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Cantor: Initial efforts on immigration reform should focus on children
“The best place to begin I think is with the children. Let’s go ahead and get that under our belt, put a win on the board so we can promise a better life for those kids who are here due to no fault of their own,” Cantor said on NBC’s “Meet The Press.”
Cantor said sounded an optimistic note on the prospects for immigration reform, saying that here is “a lot of movement” in both chambers of Congress. He added that it was important to “balance” the need for heightened border security with compassion towards those who are here illegally…
When asked if that meant he supported the DREAM Act, Cantor said he didn’t know the current status of the bill, but said he supported its underlying principles.
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You know who else use children as political shields to advance his political goals? Obama.
sauldalinsky on February 11, 2013 at 5:29 PM
Children, the gateway drug to total destruction of the border I guess.
Here is an idea, lets strip children of birthright citizenship unless at least one of their parents are permanent residents or citizens themselves. Illegal parents = no birthright.
astonerii on February 11, 2013 at 5:31 PM
You forgot Islamic terrorists; they hide behind women and children, also. (Or maybe you didn’t. Hmmm.)
RoadRunner on February 11, 2013 at 5:36 PM
That will probably be their main weapon against their conservative opponents: “How can you be against THE CHILDREN?”
I am getting really tired of this being used to justify every increase in statism.
Doomberg on February 11, 2013 at 5:40 PM
And then, once we’ve taken care of the children, we have to make sure their parents are legal, because it would be heartless to make the parents leave their poor, poor children behind. And next is grandmas….because everyone needs a grandma. And next is their older brothers and sisters who are still in Mexico. Why should they be forced to suffer because their parents chose to leave them behind? They shouldn’t be punished for the decisions of the parents.
xblade on February 11, 2013 at 5:40 PM
Secure the border and cut off the magnets first and then we’ll talk about “the children”, liberal.
FloatingRock on February 11, 2013 at 5:48 PM
It’s for the children! Cantor is such a total disgrace.
trs on February 11, 2013 at 6:09 PM
“Immigration reform should focus on children”
What does that even mean?
Keep the children and deport the parents?
Keep the children with the parents and deport both?
Deport neither..which = full amnesty. You know…for the children.
How about this. Enforce the existing laws.
Mimzey on February 11, 2013 at 6:13 PM
General Amnesty by a thousand cuts.
And look how shameless and dishonest the GOP has become. They will go over cliff on Amnesty like the Dems did with Obamacare, and they’ll probably pass it just as ugly unless they’re stopped.
This is Red Alert time. Both parties have joined in a suicide pact to drive this nation into oblivion. We need people in the streets to stop this or they’ll do it and it will be many times more damaging than all that the Dems have pushed through since 2008.
sartana on February 11, 2013 at 6:19 PM
I think this is true.
Mimzey on February 11, 2013 at 6:22 PM
Initial efforts on immigration reform should focus on “Where’s the fence?”
atxcowgirl on February 11, 2013 at 6:26 PM
Initial efforts in Virginia’s GOP reform should focus on kicking Cantor’s a$$ to the curb.
TxAnn56 on February 11, 2013 at 6:32 PM
Yes. It’s always for the children. COUGH COUGH
Wigglesworth on February 11, 2013 at 7:35 PM
Cantor is part of the traitorous GOP leadership who blocked HR2885, Lamar Smith’s mandatory E-Verify bill (they let it die in Dave Camp’s Ways and Means committee) in the last Congress.
They also never got behind Heath Shuler’s (D-NC) SAVE Act when it got over 200 co-sponsors (1/2 R, 1/2 D).
GOP leadership is part of the problem — they, along with Harry Reid, frustrate every attempt at actual law enforcement in favor of the “declaring the incoming seawater to be cargo” approach to illegal immigration.
Amnesty, forgiveness, pathway to blah-blah-blah, etc., ad nauseum, will NEVER SOLVE THE PROBLEM. Duh!
We must remove all incentives, benefits, rewards, considerations, etc. for illegal aliens – and end birthright citizenship, as Harry Reid did in his 1993 strict enforcement bill!!!!
Listen to this illegal alien explain it to you, Eric!
fred5678 on February 11, 2013 at 7:49 PM