House immigration group collapses
Source: USA Today
WASHINGTON - The road to overhauling the nation's immigration laws became even more difficult Friday when two Republicans abandoned a bipartisan group that had been working to craft a solution in the House of Representatives.
Rep. John Carter, R-Texas, and Rep. Sam Jonhson, R-Texas, put the blame for their decision to leave the House working group on President Obama.
They said the bill they were developing put a lot of responsibility in the hands of the executive branch to enforce immigration law, and they couldn't trust him to follow through.
"If past actions are the best indicators of future behavior; we know that any measure depending on the president's enforcement will not be faithfully executed," Carter and Johnson said in a joint statement. "It would be gravely irresponsible to further empower this administration by granting them additional authority or discretion with a new immigration system. The bottom line is the American people do not trust the president to enforce laws, and we don't either."
Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/09/20/immigration-house-group/2843175/
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)even with all the gerrymandered districts the current crop of GOP losers is working really really hard to make themselves completely irrelevant even earlier than demographics suggest.
Skinner
(63,645 posts)They just figured this out?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)Big "if".
global1
(25,263 posts)Get two other Repugs to fill their spots or just move on without them.
This immigration overhaul needs to get done. This is just another obstruction on the part of Repugs.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Sens. Pat Leahy (D-VT) and Rand Paul (R-Horrendous Rug) are working together to kill mandatory minimum sentencing. That's it.