I can’t wait to work with Obama on immigration, says … John Cornyn?
posted at 8:50 pm on April 10, 2009 by Allahpundit
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That John Cornyn? The Republican from Texas? Who, as head of the NRSC, is counting on our contributions to help elect Republican senators next year? Whose most memorable contribution to the last amnesty debate was serving as a target for a nasty F-bomb attack by amnesty shill-in-chief John McCain?
Dude?
I applaud President Obama’s commitment to addressing comprehensive immigration reform this year, and stand ready to work with him to produce a product that represents the best interests of America, including respect for the rule of law, national security and economic security
I know, I know — it’s press-release boilerplate aimed at demonstrating Cornyn’s bipartisan spirit. It’s not the statement that surprises me, though, it’s his reference to “comprehensive” reform, a byword on the right for amnesty. Why go there? I don’t understand either why he’s gung ho to deal with the issue this year either rather than hold off until after the midterms in hopes that the GOP can pick up a seat or two in the interim — unless, armed with the NRSC’s projections, he thinks the odds of that happening are so long that we’re better off taking our chances now. Gulp.
Or, maybe he’s crazy like a fox. VDH on why the great Democratic hope might not be:
This year’s immigration lead-ins on the evening news are not Minutemen on the border and poor immigrants wandering the desert deprived of water by cruel Americans, but lines of Americans at job fairs, reports that the unemployed are looking for any sort of work that they can get their hands on, and a brutality and savagery right across the border every bit as disturbing as what we’ve seen on jihadist videos.
What will cause polarization is a radical Democratic drive now for de facto amnesty without border closure — at a time of rising unemployment here at home and utter chaos and violence in Mexico.
The public’s appetite for amnesty while the economy’s still comatose will almost surely be weaker than it’ll be during an economic recovery next year or the year after. Is that what Cornyn’s thinking? Or is he ready to make a play for Hispanic voters by going the full McCain route here?
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Let’s hope it’s the first one or else we’re even more doomed than we first thought.
Kronos on April 10, 2009 at 8:53 PM
Republicans seem to have a death wish. Every single week one or more of them indicate they are in the wrong party – unless they’re trojan-horses!
Hal-9000 on April 10, 2009 at 8:55 PM
Face it, Republicans need hispanic votes. You’ll see a number of them flip, IMO..
therightwinger on April 10, 2009 at 8:56 PM
I hope we get ‘clarification’ from him soon…this is nuts!
AUINSC on April 10, 2009 at 8:56 PM
John is going to go with grandstanding. That might change after the coming Tea Party. There is fight in him, but you have to keep reminding him you are always looking for his spine.
Limerick on April 10, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Republican politicians just don’t f’ing get it. The are so clueless about how to lead themselves out of the wilderness.
Third party time?
Nessuno on April 10, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Republicans are NEVER going to get the hispanic vote. How many election cycles is it going to take before the idiots realize that.
Hal-9000 on April 10, 2009 at 8:59 PM
Cornyn knows that tackling this ‘issue’, helping the poor and helpless illegal aliens that have to hide in the shadows, except when the march in the streets, demanding rights, and going to the welfare office to get food stamps and rent assistance for their anchor babies, is going to bring on a firestorm. Americans are suffering. Americans need help. It is time for the teat to be taken out of the illegal aliens’ mouths and send them back home.
Americans are going to DEMAND it!
HornetSting on April 10, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Obama said the economy is healed (along with the oceans, I presume). So if not amnesty now, when?
Spirit of 1776 on April 10, 2009 at 9:01 PM
It’s good cop, bad cop.
Basically, the RNC/NRCC/NRSC/RGA will play good cop. They will be nominally open to this stuff to avoid being tarred with the racist/nativist/anti-Latino label.
The pro-border enforcement movement organizations like NumbersUSA will be bad cop mobilizing support against amnesty legislation and against politicians who support amnesty legislation.
this may turn out to be a good thing for border enforcement folks, because they can beat up on both Rs and Ds, and more easily present themselves as bipartisan and potentially expand their membership with “silent” anti-amnesty types on the Left (they do exist).
Robert_Paulson on April 10, 2009 at 9:02 PM
If not some sort of amnesty over time tied to the completion of “the fence”, what?
