So what exactly happened when the chairman of the Republican National Committee met with immigration activists Wednesday? According to a news release put out by the activists, he said he would try and recruit Republican support for comprehensive immigration legislation.
The RNC says he made no such commitment. The immigration activist who led the meeting said he did, but then backpedaled after being signaled by a staffer that he may have gone too far.
Everyone agrees that Michael Steele, RNC chairman, met with a group of activists from the Fair Immigration Reform Movement. Afterwards, FIRM put out a statement implying that Steele was firmly in their camp. The statement said that the activists “walked away with a commitment from Steele to work with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) and the party’s leadership to enlist another Republican senator’s support for comprehensive and bipartisan immigration reform.”
Graham is working with Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York on an immigration bill, but has made it clear that he wants at least one other Republican on board before they introduce it. So far, that Republican has been hard to find. So news that Steele was helping with the recruitment was notable. And, from the other end of the political spectrum, it’s significant given the deep opposition among many Republicans to comprehensive legislation, which will surely include a path to citizenship for people who came to the U.S. illegally.
So did Steele walk into another sticky political mess?
No, the RNC said. Asked about the statement, RNC spokesman Doug Heye said “none of it is right” and said the meeting was an opportunity to listen to concerns and discuss the GOP’s “strong support of legal immigration.”
“Any claim that the RNC made any policy commitments is a clear misrepresentation,” Heye said in an email. He declined to answer further questions about the meeting.
Mary Moreno of the Center for Community Change, who released the original statement, referred Washington Wire to two of the activists who were in the room.
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Maybe they should have gone over to the strip club and talked it out
ReplyDeleteLinsey Gramnesty should be replaced in South Carolina. Illegal Immigration has to be stopped. This is a national security issue. If republicans sign on to this, they are done
ReplyDeleteIllegal immigrants violate our laws every single day. They use fraudulent documentation to obtain jobs, welfare and other benefits. Illegal alien females have 400,000 plus babies each year and we're supporting nearly all of them with natal care. The majority of foreign nationals won't learn the common language. Every U.S. citizen--resident in California and nationwide pays a tax for illegal immigration. They aren't poorly educated unless you count the 10K plus per child per year it costs to educate their children. They have nothing to offer but manual labor, which we have millions of American given the chance will do? They will be a huge financial burden on the rest of us if AMNESTY is forced through. Our immigration policy encourages diversity, multiculturalism, which is causing a major upheaval in Europe right now? With chain migration, we'll have tens of million more to support, who will sponsor the sick family members. Their kids are disrupting our schools holding back our English speaking students because they don't speak the language. California--a SANCTUARY STATE is in serious fiscal trouble from years of neglect, attributed to the Sacramento lawmakers giving welfare benefits to illegal immigrant families. This is observed from deterioration of public services, cut-backs in fireman, police and infrastructure erosion. Every state in the union is literary falling apart from not addressing years of neglect of bridges, dams, levees, highways, pot-holed city streets and empty promises from politicians. Ever state has serious consequences from the President Bush, Clinton administration from the illegal immigration invasion. Now we have a national emergency of the coming years Overpopulation, disruption of water supplies, electricity brownouts and reduce in natural resources. Any AMNESTY will immediately bring millions more crossing the border or flying in on tourist visas, with no intentions of leaving.
ReplyDeleteAs foreign nationals have more children, they need more government entitlements, legalizing them will propel our federal deficits into hundreds of billions of dollars. President Obama won't get any kind of amnesty passed as the majority of Americans who don't know about the major impact of illegal immigration. They will surely know about it by the end of any public debates, through TV, unbiased media or radio awareness. We want birthright citizenship for legal residents only, not a contradiction to the law for freed slaves? We want E-Verify permanent and for very worker, even for those who have been employed for 20 years. We want to heavily fine those employ them, with business asset confiscation and even prison. No CEO, executive should be immune from incarceration, if they defy the PEOPLE'S LAWS?. We want our borders secure with the National Guard deployed and armed against drug smugglers, criminals and insurgents. Our US Border Patrol is under-funded, undermanned and will be victims of narcotic incursions in the growing war. The only people who want them here are the real left wing Democrats and Latinos, so they can keep the Liberals in power and Republicans for cut throat labor. It’s NOT going to happen because the rest of us will fight it, specifically now with upwards to 15 million Americans seeking work.
there is no difference between the republicans and the democrats on this issue. they both want them here. just for different reasons. the democrats want their vote, and the republicans want them to lower wages! It's gonna happen sooner or later! tthe rest of us be damned!
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