Our less than brilliant Speaker of the House, John Boehner, has, apparently, once again demonstrated the ease with which he can simply ignore the opinion of the American people as he chooses, instead, to side with those in our party who favor a more lenient immigration policy. Because, according to The Hill, a Republican version of the Dream Act has won the support of Speaker Boehner, who said just today, Wednesday, the bill is "about basic fairness" for children brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents.
In signaling his willingness to support the bill being written by fellow RINOs, Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlate, both Virginia Republicans, and supposed conservatives, Boehner said, "These children were brought here of no accord of their own, and frankly they're in a very difficult position." Boehner added, "And I think many of our members believe that this issue needs to be addressed." Personally, I fail to understand why it matters how anybody who is here illegally, got here?
The bill would be the first effort by the Republican-controlled House to tackle an immigration issue that includes a path to citizenship, even though it would apply to a far smaller group of immigrants when compared with the Senate-passed immigration bill that addresses citizenship for 11 million illegal aliens. The Judiciary Committee will hold its first hearing on the proposal next week. But there should be NO discussion on a so-called path to citizenship until the issue of securing our border has been thoroughly discussed and settled.
House committees have so far focused their efforts on border security and guest worker issues, with some Republicans in the House arguing that the Senate's proposed path to citizenship is nothing more than an amnesty program for those immigrants who broke the law to come here. Boehner said it is too early to tell whether the House would take up a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants in its effort to come up with a package of immigration reforms. Sadly, we should never careless enough to believe anything than Boehner says.
"The committees are doing their work," Boehner said. "We're going about this in a common-sense, step-by-step approach, and we're trying to be deliberative about how we deal with all of these issues, both fixing the problem of border security [and] internal enforcement, how to fix a broken legal immigration system, and yes, we've got the problem of those who are here that are undocumented." I guess I’m still not convinced that that ‘new’ legislation is actually needed. I mean is there some reason that we can’t simply enforce the laws already on the books?
Previous attempts at a Dream Act directed at immigrants who arrived in the U.S. as children have repeatedly failed in both the House and Senate. Last June, in the midst of a presidential campaign, Barry "Almighty", as been the case countless times over the course of his presidency, simply used his executive powers to essentially give those same immigrants protections from deportation. It was a move seen as being nothing more than a blatant bid to win a majority of Hispanic voters. And, it worked.
It is imperative that we be very watchful of our leadership in the House, as well as of members like Paul Ryan. None of these players are the conservatives that they would like us to believe that they are. Most have no problem telling us one thing in public only to say something quite different once they get behind closed doors. And, quite honestly, we have no idea, whatsoever, of the level to which we are being betrayed. We have to make sure that they are fully aware of the fact that we are watching them, and that we will no longer accept being lied to.
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