Do you really think 15-20 million people are going back to Mexico?
toliver on April 10, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Let’s change the question:
Do you really think 15-20 million more Mexicans will sneak into America?
Limerick on April 10, 2009 at 9:05 PM
work with him to produce a product that represents the best interests of America, including respect for the rule of law, national security and economic security
…..
Rope a dope?
artist on April 10, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Yes, millions more will continue to seek a better life here. Mexico sucks. Let’s complete the fence.
Do you really think 15-20 million people are going back to Mexico?
toliver on April 10, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Clearly my strongly worded e-mail to Senator Cornyn fell upon deaf ears. Either that or he’s mocking me.
rihar on April 10, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Didn’t Bush get at least 40% of the hispanic vote?? An extremist position of immigration is political suicide.
therightwinger on April 10, 2009 at 9:10 PM
That depends. How many Mexicans are left in Mexico now?
Ars Moriendi on April 10, 2009 at 9:11 PM
I was told by Cornyn’s people when I called during the Amnesty Debacle, that he was strongly opposed to it.
It was Kay Bailey Hutchinson that we were worried about.
I don’t think that Cornyn is that stupid, since it is Texas that will be most affected by this disaster.
I still think that Bush destroyed the Republican Party when he heavily pushed this thing for no apparent reason at all, outside of some meaningless “legacy” issue. By that time, his Presidency was kaput, but he then pushed his own Party over the cliff with this idiotic and devisive piece of legislation. A very stupid man, imho.
TexasJew on April 10, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Yep. He is a tad bit aloof. I get more mail from that gal up in Minnesota I donated to then I get from Cornyn.
Limerick on April 10, 2009 at 9:12 PM
“…including respect for the rule of law, national security and economic security.”
OK…rule of law.
Ok…national security.
OK…economic security.
I interpret this to mean, no amnesty for illegals. No benefits for illegals. Continued round-up and deportation of illegals, despite Obama’s aunt being part of it all. Serious and harsh punishments for those who knowingly hire illegals. Completion of a defendable and well-delineated border along our southern boundary. An up-to-date state of the art visa system established, and controls placed on who gets in and when and why.
So, if Cornyn strays from any of these basics, he is toast in my book.
coldwarrior on April 10, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Republicans need American votes………
……… they need to get out of the ‘Belt Way’ a little more often.
I am sick of our tax dollars going to pay for groups like La Raza so they can lobby day and night while the rest of us work to pay for it………..
Note to Washington, D.C.:
“Look out your window on April 15th!”
Seven Percent Solution on April 10, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Oh boy, Obama in the White House and bring in mexicans? The blacks are already hopping mad that the mexicans will replace them as the victims. Hey, white people, let’s all just leave. That’s what the people like Cornyn, McCain, etc. want. Let them figure out who pays for everything they spend. What in the h.ll is wrong with Cornyn. I’m going to go buy new shoes tomorrow – we have lots of marching to do…
suzyk on April 10, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Let’s hope he is setting a trap…stating that he was willing all along to work with the president, but he is just too arrogant and beholding to special interests to do the right thing…let’s hope…
right2bright on April 10, 2009 at 9:18 PM
Why don’t these guys die with honor instead of bowing to political pressure – every … single … time.
For cryin’ out loud – life is not fair. I’ve seen young people in the morgue – not fair. I’ve seen Iraq vets with limbs amputated – not fair.
Play the hand you are dealt and live on principle. If it doesn’t go your way – then you can still sleep with yourself at night.
HondaV65 on April 10, 2009 at 9:20 PM
Methinks so.
ericdijon on April 10, 2009 at 9:20 PM
And that goes for the RINOs still in office. They are liars, but aren’t capable of the kind of guile wishful thinkers might hope. They’re idiots. All they know how to do is betray the base and the nation.
McCain would be president if he’d have pulled Bush II’s shivs out of the backs of American citizens.
Feedie on April 10, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Republicans are NEVER going to get the hispanic vote. How many election cycles is it going to take before the idiots realize that.
Hal-9000 on April 10, 2009 at 8:59 PM
I agree. The welfare mentality down here is very strong and even with the conservative Hispanic Catholic vote, the Republicans are quite weakened. Amnesty is simply a way to demographically destroy the Republican Party, plain and simple.
