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 […]
June 20, 2013 – 8:01 am
….that’s all really a load of mule fritters, but the Associated Press writers make it seem like they’re closing in on one of the most historic pieces of legislation ever! (WRAL) White House-backed immigration legislation is gaining momentum in the Senate, where key lawmakers say they are closing in on a bipartisan compromise to spend […]
June 19, 2013 – 7:19 am
While passage of an, for all intense purposes, amnesty bill with barely any border or other security (it’s a plan that requires creating a plan) will pass the Senate, with 4-6 Republicans voting for this mess, the Republican controlled House may take a different approach, and pass piecemeal legislation to deal with immigration and security […]
June 18, 2013 – 4:02 pm
Is it any wonder Ted Cruz is so darned popular with Conservatives? He stands up for, in this case, law and order (via Phineas on Twitter (make sure you follow him) (Daily Caller) Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will propose an amendment to the comprehensive immigration reform bill that would allow states to require ID before […]
June 17, 2013 – 2:23 pm
Only 2 Justices stood with the writings in the Constitution (US News) The Supreme Court on Monday struck down an Arizona law that requires people to submit proof of citizenship when they register to vote. The vote was 7-2. Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority, said that a 1993 federal law known as the […]
