Allah:
Noah covered some of Reid’s presser last night but this golden soundbite should be preserved for history. Why would he say it? Why, in the middle of a border crisis that’s playing on cable news 24/7 right now, would he belch up a talking point that the public knows for a fact isn’t true? Krauthammer thinks this guy’s off his meds, but I’m not sure why. As noted yesterday, the lie at the heart of immigration reform is that Democrats are willing to secure the border if only Republicans will cooperate on legalizing illegals who are already here. The border crisis has put that claim to a test in an unusually vivid way. Reid can either support speedier deportations for kids from Central America or he can drop any pretense that he cares about deterring illegal immigration. He’s now made his choice, as you’re about to see. And, per Noah’s post, it looks like the Democrats in both chambers will be with him, blocking an enforcement bill that would very slowly increase the feds’ power to deport young illegal immigrants. E.g., via Breitbart:
We are all connected. We can't just build a wall or a fence and say no more. This is America. Our doors are open. #AskDems
— John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) July 15, 2014
You know what? I’m not so sure “the border is secure” is even the nuttiest thing Reid says here. At one point he objects to the Cornyn/Cuellar bill because it supposedly addresses too many subjects extraneous to the border crisis. That’s high irony from a guy who leads a caucus that has always insisted on larding up border security bills with amnesty components, and who, clearly, would relish a conference committee on a modest reform bill in hopes of making it much broader. The left is concerned with security only — only — to the extent that it serves as a vehicle for the rest of their agenda wishlist. At another point he claims that the Gang of Eight bill, had it passed the House, would have solved this problem. Er, no, it wouldn’t have, as co-sponsor Marco Rubio admits. (Why Rubio would have backed a bill that, by his own account, would be ineffective at the border is a separate question.) The chief, albeit not only, enforcement problem here is the loophole in the child trafficking law that lets young migrants from noncontiguous countries stay put in the U.S. while they await a deportation hearing. The Gang of Eight didn’t deal with that. But Reid wants to pretend because, again, his goal here is a mass amnesty, not border security. If he can convince undecideds that this border crisis actually proves that we need the fraud known as comprehensive immigration reform, it’ll all have been worth it.
I have to agree with Krauthammer, This idiotic statement puts Harry so out of touch with reality that it will sink any future reelection possibility with him being painted as being a senile, clueless, and (not even lovable) old curmudgeon.
Reid clarified.
He was talking about the Nevada/New Mexico border.
/off
Maybe if 50,000 illegal immigrants were sent to Nevada he might see the situation differently. Nah.
yes the border is secure — for those entering illegally
but not for citizens
@tomd: Good point.
Here is one of many signs put up in our border regions.
Portions of it reads:
Reid and his left wing cronies want to test people for sanity as a prerequisite for owning a gun…. I submit that the power wielded by congress is far more dangerous than some random AK-clone. Perhaps congresscritters should be tested for sanity before taking office, and every year afterwards.