Moreover, there is no upside to a “me-too” McCainite form of Republicanism, since the now-legalized mojados will be right on the welfare and food stamp lines and will be beholden to the Democrats for generations.
The best hope for the Republicans is to stop pandering and push a consistently logical conservative message. That sort of thing is very attractive to Hispanics, who are, in the main, quite conservative in many ways.
Don’t confuse the black and Hispanic voters; there is a vast difference in both their world outlooks and value systems.
When people see Republicans consistently pandering like the Democrats, that is the end of it.
TexasJew on April 10, 2009 at 9:23 PM
I don’t believe comprehensive immigration reform.
Whatever changes need to be made, need to be done piecemeal.
Until then, can we just follow the laws we have?
Rae on April 10, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Sorry, didn’t mean to ignore your answer to my question (the wife was holler’n again)…
Yes I do….just as soon as we make it impossible for an undocumented worker to be employed. The employers are no better then the drug users. They prop up the coyotes just as the dopers prop up the drug slavers.
Limerick on April 10, 2009 at 9:24 PM
I’ve never been a fan of the “Give your opponent enough rope to hang himself” strategy.
Skywise on April 10, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Bipartisanship; doesn’t that mean pussies giving in to bullies? Am I going to have to run for congress in 2010?
Tommy_G on April 10, 2009 at 9:27 PM
If you cut off the jobs being given to illegal aliens and give them to American citizens AND cut off the welfare and the bastardization of the 14th amendment, giving the leaches a foothold in this country, yes they will leave.
I have a question. IF Obama decides to make these ‘12 to 15 million’ lawbreakers amnesty, does he really think that the employers employeeing them now are really going to pay a living wage, pay taxes on them, and pay insuances such as workman’s comp? I think not. Now, we will have ‘12 to 15 million’ lawbreakers that are now OUR responsiblity.
HornetSting on April 10, 2009 at 9:28 PM
John Amnesty McCain got 31% this past election. Doesn’t matter.
HornetSting on April 10, 2009 at 9:29 PM
Republicans need to stop pandering on the amnesty issue and start accentuating the fact that the Hispanic culture is a very religious, family-oriented and hard working people. They just need to be reminded that they have more in common with conservatives than they do with liberals.
carbon_footprint on April 10, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Do you really think 15-20 million people are going back to Mexico?
toliver on April 10, 2009 at 9:09 PM
A lot of them are going back. With the construction industry on its ass (those were the prime jobs for the mojado workers – if you had stood outside any Home Depot last year, you’d have seen the lines of men (now long gone) waiting to be picked up by the construction jobbers) – and now that unemployment is rising, the American electorate is not ready to push down scarce wages down to Third World levels voluntarily.
TexasJew on April 10, 2009 at 9:30 PM
It’s hard to imagine that with unemployment at 8.5% any American’s will endorse this idea but there can be no compromise on border security.
Cindy Munford on April 10, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Notice the symbology behind Cornyn – A Red Star next to the word ‘Congress’. Have the Soviets in Washington finally coming out into the open?
SeniorD on April 10, 2009 at 9:31 PM
a. that 40% myth has been widely discrediyed
b. it is not extremist to enforce us law
angryed on April 10, 2009 at 9:33 PM
‘Comprehensive’ can mean many things; like a ‘comprehensive border wall.
One big question: what about all the jobs held here by H1Bs??
michaelo on April 10, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Comprehensive anything, like Alpacas, make me nervous.
HornetSting on April 10, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Well, I think that Cornyn is preparing “the racists” and the “nativists” to get “real” AND support “comprehensive” reform.
Get Ready for G-HOP (Grand Hispanic and Old Party)! Bush did after all run on compassionate conservatism.. as in be compassionate enough to allow for a steady stream of illegal immigrants or otherwise be ready for one party rule..
But curiously the more GOP politicians pander to Hispanics, the more they move away from the party.
But Cornyn will do something “comprehensive” and get back the Hispanic vote ! May be he should ask for ACORNs help in this matter.
How will Americans react to one party controlling all branches of Govt for long periods of time with the opposition party clearly on its death bed ?
nagee76 on April 10, 2009 at 9:35 PM
Realistically, we need to “move-on” from the idea of completing the Fence on the border.
