According to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll, November is looking positive for the GOP. Voter enthusiasm is looking a lot like it did back in 2010. There is a good chance they will maintain control of the House, and take back the Senate. The American people are finally waking up to the lies and failures of the current administration. So why would the Republicans be willing to risk all of that by pushing throughan Immigration Reform Bill that includes Amnesty for illegal immigrants before the mid-term election?
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), the No. 4 House Republican, said that amnesty legislation could come to the floor by August.
“I believe there is a path that we get a bill on the floor by August,” McMorris Rodgers said, according to the Spokesman-Review. “We’re going to have to push that this is a legal status, not amnesty,” she said.
Also, several other GOP lawmakers have echoed the same sentiment:
According to NBC 5, Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) “will soon introduce a bill that will establish a path to citizenship for the minor children of illegal immigrants and a guest worker program.”
“If the only illegal act they committed was coming into the country without proper documentation we’d put them on a path to legalization,” Barton said.
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) said the Republican leadership is “as close as we have ever been” and, though “it is still a big, big, heavy lift… I think we’re going to get there.”“I think we finally have the policy right,” Diaz-Balart told Roll Call. “And what we’re finding is more and more people out there as they’re seeing it, different aspects of the policy, are starting to say, ‘Hey, that is something that makes sense.’”
Rep. Peter King (R-NY) wrote to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), who has said he was “hellbent” on passing amnesty and mocked conservative opponents who opposed it, to let him know that he would support amnesty legislation because it would help the party.
But multiple studies and polls suggest that Amnesty will not only hurt the wages of the American worker, but will also hurt the political interest of the Republicans more than it will help. The Washington Post even states that an Amnesty bill could put Arizona and Texas seats in play for the Democrats.
When Republicans like Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) offer compromise by promoting temporary work visas to all of the country’s illegal immigrants, he was promptly criticized the next day by Hispanic leaders in Wisconsin who called him “offensive.” No matter what conservative leaders say or do, some people just refuse to accept their sincerity.
One of the problems we are here to address at Conservative First are the members of congress who have an “R” by their names, yet support liberal legislation for the purpose of political expediency. The GOP does not need to pander to the illegal immigrant population and go against its own principles of believing in the rule of law and securing our borders in order to win elections. What it needs to do is dispel the myth that its opponents have invented and capitalized on that to defend this nation and our economy by enforcing immigration laws equates discrimination against Hispanics.
The GOP does not need to alienate its conservative voter base in order to keep the House or take back the Senate. Their problem is still the inability to communicate their principles and sense of reason to the American people. If they keep calm and continue to mitigate the damage the Obama administration has caused to the best of their ability, they could find themselves in a stronger political position in November. But if they sacrifice their conservative principles and choose to pander to a new voter base with token legislation, they risk alienating true conservatives, their base, and actually lose seats.
They pandered to the left in the last two presidential elections by running centrist candidates. How is that working out?
