August recess key to stopping amnesty and immigration expansion

A very interesting post from www.NumbersUSA.com  about the Congressional August Recess and Immigration Amnesty. This follows this post about the House and Senate Conference Committee. This follows this post about the release of illegal immigrant felons from prison by ICE. This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what is happening in the nation now click here and you can read two very interesting books HERE.

August recess key to stopping amnesty and immigration expansion

By Jeremy Beck, posted on NumbersUSA



During the August recess, watch out for Members of Congress who try to change the subject from amnesty and immigration expansion to something else. They may be taking a page out of the Obama-Rubio-GOP House Leadership amnesty playbook.



In "4 Ways Amnesty Is So Not Dead," Mickey Kaus warns us not to be lulled into complacency by Obama's pivot to the economy or the House's piecemeal approach to immigration. Nor should voters - especially conservatives - get too distracted by non-immigration issues during the recess, he suggests.



President Obama, knowing House Republicans would be less likely to move immigration proposals that he champions, has pivoted to the economy. According to Kaus, Obama's pivot "tamps down the immigration-related anger Republicans will face when they go home in August. In the meantime, the GOP's donor-driven insiders can quietly do his work for him."



The House's piecemeal approach also "calms everyone down," writes Kaus. The outrage from the amnesty-expansion camp is just theater because "'Piecemeal' is just a quieter, more effective way for Boehner to get {to conference with the Senate bill}" where as Rep. Labrador put it in this New York Times story - the House would get the "the Senate bill jammed down our throats."



Finally, Kaus warns that pro-amnesty Republicans will try to give"their conservative constituents something other than immigration to get angry about (a 'squirrel,' as it is formally known). GOP politicians get to rant and posture, gaining valuable tough-on-Obama points they can then cash in if they cave on immigration."



Call it a "Reverse Rubio."



The Senate amnesty bill has hurt Rubio in GOP primary polls, where he has dropped from first to sixth. But Rubio and his team are now focused on other issues to win back his former supporters according to the Tampa Bay Tribune.



Whereas Rubio caved on immigration before pandering to his base, some House Republicans may try to build political capital over the recess before voting for amnesty in the Fall.



Both sides agree: the fate of comprehensive amnesty and immigration increases - the fate of the American workforce and taxpayers - may be determined by what we do in August. In "Why Immigration Reform Will Be Won Or Lost In August," Mark Kennedy writes:



"The pivotal battle on this issue will not take place in Washington itself, but in a select number of House districts all across the United States. Supporters of reform must have troops with an authentically targeted message on every front line."



"With House members back in their home districts for a month, opponents have ample opportunities to assemble constituents, an elected officials closest advisers, against a plan."



JEREMY BECK is the Director of the Media Standards Project



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