{"id":6693,"date":"2014-05-19T10:17:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T14:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6693"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:00:24","slug":"schumer-issues-threat-to-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/05\/19\/schumer-issues-threat-to-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer Issues Threat to House"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"push\"<\/a>Senators Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) continue to demand the House take up the Senate-passed immigration bill, S. 744<\/a>. Most recently, Schumer has claimed<\/a> the President would \u201cgreatly curtail deportations\u201d unless the House passes an amnesty bill (go figure!).<\/p>\n

In other words, Congress should pass a bill to prevent illegal aliens from being deported or the President won\u2019t deport them.<\/p>\n

This reads like a threat. Nothing is more transparent than the partisan political motivations behind the Senate bill \u2013 a travesty of public policy that will render U.S. immigration law virtually unenforced (see FAIR analysis of the Senate bill<\/a>). Remarkable is the fact that nothing in S. 744 will actually fix any of the identified problems with the immigration system. The bill is just an amnesty that rewards law-breaking and encourages more illegal immigration. A legislative platform that is flawed at its base cannot fix anything. In a nutshell, the problem with the \u201cGang of Eight\u201d Senate amnesty bill (S. 744) is simple – few understand it because it is deliberately deceptive legislation written by lobbyists. The closer you look<\/a>, the uglier it gets. The mad push to get the House to act is a desperation ploy because anti-border activists don\u2019t see another chance like this in 20 years.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s referred to as an \u201cimmigration overhaul\u201d is nothing more than a legislative ratification of a complete breakdown in the rule of law drafted to suit a battery of narrow interests. The nation can and must do better.