10/16/2013
The President’s legacy countdown is moving along, and he would doubtless like to use a massive amnesty to put tens of millions of future Democrats in the pipeline to assure a leftward slant of Washington forever.
Most Hispanics (who account for three-quarters of illegal aliens) are culturally inclined to support big government and do so for generations. They are natural liberals.
By the way, it is interesting that the President found time on Tuesday during a government crisis to chat with Spanish-language Univision, which keeps its viewers informed about issues of interest to Mexicans.
Obama to push immigration reform ‘day after’ budget deal, The Hill, October 15, 2013
President Obama vowed Tuesday that he would pursue an immigration reform vote in the House the “day after” Congress reaches an agreement to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling.
“Once that’s done, you know, the day after — I’m going to be pushing to say, call a vote on immigration reform,” Obama told Univision’s Los Angeles affiliate. “And if I have to join with other advocates and continue to speak out on that, and keep pushing, I’m going to do so because I think it’s really important for the country. And now is the time to do it.”
The president reiterated his claim that the only thing holding back passage of the Senate’s immigration bill is “Speaker Boehner not willing to call the bill on the floor of the House of Representatives.”
Earlier this month, House Democrats introduced their own version of an immigration bill in an attempt to spur Republican action after it appeared that momentum had stalled for immigration reform. The bill largely mirrors the Senate effort, while stripping out some border security provisions added to win Senate GOP votes.
At the time, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) told USA Today the measure was “basically the Senate bill.”
“I strongly oppose the Senate bill,” he said.
Republican leaders have instead favored a piecemeal approach to reform, saying that big legislation would be too unwieldy to implement.
But Democrats believe that Republicans simply hope to vote for beefed up border security and employment verification measures without also providing a pathway to citizenship for the nation’s workers who are in the U.S. illegally.
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