Answer this question: In the current debate about "comprehensive immigration reform", have you heard that the plan is to first control the border and then proceed with legalization of those already here? Has someone told you that there will not be an amnesty, but rather that the federal government will close our porous border to prevent any further waves of illegals from coming across?
If you listen to political debates, you surely have heard this sort of talk. Much of it has come from Marco Rubio who spent months promising that he would walk away from any measure that did not require control of the borders before dealing with the problems of the illegals already here.
We learned today that all that talk was just talk. Indeed, the liberal media is out in full force trying to make even the idea of first controlling the border into some sort of racist rant.
Senator Grassley of Iowa proposed an amendment to the current senate bill that would have required that the federal government have control of the border with Mexico for six months before any other measures regarding the current illegals could go into effect. Six months is not a long time, but Reuters reported that the Grassley amendment would "gut" the immigration bill. Get it? An attempt to have the bill actually say what many senators promised it would say is "gutting" the bill.
Once again, we are witnessing efforts to push through a bill before the actual content of that bill becomes known. It is like Obamacare. No one knew what was in that bill when it was passed. Even Nancy Pelosi famously said that the House would have to pass the bill to find out what was in it.
The polls show that by a margin of 4 to 1, Americans want the borders closed before anything is done to deal with the current illegals. That's 80% support for that plan. But the senate is ignoring the will of the people. Instead, the senators are trying to sneak through a bill that starts with amnesty and ends with amnesty. It is a disgrace.
If you listen to political debates, you surely have heard this sort of talk. Much of it has come from Marco Rubio who spent months promising that he would walk away from any measure that did not require control of the borders before dealing with the problems of the illegals already here.
We learned today that all that talk was just talk. Indeed, the liberal media is out in full force trying to make even the idea of first controlling the border into some sort of racist rant.
Senator Grassley of Iowa proposed an amendment to the current senate bill that would have required that the federal government have control of the border with Mexico for six months before any other measures regarding the current illegals could go into effect. Six months is not a long time, but Reuters reported that the Grassley amendment would "gut" the immigration bill. Get it? An attempt to have the bill actually say what many senators promised it would say is "gutting" the bill.
Once again, we are witnessing efforts to push through a bill before the actual content of that bill becomes known. It is like Obamacare. No one knew what was in that bill when it was passed. Even Nancy Pelosi famously said that the House would have to pass the bill to find out what was in it.
The polls show that by a margin of 4 to 1, Americans want the borders closed before anything is done to deal with the current illegals. That's 80% support for that plan. But the senate is ignoring the will of the people. Instead, the senators are trying to sneak through a bill that starts with amnesty and ends with amnesty. It is a disgrace.
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