessarily think we’re going to have a comprehensive bill this summer,â€

BOTH Schumer and Reid are done.
Both are complicit with Mexico's invasion of sovereign U S Territory.
Both are complicit with the plan to flood the U S with Mexican Nationals for the purpose of bringing around political change via the Illegal Alien's transformation into new U S voters.
Both are complicit with the North American Union and New World Order overall which is really the planned destruction of the U S through the destruction of the Constitution, and purposely and even racistly attempting to change the Demographics of these United States...

Both Reid and Schumer MUST be removed from office ASAP in order to preserve this great Republic...

This mentions the article above so added to this thread.
~~~

Monday, June 21, 2010

Piecemeal Amnesty Watch
Mark Krikorian

From today's Politico, more evidence that amnesty advocates are mulling a change of strategy from a "comprehensive" bill (one that would amnesty all illegal immigrants) to smaller, more targeted measures:

Last Thursday, at a closed-door meeting between senior Democratic senators and immigration reform advocates, the parties concluded that passing a comprehensive bill would be an extremely tall order this year because of stiff GOP opposition and uneasiness among some Democratic moderates. A number of advocates felt that bringing up a bill this year, only to see it fail, could set back reform efforts for years, according to several people familiar with the meeting.

So Reid and his allies are considering abandoning a comprehensive bill until after November, for possible action in a post-election session or in the 112th Congress, which begins in January 2011.

Where does that leave Reid with the Latinos he’s wooing back home? Looking for smaller victories.

Reform advocates are beginning to lobby fence-sitting Republicans to see if they’d go along with supporting narrower immigration issues this year — strictly dealing with undocumented agricultural workers and children of illegal immigrants.

That refers to the AgJobs bill (an amnesty for current illegal-alien farmworkers and an indentured labor program for future ones) and the Dream Act (an amnesty for illegal aliens brought here as children).

And there's this:

Immigration reform doesn’t exactly top most senators' election-year wish lists.

"The tax cuts expire, so they gotta come up this year," said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.). "Immigration? There is no expiration date on immigration."

"There's no expiration date on immigration" — exactly, and that's why even the pro-amnesty people should be for enforcement-first. If we finally get real enforcement, not all the illegals will deport themselves or be deported; there's no expiration date on their illegal status, meaning amnesty advocates could then, several years from now, plead their case to what would be a more sympathetic public. But that would mean some significant number of illegals would have to leave first, and that's apparently unacceptable.

http://corner.nationalreview.com