10 Takeaways from the Senate
immigration fiasco
Townhall – Hugh Hewitt – 6/29/2013
Senator John Hoeven of North Dakota. It is
pretty clear he got terrible advice on how statutes actually work when interpreted
by the courts, and worse advice on what the fence meant to border security
conservatives. We too often assume that legislators actually know how the laws
they think they are drafting will actually work.
There wasn't a member of
Congress in the early '70s who knew how the Endangered Species Act, the Clean
Water Act, and Clean Air Acts would turn out to be twisted engines of
anti-growth extremism, and as the
Hoeven interview made clear, one of the authors of the key amendment actually
thought he was mandating a fence that would work when he was doing exactly the
opposite.
1. The need for real reform
is enormous . . .
2. . . . . Without real
border security, the humanitarian situation will only deteriorate further. The
solution begins with a strong fence.
3. . . . If the illegal
immigrant population is regularized, it cannot be eligible for Obamacare (the
cost would be staggering). Neither should this ineligibility become a reason
for employers to prefer the newly regularized over citizens and legal residents
with green cards.
4. The demand for a fence is
real, and it must be mandated with specific language. It must extend across
tribal lands where necessary, it must contain citizen standing to sue for
enforcement, it must trump all contrary laws which contain citizen standing
provisions that could be used to block it, and it must have detailed
construction specs and mapping. The fence is the first line of defense against
a recurrence of this problem, . . . Put
in writing on a map where and why the double-layered fencing will be built and
the where and why it won't be built. In no other business in the world would
such sloppiness on such a key issue be tolerated.
5. No bill is better than a
terrible bill. . .
6. Senator Marco Rubio
remains a GOP superstar . . . . The immunization process is painful, but
Rubio's a pretty tough character.
8. . . . The border fence
remains the physical expression of a national resolve to stop not just illegal
immigration, but also terrorism and trans-national crime.
10. . . . at the close of
the first chapter of the immigration reform debate, one written largely by
Chuck Schumer.
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