By John Lillpop ——Bio and Archives--June 14, 2013
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Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the lead Democratic sponsor of the Senate immigration bill, warned it could take “years and years and years” to fully secure the border and implement reforms that would put the estimated 11 immigrants in the country illegally on a path to citizenship. Schumer's comments came as the Senate voted Thursday morning — 57 to 43 — to defeat an amendment sponsored by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to prohibit immigrants from receiving provisional immigrant status until the secretary of Homeland Security has maintained effective control of the borders for six months. “It says that the 11 million people living in the shadows cannot even get RPI [Registered Provisional Immigrant] status, the provisional status by which they can work and travel, until the secretary of Homeland security says the border is fully secure,” Schumer said of the amendment. “Now, we all know that that will take years and years and years.” Schumer noted that the Senate Judiciary Committee defeated Grassley’s proposal during a markup and that Republican members of the Gang of Eight — Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.) — voted against it. Schumer said the border would eventually be made secure but that it will take years and billions of dollars to build fences, watch towers and deploy drones and sensors. He argued that it would be unreasonable to delay for years provisional legal status for millions of people. “So what are we telling those 11 million? If you hide successfully from the police, then maybe five years from now you can stay here and get the right to work and the right to travel?”Why not tell the invading illegals that America operates in accordance with rule of law and that being in America illegally is---well, illegal? Tell them that any shadows they encounter are of their own making, and can be avoided by heading south past the US border? Why in the hell is Schumer and his lunatic leftist comrades so damned concerned about illegal aliens and the inconvenience of shadows when the safety of American citizens is at peril? Chuck Schumer has unwittingly made a perfect case for dumping the amnesty bill in the dumpster until border security is made the top priority. Remember 1986, Senator Schumer? If not, you should!
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John W. Lillpop is a recovering liberal. “Clean and sober” since 1992 when last he voted for a Democrat. For years, John lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the very liberal sanctuary city which protects, rather than prosecutes, certain favored criminals. John escaped the Bay Area in May and now lives in Pine Grove California where conservative values are still in vogue.