The House GOP puts pressure on the Senate and Obama to do something about immigration rather than play the blame game.

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Billy Crystal opposes the House Immigration bill.  Here is a partial explanation - read the full report at the Weekly Standard, here:  

The House Republican leadership is having trouble getting 218 votes for its immigration bill. The policy objections to the bill seem convincing to me—among them that it seems to appropriate more money, on a pro-rated monthly basis, than the president's proposal; that it might well make it harder, not easier, to send some or all of the illegal migrants back; that it changes the asylum laws in ways that might well backfire; and that it doesn't deal in any way the core cause of the problem, the president's 2012 executive amnesty for minors or his pending huge expansion of that amnesty. These objections haven't been convincingly addressed by leadership. And of course there's been no markup of the leadership bill, no hearings about it, and no amendments permitted to it. All of this is grounds for not rushing to pass dubious legislation. The House Republican leadership should pull the bill.But the overwhelming reason to kill the bill is that it's not going to become law anyway. The president and the Senate leadership have made clear they'll never accept it. So what's the point of passing it? 

Editor’s notes:  On the other hand,  sending a bill to the Senate confirms the claim that the GOP is concerned about border issues.  If the Senate  refuses to consider the bill,  it does so at its own peril.  They don’t like what the GOP proposes?  Rewrite the bill and send it back to the House.  That is the way things are designed to work. 

In brief review,  the House bill would revise the 2008 law,  making adjudication of the  illegal immigrant population a matter of days,  rather than a process  involving 3 to 5 years. 

Secondly,  it would put the National Guard on the border.

Third,  it would allow the Border Patrol to pursue illegals onto Federal Lands.  They are prohibited from such pursuit,  under the current Regime. 

Fourth,  it gives Obama $659 million,  not 3.7 billion,  a number pulled out of thin air by the financial geniuses in the Administration.  

And,  this bill would end “catch and release.” 

Its not perfect, but it is a start. 

I say,  make the Dems own up to their own complaints.  Just before the summer break,  will the Dems want to return home to face local constituencies demanding Congress do something besides play the blame game? 

Update:  Understand that Obama does not want an immigration bill,  pure and simple,  or he would have passed an immigration bill back in 2009,  as he promised.  

You should know that Obama's 2009 Immigration Bill,  could have given citizenship  (not just amnesty) to 10, 15, 20 million immigrants and ordered all sector employers receiving federal supplimental funding to hire these people.  He could have given these 20 million citizens,  a new car and 10 year's worth of income for payment on new homes.  The GOP could not have stopped him.  So why didn't he do this?  There is only one reason:  he didn't want to.  

This is all about politics.  Obama could not care less and time has proven this to be true,  without doubt.