The GOP's 'outreach' to Hispanics hits a Tea Party roadblock in the House - not surprisingly.

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Tea Party Rules Immigration, Boehner and House

Days after the 2012 presidential election, in which less than one third of both Hispanic and Asian voters supported Republican candidate Mitt Romney, House Speaker John Boehner told ABC News that "a comprehensive approach" to immigration reform was "long overdue" and that he was "confident" a solution could be reached.

Oh, well. Today House Republicans voted for what might be called "comprehensive anti-immigration reform." As promised, they backed an amendment to a Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill to roll back President Barack Obama's November 2014 executive action easing deportations for up to five million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. Then they kept pushing. ... Republicans are now openly supporting mass deportation for the nation's estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants. This week, Republican Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama distributed a 23-page "Immigration Handbook for the New Republican Majority" making the case. Sessions has supported de facto deportation for some time, while refraining from publicly saying so.

Obama's White House is long past imagining that an immigration deal with Republicans is possible, and Democrats and their immigration allies are eager to emphasize what, in an e-mail to me, immigration analyst Marshall Fitz of the liberal Campaign for American Progress called the "whites-only" electoral path that House Republicans have endorsed with today's amendments. (The Tea Party has met the 21st century and decided to pass.)

Nationally, the confirmation that Republicans are now the party of mass deportation will probably have a more profound and lasting effect. Indeed, it's unclear how the party walks back such a stark position just before it leaps into a presidential election. Romney's camp is already sending signals that former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is too soft on immigration to survive the Republican primary (which may well be correct).

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-14/tea-party-dhs-immigration-amendments-show-boehner-whos-boss

I wonder if republicans think they can concede immigration policy to the tea party now then convince voters in 2016 that "a comprehensive approach" to immigration reform is something they believe in - as Boehner and other republicans tried to sell to Hispanics after their 2012 presidential debacle.

Perhaps they think that renaming "mass deportation" as 'mandatory repatriation' will do the trick.

The Tea Party has met the 21st century and decided to pass.

I love it.

[DetlefK]

1. I have a great idea how to encourage self-deportation of illegal immigrants:

Why do they come to the US? Jobs and standard of living.
How do we get them to leave? Take away their jobs.

But how? They are undocumented, so we can't check them individualy.




The solution is very simple:
Jail-time for each and everybody who employs an illegal immigrant.

There's an illegal immigrant working on your tomato-farm, cleaning your kitchen, grooming your garden or working in your shop? Then it's slammer-time for you.

Simple and efficient.

The Republicans will LOVE this.