June 27, 2013 – 7:53 pm
This is freaking hilarious, in a sad and true way, from the Center For Immigration Studies. Wish I could drop a photo of this, a spoof of Obama’s “Life Of Julia” neo-socialist government will take care of women-folk lunacy. Using Droid phone, I’ll see about adding one later. Hah, figured out a way to get […]
June 27, 2013 – 8:31 am
Liberal and pro-amnesty groups must surely know that the border control provisions in the Democrat Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill will, for the most part, be ignored, especially by the current far-left administration. Just like happened when the last amnesty was passed. Just like with much of the border control legislation passed in 2006 (which was also […]
June 26, 2013 – 4:10 pm
That’s what Jonathon Strong reports (via Allahpundit) In closed door mtg, Boehner just told Rs the House will not bring up the Senate immigration bill — Jonathan Strong (@j_strong) June 26, 2013 Allahpundit also notes that a new Rasmussen poll has immigration being considered Very Important for the 2014 midterms by 51% of poll respondents, […]
June 25, 2013 – 9:36 am
Does anyone else think that the National Republican Senatorial Committee is going to have a really tough time getting donations for 2014? (The Hill) The Senate voted 67-27 Monday to advance a border security amendment to bipartisan immigration legislation, building momentum for a final vote later this week. Fifteen of the “yes†votes were Republicans, […]
June 24, 2013 – 7:07 am
This should really brighten up your Monday (The Hill) Immigration reform has gotten a new burst of life as a growing number of Senate Republicans have embraced the 1,000-page-plus legislation, setting up President Obama for a big victory this week. [WATCH VIDEO] The sudden surge in Republican support has been a pleasant surprise for Senate […]
June 23, 2013 – 3:43 pm
Politico’s Josh Gerstein provides them, and the first one is funny as hell 1. It’s so darn expensive Costing more than $40 billion over 10 years, the “border surge†and fencing proposal is so expensive that it was virtually unthinkable just a week or two ago — until an unexpectedly generous scoring of the broader […]
June 22, 2013 – 10:17 pm
Make sure to keep an eye on Senator David Vitter’s Twitter feed as he reads through the bill. I was just blowing threw it, popping back and forth, and found this little nugget on page 671 6 SEC. 3305. PROFILING. 7 (a) PROHIBITION.—In making routine or spontaneous law enforcement decisions, such as ordinary traffic stops, […]
June 22, 2013 – 6:56 am
Has anyone ever given a real reason to legalize the illegals that isn’t a strawman or based on feelings? Don’t expect Obama to be the first (White House) Hi everybody. Right now, the United States Senate is debating a bipartisan, commonsense bill that would be an important step toward fixing our broken immigration system. The […]
June 21, 2013 – 4:01 pm
No, really, and the progressives at George Soros (a big open-borders guy) funded Think Progress are super thrilled (via Breitbart) Senator Brian Schatz’s (D-HI) filed an amendment for the immigration bill Wednesday that would allow stateless people in the U.S. to seek conditional lawful status if their nations have been made uninhabitable by climate change. […]
June 21, 2013 – 8:43 am
This whole thing is designed to push squishy Republicans over into the “OK, we’ll give them legal status immediately but you promise to Do Something later about the border so we’ll vote yes” category (Politico) The Senate Gang of Eight edged closer to supermajority support on its immigration bill with Thursday’s breakthrough agreement on border […]
