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Monday, February 01, 2010

Stick a Fork in It [Mark Krikorian]

Amnesty advocates are still clinging to the fiction that a “comprehensive” immigration bill is possible this year. The reality is, as a “veteran Senate lobbyist” tells the Post, “immigration is deader than a doornail.” This is why the amnesty crowd is getting testy with their man in the White House. Luis Gutierrez, amnesty’s loudest champion in the House, said of the president’s state of the union speech, “He was very weak on immigration, lackadaisical.” And Frank Sharry, one of the top left-wing amnesty lobbyists, said, “I had very low expectations, but [the president] surprised even me with how little he said.”

I know schadenfreude is an unworthy sentiment, but in the absence of real victory (i.e., reducing immigration), it’ll have to do.

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