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House GOP pushing new immigration bills

By Tim Devaney - 02/27/15 01:59 PM EST
House Republicans are taking another crack at immigration reform.

The four bills unveiled Friday focus on interior enforcement and could complement pending border security legislation.

The GOP is taking aim at President Obama’s controversial executive order on immigration that delays deportations for nearly 5 million people living in the country illegally.

“President Obama has unilaterally gutted the interior enforcement of our laws,” House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) said Friday.

“By refusing to enforce the laws against illegal immigration, President Obama’s immigration policies collectively undermine the integrity of our immigration system and send the message to the world that our laws can be violated,” he added.

In response to the president’s immigration order, Republicans introduced four pieces of legislation Friday intended to strengthen interior enforcement.

Rep. Trey Gowdy’s (R-S.C.) bill would give local law enforcement the authority to uphold federal immigration laws, in spite of the president’s executive order.

“By doing so, we remove the ability of this or future presidents — of either party — to systematically shut down portions of the law to suit their political purposes,” said Gowdy said, chairman of the immigration and border security subcommittee.

Interior enforcement has been a cause for concern among Republicans.

Some conservatives complain that Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul’s (R-Texas) border security bill does not address the president’s immigration order, and Gowdy’s bill is seen as an attempt by Republican leadership to address the missing components.

House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz’s (R-Utah) bill targets what Republicans say is the administration’s “catch and release” policy, whereby illegal immigrants are encouraged to cross the border and immediately surrender to police, knowing that they will be released.

“This incentive, combined with President Obama’s promise of executive amnesty, continues to lure ever increasing numbers of immigrants across our borders,” Chaffetz said.

The Legal Workforce Act introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the Science, Space and Technology Committee, is intended to “preserve” jobs for American workers by requiring more companies to check the immigration status of new employees through a Web-based system known as E-Verify.

“Almost 20 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed,” said Smith (R-Texas). “Meanwhile, seven million people are working in the United States illegally. By expanding the E-Verify system, this bill will ensure that new jobs only go to legal workers."

Finally, Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) is pushing legislation intended to protect unaccompanied immigrant children while they are in federal custody awaiting trial.

The House Judiciary Committee will mark up these four bills next Tuesday and Wednesday.

This looks like a pretty good package of immigration bills. I'm anxious to see Steve King's bill that ends automatic birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens and the five would make a good set. Not mentioned in this article was another bill that would tighten up the asylum laws but maybe that's going to be attached to one of these other bills since it wasn't named with a sponsor when Goodlatte mentioned it whereas the other ones were.

Anyway, next Tuesday or Wednesday, they'll be marked up by the committee, and then presumably made ready for the House to vote on. Maybe the plan is to get these bills voted on in the House before the next DHS funding vote so McConnell can do his "wizardry" in this Senate to get them passed as leverage against Obama Amnesty.

Anyway, that's where we are folks. 6 GOP Senators and 1 loyal President short of what we need to fix our nation. There are 4 Democrats in the Senate that might make it work. Maybe 2 more would come out of the closet and give us the 60 we need on these immigration bills. Are there 6 Democrats in the US Senate who care about US citizens enough to support these bills and protect American jobs for American workers? Are there 6 Democrats in the US Senate who care enough about our country's sovereignty to help us pass these bills? I guess we'll soon find out.

Sigh. It should not be this hard to fix such an obvious problem.

Originally Posted by Judy

http://thehill.com/regulation/admini...igration-bills

House GOP pushing new immigration bills

By Tim Devaney - 02/27/15 01:59 PM EST
House Republicans are taking another crack at immigration reform.

The four bills unveiled Friday focus on interior enforcement and could complement pending border security legislation.

The GOP is taking aim at President Obama’s controversial executive order on immigration that delays deportations for nearly 5 million people living in the country illegally.

“President Obama has unilaterally gutted the interior enforcement of our laws,” House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) said Friday.

“By refusing to enforce the laws against illegal immigration, President Obama’s immigration policies collectively undermine the integrity of our immigration system and send the message to the world that our laws can be violated,” he added.

