56% Of Republicans Support Amnesty - Including Back Tax Refunds For Illegals

by JASmius



They just don't quite understand why.

On the one hand:



If even Ted Cruz is effectively throwing in the towel on even "deferred deportation," then, "pro-amnesty forces can now declare victory: Even a majority of the GOP is on-board with legalization, and once legalization happens, citizenship will inexorably follow. Game over."  Or, as I wrote a month ago, public opposition to Obamnesty is gone.

But as I also said then:

[I]t seems pretty clear that the American people across the board are resigning themselves....[to] the extinction of citizenship and the loss of what used to be our country to the "Old World" from which our (legal) immigrant ancestors originally fled.

Not a change of mind, but a bowing to the perceived inevitable.  Which is reflected deeper in the Pew Survey.

Here:

Republicans (58%) are far more likely than Democrats (23%) or independents (33%) to say that allowing [illegal aliens] to remain in the U.S. is a reward for wrongdoing. Notably, the share of Republicans who think of a path to legal status as a reward for doing something wrong has increased nine points (from 49%) since May 2013.

And here:



Higher percentages of Republicans object to rewarding illegals' lawbreaking with amnesty and unearned citizenship and recognize the economic, cultural, and civic damage that illegal immigration inflicts upon the country than do support amnesty itself.  But not by much.  How are these contradictory numbers reconcilable?

Only one way: Republicans have given up.  Surrendered.  Capitulated.  Run up the white flag.  Seen and come to terms with the cold, hard fact that by the time there's a Republican president in office to shut the Obamnesty window - if there ever is one - the damage it was meant to inflict will be long since irreversibly done.

Just as Barack Obama knew would be the case.

Game over, indeed.  But that won't be the end of the post-game, opposition nose-rubbing celebration.  Just ask the Department Store Mannequin:

Illegal [aliens] granted amnesty under Barack Obama's [illegal] immigration reform will be able to claim back tax refunds from years in which they never filed taxes, the IRS said.

According to the Washington Times, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told Congress in a letter the roughly [twenty] million illegal [aliens] who could be granted amnesty under Obama's plan will be eligible to take advantage of the Earned Income Tax Credit.

"To clarify my earlier comments on EITC, not only can an individual amend a prior year return to claim EITC, but an individual who did not file a prior year return may file a return and claim EITC (subject to refund limitations under section 6511 of the Internal Revenue Code)," Koskinen said in written responses to a request from Senator Chuck Grassley, R-IA. Grassley released Koskinen's comments Wednesday.

The punchline?  That's potentially tens of billions of dollars that will be funneled....straight back to Mexico.

Kind of illustrates how resisting all the tentacles of Obamunism is virtue being its own reward - because it isn't winning us anything else.