Ted Cruz and other Senate Republicans are pushing an aggressive immigration crackdown, proposing tougher penalties against foreigners who repeatedly try to enter the United States illegally. But there’s stiff resistance — from fellow Republicans.
The GOP rift — a drama
that’s playing out within the Senate Judiciary Committee — has opened up around
the question of mandatory minimums, a sensitive topic that’s also central to
the broader debate on Capitol Hill about reforming the nation’s criminal
justice system.
And the divide could
undermine Republican attempts to respond to the death of Kathryn Steinle last
month on a San Francisco pier, allegedly by an undocumented immigrant from
Mexico — a killing that’s ignited the issue of immigration in Congress and on
the campaign trail.
On one side are
Republicans such as Cruz, who’s promoted his so-called Kate’s Law on the 2016
stage, powerful Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa, and Sen.
Jeff Sessions of Alabama, who commands significant influence on immigration
among hard-liners. They are all lobbying for legislation that would enact a
mandatory minimum prison sentence of five years for immigrants who try to
re-enter the country illegally after being deported.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/immigration-gop-rift-mandatory-minimum-senate-cruz-121231.html
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We have
a “jobless recovery” in large part due to excessive immigration over the past
25 years. The number of working-age US
citizens without jobs is growing, because legal and illegal immigrants are
taking those jobs. Corporate cronies get
a call from Obama and they do his bidding by giving immigrants the “inside
track” on jobs. They want to “grind us down”.
All immigration should stop like it did during the 1930s. “Refugees” will go on welfare. We can’t afford this. Our RINOs need to “retire”.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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