{"id":6776,"date":"2014-05-28T16:02:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T20:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6776"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:58:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:58:43","slug":"there-are-no-amnesty-supporters-in-republican-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/05\/28\/there-are-no-amnesty-supporters-in-republican-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"There are No Amnesty Supporters in Republican Primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) is facing a primary opponent, David Brat<\/a>, who is challenging him on immigration. Cantor is fighting back by portraying himself as an anti-amnesty champion, like Renee Ellmers<\/a> successfully<\/a> did before him. Cantor, along with others in the GOP House leadership<\/a>, began the year<\/a> by endorsing amnesty for the bulk of the nation\u2019s illegal aliens with the House\u2019s \u201cStandards for Immigration Reform<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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That was January; this is May. Cantor\u2019s campaign has now dropped a campaign<\/a> flyer<\/a> into GOP voter\u2019s boxes spouting a very different message. This flyer is as anti-amnesty as it gets. It says: \u201cConservative Republican Eric Cantor is stopping the Obama-Reid Plan to give illegal aliens amnesty.\u201d The flyer also brings attention to a Talkingpointsmemo.com headline which proclaims that \u201c[Cantor]Torches Immigration Reform after Call with Obama,\u201d a call that the White House described as \u201cpleasant<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, only last month, Majority Leader Cantor pledged<\/a> support<\/a> for Jeff Denham\u2019s military amnesty, the ENLIST Act, and reiterated this support last week<\/a>. Cantor has also been working on his own version of the DREAM Act<\/a>, which he has styled the \u201cKids Act,\u201d since last year.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Majority Leader Cantor is also getting support from pro amnesty groups and pro amnesty lawmakers across the aisle in his contention that he has been a major obstacle for passing amnesty. Frank Sharry, director of the amnesty lobbying group America\u2019s Voice, said last week:<\/a> \u201cEric Cantor is the No. 1 guy standing between the American people and immigration reform.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"cantor_rally\"On Sunday, the pro-amnesty group Casa di Virginia sent protestors to storm Rep. Cantor\u2019s Arlington Virginia condo, again calling him \u201cthe one man blocking immigration reform<\/a>.\u201d Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), who last year went on a tour<\/a> with Rep. Cantor in New York City in support of passing bipartisan immigration legislation, sent out a press release through Casa di Virginia stating that he would hold a rally on May 28 in Virginia\u2019s capitol to call attention to the \u201cparticularly important role<\/a>\u201d of Rep. Cantor in immigration.<\/p>\n

But is it Eric Cantor standing in the way of amnesty, or Eric Cantor\u2019s primary? We\u2019ll know on June 10th<\/sup>.