{"id":21563,"date":"2019-06-07T16:53:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T20:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=21563"},"modified":"2019-06-07T17:21:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T21:21:43","slug":"amnesty-republican-encounters-resistance-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/06\/07\/amnesty-republican-encounters-resistance-border\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Amnesty\u2019 Republican Encounters Resistance at the Border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rep. Will Hurd<\/a>,\na Texas Republican whose sprawling district spans a third of the U.S.-Mexico\nborder, joined Democrats this week in voting to grant\namnesty to more than 2 million illegal aliens.\nIt wasn\u2019t the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since\n2017, Hurd has repeatedly cosponsored amnesty legislation. He also has voted to\nincrease H-2B visas for unskilled foreign workers and supports other\nimported-labor initiatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On\nthe \u201cnay\u201d side, Hurd voted against the “Securing\nAmerica’s Future Act of 2018,”<\/a> to require that all federal, state\nand local agencies comply with the provisions of the U.S. Immigration and\nNationality Act. He voted to\nblock President Donald Trump\u2019s emergency order for more wall funding, and even branded\nthe border crisis a \u201cmyth.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While\nposing for selfies with adoring recipients of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood\nArrivals<\/a>), the maverick\ncongressman basks in glowing reviews<\/a>\nfrom liberal media outlets. A portrait of him sitting in the middle of a\ndeserted South Texas road graces the current cover of Texas Monthly<\/a> magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthe run-up to his 2018 re-election campaign, Hurd tacked briefly to the\nenforcement side when he voted to withhold funds from sanctuary cities. But the\nRepublican\u2019s renewed support for amnesty this week brought him back to more\nfamiliar territory, where his voting record virtually mirrors that of former\nDemocratic congressman and current presidential aspirant Beto O\u2019Rourke next\ndoor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks\nto \u2013 or in spite of \u2013 his quixotic positioning on immigration, Hurd won<\/a> re-election in the heavily Hispanic 23rd<\/sup> Congressional District<\/a>. His razor-thin victory (926 votes, a 0.5\npercent margin) over first-time candidate Gina Ortiz Jones<\/a>\nwas far from a mandate, however. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hurd\u2019s glib reference to the border crisis as a \u201cmyth\u201d has stoked conservative anger, without necessarily earning him any Democrat votes. That potentially leaves him in an electoral no man\u2019s land. \u201cPeople who say the border crisis is a \u2018myth\u2019 don\u2019t live anywhere near it,\u201d observed Alma Arredondo-Lynch, one of Hurd\u2019s declared GOP challengers for 2020. In fact, a lot of them live in Washington, D.C. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Will Hurd, a Texas Republican whose sprawling district spans a third of the U.S.-Mexico border, joined Democrats this week in voting to grant amnesty to more than 2 million illegal aliens. It wasn\u2019t the first time. Since 2017, Hurd has repeatedly cosponsored amnesty legislation. He also has voted to increase H-2B visas for unskilled<\/p>\n

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