Mayors Demand Immigration Solution From Congress

by JASmius

Now we see another insidious purpose of the Obama White House's "flooding the zone" illegal immigration strategy:

Mayors on Sunday called for Congress to draw up bipartisan legislation to address the surge of illegal immigrants into the United States and asked for help to ease the resulting financial burden on local governments.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors said at its annual meeting in Dallas they are asking congressional Democrats and Republicans for legislation to increase border security and support city and state governments whose finances are being strained by costs associated to illegal immigration.

"Forget the D thing. Forget the R thing. This is an American issue," said Anaheim, California, Mayor Tom Tait, a Republican and co-chair of the Immigration Reform Task Force, a bipartisan group within the United States Conference of Mayors.

Since October, 52,000 unaccompanied children have arrived on the U.S. border with Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security said on Friday, underscoring an immigration problem seen by the White House as a humanitarian crisis.

Actually, Mayor Tait, the only thing keeping illegal immigration from being a partisan issue is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.  But it most definitely does have partisan implications, which is why the Regime is doing everything it can, irrespective of the Constitution, to encourage and facilitate it.  Because the more foreign Latinos they can import, the tighter Democrats' electoral grip on the nation becomes.  It's as simple as that.

Overwhelming state and local governments with this influx - the artificially-engineered, deliberately induced "humanitarian crisis (and isn't it clever of The One to glom Sarah Palin's description of it?) - was a stroke of genius.  Even if the U.S. Conference of Mayors is lobbying for tighter border security and not for de facto amnesty, it creates another source of pressure on congressional Republicans for "bipartisan immigration legislation" to help counter the pressure against precisely that from the center-right grassroots.  Democrats, of course, do not have to be so pressured, because they know that once such legislation gets any momentum, they can and will steer it into the "comprehensive immigration reform" that passed the Senate a year ago.

Also, Obamunists have no objections to making States and municipalities even more fiscally dependent on the federal government than they were already.  That's what makes this aspect of their angle so insidious: that its ostensible justification is not only reasonable - making the feds "pay" for the humanitarian crisis they inflicted on States and cities - but it's based on a conservative-ish premise.  Republicans can see their point and plight even as they must resist their entreaties for assistance that would exacerbate the crisis and seal their own electoral, and the country's civic and economic, doom.  And that can only deepen the intra-GOP rift on this issue.

Can House Republicans run out the remaining two months on this Congress's legislative clock?  Or will they unwittingly succumb by passing a border control-only bill that will be guaranteed to be transmogrified into Schumer-Rubio in conference committee?  That question just got a lot more complicated.