It seems that one of our four RINOs who took part in that now rather infamous ‘Gang of Eight’ appears to have now begun to actively spew the same idiotic mantra that we have continued to hear from his fellow ‘Gang’ member, none other than Chuckie Schumer. You see, according to Arizona RINO, Jeff Flake, immigration reform is likely to pass Congress next year, and he’s now joined the chorus of those saying that doing so is absolutely vital if the GOP is to have any chance of winning the presidency in 2016. I think Mr. Flake has been spending a touch too much time in the Arizona sun.
Anyway it was during a Wednesday appearance on Fox News Channel's "Special Report" that Flake said he had expected a comprehensive immigration bill to pass this year, but those hopes were dashed after the primary election defeat fellow RINO, and House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor. Flake said, Cantor's loss to Tea Party challenger Dave Brat was the "death knell" for immigration reform in the current session. So it would seem that the only way those of us who oppose amnesty now have to get our point across is to work toward defeating as many of those as we can who seem to favor it.
Republicans have said, and quite correctly, that the current influx of illegal border crossings prove that Barry wasn't truthful when he said back in 2010 that the border was more secure than ever. His statement was seen as intended to be a pretext for passing a comprehensive immigration bill. Still, Flake told Fox News, in the form of what I’m not was meant as a threat or a warning, that he thinks a bill could pass in 2015. All that means is that the 2014 election just became all that much more important. Because come 2015 we’ll have to way to retaliate. We’d have to wait until 2016.
Flake said, "I'm among those who think if Republicans want a shot at national office, we've got to deal with this in a responsible way. The purpose, he added, is not just to appeal to Hispanic voters, but to appeal to Americans who expect Republicans to be rational, reasonable and responsible. This boob is obviously another one of those on our side who seem to have bought into the myth that somehow all of these newly minted citizens will vote for Republicans. But who these people will be voting for are the ones promising to give them all ‘free’ stuff, otherwise those known as the Democrats!
Flake says that he thinks the solution to the current crisis is to change the 2008 law that prohibits quick deportation of children from non-border countries. The unaccompanied minors flooding the border are primarily from three Central American countries plagued with high poverty and crime. Republicans argue that the crime and poverty, while a real issue in those countries, have not significantly increased over the course of the past few years. Instead, they say, the influx of children has been caused by a 2012 executive order by Barry that gave hope that the children would be granted some form of legal status.
The one area where I do agree with Flake is where he told Fox News, "As soon as we actually take a planeload of children and go back to Guatemala and El Salvador and Honduras, that's what will stop it." He went on to say, "When a parent or relative in those countries who just paid . . . up to $7,000 to a smuggler to take that child into the country, when they see those planeloads of the kids coming back, it will stop." And just yesterday I read where we would be able to send every one of these kids back to where they came from for $8 Million. That would seem cheap at twice the price.
Personally I’m more than a little confused as to why it is that we simply choose not enforce the many immigration laws already on the books. Why is it that those on our side feel the need to agree to some new immigration law? They keep saying that the current system is broken, but from where I’m standing the only part of our current system that seems to be broken is the part that calls for enforcement of present laws. It seems to me that when we have so many other issues in need of attention, this one is consuming far too much time and energy. All we need to do is to properly enforce existing laws and to stop suing the states who are trying to do just that.
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