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    GOP lawmaker says CPAC not conservative on immigration

    3:35 PM 03/06/2014
    Chuck Ross
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    Texas Republican Rep. Lamar Smith urged the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to drop the word “conservative” from its name based on an immigration panel he considered biased.

    “You have to wonder when a self-described conservative organization stacks an immigration panel with amnesty advocates,” Smith said in a statement. “For the second year in a row, CPAC has featured a panel where all but one speaker supports the agenda of liberal Democrats and the liberal national media.”

    CPAC is a celebrated gathering of a wide range of conservatives and libertarians hosted each year by the American Conservative Union. ACU’s president, Al Cardenas, is a vocal proponent of reform, having supported legalization for undocumented immigrants.

    This year’s immigration panel is called “Can There Be Meaningful Immigration Without Citizenship?”

    Mercy Viana Schlapp of Cove Strategies moderates, with panelists Helen Krieble of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation, Rev. Luis Cortes Jr. of Esperanza, Alfonao Aguilar of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles and Derrick Morgan of the Heritage Foundation.

    Morgan is the only panelist who opposes legalizing illegal immigrants before the border is secured, a view shared by Smith. The Texas congressman also called into question whether immigration reform is a top priority, as President Obama and some Republicans have claimed.

    “CPAC should focus on issues that the American people, including Hispanics, care about,” said Smith, citing a recent Gallup poll that showed only 3 percent of independents, Democrats, and Republicans considered immigration reform an important issue.

    Smith also noted a poll from Bloomberg which found that 85 percent of voters want Congress to improve border security and implement other supports before altering the immigration system.

    Asked by The Daily Caller News Foundation whether Smith had been invited to speak about immigration at CPAC, a Smith aide said, “Congressman Smith declined to participate on such a biased panel since they already had three pro-legalization speakers.”

    Despite the lack of anti-reform programming at CPAC, two prominent opponents of immigration reform will hold court at a separate event.

    Eagle Forum president Phyllis Schlafly and columnist Ann Coulter will host a blogger briefing on Saturday near CPAC to address reports and polls that indicate immigration reform will doom the Republican Party.

    They are not the only disappointed conservatives. The pro-life group Students for Life of America voiced frustration that pro-life views were given short shrift at the conference.

    “While CPAC certainly has pro-life politicians speaking, this year they have apparently chosen not to have a panel addressing abortion, the greatest human rights issue our nation faces,” said Kristan Hawkins, president of the group.

    A request for comment from the American Conservative Union was not immediately returned.

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    CPAC is not really conservative. It is run by liberal Grover Norquist!

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    CPAC Immigration Debate Stacked 3-to-1 with Pro-Amnesty Panelists

    by Matthew Boyle 6 Mar 2014, 12:37 PM PDT
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    Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), a former chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has apparently had enough of what he sees as the pro-amnesty mentality at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

    In response to a panel which includes four proponents of comprehensive immigration reform and one critic, Smith ripped the American Conservative Union, which hosts CPAC, in a press release.

    “You have to wonder when a self-described conservative organization stacks an immigration panel with amnesty advocates,” Smith accused. “For the second year in a row, CPAC has featured a panel where all but one speaker supports the agenda of liberal Democrats and the liberal national media. ‘Truth-in-advertising’ would require CPAC to drop the word ‘conservative.’”

    There is only one panel discussing immigration at CPAC this year, scheduled for Thursday at 3:30 PM and titled “Can There Be Meaningful Immigration Reform Without Citizenship?”

    The moderator, Mercy Viana Schlapp, is a principal at Cove Strategies. Helen Krieble, the president of the Vernon K. Krieble Foundation, will join Esperanza’s Rev. Luis Cortes, Jr. and the executive director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, Alfonso Aguilar, to debate the Heritage Foundation’s Derrick Morgan.

    All of the panelists except for Morgan support various forms of comprehensive immigration reform, including granting legal status to illegal aliens in one form or another. They have publicly expressed those positions, as has the debate’s moderator, Schlapp.

    That imbalance peeved Smith enough to issue a press release condemning CPAC.

    Smith pointed to recent Gallup polling that shows only three percent of Americans prioritize immigration reform in 2014. “CPAC should focus on issues that the American people, including Hispanics, care about,” he said. “A January Gallup poll showed that only 3 percent of Republicans, independents, and Democrats consider immigration reform to be a top issue.”

    If CPAC wants to talk about immigration, though, Smith said the conversation should focus on upholding the rule of law in America.

    “In addition, a Bloomberg poll showed that 85% of voters want Congress to ‘strengthen border security and create a system to track foreigners entering and leaving the country’ before any other changes are made to our immigration system,” he said.

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    Current immigration laws must be enforced

    September 25, 2005

    Re "Immigration reform, again,"
    editorial, Sept. 22

    The Times suggests that I want to deport the estimated 8 million to 12 million illegal immigrants living and working in the United States. This is untrue. Instead, I have championed the idea that most illegal immigrants would leave the country on their own, or not come in the first place, if laws designed to discourage illegal immigration were actually enforced. The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act contained amnesties for farmworkers and other illegal immigrants, as well as sanctions for employers who hire them. The amnesties were carried out but the enforcement was not. Illegal immigrants and American employers know that the government does not take enforcement seriously. As proof, consider that in 2004 not one employer was fined for hiring illegal immigrants. The government should enforce current laws before any guest worker program is considered by Congress.



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