Daily Caller, before the House leadership removed the fake border bill from the vote schedule today.<\/p>\n
“The bill is intended to help legislators reassure worried GOP voters prior to an amnesty sellout by the GOP leadership, said D.A. King, a Georgia-based anti-amnesty activist. \u201dIt is a complete scam. \u2026 They\u2019re treating us like \u2018we the bubbas,\u2019 not \u2018we the people,\u2019\u201d he said, adding that the GOP legislators\u2019 \u201ccontempt for their own base is astonishing and sickening.\u201d<\/p>\n
Several top GOP leaders have said they want to pass bills that would import hundreds of thousands of lower-wage workers for food-sector jobs, for blue-collar jobs and for jobs sought by young U.S. professionals, such as therapists, teachers, accountants and pharmacists. A senior GOP chairman, Rep. Pete Sessions, also said he hoped to enact an amnesty in 2015. Sessions is a close ally of House Speaker John Boehner.<\/p>\n
In December, top Republican leaders ignored opposition from almost 90 percent of the GOP base and almost one-third of GOP legislators and pushed through a 2015 funding bill that funded Obama\u2019s unilateral amnesty for 12 million illegals in the United States.<\/p>\n
In January, public pressure forced Boehner to pass a bill blocking Obama\u2019s amnesty and imposing major reforms on Obama\u2019s border policy. But Republicans in the Senate say their 54-seat majority isn\u2019t strong enough to overcome Democratic support for the amnesty. If the McCaul bill is passed by the House, it may be passed by the Senate GOP instead of the January reform bill, critics worry.<\/p>\n
GOP leaders, including McCaul, say the border bill is just one of several bills intended to bolster security. The bill spends more on border protection, but doesn\u2019t change immigration law because that\u2019s a task for the House judiciary committee, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Committee on Homeland Security does not have jurisdiction over interior enforcement. \u2026 House Republicans are taking a step-by-step approach and as such the \u2018Secure Our Borders First\u2019 bill deals solely with the problem at our southern, northern, and maritime borders,\u201d said a Jan. 23 statement from his office.<\/p>\n
The GOP legislators who have backed the bill include Texas Reps. McCaul, Lamar Smith, Will Hurd and John Ratcliffe, Pennsylvania\u2019s Barletta, Tom Marino and Scott Perry, Michigan\u2019s Mike Rogers and Candace Miller, New York\u2019s Peter King and John Katko, Georgia\u2019s Earl (Buddy) Carter and Barry Loudermilk, plus South Carolina\u2019s Jeff Duncan, Mississippi\u2019s Steven Palazzo, Florida\u2019s Curtis Clawson, North Carolina\u2019s Mark Walker and Arizona\u2019s Martha McSally.”<\/p>\n