Chuck
Schumer No Longer Interested In A Broad Immigration Reform Bill
Just yesterday I observed that
Mitch McConnell seemed to be throwing Chuck Schumer all the rope he could ask
for on a comprehensive immigration reform package and inviting the Democrats to
go hang themselves with it. Based on comments the Senate Minority Leader made
from the Senate floor, I’m beginning to suspect that he’s caught on to the
scheme and is now scrambling to avoid digging himself a hole he can’t get out
of.
While Schumer had previously been talking about various elements
of some sort of grand bargain, offering indications as to which pieces he might
support or oppose, his tone has suddenly changed. Claiming that this is
“neither the time nor the place” for something more comprehensive and
permanent, it now sounds as if the Democrats are back to talking about only a “clean fix” for DACA to cover the Dreamers.
(Time)
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“The only enemy here is overreach,” Schumer said. “Now is not
the time nor the place to reform the entire legal immigration system. Rather,
this is the time for a narrow bill” — which Democrats have said would help the
Dreamers and provide some money for border security.
The comments came as the Senate voted 97-1 — Ted Cruz, R-Texas,
provided the sole “no” vote — to plunge into an open-ended immigration debate
that’s been promised by McConnell. Both parties’ leaders hope debate can be
concluded this week, but it’s unclear if that will happen or what the product,
if any, will be.
“This is going to be done or not
done this week,” No. 2 Senate GOP leader John Cornyn of Texas told reporters.
So that’s what Schumer said on the Senate floor. But listen to
the tone he took last night at the University of Louisville during an
appearance with Mitch McConnell. He’s saying they’re ready to work toward
getting something done, but he doesn’t say how much.
McConnell (and presumably Trump)
are talking about the big picture bill which Democrats have claimed they want
to hammer out for a long time. But now Schumer is back to just a fix for the
Dreamers (including a path to citizenship) in exchange for, “some money for border security.”
Pardon me for saying that this is absolutely not something that
Republicans should hold their noses and sign off on. If Schumer and the
Democrats want amnesty for nearly two million people, then the entire,
comprehensive immigration reform package needs to be on the table. He’s looking
to cherry pick the one item Democrats “claim”
to want the most and give up a few crumbs in exchange, with hints that he might be willing to talk about
the other issues later. And I put “claim” in scare quotes there for a reason.
In reality, the one thing that the DNC would probably like more than amnesty
for the Dreamers is nine months of claiming that the GOP is deporting all the
Dreamers straight up through the elections.
This is one policy area where the legislature is perfectly
suited to act and we have a defined set of issues they could tackle. These
include possible changes to legal immigration quotas, whether to keep or
abandon the lottery and put limits on chain immigration, funding for the wall
and staffing levels for immigration enforcement. They also need to tackle
questions surrounding the passage of Kate’s Law and mandatory E-verify use. All
of this can and should be addressed.
If the GOP leadership is actually gullible enough to hand the
Democrats a “clean” amnesty for Dreamers and get nothing in exchange but a few
bucks to repair fencing on the Mexican border, they need to simply resign now.
What Schumer and the Democrats are asking for his huge and it will likely be
impossible to get a lot of the more conservative members to vote for it anyway.
They need to give up something equally meaningful in exchange because we’re not
going to trust them to deal fairly on the subject later after they’ve already gotten
what they really want.
NumbersUSA’s Rosemary Jenks: E-Verify Ignored in DACA
Negotiations
Because ‘Members of Congress Know It Will Work’
File Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images
Members of Congress broadly oppose a legislative nationwide
E-Verify mandate for employers because “they know it will work,” said
NumbersUSA’s Rosemary Jenks, explaining why E-Verify is not being pushed in
congressional negotiations for an amnesty deal for recipients of the Obama
administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Jenks further
noted that both parties are beholden to special interests supportive of “mass
migration.”
Jenks offered her analysis
during a Monday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart
News Tonight with Breitbart News’s Senior Editors-at-Large
Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
Mansour asked Jenks why most
Republicans were not supporting a legislative nationwide mandate for E-Verify
use by employers. “Why do you think that this isn’t being pushed, then? It
seems like a no-brainer. Why is this not being included in all the negotiations?”
she said.
“I think [E-Verify] is not
being pushed precisely because members of Congress know it will work,” said
Jenks. “I think that is exactly the reason it’s not being pushed. Democrats,
for sure, don’t want mandatory E-Verify because they know it will discourage
illegal immigration, which will discourage the push for the next amnesty. And,
let’s face it, the establishment Republicans don’t want it because they know it
will be effective and eliminate their cheap labor pools.”
Special interests, including
“big business,” “organized religion,” and “ethnic advocacy groups,” subvert
popular American will via their funding and political agitation, said Jenks,
adding, “It’s about the donors and about the Democrat Party wanting mass
immigration. Those are the two factors that rule every immigration debate. It’s
always the big business donors, organized religion, the ethnic advocacy groups.
All of the money is behind mass immigration, and then, there’s the American
people on the other side. That’s the problem we have had. That’s why we haven’t
controlled immigration in the last five decades.”
Legislating a national mandate
for E-Verify use by employers is more important than construction of a southern
border wall, argued Jenks. “In our view, mandatory E-Verify is more important
than a wall. So that is the one place where we’re hoping that we can move the administration
to saying E-Verify is a must-have.”
Approximately half of “the
illegal population” is composed of foreigners who lawfully entered the homeland
and overstay their visas, said Jenks. An E-Verify mandate on employers, she
added, would “mostly shut down” the lure of employment for illegal aliens.
E-Verify usage by employers
would facilitate more effective enforcement of immigration law by allowing
federal authorities to target businesses abstaining for its use, said Jenks.
“They have a clearer target for enforcement measures.”
Jenks listed the following
elements as “must-haves” for any legislative amnesty proposal: 1) limiting the
amnesty to the DACA population; 2) ending chain migration; 3) ending the
“Diversity Visa Program” lottery; 4) implementation of effective border
security and interior enforcement measures; and 5) implementation of a national
mandate for employer use of E-Verify.
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PARTNER WITH MEXICO, the LA RAZA DEMOCRAT PARTY and the
PRO-BUSINESS GOP to keep wages for LEGALS depressed (today they are depressed
to 1973 levels).
But you will still get the tax bills for the Mex welfare state and
crime tidal wave!
“Illegal
aliens are not supposed to work, and knowingly providing shelter for illegal
aliens can be construed as harboring and shielding, elements of a felony under
federal law, Title 8 U.S. Code § 1324.”
“Where
aliens and jobs are concerned, even many categories of nonimmigrant aliens
(temporary visitors) including aliens who lawfully enter under the Visa Waiver
Program or with tourist visas may not work in the United States and immediately
become subject to removal (deportation) if they seek gainful employment.”
----MICHAEL CUTLER – FRONTPAGE mag
THE
LA RAZA INVASION:
The Washington-imposed economic policy of
economic growth via mass-immigration floods the market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by
blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million
marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling
with opioid addictions. NEIL
MUNRO
DEATH BY CORRUPTION:
What caused the destruction of the
Democrat Party in America?
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