@TedCruz & The Broken Immigration Record: Heard This Bef–Heard This Bef–

Posted on | June 24, 2013 | 25 Comments

by Smitty

On Monday at 5:30pm, the United States Senate will vote on the most sweeping immigration reform proposal it has considered in almost 3 decades – and it will do so having only seen the nearly 1200 pages of text for approximately 72 hours. Americans – including myself, my fellow senators and our staffs – are still trying to figure out exactly what is in the new Schumer-Corker-Hoeven “deal.”
Sound familiar? Pass it to find out what’s in it? Reminiscent of Obamacare, the lengthy amendment to replace the Gang of 8’s original bill was crafted behind closed doors and introduced late on Friday, after many members had left town. In the 2007 immigration debate, close to 50 amendments were considered. But this year, we have only debated 9 – with some of us being completely shut out.
Given only a weekend to review the language, we will now vote on whether to end a debate that never really began. To be clear – this is not a difficult vote. On process alone, we should all vote “no.“ This was by design – the President, Harry Reid and the Gang of 8 preferred all along to ram through a “deal,” and not have a real debate – just like Obamacare.

Read the whole sordid account.
Via his petition link:
There really isn’t terribly much hope in the Senate. Meanwhile, to clip Drudge:

And as if all that didn’t suck enough:

Opponents of the Gang of Eight immigration bill have spent the weekend looking for hard-to-find changes in a piece of legislation that was substantially re-written by the Hoeven-Corker amendment. But there’s one big change that’s right out in the open — impossible to miss, in fact.
The original Gang bill ended with a section designated Title IV, which was headlined REFORMS TO NON-IMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAMS. The Hoeven-Corker version of the bill added a Title V, with the headline JOBS FOR YOUTH. The measure would provide $1.5 billion in the next two years to provide jobs for Americans between the ages of 16 and 24. It was originally pushed by Democratic Sen. Bernard Sanders, who wanted to come to the aid of young workers who were “hard hit by the Wall Street-caused recession.” Now, Sanders says immigration reform will further damage youth job prospects.

How rich would we all be if they’d just taken all of the giveaways, divided by the population, and cut us all a check? The answer is: no more rich, because proper economics don’t work the way this tooth-fairy government seems to think they do.
John Boehner, you’d better not go wobbly.

Category: Immigration, Red State, Republicans

Comments

25 Responses to “@TedCruz & The Broken Immigration Record: Heard This Bef–Heard This Bef–”

MrEvilMatt
June 24th, 2013 @ 7:58 am

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Lockestep1776
June 24th, 2013 @ 7:58 am

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jwbrown1969
June 24th, 2013 @ 7:58 am

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TheSonochic
June 24th, 2013 @ 8:01 am

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mistere7777
June 24th, 2013 @ 8:21 am

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mnrobot
June 24th, 2013 @ 8:21 am

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camp2478
June 24th, 2013 @ 8:22 am

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NeoWayland
June 24th, 2013 @ 8:37 am

I don’t agree with most of the existing law, but I think someone should try enforcing it before changing it. All of it. As written. No exceptions, waivers, or anything else.

All we know now is that this selective enforcement does not work. We don’t know anything else.

Except maybe that the government requiring your employer to spy on you is very, very creepy.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 24th, 2013 @ 8:51 am

Kaus has a good metaphor to describe this…
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 24th, 2013 @ 9:00 am

This bill is harmful to American workers…
Scribe of Slog (McGehee)
June 24th, 2013 @ 9:04 am

If you don’t give me time to understand what I’m voting on, I vote No. If you make what I’m voting on impossible to understand with a reasonable amount of effort, I vote No. If you do either of those things repeatedly, then on anything you offer me I vote NO.

How hard is it to adopt so sensible a principle?

Oops, silly me — this is the Senate we’re talking about, where “sensible” is a four-letter word..
Laree Lee
June 24th, 2013 @ 9:43 am

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FenelonSpoke
June 24th, 2013 @ 12:01 pm

I call it “Obamascare 2” I called both my Senators. One of a the usual corrupt tool of the Democrat Party and one is a Republican but he’s under pressure and I don’t know how he will vote. I told the Democrat’s office I was a registered Democrat who had voted for him in the past-which is true. I’ve been a registered Democrat for-well, donkey’s years and he’s been there for a long time, even though I haven’t voted Democrat since 2008. I said I would send money to his opponent in the next election. I told both of their offices that it’s terrible to vote for a huge bill they haven’t read AGAIN. I also send a can of sardines to Schumer and Rubio (who aren’t my Senators) and told them in English and Spanish the bill stunk like a dead fish.

Call or write your Senators even if they are Democrats.

Better to do that than sit and do nothing and moan.

ttp://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Evi L. Bloggerlady
June 24th, 2013 @ 12:48 pm

Separated by Evolving Ideology: Marco Rubio and…?
FenelonSpoke
June 24th, 2013 @ 12:57 pm

Whoops; I meant I call the bill Obamasnare 2. It is scary, but it is also a big snare
Becca Lower
June 24th, 2013 @ 1:29 pm

Did you see this fun little bit of the Amendment, Smitty? We’re going to reward Hong Kong with a special visa waiver!
PubliusNV
June 24th, 2013 @ 2:03 pm

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thatMrGguy
June 24th, 2013 @ 5:12 pm

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jetty
June 24th, 2013 @ 9:16 pm

I’m not sure who has disappointed me more – Roberts or Rubio.
bet0001970
June 24th, 2013 @ 9:17 pm

He did it for the sugar.
bet0001970
June 24th, 2013 @ 9:24 pm

My senators are Cornyn and Cruz. I think they’re pretty pissed right now. So I’m gonna stick my neck out, take a wild guess and say…they’re gonna vote: HELL NO!

But that’s just my take on it.
bet0001970
June 24th, 2013 @ 9:53 pm

Ok…this is TOTALLY off-topic and I’m sure I’m waaay behind on this because I don’t follow entertainers, but…WTF????

I don’t trust this. It’s like Hell has frozen over or something. HAS Hell frozen over? I mean that, seriously. If someone could check on that, I would appreciated it.

McCain…you live near Hell. Could you check the temperature at the Capitol?
Rich Vail
June 25th, 2013 @ 3:32 am

GOP Congressional leadership is part of the problem, not part of the solution. They’ve “Gone along to get along for so long” they can’t do anything else. I predict that this amnesty will give illegals their “dream”…and end up destroying the GOP and the country as well.