Website of Top House Republican Bob Goodlatte Drops Opposition to Amnesty - “we can all agree that our nation’s immigration system is broken” (No, Bob, just unenforced, but many of us do agree that your backbone is broken.)

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Website of Top House Republican Drops Opposition to Amnesty

In January 2012, the “Immigration Reform” page on the official House website of Representative Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said: “In no event should we grant amnesty to those who have broken our laws and entered the country illegally. Doing so would simply invite more illegal immigration in the future.”

Throughout 2012 and much of 2013, the Virginia Republican’s House “Immigration Reform” page denounced “amnesty.” As late as April 2013, it said “we must not grant amnesty to individuals who have broken our laws.”

Now, though, this prohibition has been scrubbed from his “Immigration Reform” page. Instead, this page now talks about how “we can all agree that our nation’s immigration system is broken” and the need to be thoughtful in remaking U.S. immigration policies. Earlier versions of this page had an almost single-minded focus on the need to enforce immigration laws. The notion that our immigration system is “broken” is often a key argument of allies of the White House’s immigration agenda. . . .

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/368171/website-top-house-republican-drops-opposition-amnesty-fred-bauer