Report Says Obama Admin. Released 36K Criminal Illegal Aliens in 2013 That revelation was Wednesday. Given the very serious nature of the crimes and that the convicts were released into communities only pending deportation (do you think any of them will skip) one would think any talk of immigration reform would be dead.
One would be wrong. At least as reported in Drudge, some Republicans, and the Chamber of Commerce are not giving up.
Sadly however, given the revelations, it appears Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s sense of timing is off again. Although what he said about abandoning his comprehensive approach and admitting the focus must be on enforcement was not bad in and of itself, the concept of enforcement with Obama as President is a joke, Republican gaining control of the Senate notwithstanding . Here is an excerpt from Rubio’s remarks:
“I certainly think we can make progress on immigration, particularly on topics like modernizing our legal immigration system [and] improving our mechanisms for enforcing the law, and I think if you did those things you could actually make some progress on addressing those who are illegally,” Rubio said on Wednesday, according to The Hill.
But Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas sees enforcement by Obama as the joke that it is. A Homeland Security Committee member, Smith had additional revelations on Thursday:
“It’s actually worse than this 36,000,” said Smith. “There’s another 68,000 individuals who were charged with crimes, who were in our jails last year, who were also released without any effort to deport them.” . . .
“I have heard the speaker and other of our Republican leaders say that we can’t trust the president to enforce current immigration laws and I agree with them on that,” he said.
“If we can’t trust the president to enforce current immigration laws and in fact if they’re undermining immigration laws, the president can certainly not be trusted to enforce future immigration laws and this absolutely does slow down the process towards any kind of an amnesty bill.”
The Chamber of Commerce trough feeders certainly have not given up. “Comprehensive” immigration reform, as they have championed it, can be expected to spread the true costs of a ready supply of low wage employees onto taxpayers. When the Chamber speaks, hold the public purse. But perhaps we should understand that they are just trying to be helpful. This from Huffington Post which loves to quote the Chamber when it can split Republicans:
WASHINGTON — U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue promised Monday to keep pushing for immigration reform, quipping that the GOP should just stay home in the next presidential election if it doesn’t address the issue.
“If the Republicans don’t do it, they shouldn’t bother to run a candidate in 2016,” Donohue said at an event to discuss the nation’s infrastructure. “I mean, think about that. Think about who the voters are.”
Indeed, think about who the voters are. What a tool. Which reminds us:
US Chamber President Tom Donohue
Hollywood shill, Jack Valenti, R.I.P.
Ted Baxter
Never trust hair.
When it comes to immigration (and many other things for that matter), our Dear Leader has made the concept of “laws” obsolete. We now have a collection of “presidential whims”.