1:18 pm ET
Feb 9, 2014


House GOP Cools to Schumer Immigration Proposal

    • "The law"? NO! There should be no single, "Clusterhensive" law. There should be a series of well debated, rifle shot, laws. End Birthright Citizenship. Develop and implement a first world visa entry/exit tracking system. Make eVerify and Secure Communities mandatory. One at a time. Standalone.

      And NO AMNESTY, by itself, or in some "Clusterhensive" bill. Amnesty is any path to legalization and it is clearly not a reform. The only argument for it is that there are so many scofflaws, we are hard pressed to deport them all. That tells me we should just patiently enforce the law for as many years as it takes to clean up the mess. What's the hurry? It took 25 years of failing to enforce our laws to get here. So, it might take 10-15 of enforcing the law with enough vigor to instill enough fear to clean it up.

    • My respect just went up for Senator Schumer. He is man enough to admit that Obama justifiably cannot be trusted with enforcing the law, and consequently Congress should pass a law that takes effect only after the end of the failed Obama presidency. Tip of the hat Chuck.

    • Schumer is a very dangerous man, and should be given credit for much of the great harm inflicted on our dear America. I hope people will wake up this November.

    • Even a sccuumbag like Schumer realizes that Obama is a lawless, lier that can't be trusted.


    • Chuck, a force behind subprime loans, now offers his can't miss advice on immigration law.
      Let him endorse full participation in Obamacare now.
      Congress, corporations and unions.
      In exchange for Congressional consideration of his immigration scheme.

    • Haven't we done that one, one better, already? We have a law on the books that no next President has enforced.

    • After Boehner proposed a compromise plan for immigration reform, which he thought would appeal to Republicans in the House, the outside pressure groups got to work on those Republicans. The Heritage Foundation and other unelected outside pressure groups swamped the House Republicans with threatened retribution, should they vote for the measure.

      The same outside pressure groups who pressured the House Republicans into their quixotic government shutdown in the Fall, now is forcing them to refuse to do what is a long-term necessity for the party.

    • I have a better idea. Immigration reform is passed right after the Affordable Care Act is repealed.

    • Of course, instead of contructive contributions from you on immigration reform and implementation --since it affects the lives of real people--you have **nothing** to add except insults and debbie downer crap

    • What makes him think Republicans would trust Hillary any more than they do Obama? Or that they'd trust any Democrat, for that matter? Even Reagan did them wrong on immigration. The only real hope for solving the immigration problem is the Tea Party.

    • Ok schumer is crazy, what is to stop obama from chaning a law.let the 2017 president deal with it, get schumer out.

    • So we're going to say that in 3 years anybody who is here illegally gets citizenship... geez, I wonder if the next 3 years will see a massive wave of incoming immigrants. This has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

      Oh yeah, guys like Schumer don't care... they're completely in favor of giving as much leverage to capital in the on going fight with labor. Lower wages for everybody else, more money for his masters! They won't have to deal with the consequences of this non-sense as they will hide behind a gated wall. What a joke this country has become.

    • What a sad state of affairs when our elected officials in congress openly state they do not trust the President. Even sadder is the fact that they are right.

    • Speaker Boehner rejected Senator Schumer's proposal because he's fundamentally opposed to granting citizenship to Hispanics. His supporters need them here illegally, so they can continue to exploit them.

    • We're Christians. We forgive those who trespass against us.

      It's too bad that when Christians become Republicans they automatically turn into hypocrites and stop forgiving. They all revert back to "an eye for an eye" justice.

    • Obozo implemented aggressive border control and deportations? Not according to the ICE union. They've been complaining about the extreme lack of enforcement for a while. And of course,that idiot, Schumer wants enforcement delayed. That way the public will be snookered again like the ACA before the election and the disastrous implementation will be hidden until it's too late. The abolishment of birthright citizenship along with mandatory E-Verify for all employees must be first. Then, institute a Canadian/Australian point system of immigration qualifications where you get points for English speaking, college degree, etc.... The US does not need million of low skilled, illiterate immigrants. Those that meet the tough standards can stay, the rest can go adios. Those illegals who complain about lack of family reunification can go back to their home country and bring the family with them.

    • The TEA party's solution would be to eliminate the border control parts of government and let everyone from south of the border to flood into our country.

      That's their answer for everything.

    • Christians are a small percentage of Republicans. It's stupid to adopt self destructive religious platitudes. Israelis do it right.

    • There is a simply solution on a table for our noble and hard-working politicians. Just keep postponing any immigration improvments for another 10-15 years. Thus, millions and millions of unfortunate immigrants will simply turn into corpses and citizens won't have to worry about the guys who "take aways my cleaning job" anymore. Such a simple and American, hard way..... But yea, the only problem that might arise is who would pay for sending back the corpses. Though we can just save our precious money and cremate them. Put the ash in a used pepsi bottles and ship them by Fedex ( regular delivery ).