If we mine the border, nobody will even attempt to invade us. And it’s a helluva lot cheaper!
realitycheck on April 10, 2009 at 9:37 PM
The issue is wrongly defined as a “hispanic” issue. It is a “poor, illiterate” issue. As in amnesty will give voting rights to 15 million migrant workers, of whom 14.99 million will vote for the politician who gives them the most free stuff. This isn’t an immigration reform bill. It is a path to 3rd World socialism bill.
angryed on April 10, 2009 at 9:39 PM
“Republicans need to stop pandering on the amnesty issue and start accentuating the fact that the Hispanic culture is a very religious, family-oriented and hard working people”
+1.
nagee76 on April 10, 2009 at 9:40 PM
I’m not sure where Cornyn is going with this (he’s one of my Senators)…
maybe he’s going to “help” Ogabe, the same way Teddy Kennedy “helped” President Bush get his immigration bill through…oh wait.
Seriously, the Dems own immigration reform now. God help them!
(I think Zero-bama’s insane to even *think* about this now–he has plenty of other problems that he hasn’t “fixed” yet!)
Add to the fact that a think a lot of the people screaming about amnesty the last time weren’t all Republicans or Conservatives; in fact, betcha a great deal of them were Dems, Indies or squishy Conservatives who are dead set against anything that has even the whiff of amnesty about it, especially in this economy and job climate.
Cornyn may very well “help,” watch the fur fly and look like a good guy to all his constituents in Texas, both illegals and citizens.
Maybe very smart–stay tuned.
Jenfidel on April 10, 2009 at 9:40 PM
I haven’t met a congressman or senator yet who could figure out how that turtle got on top of the fence post.
Limerick on April 10, 2009 at 9:41 PM
People forget that the majority of “Hispanic” United States Citizens…………..
…………….. voted for Prop. 187 in California.
Seven Percent Solution on April 10, 2009 at 9:47 PM
What the? Seriously, I have no idea what you are saying. En anglais si vous plait
angryed on April 10, 2009 at 9:47 PM
Dude, you just went full McCaine. You NEVER go full McCaine.
Yes I just called McCaine’s stance on immigration retarded.
oddjob1138 on April 10, 2009 at 9:48 PM
I have to say this shocks me. I was figuring on another thread that our friend, the other John, would be the one coming out to kiss the ring, I mean, bow to obama and his amnesty. I guess Cornyn beat him to it.
HornetSting on April 10, 2009 at 9:49 PM
First of all, as for the border, and immigration, I believe that reciprocity should be the framework.
Take Mexico. What do they do about illegal immigrants to Mexico? What about legal visa holders? Can they purchase property? Can they change jobs at will? Are they afforded government-provided benefits?
If it is good enough for Mexico, then it is good enough for us to pattern our handling of illegals that same way, and visa holders the same way.
Second, we are the only major industrialized nation in the world with absolutely no comprehensive rule of law dealing with immigration…legal and illegal.
Until we get a solid handle on overall immigration, we will soon find ourselves to be another overpopulated Third World nation.
To be certain, I am in favor of legal immigration and have found overall legal immigrants to this nation are perhaps more intelligent about our history, our government and are for the most part some of the hardest working, and smart working, people I have ever encountered….compared to the average Americans on the street these days, it seems, who think government should provide for all needs.
But, face it…we have NO idea at all as to how many illegal immigrants are within our borders, from which countries they come, and how much they cost our economy daily.
So, Citizen Cornyn, before you let the influence of the God King Obama influence you…perhaps establishing some baseline figures, verifiable figures, first…across the board…might be a good place to start before you continue to try to appease anyone, including the present Administration or the Hispanic vote.
Lots of Hispanics have put a lot of hard effort over generations helping to build this nation…and they did so under the rule of law, too. Why offer advantages to line cutters on the backs of those Hispanics who have been here for generations and worked their way to prosperity?
coldwarrior on April 10, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Obtuse, unedumatkated, porch humor. You are right about dragging socialist ideas along with them across the border. Not one politician, Red or Blue, ever says it aloud. They just scratch their chin and figure that turtle must belong on that fence post.