In response to the president’s immigration order, Republicans introduced four pieces of legislation Friday intended to strengthen interior enforcement.

Rep. Trey Gowdy’s (R-S.C.) bill would give local law enforcement the authority to uphold federal immigration laws, in spite of the president’s executive order.

“By doing so, we remove the ability of this or future presidents — of either party — to systematically shut down portions of the law to suit their political purposes,” said Gowdy said, chairman of the immigration and border security subcommittee.

Interior enforcement has been a cause for concern among Republicans.

Some conservatives complain that Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul’s (R-Texas) border security bill does not address the president’s immigration order, and Gowdy’s bill is seen as an attempt by Republican leadership to address the missing components.

House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz’s (R-Utah) bill targets what Republicans say is the administration’s “catch and release” policy, whereby illegal immigrants are encouraged to cross the border and immediately surrender to police, knowing that they will be released.

“This incentive, combined with President Obama’s promise of executive amnesty, continues to lure ever increasing numbers of immigrants across our borders,” Chaffetz said.

The Legal Workforce Act introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the Science, Space and Technology Committee, is intended to “preserve” jobs for American workers by requiring more companies to check the immigration status of new employees through a Web-based system known as E-Verify.

“Almost 20 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed,” said Smith (R-Texas). “Meanwhile, seven million people are working in the United States illegally. By expanding the E-Verify system, this bill will ensure that new jobs only go to legal workers."

Finally, Rep. John Carter (R-Texas) is pushing legislation intended to protect unaccompanied immigrant children while they are in federal custody awaiting trial.

The House Judiciary Committee will mark up these four bills next Tuesday and Wednesday.

YOU SAY 5 MILLION WELL HOW ABOUT 5, MILLION( ONE) YOU FOR GOT ABOUT OBAMA

I no longer see how these bills will aid America while the sitting president still presides. He has decided that he has the power to ignore or modify law. Without defunding his existing actions, they embolden him to continue!

What is it that the public needs to see that the republicans, as nearly always, are putting on only a show of serving us? How many times are the voters going to support a show without credible improvements?


Will he modify election laws prior to November 2016? Why not, he is snot being prosecuted by Justice or Congress? He has won unless we retake our power!

Originally Posted by kevinssdad

I no longer see how these bills will aid America while the sitting president still presides. He has decided that he has the power to ignore or modify law. Without defunding his existing actions, they embolden him to continue!

What is it that the public needs to see that the republicans, as nearly always, are putting on only a show of serving us? How many times are the voters going to support a show without credible improvements?


Will he modify election laws prior to November 2016? Why not, he is snot being prosecuted by Justice or Congress? He has won unless we retake our power!

They won't do any good at all with a lawless President and a renegade lawless Department of Homeland Security, the same as any law they choose to break, which is why Congress must pass a 10 Year Moratorium on all new immigration to prohibit DHS from issuing any permit, visa, green card, work authorization, or any other type of announcement, declaration, document, or record of any type that gives actual or implied consent of any type, legal or illegal, to any illegal alien to remain in the United States or for any new immigrants to come here or if already here be approved for new renewal, extended or permanent status.

We need to move the Coast Guard back to the US Department of Transportation, the Secret Service back to the Treasury Department, and Border Patrol back to the Department of Labor. The rest of the agencies should be dismantled, de-authorized and de-funded. Airlines should screen their own passengers. States and communities can take care of themselves during floods and emergencies and when federal funds are needed, the US Treasury can process the Emergency Funds to the states.

The only sure way to stop this Administration is to defund the Department conducting the illegal activities and pass the 10 Year Moratorium on all new immigration. The states and local law enforcement can enforce US immigration law, including compliance with E-verify and the arrest and deportation of illegal aliens. With at least a 10 year moratorium on new immigration, there would be no chance for amnesty or deferred action to become new legal immigrants, so most would give up the ship and swim home or return in whatever manner they used to get here. For those who don't, local cops, state troopers and county sheriffs will find them and get them out here. State courts abiding federal law can issue the deportation orders, the same as they do a traffic violation.