{"id":17065,"date":"2018-05-11T16:15:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T20:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17065"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:29:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:29:13","slug":"17065","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2018\/05\/11\/17065\/","title":{"rendered":"Discharge Petition: Why It Needs to be Stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAIR President, Dan Stein,\u00a0and RJ Hauman, FAIR\u2019s Director of Government Relations, discuss the discharge petition, and what the American voters can do to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>Dan: So it doesn&#8217;t really matter what the four bills are, because the Democrats are all going to vote for one big amnesty.<\/p>\n<p>RJ: That&#8217;s correct. This is being sold to House Conservatives as a way to secure a vote on the Goodlatte bill.<\/p>\n<p>Dan: [Comments coming in on Facebook] Robert wants to know who the key Republicans are that are pushing this rogue effort to try to ensure Republicans lose the house in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>RJ: Well, the discharge petition [has been]filed by Congressman Curbelo.<\/p>\n<p>DAN: He&#8217;s from Florida.<\/p>\n<p>RJ: Of course, the usual suspects here.<\/p>\n<p>DAN: Curbelo, C-U-R-B-E-L-O<\/p>\n<p>RJ: These are the usual House Republicans &#8212; Curbelo, Hurd, Denham &#8212; [that are]always behind something like this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t8uATqhtf94?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>DAN: The whole list is on our website right now if you want to know who those Republicans are [that have]already signed&#8211;about 17 of them.<\/p>\n<p>RJ: Yes, absolutely and again the whole thing is, numbers don&#8217;t lie here. We know that the Democrats are in united support for one of these proposals. All 193 Democrats will vote for the DREAM Act, which would be the third bill considered under the \u201cQueen of the Hill\u201d proposal. You also have about six House Republicans that support [this]legislation as well. But listen, under this scenario, you have Republicans that really want that DREAM Act amnesty.<\/p>\n<p>Although [they may]vote for the Goodlatte bill &#8212; trying to give them[selves]a little political cover &#8212; they&#8217;ll then go down and vote for the DREAM Act. We&#8217;ve crunched the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>DAN: So they&#8217;re going take all these tough votes, they&#8217;re going to be claiming that they voted for the Goodlatte bill, for E-verify, for interior enforcement and all is good\u2026<\/p>\n<p>RJ: \u2026but they&#8217;ll also vote for the DREAM Act.<\/p>\n<p>DAN: \u2026knowing that the only bill that would ever come up in the Senate is just the amnesty act.<\/p>\n<p>RJ:\u00a0 Correct.<\/p>\n<p>DAN: So they&#8217;re going to try to fool everybody by claiming they voted for these tough [bills].<\/p>\n<p>RJ: Right. We have tracked the possible outcomes. We&#8217;ve talked to everybody. We&#8217;ve looked at the numbers.\u00a0 The bill that has the best chance of emerging here is the DREAM Act.<\/p>\n<p>DAN: Probably the only [bill that has a]chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RJ: You&#8217;re right. The DREAM Act has been around for a while [and]it&#8217;s been rejected numerous times over. But this year&#8217;s DREAM Act &#8212; or this Congress\u2019s DREAM Act &#8212; is worse than Dream Acts of years past. We estimate that &#8212; and this isn\u2019t a ceiling this is the actual floor &#8212; about 3.5 million illegal aliens would be eligible. You&#8217;d have people be able to age into eligibility\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Dan: \u2026plus their relatives\u2026<\/p>\n<p>RJ: \u2026plus their relatives, and they could sponsor [others].<\/p>\n<p>Dan: So why would there be Republicans who would buck the party leadership and the President to do this?<\/p>\n<p>RJ: Because they&#8217;re beholden to illegal immigrants and the Open borders Amnesty Lobby, plain and simple.<\/p>\n<p>Dan: [They\u2019re] going to pay, because the leadership won&#8217;t give [them]any kind of a committee chairmanship or anything else after this.<\/p>\n<p>RJ: Well, the only hope right now is for leadership to do that. Obviously, Speaker Ryan is in a weird, unique situation. His power isn&#8217;t what it used to be since he is outgoing. People are more likely to buck Speaker Ryan and House leadership because they know he&#8217;s on the way out.<\/p>\n<p>Dan: [Another comment coming in] Kelly Field says \u201cI thought Republicans controlled the House and Senate\u2014-what\u2019s going on?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RJ: They do, they do, but you know what? Democrats are always in lockstep on issues like this, and you have Republicans who would rather join with the Democrats and buck the majority of their party and the American people who sent them to Washington. It&#8217;s simply ridiculous. This is something only Republicans do.<\/p>\n<p>Dan: So in a nutshell, what do people have to tell their members of Congress?<\/p>\n<p>RJ: It&#8217;s this simple: You have to call your member of Congress and tell them not to sign Congressman Curbelo\u2019s discharge petition that would force a vote on Congressman Jeff Denham\u2019s Queen of the Hill resolution&#8211; and again &#8212; you have to make the points, too.<\/p>\n<p>Dan: Where can they find that exact language?<\/p>\n<p>RJ: FAIR will be coming out with an alert very soon, and a lot of materials will be coming across our social media channels and on our website, as well. So be on the lookout for that, just say you oppose this discharge petition \u2013 <strong>do not sign it<\/strong> . If your member of Congress has already signed it, urge them to withdraw their name &#8212; but also make the point that you are <strong>opposed<\/strong> <strong>to any\u00a0<\/strong><strong>kind of amnesty<\/strong>. Amnesty should not be the priority of Congress right now. Congress has failed to deliver on pretty much every key promise that President Trump campaigned on.<\/p>\n<p>Dan: Failure, failure, failure<\/p>\n<p>RJ: Failure after failure<\/p>\n<p>Dan: [Another comment] Corrina says \u201cCall your Representative! This is dangerous!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RJ: This <strong>is<\/strong> dangerous. This <strong>is dangerous<\/strong>, and I want to make this clear: we&#8217;re at 17 Republicans. Just eight more, and then all the Democrats come aboard and these [bills]get voted on. I mean, this is red-alert level right here &#8212; red alert level. You\u2019ve got to do this today. You\u2019ve got to do this now.<\/p>\n<p>Dan: RJ&#8217;s got to get back to man the boards and get back on [Capitol] Hill.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re fighting this thing as hard as we can. This could be catastrophic and put the President in a very difficult position. All I\u2019ve got to say is, thank you for listening. Go back to your phone. All the information will be on our website. Action Alerts are going out now. 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