Sen. Kelly Ayotte endorsed the Senate Gang of Eight immigration reform bill Sunday, providing a major lift to the bipartisan effort.
Really? When has there ever been any doubt that she would vote for it? She is joined at the hip with McCain and Graham.
"Our immigration system is completely broken," the New Hampshire Republican said on CBS’s "Face the Nation," and the immigration reform legislation is "a thoughtful, bipartisan solution to a tough problem."
Ayotte went on to praise the border security provisions, the E-Verify program that secures employment verification data and the system for high-skilled workers.The bill is particularly crucial, she said, to ensure that "we don’t have another wave of illegal immigration."
Yes, just like the 1986 bill way. Which also promised border security and required employment verification.
Ayotte also hailed the bill’s mechanisms to bring the U.S.’s current undocumented immigrants "out of the shadows" and offer them a "tough but fair" way to earn citizenship. Making them pay taxes, pass a background check and learn English is the right way to handle a difficult problem, she said…
They will not pay any more in taxes than they do now. Most won’t pay income tax. Instead, they will get money from taxpayers. Plus Obama-Care and welfare.
Besides, who is ‘in the shadows’ these days, thanks to NSA? ((BTW, it turns out that our government could easily find the illegal aliens in our country and help round them up if they wanted to.)
Meanwhile, we have this from the Politico:
John Boehner begins to sketch immigration plan
By SEUNG MIN KIM and JAKE SHERMAN | June 9, 2013
Speaker John Boehner has been stunningly silent about his plans to move immigration reform through the House. But privately, the Ohio Republican is beginning to sketch out a road map to try to pass some version of an overhaul in his chamber — a welcome sign for proponents of immigration reform.
And an unwelcome sign for anyone concerned about our country, or even the future of the Republican Party.
If his goal is met, it’ll be a busy few weeks.
The speaker wants House committees — Judiciary has primary jurisdiction — to wrap up their work on a version of immigration legislation before the July 4 recess. And he would like immigration reform to see a House vote before Congress breaks in August…
That is, he wants to ram their amnesty bill through before these Congressmen go home and hear from their constituents.
It’s an ambitious plan, considering House leadership has not yet settled on what bill it will advance.
Nitpickers.
Boehner’s thinking, and the fact that Republican leadership is willing to discuss the process for immigration reform, represents a significant shift and suggests a new urgency for Republican leadership. It is a moderately good sign for the prospects of immigration reform in the House…
All we ever hear is the ‘reform proponents’ side of things.
Republican leadership prefers to move immigration reform in pieces, rather than a large bill. But that’s pure procedural calculation, since a House-passed bill would have to be meshed with any Senate bill before it is sent to the White House…
A standoff over health care for undocumented immigrants was the final roadblock for House negotiators, but that was settled when Labrador dropped out of the negotiations over the dispute.
“Without any outstanding issues to resolve, our bill is nearly ready,” one Democratic aide familiar with the House discussions said Sunday…
In fact, the conservative Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho) has dropped out of the negotiations because he is convinced they are going to give illegal Obama-Care. So it looks like that is a done deal.
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