    • isn't this the Pres that has enforced ACA, IRS. Benghazi , Black Panthers, Fast and Furious, NSA ?

    • "Comprehensive" legislation is the engine driving the growth of the bureaucracy grinding down America. I hear that phrase and I KNOW what it REALLY means. Tyranny.

    • WSJ keeps deleting my posts, Impeach BHO now for all his Felonies & Misdemeanors.
      Get Someone that will protect every legal workers write to an illegal alien free labor market.

    • delayed effective date worked so well for obamacare.

    • How about THIS president enforce the law. as he swore to do.

    • The fact that one of the highest ranking members of the president's party thinks he is utterly untrustworthy in performing one of the president's Constitutional duties is astounding. What a joke Obama has become!!!

    • Not sure why Schumer wants to let the knucklehead Republicans off easy. They are cutting their own throats and in a few years won't have anyone left in their party, but old, white males and imbeciles. As an independent voter, I can't see ever voting for a Republican, not even for dog catcher. I crack up when they say Obama is not trustworthy. I on the other hand trust the Republicans to always be corrupt, always take care of the wealthy at the expense of everyone else and always look for more defense dollars even though we already spend an obscene amount. They have my trust alright.

    • Schumer is a doofus (my sincere apologies to any doofuses taking offense at the Schumer comparison).

      However, Obama bin Lyin will pull that notorious pen out of his ___; and unilaterally change the dates to whatever suits his socialist agenda.

    • Our Exploitation of people must be the best there is. Illegals keep flockoing here to be exploited. Or is it the Leftist giveaways attempting to pack the electorate nd then fail like the Romans? Bread & Circuses for everyone.

    • A president who doesn't enforce law he swore to enforce. An administration who is hostile to America and it's residents? Both of whom are aconfirmed pack of liars.
      What could possibly go wrong.

    • Let's have a ranking system where people from First World Countries have an easier time of getting in.

      Then there would be exceptions for extra precautions against people of certain colors and religions associated with trouble making.

    • Why can't Democrats just openly declare their animosity to Religion, specifically Christianity? Why can't they be more like their friends in Hollywood who go out of their way to trash any values that hint of Christianity? Instead, they follow their feckless leader in Washington who pretends to be a Christian, who pretends to care about the persecution of Christians overseas if it might help him politically. Instead of giving lip service to religious tolerance, why can't Dems stand up and let the world know how they REALLY feel about anyone who believes in God and His values?

    • Pass the border control portion and high tech visa provisions now and address the rest when those items have been implemented.
      That also addresses the issue.

    • - Stop Immigration
      - End ObamaCare
      - End Medicade
      - End Medicare past an estimate of what any individual paid in. 40% of Medicare is not covered by the "Medicare Tax" It's welfare like any other Welfare

    • We need to support Israel in their proactive quest to start the final war in the middle east

    • Obama has ignored the effective dates of Obamacare. What's to say he wouldn't ignore the effective date of a new immigration law (just on the parts of the law he likes, of course)?

    • We have the lowest participation in the work force in decades. we have numerous incentive not to work ( ObamaCare being one of them) yet we need more low skilled labor Our government leaders are clueless.

    • No thanks Schumer, we'll pass. We don't want 15 million new Democrats instantly. And you ought to read the American Constitution sometime, you might find out what a bunch law breakers you and your party really are.

    • Read it-just like Bush did when he lied to the American people to go to war in Iraq.

    • Don't trust Schumer!!

    • He if I'm correct is the one who started the DEMS writing letters to IRS targeting conservatives exemptions & one behind revising the exemption requirements. Snake in the grass!!

    • Don't trust Schumer. Snake in the grass.

    • This guy is all about him getting reelected. P. Obama sin eater!

    • Yea, P. Obama has lied about more things than Bush. P. In fact, when P. Obama open his mouth that is all that comes out!!

    • P. Obama thinks he is a dictator over U.S.. Look what his Sec. of State has started. Remember her lies about Benghazi. She is starting a war. Not fit to hold her job!

    • P. Obama thinks he is a dictator over U.S.. Look what his Sec. of State has started. Remember her lies about Benghazi. She is starting a war. Not fit to hold her job! As are any of his other cabinet members he hires or appoints.

    • bnnn

    • American Spirit-immigration reform will reinforce American Founding Values unlike any other countries. Emergency based on solving human sufferings and pursuit of equal opportunity and freedom of human lives

    • Hey.... I have an idea. Let's repeal Obamacare and pass something that will work..... and will not take effect until after the President leaves Office. Yeah. Works for me. But I'm betting Chuckie won't go for it.

    • If Schumer proposed it, I'm sure of two things:
      1. It will help the Democratic Party.
      2. It will hurt this nation's middle class.