Limerick on April 10, 2009 at 9:54 PM
Yes, just like most of the other republicans in the congress right now he is a fraud and a sell out.
paulsur on April 10, 2009 at 9:57 PM
The question is not how difficult it would be to deport them, but how easy — if our leaders had spines:
This is a great article and debunks the myth of how haaarrrd it would be to crack down.
Feedie on April 10, 2009 at 9:58 PM
I wonder why illegals, considering how they seem generally treated here, would even want citizenship. What thing of value would they have as citizens that they do not have already?
DarkKnight3565 on April 10, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Or unless, living in a DC bubble and assailed by relentless push-polling and media control of the narrative in favor of whatever Democrats want, they have been completely conditioned to respond to the concerns of the media, instead of those of their constituents.
I suspect it is the latter.
drunyan8315 on April 10, 2009 at 9:59 PM
google operation wetback
paulsur on April 10, 2009 at 10:00 PM
In addition, for the past six months, there has been a re-migration back to Mexico for thousands of illegals, citing, among other things, the lack of jobs, the lack of respect they get, and the overall enmity of Americans towards them.
If it works…
coldwarrior on April 10, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Haul one or two employers into court for supporting human trafficking and you’ll see bumper to bumper traffic headed south. Tears or no tears, I don’t get a damn.
Limerick on April 10, 2009 at 10:07 PM
give (imported keyboard be damned)
Limerick on April 10, 2009 at 10:08 PM
I hope Cornyn’s wet finger’s reading of the gulf winds is wrong, but I suspect he is prescient.
My DH came to California from Mexico as a toddler and is a patriotic American through and through. Still, when he is being a brat, sometimes I like to tease him by threatening, “Don’t make me take Texas away from you again.”
Maybe Obama will negotiate with Mexico and give them Texas, although I would miss the San Antonio Riverwalk.
Terrie on April 10, 2009 at 10:12 PM
I would miss my entire family residing in Texas.
Let me enlighten you, as a Texan trapped in New Mexico Hell:
Cold Dead Hands and Remember the Alamo.
They still mean something in Texas.
HornetSting on April 10, 2009 at 10:16 PM
They could stop this insanity with eVerify TODAY but they don’t. Democrats don’t care about the country only the next election.
I’m so sick of politicians rewarding illegal behavior. Atlas is shrugging.
Mojave Mark on April 10, 2009 at 10:20 PM
Read the quote folks.
The rule of law, national security, the man is talking about securing the border
conservnut on April 10, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Cornyn will never get my vote again if he goes this way. Kay Bailey lost my vote with the SCHIP vote. We have as many ESL (English as a second language) classes as we do regular in my town. The majority of the kids in Kindergarten here do not speak any English. You cannot tell me they are legal.
TXMomof3 on April 10, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Good point…I agree…read it again. If you understand Cornyn, then he’s really just triangulating a bit here (which is good). He’s not declaring he’s for amnesty, however you interpret ‘comprehensive’. He’s just playing the game in a smart way…feeding some line out to the fish. I get it.
AUINSC on April 10, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Yep, Cornyn is a smart cookie. And a damn site better of a senator than Kay Bailey. I’m proud to have him representing me.
conservnut on April 10, 2009 at 10:31 PM
I already voted against Cornyn last November, I intend on voting against Hutchinson if she runs for governor or her senate seat again…they both suck.
Dr Evil on April 10, 2009 at 10:35 PM
He voted just the way Bush wanted him to. Here is the Tally notice who voted for the bailouts…I did.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/24/300-million-mortgage-bailout-steams-ahead-in-senate-83-9/
Dr Evil on April 10, 2009 at 10:37 PM
As an American or as these politicians like to categorize me, “Latina” I am SICK of the pandering. Respect people of different races as Americans not a category.
Illegals are ILLEGALLY breaking the law. Why should I or other Americans, be pushed aside to aid these men and women who knowingly break the law? It is time for these politicians to do their jobs and protect the American people and abide by the laws of this country.
Show strength not weakness.
jencab on April 10, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Here’s Cornyn voting yea to the Crap Sandwich.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/01/the-senate-votes-crap-sandwich-20/
Dr Evil on April 10, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Yep here he is again.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/26/the-bo-republicans-who-voted-for-geithner-and-video-of-inhofes-statement/
Dr Evil on April 10, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Whoops! Sorry, that is not good at all….changed my mind…Cornyn is a tosser. When I see DeMint and Sessions on the Nay side of that vote, I know which side is the right one.
