J. D. Hayworth is a Republican who
represented Arizona in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to
2007 and is currently a National Adviser to TheTeaParty.net.
The names may have changed, but the
tactics remain the same. After decades of promises to address illegal
immigration, we are once again hearing the same old nonsense from
Republican politicians. Lawmakers vowing to act tough on border security
while looking to secure amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants has
become infuriatingly all-too-familiar.
In 2005, as soft Republicans tried to
slip amnesty through, I warned that the scheme was a “classic
bait-and-switch” by the House passing a bill with “get tough” border
enforcement, only to have it watered down in conference by a more
liberal Senate that would insist on an amnesty plan. The bill would be
brought back to the House where immense pressure from big business
lobbies, the establishment media, and Democrats and moderates would be
brought to bear for final passage.
What kept that scenario from happening
was outcry from the conservative grassroots. Today, eight years later,
with a different president and different House Republican leadership, we
are seeing the same bait-and-switch tactic, but we are perilously close
to them succeeding because the GOP leadership has become smarter, and
more devious with their messaging.
The House GOP will vote on tough
enforcement provisions in a bill sponsored by Rep. Mike McCaul, Chairman
of the Homeland Security Committee, but Chairman McCaul has already
been told behind closed doors by Speaker John Boehner that this
“enforcement bill” will not be brought up in a House-Senate Conference
to be combined with the infamous “Gang of Eight Amnesty Bill” that
passed earlier this year in the Senate.
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If rinos are determined to vote like democrats there is no reason to vote for the republican party. I will simply vote for the democrat rather than the half assed democratic rino. There is no reason to NOT destroy the rino party if it will not accept being reformed.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely and it's too bad we voted for the lesser of two evils for so long.
DeleteI wish....
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When we hear this cr@p about "a path to citizenship"- that someone would stand up and say *They DO have a path to citizenship. They just refuse to use it!*
It cost my family around $6,000 for the wife and two girls to get their Green cards.
It's been 12 years and my wife's brother and sister still haven't been approved though close now, but they could have gotten a tourist visa to Mexico and walked across the border 12 years back.
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