Thoughts on the House version of the immigration issue. Let's stop demonizing our best and brightest -- namely Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio -- while we wait to see the final product.

Breitbart News:  During a town hall meeting in Racine, WI, House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) revealed the House Republican Leadership plans to pass multiple immigration bills and then combine them with the Senate legislation in the conference process to create a comprehensive bill.
Ryan said the goal is to make what he and the House GOP leadership considers improvements to the Senate bill.
“A lot of people are saying, just pass the Senate bill," Ryan explained. "That's not what the House is going to do. I think we can make it better."
According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, “Ryan said in the House, where the Republicans are in the majority, the intent ‘is to bring five or six bills... to fix these problems one step at a time in a comprehensive way.’”
Ryan said negotiations are ongoing in the House for when certain bills will get to the floor. “Tentatively, in October, we're going to vote on a border security bill, an interior enforcement bill, a bill for legal immigration,” he said.
The Journal-Sentinel noted that Ryan also said the House will vote on a bill that would grant illegal aliens amnesty. “We're going to vote on a bill for people who are undocumented,” Ryan said.

Editor’s notes:  I trust two individuals in all this,  Paul Ryan and (in the Senate)  Jeff Sessions.  Unfortunately,  the two appear to be at separate polls on this issue.  Currently,  the House is “in charge,”  working on its version of the Senate bill which was opposed by Sessions.  Sometime after the August break,  perhaps late October,  the House will vote on three of its legal solutions,  as detailed in the excerpt,  above.  I intend to wait until I see what the House is actually going to consider.  But,  more than this,  I do not intend to let talk of “amnesty” close my mind to what is being considered. 

If “amnesty” means illegals will no longer have to worry about being . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . .  exported while they comply with requirements,  over a period of years,  before applying for citizenship,  I am fine with that.  If we are going to give them a path to citizenship,  we need to stop threatening them. 

I do not believe that the Senate bill gives them all the rights of citizenship before they have paid the fines and complied with long term qualifications required for an eventual application for citizenship.  I do believe,  however,  that the Senate bill does not effectively deal with border security.  

The concerning issue,  for me,  is border security,  and that will be the first issue dealt with in October by the House.  It is generally believed that the Senate  “went soft” on this issue.  If Ryan and his partners can effectively deal with this issue,  the door is open for continuing solutions to  the immigration issue. 


I,  for one,  am not going to let the hype and present day headlines cause me a great deal of concern.  We need to wait until we see the wording and know more about the specific details of the Ryan agenda as regards the larger comprehensive immigration issue.  
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For the record,  I do not care what Ann Coulter has to say on much of anything.  Hyperbole is a primary Coulter strategy and,  after years of listening to this woman,  I find myself asking,  "Who died and made Coulter an authority on political issues?"  

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