{"id":5425,"date":"2013-12-16T16:51:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T21:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=5425"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:22:09","slug":"pelosi-yanks-boehners-fig-leaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/12\/16\/pelosi-yanks-boehners-fig-leaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Yanks Boehner\u2019s Fig Leaf"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FigIf you haven\u2019t already figured out that the War and Peace<\/i>-length Senate immigration bill (S.744) or its serialized version, now being worked on by House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders, will result in amnesty without enforcement, allow Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to explain it to you.<\/p>\n

In an interview on Telemundo, Pelosi said<\/a>, \u201cOur view of the law is that it \u2013 if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation.\u201d Presumably, by \u201cour view\u201d she was speaking behalf of congressional Democrats and, quite possibly, the Democrat in the White House.<\/p>\n

In other words, the House\u2019s top ranking Democrat just yanked Boehner\u2019s already flimsy fig leaf (an unsettling picture on so many levels) for taking up the components of the Senate bill, one piece at a time. If being here \u201cwithout sufficient documentation\u201d is not a legitimate reason for deportation now (even though that is precisely what is prescribed by law), why would it be a legitimate reason after Congress and the president go through the charade of enacting new enforcement language?<\/p>\n