You need to have a talk with your boy there.
AUINSC on April 10, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Any Republican who thinks he’s going to screw this nation with amnesty had better be prepared for the living hell he is walking into.
The dems, we already know, are America-hating traitors, so there’s nothing that can be done about them.
progressoverpeace on April 10, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Maybe he’s gungho for the issue because he thinks it’ll piss off the public even more at the Dems. and have a positive impact in the mid-terms.
The interesting question is where will McCain stand on it this time around?
LINK
It sounds like ol’ John may feel like taking all that grief for supporting amnesty wasn’t worth it.
John_R on April 10, 2009 at 11:32 PM
I am thinking that it is a smart move to have “immigration reform” take center stage this year..it will keep it on the front burner for the mid terms..look at the outcry when it was debated before… it can only help for the mid term elections.
JKotthoff on April 10, 2009 at 11:32 PM
McCain didn’t get 1/10000th the grief he deserved from trying to foist that treasonous amnesty on us. He got off easy and he’s still too stupid to understand that.
progressoverpeace on April 10, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Blue Dogs will kill this reincarnation of Amnesty…the GOP’s only play is to pander for appearances’ sake. Good luck outpandering the Panderer-in-Chief, though.
Kid from Brooklyn on April 10, 2009 at 11:55 PM
I think it’s a smart move. Cornyn/Kyl had their own bill that was never given any consideration by Specter. They weren’t even allowed to offer amendments to the McCain/Kennedy Bill during conference to insert elements of their plan. If they had succeeded with their bill, we’d have this situation resolved without any amnesty or path to citizenship.
Texas Gal on April 11, 2009 at 12:04 AM
Maybe…but the again, DeMint and Sessions are the authorities on non-amnesty immigration reform in my book. They are the enforcement-first guys. What most Americans want. Why is Cornyn/Kyl on the other side of the issue if they have it all figured out. Something else is going on here with Cornyn and I don’t like it.
AUINSC on April 11, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Who says Cornyn is on the other side of the issue?
Texas Gal on April 11, 2009 at 12:32 AM
Right above, clicky:
AUINSC on April 11, 2009 at 12:37 AM
Sorry, that was another place where Cornyn voted the wrong side….for his shamnesty vote, here it is:
AUINSC on April 11, 2009 at 12:39 AM
This is what the CRF wants, they will have their way, regardless of whether you want it or not. Every politician answers to Cartel whether they know it or not. Wall Street owns these people.
The conspiracy is alive and well.
True_King on April 11, 2009 at 12:58 AM
Excuse, meant to write “CFR.”
True_King on April 11, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Thanks for the links but neither of them are referenced to Cornyn’s position on illegal immigration. Actually he attempted to kill the bill by inserting an amendment that would gut the Z-visas. It was an artfully crafted amendment and his speech on the Senate floor was outstanding.
Texas Gal on April 11, 2009 at 12:59 AM
Thanks for the info, but that will not happen in today’s world. Not to insult you, but one would have to be drinking copious amounts of booze to even suggest that as a possibility.
Now if the US was nuked by a Mexican terrorist organization, then maybe.
Passersby, here’s the goofy link referenced:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback
As conservatives, we should be in touch with reality:
So I ask again:
Do you really think 15-20 million people are going back to Mexico?
Get real people.
toliver on April 11, 2009 at 1:04 AM
Pick your poison, political suicide or the North American Union.
Once amnesty is passed, there will never be a fence, amnesty will simply be used as a reason to further integrate the 3 nations.
All you have to do is test them by their fruits. Have they built a fence? No, despite the overwhelming popularity of having one built. Why? Because they want full integration between nations. They don’t SAY it, that’s why you test them by their fruit, in other words, by what they do or don’t do.
True_King on April 11, 2009 at 1:04 AM
You’re right…I stand corrected…Sorry to everybody about not fully reading the link. I’m guilty of being a ‘Skimmer’ in this case.
AUINSC on April 11, 2009 at 1:18 AM
The Pres. has a La Raza hand in his pocket and he has his hand in theirs, Saul Alinsky would be proud.