    • Why pass a law that isn't going to go into effect for 3 years? Isn't that one of the Obamacare mistakes?

      In particular, why wouldn't the GOP want to hold off until they have control of the Senate, and possibly the White House? They could get a much better bill.

    • This is very funny. Schumer called Boehner's bluff, and Boehner folded. He has no intention of doing anything to address the illegal immigrant situation. He doesn't want alienate his party's brown shirts.


      First of all the Latino voters are the Italian voters. Maybe you mean the spanish-speaking Ibero-Indians vote. Secondly, what Republicans need is to reach out to those stupid Whites who are still in the Democratic Party and who twice have voted and elected anti-American Obama. Clearly, 39% of Whites Democrats and Independent voted for Obama and against their own interests, So, the focus should be on the White electorate and not on these "Hispanics" who will not care about voting Republicans because the Democratic Party is their Welfare Party. In the last election if only 3-4% of those 39% of Whites who voted for Obama had voted for Mitt Romney now Mitt Romney would be the President. It's not that that I really liked Mitt Romney, he was not a conservative at all, but that was what we had. The Republicans don't need 'Hispanics". Actually, Hispanic immigration must stop. They have destroyed our way of live and civilization.

    • Businesses want immigrants bcz immigrants are either more qualified to for technological jogs than US citizens (e.g., software) or they're an excellent source of cheap labor (e.g., field workers) contributing to greater profits. Since Republicans like to identify themsleves with business, it's business and Republicans that actually do not want immigration reform. (Logic often pops Republicans' ideology.)

    • The fact that the House GOP were ever warm to anything proposed by Schumer is disturbing.

    • Chuck imagines like Anthony Weiner

    • NO Amnesty, no U.S. Citizenship not even for the "children", brought here illegally by their illegal parents.No more non-White immigration. This is an issue which affects all the White Nations. The Swiss in Europe have started the liberation movement. It will spread all over Europe and other White nations. We have been swamped by third world invaders who have brought with them backwards traditions and religions which are transforming our societies in unrecognizable ways. We don't need foreign "engineers" (with fake credentials). We need to provide jobs for our own people who are already here and trained to do everything we need to be done... We don't need Indians or Pakistanis to do easy work and make a pile of moneys. Let our people make that money. If we need to train our people for new jobs let's train our own people and not non-Whites. Close the borders. I hope that the Swiss vote will start a deep examination of the wrongs we've done to ourselves by opening third word immigration and take actions to prevent further pollution of our identity.I want the Republicans in the House to hang tough. If they give up and grant Citizenship to even only those millions of people who came here as "children" they will doom themselves and future generations. Not a chance anymore to have another Republican President, not even for one last time. Shame on those White Democrat in the U.S. Senate. They are selling themselves. Don't they know that they're NOW in the wrong Party? That today's Democratic Party is no longer the Democratic Party of yesterday when is was an all White Party belonging to people with the same culture,morality and vision but a Party which offered a minor dissenting view on certain aspects of life and was not the Welfare Party of the anti-Whites, anti-Americans of today?

    • So ChuckNuts agrees... you can't trust the lying little dirtbag in the White House.

      These people are just sickening.

    • Becoming a US citizen today ain't what it used to be. We no longer represent freedom and opportunity. Our citizenship is like flypaper. If you become a US citizen and prosper and then you expatriate, you are subject to a 30% exit tax of your entire net worth. Any visit to the US for 30 days over the following 10 years mean you're subject to US income tax AGAIN.

      So immigrants: Welcome to NSA eavesdropping. It is there to protect you. Expect expanded government control of your lives so you don't have to decide. Your wages won't be entirely confiscated. You'll still be able to buy some food with the help of food stamps. Your government mandated (Ponzi scheme) retirement system isn't yours. It goes to others. But then, that's a good thing right! Your government mandated health insurance payments will dramatically remove your choices. Eventually your medical freedom of choice will evaporate. Well, at least you won't have to decide on complicated healthcare issues. But hey, they'll still sing patriotic songs at the opening on government subsidized sporting events. Welcome to the new USA comrades. Now please, hold up your little red books and prepare to swear allegiance.

    • No kidding they are cool. Schumer called them on their B.S. They cannot recognize his ironic remark.
      I cannot believe all these uneducated and under-educated commenters on this site.
      Republican governors have done a major disservice cutting funds for secondary and higher education. We are seeing it in the comment section of the wall street journal

    • There is no reason not to establish a path to legal residency and taxation. Citizenship is another story. I can't imagine why the democrats would be so passionate about making 12,000,000 new democratic voters. It's so noble of them.

    • Earth to Mr. Schumer: If your proposal doesn't take effect until after Mr. Obama is gone, then there is really no need to discuss it, much less pass it, until after Mr. Obama is gone.


    • Schumer is a repulsive slimeball .. and that's an understatement

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