Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) are introducing DREAM Act legislation next week, as senators look for a long elusive immigration deal. [More]
You know that citizen disarmament Durbin is prepping to rape us with?
"A"-rated Lindsey is about to undo every "good" vote he's ever cast, and you can't tell me he doesn't understand that.
[Via Mack H]
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We had an all inclusive grand compromise immigration reform in the Simpson-Mazzoli Act of 1986.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/01/30/in-1986-congress-tried-to-solve-immigration-why-didnt-it-work/
The law was supposed to do 3 things:
1. Secure the border (still hasn't happened)
2. Create E-verify and make it mandatory (they did but it isn't)
3. Grant amnesty to a subset of the illegals in the USA who met certain criteria.
Note that in order to get sufficient votes in Congress to pass the bill, proponents agreed to a compromise whereby the amnesty was to be a one time, never happen again, deal.
https://ballotpedia.org/Immigration_Reform_and_Control_Act_of_1986
In February 1981, the Hesburgh Commission made a series of recommendations including the enactment of penalties on employers who hired unauthorized immigrants, a one-time amnesty for unauthorized immigrants, and a modest increase in legal immigration.
Soon after, President Reagan announced that he would back an immigration compromise modeled on the Hesburgh Commission recommendations. In March 1982, Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY) and Representative Romano Mazzoli (D-KY), who had both been Commission members, introduced the first versions of IRCA (also known as the "Simpson-Mazzoli Act") in Congress.
There are members of the House and Senate still in office who made the commitment to a one time amnesty when Simpson-Mazzoli was passed. One of those is the former Representative from New York, currently the Senate Majority Leader, one Charles Schumer.
So much for relying on the word of the senior Senator from New York.
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