Look for many bait and switch piecemeal victories culminating in midnight amnesty.
Speakup on April 11, 2009 at 1:22 AM
They mostly will if we shove them. They mostly will not if we don’t.
Shove them.
Troll Feeder on April 11, 2009 at 1:31 AM
They “mostly will”??? Do you know how many people 15-20 million is? We’d be lucky as hell to get 5% back. Mexico could barely handle even that amount. Be realistic man.
If it comes down to it, being jobless here is far better than jobless there. I wouldn’t go back for anything. They won’t go back either.
toliver on April 11, 2009 at 1:48 AM
I have a friend that was born in Texas but his mother speaks no English. His father immigrated legally from Mexico and became a citizen thanks to his service in the U.S. Armed Forces. They own and operate a small chain of Tex-Mex restaurants which are modestly successful.
This is a whole family of Latino Republicans that voted for Dubya multiple times as governor and president, but my friend told me that he and most of his family vehemently disagreed with Bush on… you guessed it: immigration.
To this family of hard working Latino Republicans, Bush’s amnesty stance was what they hated about the guy. And I’m not exaggerating when I tell you that my friend’s attitude towards illegal immigrants (and he admitted to occasionally hiring them as a favor for temporary work–basically as charity) is so hardcore that I fear that if I, as el hombre blanco, typed it on this blog I’d have my comment stuck in moderation and potentially flagged as violent hate speech.
Look, I know Republicans won’t have LULAC and La Raza on their side if they push English only, but they sure don’t win friends in the truly hard-working Latino community by offering amnesty to illegal Mexican workers. Those are the guys who left Mexico looking for an alternative to their crappy feudalistic oligarchy; to many of them true Republican ideals are the perfect answer.
ScottMcC on April 11, 2009 at 2:01 AM
1. Do I know how many is 15-20 million? Golly, nope, mister. No idea. Maybe if I take off my shoes, too…
2. With your attitude, we’ll be lucky as hell to be speaking English in 2020.
3. Mexico could barely… They came from there, so I expect they can be fitted back in. Regardless, this would be their problem. I do not give a damn.
3. Be a man. Grow a pair. Demand enforcement of the law. Contemplate the meaning of “shove.” I’ll put you a hint: it does not mean “be nice.”
Troll Feeder on April 11, 2009 at 2:16 AM
or 4.
I had my mittens on.
Troll Feeder on April 11, 2009 at 2:17 AM
There’s not much difference between you and a Utopian liberal except the side of that same coin detached from reality.
Let your intellect overcome your emotions. 15-20 million people will not go back to Mexico, even if shoved by your imaginary cohorts.
toliver on April 11, 2009 at 2:29 AM
Cornyn isn’t caving. Well, I’d be floored if he is. He’s been leading the charge for securing the border and seeking a plan that does make illegals abide by our laws. The standard e-mails I get from his office all support this. If his position has changed, he can sure kiss his future in Texas goodbye. But I read this differently. His words are “[I] stand ready to work with [Obama] to produce a product that represents the best interests of America, including respect for the rule of law, national security and economic security.” That sounds like a position tough on border security and enforcement of our current laws. Working with Obama doesn’t mean giving into the amnesty crowd. It probably means nothing more than finally doing something about this mess rather than ignoring it.
Erich66 on April 11, 2009 at 2:46 AM
The part where he says “…including respect for the rule of law, national security and economic security” makes me think he’s got something other than amnesty in mind.
Shay on April 11, 2009 at 2:51 AM
Pack of baloney
There is no need for a ‘product’
We already have laws which need to be enforced
I see no reason to believe Cornyn on anything unless he can explain the b.s. in the press release. There was no need for a press release. He can work with the President on any issue without announcing he is ready to work with the President on any issue.
The press release had a purpose and it wasn’t rope-a-dope or good cop/bad cop.
It was simple primordial pandering to the open borders crowd
entagor on April 11, 2009 at 2:52 AM
I’m from Houston, TX, and Cornyn is NOT a republican. I will not be voting for him nor for Kay Bailout Hutchison next time around. I’d rather be screwed by a democrat than by a republican-poser.
Wino on April 11, 2009 at 6:07 AM
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