Senate Passes Immigration Overhaul, Now Waits for House to F*** It Up

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by: Colorado Pols

In a bipartisan vote, the Senate on Thursday passed a sweeping, historic overhaul of the nation’s immigration system – the first attempt to tackle such reform in six years. But the historic bill appears to face a procedural brick wall in the GOP-led House, with Republican leaders vowing instead to move forward on their own measures.

Fourteen Republicans joined with all Democrats to back the legislation, which would revamp the nation’s legal immigration system, send unprecedented resources to the nation’s southern border, and offer millions of undocumented immigrants a path to legal status and eventual citizenship…

…The bipartisan drafters of the legislation, which was first formally unveiled in April, came one by one to the Senate floor Thursday afternoon to make deeply personal appeals for the passage of a bill they described as a compassionate, economically sound measure necessary to maintain the American Dream central to the nation’s identity.

Hooray! Oh, wait:

Despite bipartisan support in the Senate, the immigration legislation faces a rocky path in the GOP-controlled House, where opposition to the citizenship provision is significantly stronger. Boehner has pledged not to bring the Senate bill up for a vote, pointing instead to smaller pieces of immigration legislation focused on border security and enforcement. [Pols emphasis] On Thursday, he reiterated that he will not bring legislation to the House floor that does not have majority support from the Republican conference, and he extended that pledge even to merged legislation that could blend House- and Senate-passed bills.

The U.S. House of Representatives: America's wet blanket since 2011!

10 thoughts on “Senate Passes Immigration Overhaul, Now Waits for House to F*** It Up”

davebarnes says:

June 27, 2013 at 2:59 pm

Oh crap, he is from our state.

"Who believes this shit?"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/27/1219440/-Ultraconservative-Tom-Tancredo-on-immigration-reform-Who-believes-this-nbsp-s-t

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1. Colorado Pols says:
  
  June 27, 2013 at 3:15 pm
  
  Ironically, Tancredo might be the only person who thinks Boehner can get something passed in the House. On anything.
  
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skeptical citizen says:

June 27, 2013 at 3:20 pm

Will the real Mike Coffman please stand up?

Will he publicly support the Senate bill?

Or will he hide behind the pathetic House leadership?

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1. MADCO says:
  
  June 27, 2013 at 6:41 pm
  
  bwahahahahah
  
  Yeah. RIght after the Av's win the 2013 Cup.
  
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Diogenesdemar says:

June 27, 2013 at 4:03 pm

Why wait to "F*** it up"??

… I mean, when you've got a perfectly good Boehner …

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Phoenix Rising says:

June 27, 2013 at 5:28 pm

'cause the thing we need most out of this immigration reform bill is, well, everything but the reform part.

And definitely a more militarized border. As Sen. McCain points out, this will be the most extensive border barrier since the Berlin Wall (possibly excepting the Korean DMZ…). Is that really what we want to compare our country to? East Germany?

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MADCO says:

June 27, 2013 at 6:44 pm

House GOP has their own immigration plan. None.

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yameniye says:

June 28, 2013 at 3:11 am

Mike, Little Tank, Coffman will ensure those with less than lilly white skin color will be put in their proper place, most likely somewhere south of the ~~Berlin~~ Republican Wall.

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roccoprahn says:

June 28, 2013 at 8:56 am

There's a dynamic in play that may drive a surprise. Or not. We'll have to wait and see.

Senate redlegs were able to get some extremely mean, nasty, divisive Amendments passed. The path wll be long and wrought with peril for assimilation. The punitive measures, fines, and threats of redleg Senate take over, negating everything, will hang over immigrants' heads for 13 years plus. Every teabagger but the very right extreme element should love the fact that even in passing this Senate Bill, immigrants were demonized, minimized, and dehumanized. It is, in short, mean enough for most christ-ees, gun nuts, homophobes, anti-choice lunatics, non profit scammers, and former redleg draft dodgers turned chickenhaks. In other words, the bulk of the red party.

Then there's the carrot for the corporatist, country club redlegs.. "Border surge". A huge give away of the treasury to Haliburton. The "border security" pork will explode the budget, while enriching the shooter cheney wing. Reds get rich, blame the black President, and we start over again.

Could just work. We'll see.

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1. JeffcoBlue says:
  
  June 29, 2013 at 12:44 am
  
  Good analysis.
  
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