Speaker of the House Paul Ryan says he will write an amnesty bill over the next few days and get it passed through before he leaves office. Ryan needs to be shoved out the door today before he ruins Republican chances in the midterm election.
In his place, the House Republicans need to install Rep Jim Jordan, who cannot be pushed around. This is getting ridiculous with Ryan, who only days before said that the FBI was right to spy on the Trump campaign. There have been discussions for the past few weeks about replacing the lame duck speaker.
Ryan suggested he would try to rush the bill to the floor. “Time is of the essence if we want to have a legislative process that we can control,” he said, referring to the group of 23 GOP legislators who threaten to use the discharge-petition process on June 25 to let Democrats pass their own amnesty.
The bill would reportedly provide an amnesty to at least 1.4 million illegals, and it does not include a cap to prevent fraud or subsequent waves of migrants hoping to join the next amnesty.
CNN reported mid-afternoon that Ryan’s legislation could be drafted “in the next few days.” The claim was made by Florida Rep. Chris Curbelo, a leader in the discharge-petition group whose district is dominated by Democratic-voting immigrant families who were brought into the United States by earlier amnesties.
“New ?: Curbelo tells me House leadership should have a draft of a DACA compromise in the next few days: “The next two or three days will be decisive in terms of whether or not people keep their word and support this framework” that has been negotiated, he said.”
New 🚨: Curbelo tells me House leadership should have a draft of a DACA compromise in the next few days:
“The next two or three days will be decisive in terms of whether or not people keep their word and support this framework” that has been negotiated, he said.— Tal Kopan (@TalKopan) June 7, 2018
“Wrapping up #ImmigrationReform @HouseGOP meeting. I don’t think it could have gone any better. Some questions but a lot of consensus. Our country deserves meaningful action on #immigration now. For too long politicians have used this issue for personal political gain. Enough.”
Wrapping up #ImmigrationReform @HouseGOP meeting. I don’t think it could have gone any better. Some questions but a lot of consensus. Our country deserves meaningful action on #immigration now. For too long politicians have used this issue for personal political gain. Enough.
— Carlos Curbelo (@CLCurbelo) June 7, 2018
Ryan is the one who kept the wall funding out of the massive 1.3 trillion dollar overspending bill. I wouldn’t trust him on an amnesty bill any further than I could toss Rosie O’Donnell.