Our
friend Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies posed the
question, “Would a Speaker Ryan Push Through Amnesty?” in a column in
yesterday’s National Review.
After
a lengthy examination of Paul Ryan’s pro-amnesty record Krikorian concluded
that “A vote for Paul Ryan is a vote for Gang of Eight style amnesty that
includes massive increases in legal immigration and replacing American workers
with foreign-born workers.”
That
Ryan has been a proponent of amnesty should come as no surprise to anyone who
has followed the amnesty debate, and the role of Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio in
advancing the idea of granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.
But Krikorian might
bring many conservatives up short with his detailed documentation of how
Paul Ryan has pushed for open borders and more legal immigration as well as
amnesty.
Krikorian wrote,
“I think it’s almost certain Ryan would bring an amnesty/immigration-surge bill
to the House floor, which would pass with monolithic Democratic support plus
enough Gutierrez Republicans to get to 218.”
Mark Krikorian explains
this is because for Ryan immigration isn’t a matter of appeasing corporate
lobbyists, as with Boehner, or a response to changes in his district’s
electorate, as with McCarthy.
Ryan
is a true-believer in unlimited employer-driven immigration, says Krikorian. John
Fonte writes that Ryan is the leading figure in the faction he labels “neo-Kemp
idealists” on immigration. Bob Costa’s long NRO piece in 2013 on Ryan’s central
role in pushing for ever-higher levels of immigration, inspired by Kemp, cites
an earlier Wired observation that Ryan’s “ties to the pro-immigration mafia ran
deep.”
Paul Mirengoff at
Powerline notes the curious result of a Ryan speakership: It
would be ironic, but perhaps not altogether surprising, if the Republican
Freedom Caucus pushed John Boehner out and stymied Kevin McCarthy for being
insufficiently hard-line conservatives, only to consent to Luis
Gutierrez’s favorite choice for Republican Speaker.
Krikorian is
right about Ryan and open borders. As we noted back in 2013: We
think Pat Buchanan made a great point when he wrote in a July 2, 2013 column,
“Why the Reagan Democrats Departed” that, “For a generation, when forced to
choose between Middle America and corporate America, on NAFTA, most-favored
nation for China, and free trade, the GOP establishment opted to go with the
Fortune 500. In the GOP the corporate conservative rides up front; the social,
cultural and patriotic conservatives in the back of the bus…”
Unfortunately,
along with Paul Ryan’s fine personal qualities comes a penchant for granting
the kind of deference to the interests of the establishment Republican Party’s
corporate paymasters that Pat Buchanan decried.
Mark Krikorian closed
his article by concluding, “Ryan may look at the political price Marco Rubio
has paid for serving as the front man for Chuck Schumer’s immigration
agenda, and add that to his reasons for passing on the Speaker’s gavel. Both he
and the country would better served if he remained as chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee, where he can do the most good, and the least harm.” We
couldn’t agree more.
Paul
Ryan’s record of supporting amnesty for illegal aliens, the open borders
policies that are destroying the quality of life for millions of American
families, TARP, supporting the Bush administration’s spending binge,
supporting the 2011 debt ceiling deal and leading the Ryan-Murray budget
negotiation to un-do the one conservative element of that deal that
was actually working, shows that, despite the evidence that he lives his
personal life according to conservative principles, he cannot be trusted to
lead Republicans to govern America according to limited government
constitutional conservative principles.
We
urge grassroots principled limited government constitutional
conservatives to call their Representative and demand they oppose the
election of another establishment Speaker, like Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan,
and instead vote for a conservative, like Rep. Daniel Webster of
Florida, for Speaker. The House switchboard is 1-866-220-0044 - call now!
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