Senators on GO8 Plan: ‘Americans expect their government to end the lawlessness, not surrender to it.’

by THE BLOG on JUNE 4, 2013

Several members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today sent a letter to their fellow Senators regarding the Gang of Eight immigration reform bill and its ongoing problems. Senators Ted Cruz (R-Tx), Chuck Grassley (R-Ia), Mike Lee (R-Ut), and Jeff Sessions (R-Al) state that the Senate Committee had multiple chances to amend and improve the bill during markup, but failed to do so in order to satisfy back-room deals that were arrived at before the meetings took place.

“Americans expect their government to end the lawlessness, not surrender to it. They deserve immigration reform with actual border security, enforcement of the laws on the books, and a legal immigration system that works,” says the letter. “We must welcome and celebrate legal immigrants, but S. 744 fails to deliver anything more than the same empty promises Washington has been making for 30 years.”

“The last thing this country needs right now is another 1,000-plus page bill that, like Obamacare, was negotiated behind closed doors with special interests. We want immigration reform to pass, but only if it actually fixes the broken system, rather than allowing the problems to grow and fester.”

A letter from the office of Sen. Cruz notes “several areas of concern in the current bill that must be addressed on the Senate floor in order to pass effective legislation,” and provides the following list:


  • Provides immediate legalization without securing the border
  • Rewards criminal aliens, absconders, and deportees and undermines law enforcement
  • Contains extremely dangerous national security loopholes
  • Facilitates fraud in our immigration system
  • Creates no real penalties for illegal immigrants and rewards them with entitlements
  • Delays for years the implementation of E-Verify
  • Does not fix our legal immigration system
  • Advanced through a process predicated on a deal struck before markup
  • Rewards those who have broken our laws by offering a special path to citizenship



Contact Sen. Cruz here; Sen. Grassley here; Sen. Lee here; and Sen. Sessions here.

Sign the Conservative Action Alerts petition demanding secure, constitutional borders andblast faxes; also, sign our petition demanding that Senators remove all language in the S. 744 that would create a biometric database to track all Americans, and send faxes.


Below is a text of the Dear Colleague letter:

Letter from Sens. Cruz, Sessions, Lee, Grassley Voicing Concerns with S. 744 bySenator Ted Cruz


http://www.conservativeactionalerts....rrender-to-it/