Effort to change immigration law sparks internal battle within GOP
A new battle has flared inside the Republican Party in recent days as supporters of more-liberal immigration laws wage a behind-the-scenes campaign to discredit the influential advocacy groups that have long powered the GOP’s hard-line stance on the issue. …
Now, Republicans pushing the party to rethink its approach to the issue are accusing those groups — Numbers USA, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) — of masquerading as conservative. Critics say the groups and some of their supporters are pressing an unorthodox agenda of strict population control that also has included backing for abortion, sterilization and other policies at odds with conservative ideology.
“If these groups can be unmasked, then the bulk of the opposition to immigration reform on the conservative side will wither away,” said Alfonso Aguilar, executive director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles and a leading organizer of the effort.
Officials from the groups say they are the victims of a smear campaign that unfairly characterizes their mission. …
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Obama and Rubio, if not stopped, will be to America what Hitler and Stalin were to Poland in 1939, but there will be no one to save America. The “Comprehensive Plan to Destroy America Bill” will be their version of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
VorDaj on February 15, 2013 at 9:24 AM
I am no fan of Numbers USA, but then again, I believe that nothing about immigration law needs to be changed at all. This makes me an enemy of Numbers USA as well. We need to do no more or less than enforce the laws currently on the books.
gryphon202 on February 15, 2013 at 9:26 AM
Unorthodox? Sounds like traditional progressivism to me.
forest on February 15, 2013 at 9:27 AM
Whaaaaaaat?
trs on February 15, 2013 at 9:27 AM
You support the importation of third world dictatorship like government loving low wage people as opposed to merit based freedom loving people?
astonerii on February 15, 2013 at 9:53 AM
I swear, I can’t keep track of all the groups and factions and who’s conservative or pretending to be or who supports liberal reform, who needs to be unmasked or what.
Dongemaharu on February 15, 2013 at 9:58 AM
Ok , I’ll say it .
I do not understand this whole thing .
Lucano on February 15, 2013 at 10:04 AM
Abortion and sterilization….?
Thomas Friedman would be in heaven.
NeoKong on February 15, 2013 at 10:11 AM
My my, how low the corrupt Ruling Class Bush crime family have sunk. Who would have thought they could slink any lower after the Soviet style power grab “Rules Change” at the convention.
First they send out Jeb’s water carrier, then Con-duh leeza Rice, next they behave just like their progressive partners on the other side of the aisle strategically sending out a Latino and a black branding the conservatives as racists and bigots and the party of old white men. Who needs the Democrats when we have the corrupt Bush crime family.
Who’s up next of Jeb, Colin Powell?
Jeb, get a life, the age of Bush is over!
We seen this playbook before. You ran the same defense against us in the Etch-a-sketch election.
We’re on to you Jeb, “Better a Democrat than someone who is not one of us.”
Better you and Tokyo Rove partner with Axeldork and get it over with already. Your mother already told us Clinton is her other son.
Jayrae on February 15, 2013 at 10:15 AM
I support enforcing the law as it stands now, which we are clearly not doing. If this includes deportation and a subsequent lifetime ban on re-entry for illegals, so be it. The law doesn’t need changing if we won’t enforce it anyway.
gryphon202 on February 15, 2013 at 10:18 AM
Well said!
Wigglesworth on February 15, 2013 at 10:22 AM
ROFLMAO.
I don’t know who these groups are, nor do I care. Conservatives are for the Rule of Law and the sanctity of national sovereignty. The slimeballs and slugs who want to make this nation property of the world can just FOAD. Conservatives will NEVER join them in their suicidal drive to destroy the concept of the nation-state and to debase the notion of citizenship. They are the worst sort of lowlifes, starting with mini-mCShame, Rubio, the twerp who’s never had a job outside of government and, yet, works so hard to destroy laws while having been nothing but a legislator. What a piece of trash.
And this Aguilar character, whatever the hell he is, can take a running leap, too.
The GOP’s drive for suicide continues unabated. No big loss.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on February 15, 2013 at 10:37 AM
I’m all for enforcement.
I was just saying that I would be happy with a change to give far fewer slots to Mexico and its peers and more to people who have degrees and compete more with me rather than competing with lower wage individuals.
astonerii on February 15, 2013 at 10:49 AM
The Savior would like everyone to just shut up and help him out here. This is very important to his political career.
Illinidiva on February 15, 2013 at 10:49 AM
When you “reform” the Mexican immigration system, which is far far more harsh than America’s, you can get back to me with this.
Or is it that only America, out of all the nations of the world, has to let in anyone who tiptoes across the border?
Rebar on February 15, 2013 at 11:17 AM
If you read further on, you’ll see totes who is behind it. I’m not sure that I’m ready to trust the Savior with the nuclear codes, but I do find Rubio’s singleminded determination to live in the White House sort of endearing.
Illinidiva on February 15, 2013 at 11:33 AM
Rubio’s against all borders and the Rule of Law. Why doesn’t he just move in and call himself an “undocumented President”? Then he can grant himself amnesty and put his name on the title. He would make a good partner to the illegitimate Precedent who’s occupooping the White House, now.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on February 15, 2013 at 11:43 AM
Rubio – can be stopped. Simply deny him his bottle of water.
Ogabe – different story.
HondaV65 on February 15, 2013 at 12:04 PM
Is that the new code for the “n” word?
HondaV65 on February 15, 2013 at 12:06 PM