The author is sending the letter to his Congressman and and also copies to the House leadership and the NRCC. The letter highlights a number of concerns about the leadership's plans for amnesty and responds to a several of the "arguments" given for amnesty. So, here is the letter...oh, and if it prompts any of you to contact your representative on this issue...so much the better.
Congressman ......
Washington, DC 20515
Re: Immigration
cc: Reps. Boehner, McCarthy, Walden
Dear Rep. ....:
I appreciate your response to my recent email, but I felt I
needed to follow up. I believe it is
clear that Boehner, Ryan and the House leadership are about to abandon wholly
their base voters on immigration amnesty. They evidence no desire either to listen or
honestly engage the voters who made Republicans the majority in the House.
Congressman, you will lose the base of the Republican party
in 2014 if you sell us out on amnesty. And you will be lucky to hold the House,
much less take the Senate.
Instead of trumpeting the disaster that is Obamacare as a
focal point for the 2014 elections, it becomes increasingly clear that Boehner
and the House leadership intend to pick a very public fight with the Republican
base, over – of all things – immigration.
Perhaps this might be understandable if there were good
reasons for “reform” while we have control only of the House. But Boehner, et. al., make unfounded
assertions and ignore real evidence. And
they certainly do not engage us in real and honest debate.....
Consider just some of the most recent indications that House
leadership is preparing to abandon their base and adopt a path to amnesty, with
empty promises of border security and “triggers.” Much less do they plan to explain their
actions to base voters:
Paul Ryan plans to lead the push for amnesty.
Major Garret reports that come summer 2014, Paul Ryan plans to
lead on reform but promising "no amnesty." He doesn’t believe that
the Gang of 8 bill is amnesty, yet we’re supposed to trust him on this?
The House “gang of 8” was giving away everything – with
Boehner’s approval! – in order to strike a deal.
Their first act was to agree to a path to citizenship !!!
Why even bother to negotiate? They
abandoned any “hard trigger” for border security, and their idea of requiring
some penalty so that it wouldn’t be amnesty was a “learn English”
requirement. And we are to take
Republican efforts on immigration reform seriously?
Boehner hires an unabashed amnesty advocate as an advisor.
I don’t know what’s worse, his doing so without first
explaining his intentions to base voters or the fact that he hired an advisor
from the atrocious 2008 campaign of the some times Republican McCain !! What good did amnesty do McCain with Hispanic
voters?
We are told by Boehner, floating his version of
“Dreamer,” “it is the right thing to
do.”
Of course, he didn’t
bother to explain why children should benefit from their parents’ crimes. Perhaps he’s willing to extend this “right
thing” – perhaps he thinks that we should not only let the children of bank
robbers keep the stolen money, but give them a reward as well!
We are told that we must have reform – “legalization” –
if we are to “level the playing field”
and appeal to Hispanic voters. However:
Will Boehner & Co then support Obamacare? 62% of Hispanics do.
Will Boehner & Co then support more big government? 75% of Hispanics do.
Will Boehner & Co then oppose capitalism? 55% of Hispanics oppose it.
Will Boehner & Co then support racial preferences? 75% of Hispanics do.
And here is Charles Cooke: “Often lost in the analysis of
the 2012 election is that the Republican party needs to win only small slivers
of each traditionally Democratic bloc in order to again win a national
election.”
We are told that the majority of voters favor a “pathway”
to citizenship.
However, 56% of American adults want the border secure
before any type of amnesty is granted to illegal aliens.
We are told the immigration system is “broken” and needs
to be “fixed.”
Yet neither Boehner nor his lieutenants have bothered to
explain
(1) why we should expect some new law to be enforced, when
we can’t trust this administration to enforce current law!
(2) what will prevent some liberal federal judge from
striking down all the enforcement mechanisms and leaving only amnesty and open
borders!
We are told Boehner & Co won’t pass “amnesty.”
Ryan boldly challenged anyone to debate whether the Senate
Gang of 8 was amnesty. Yet he apparently
is more afraid of Heritage than he is Patty Murray. Since when is (perhaps!) paying back taxes a
penalty? That’s the law, not a
penalty! And we’re supposed to trust Ryan
and McCarthy on these issues?
We are never told by Boehner & Co how many illegal
immigrants will be legalized.
We hear the 11 million figure over and over; but no one in
House leadership bothers to explain how they arrive at that figure or whether
that is indeed the real figure. During
Senate debate, the real figure was put at 30 million.
Boehner & Co never tell us why they place such a
priority on this issue!!
Liberal Beltway media and liberal activists – and an
administration desperate to distract from Obamacare – are the only ones
who believe this is a high priority issue.
Polls show that it routinely draws only about 5% voter support as a high
priority issue. Yet Boehner hires an
amnesty advocate?
What are we to think…except that House leadership plans to
betray fundamental conservative principles and millions of base voters. I continue to receive solicitations from
McCarthy, Walden, Boehner, reminding me that I have not renewed my 2014 NRCC
membership.
Here’s my promise, Rep.....: Just like I stopped
contributing to the NRSC after the Gang of 8 passed with 13 Republican votes,
if Boehner, Ryan and House Republicans sell us out on this issue, I will close
my checkbook…and stay home in 2014. I
wouldn’t vote for some liberal. And I
most certainly won’t vote for Republicans who abandon their base to pass a
very, very bad law.
Sincerely,
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