President Obama, along with Chuck Schumer, are feeling mighty emboldened these days. Scott Brown told The Wall Street Journal that Obama called him from Air Force One earlier today to try and sway him on the immigration issue.
“He called me originally about illegal immigration, something that he wanted me to look at that was coming down the pike,” Brown says of the call, which also roamed onto other topics like basketball and financial regulation. “I told him and others that I will read anything and make a judgment when it comes forth.”
Alluding to the issue a few minutes later, Brown clarified what he told Obama. “When I said I have an open mind, it means I have an open mind to read the bill,” he said. “That doesn’t mean that I will vote for granting amnesty to anyone. But I want to be respectful to the president and to any member who brings me a proposal.”
After winning health care and advancing financial re-regulation, many Democrats thought the president’s big legislative agenda would be winding down. Election season is beginning, a Supreme Court nomination fight is at hand, and Democrats don’t lack for accomplishments, just political support. But Schumer has argued strongly that they should move forward with a broad overhaul of immigration laws, including a tough crack-down on border security and a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already in the country.
Interesting – this comes out right after a Democrat congressman threatened that he’d tell Latino voters to stay home in November if Obama doesn’t act on immigration.
H/T Weasel Zippers
AOL News The Point linked!
Illegal immigration is a crisis because the government won’t enforce its own existing laws. Liberals in congress have voted against cutting off federal funding for “sanctuary cities.” Nine years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and still we have no serious border fence. Why is there no national guard patrolling our border with Mexico? Any legal status for foreign nationals is amnesty. Overwhelmingly Hispanics vote democrat/liberal. Liberals want amnesty so they can eventueally legally stuff the ballot box. Any legal status for illegal foreigners will not solve the illegal immigration problem; it will make the problems caused by illegal foreigners permanent.
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