Today’s Immigration Headlines – June 11, 2014
JUNE 11, 2014 BY DAN STEIN (FAIR)
Border Flood Was Perfect Storm for Cantor Race
“NBC’s chief White House corespondent Chuck Todd pointed to a story originally broken Breitbart Texas abut the U.S.-Mexican border being flooded with illegal immigrant children as the main reason behind the “perfect storm” that caused House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) to loss the GOP primary to Tea Party challenger Dave Brat,” Breitbart TV reports. “Todd credited the grassroots anti immigration movement reaction to the story.”
Immigration Issue Front and Center in Cantor Primary
“[Rep. Eric] Cantor’s loss will prompt the reexamination of some other pieces of conventional wisdom: One, that the Tea Party is dead—clearly, at least in one restive precinct, anti-Washington anger is alive and well. And two, that supporting immigration reform doesn’t necessarily hurt Republicans in primaries—Cantor’s supposed support for “amnesty” was Brat’s chief line of attack. Supporters of immigration reform now fear that Republican members of Congress, leery of touching the issue before, now will never be persuaded that it is not politically toxic,” The Atlantic writes.
John Fund – Reading the Tea Leaves in Cantor Defeat
“Eric Cantor’s loss is historic. No sitting House majority leader has lost an election since the office was created in 1899. While Cantor’s loss was a stunning surprise, the warning signals were around for a while,” says John Fund at National Review.
“1. Cantor managed to muddle his message on immigration. His direct-mail pieces claimed he was foursquare against amnesty. But the newspapers covering Washington, D.C., quoted him as saying he was seeking a compromise with President Obama on immigration. Voters resolved the seeming contradiction by deciding to vote out their establishment congressman. Cantor’s loss destroys any chance of a comprehensive immigration bill passing the House this year.”
White House Tries to Spin Cantor Race
“A spokesman for President Obama rushed to assure House Republicans that Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) didn’t actually lose because of his gestures toward Democrats on immigration reform,” National Review says.
“‘Cantor’s problem wasn’t his position on immigration reform, it was his lack of a position,’ Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer tweeted, citing the primary triumph tonight by Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.). ‘Graham wrote and passed a bill and is winning big.’”
Border Surge Caused by Obama’s Policies
There’s a surge on the border. This is a surge far different from George W. Bush’s dispatch of armed might to win the day in Iraq. This is a mass movement of immigrants that threatens to transform the nation,” the Washington Times says.
“Children are walking hundreds of miles across a hostile environment with little more than the clothes on their backs, accompanied by neither a parent nor other responsible adult. The numbers of these children making the treacherous journey are much higher than the Obama administration has acknowledged, according to reporting by our Stephen Dinan. The deputy Border Patrol chief, Ronald Vitiello, said in an internal memo on May 30 that border agents caught 40,000 unaccompanied children last year. They expect to apprehend 90,000 children this year, and 142,000 in 2015.”
Video Shows Chaos as Amnesty Protesters Storm Cantor Campaign HQ
CNN posted a video showing chaos as pro-amnesty protesters crashed the Eric Cantor campaign headquarters yesterday. Note toward the end the woman unfurling a CASA t-shirt over the American flag.
Roger L. Simon – No Amnesty Wave Propelled Brat to Victory
“After 24 years and 12 congressional terms, Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s dreams of being speaker of the House exploded Tuesday in a matter of hours in a stunning defeat by political novice Dave Brat,” says Roger L. Simon at PJmedia.
“Riding a wave of anti-amnesty sentiment, the Randolph-Macon economics professor managed to win even in Richmond neighborhoods historically friendly to Cantor. He was clearly helped by recent reports of massive numbers of illegal aliens, including children, crossing our Southern border as well as a relatively puny turnout. Nevertheless, it was a huge and convincing win for Brat.”
http://immigrationreform.com/2014/06/11/todays-immigration-headlines-june-11-2014/
These are getting dumber and dumber as they go along. Like we need immigrants to sustain our tourism industry, huh ? Pheeeeeww!! 
