Something I can't forgive John Boehner for not doing was to bring the Senate Immigration Bill up for a vote in the House which he never did. The bill passed the Senate with more than 60 votes with votes to spare. It included 19,000 new agents on the border (a decent jobs bill), more drones, and more observation towers. Yes, there was some provision for how an illegal could become legal, but the hoops to be jumped through were so draconian that I doubt many would try it.
It seems the Republicans actually want to keep illegal immigration as an issue rather than to try to solve the problem.
I think Boehner should have fallen on his sword and let the bill be voted on. The problem for Boehner was that it probably would have passed.
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Sunday, October 11, 2015
KEVIN MCCARTHY DEOPS OUT OF HOUSE SPEAKER RACE
I don't know how good of a speaker Kevein McCarthy would have been, but, in his first speech, he seemed illiterate. He even kept making the same grammatical mistakes over and over. Of course from a Republican standpoint, his worst offense was that he reinforced, what we already knew, that the Benghazi committee's purpose was to harm Hillary Clinton's Presidential aspirations.
So it looks like John Boehner will stay as Speaker for the foreseeable future. I hoped as a parting gift that he would let the Senate Immigration Bill be voted on in the House, but no such luck. I view him as a weak speaker, caving in again and again to a vocal nihilistic group in his Party, but maybe he is better than any alternative.
So it looks like John Boehner will stay as Speaker for the foreseeable future. I hoped as a parting gift that he would let the Senate Immigration Bill be voted on in the House, but no such luck. I view him as a weak speaker, caving in again and again to a vocal nihilistic group in his Party, but maybe he is better than any alternative.
Friday, November 21, 2014
IMMIGRATION REFORM
So now with President Obama's modest Executive Order on immigration, the Republicans are REALLY not going to do anything on immigration (or hardly on anything else) instead of just doing nothing on immigration. When are we going to elect more adults to our congress?
My take is that our deportation king President has just set priorities on who will be deported and particularly will focused on those who have criminal records.
There has been quite of bit of mention on the Executive Order limitation on illegal immigrants having to have been in this country for 5 yrs or more and only to parents of American citizens or that are here legally. Aside from 5 yrs being a nice round number, it essentially says that you have to have arrived here before I became president (actually 6 yrs would be more accurate but doesn't sound as nice). In other words, if you have illegally come here during my tenure, you are fair game for deportation.
I still consider it a mystery as to why Republicans in the House did nothing on the Senate immigration bill. For example they could have picked out completing the fence, adding the 19,000 new border patrol members and increasing the number of drones added and just pass that. Of course, the Senate would either reject it or not even take it up, but, heck, they passed eliminating the ACA something like 50 times. They could have added an immigration bill to it. Perhaps they were wise enough to realize this would make their relations with the Hispanic community even worse. But as it was, the party of no immigration bill (not even voting on the Senate bipartisan bill)* in the House and shutting down the government paid no penalty in this last election. It even appears that the electorate liked all the inaction and rejection. They even got a larger share of the Hispanic vote. So it is said that Democrats just don't turn out for mid-term elections. Well, Democrats not voting is actually voting for the Republicans. A pox on both political houses.
* And many other things like rejecting background checks on guns, raising the minimum wage, failure to endorse the President's actions in Iraq and many others.
My take is that our deportation king President has just set priorities on who will be deported and particularly will focused on those who have criminal records.
There has been quite of bit of mention on the Executive Order limitation on illegal immigrants having to have been in this country for 5 yrs or more and only to parents of American citizens or that are here legally. Aside from 5 yrs being a nice round number, it essentially says that you have to have arrived here before I became president (actually 6 yrs would be more accurate but doesn't sound as nice). In other words, if you have illegally come here during my tenure, you are fair game for deportation.
I still consider it a mystery as to why Republicans in the House did nothing on the Senate immigration bill. For example they could have picked out completing the fence, adding the 19,000 new border patrol members and increasing the number of drones added and just pass that. Of course, the Senate would either reject it or not even take it up, but, heck, they passed eliminating the ACA something like 50 times. They could have added an immigration bill to it. Perhaps they were wise enough to realize this would make their relations with the Hispanic community even worse. But as it was, the party of no immigration bill (not even voting on the Senate bipartisan bill)* in the House and shutting down the government paid no penalty in this last election. It even appears that the electorate liked all the inaction and rejection. They even got a larger share of the Hispanic vote. So it is said that Democrats just don't turn out for mid-term elections. Well, Democrats not voting is actually voting for the Republicans. A pox on both political houses.
* And many other things like rejecting background checks on guns, raising the minimum wage, failure to endorse the President's actions in Iraq and many others.
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