The immigration reform debate in the U.S. Congress is all but dead in the water. The Senate bill that would have thrown about $3 billion at the current border problem failed to pass by a vote margin of 50-44.
Democrats and media outlets, such as Time magazine, point the finger at Republicans as being responsible for the bill’s failure.Republicans, including Florida Senator Marco Rubio, say that it was the Democrats who are at fault for offering up a bill “that simply throws money at this problem with a blank check, without accompanying reforms that will prevent this from continuing, would not only be counter-productive, it will be a grave disservice to our country.”
Over the past year or so, Rubio has been slowly making an immigration reform ‘U-turn’ from his co-sponsored, widely unpopular, amnesty-laden, and divisive 2013 “Gang of 8” Senate immigration bill.
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Rubio’s new immigration reform stance calls for an end of President Obama’s Deferred Action Program (DACA), which granted amnesty to “Dreamers” already living in the United States, and to ” first address border security and the enforcement of our laws.”
If Rubio wanted to “first address border security and the enforcement of our laws,” then why offer up the “Gang of 8” bill?
Why not push for those existing laws to be enforced?“Over the past 18 months, I have worked to fix America’s broken immigration system. I remain convinced that it is in our vital national interest to permanently fix this issue. But my experience over the last year and a half has convinced me that the only way we will ever have the votes necessary to address every aspect of our immigration problems, including modernizing legal immigration and addressing the status of those currently here without legal status, is to first address border security and the enforcement of our laws.
“This is true now more than ever due to the ongoing crisis on our southern border with the arrival of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors. Yesterday, I voted to debate this bill in the hopes that the Senate would pass a measure that would not just provide funding to respond to the current crisis, but would also deal with its root causes and prevent future mass migrations. I hoped we could pass a measure to bring to an end what the President of Honduras has called the ‘ambiguities’ of our immigration policies that have led people in Central America to believe they could cross the border and be allowed to remain here. Unless we end the President’s Deferred Action program for new applicants and reform the 2008 human trafficking law, tens of thousands of children and families will continue to be lured to cross the border with the false promise that they will be allowed to legally stay…” Senator Marco Rubio (R)
Expect President Obama to move swiftly to grant amnesty for illegal immigrants via his executive orders. This is what he is expected to do.