Texas senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz are calling for guaranteed and common sense solutions in the great immigration reform bill debate that is now in its second week in Washington D.C.
Cruz is filing an amendment to the legislation to counteract Monday’s Supreme Court decision by allowing states to require proof of citizenship when people register to vote.
Cornyn is demanding that debate move beyond rhetoric and move forward with a guaranteed plan of reforming the immigration debacle.
...allows non-citizens to register...encourages voter fraud
When the Supreme Court held that the Arizona requiring proof of citizenship was need for voter registration was in violation of federal law, Cruz came up with a solution.
“This hole in federal statutory law allows non-citizens to register and thereby encourages voter fraud,” Cruz indicated. “I will file a commonsense amendment to the immigration bill that permits states to require I.D. before registering voters.”
Cornyn, tired of the Senate crawling, came out blasting.
...the results are pathetic
"The rhetoric from Washington has been impressive, but the results have been pathetic,” Cornyn stated. “The reality on the ground in Texas and in other border states has been quite different.”
"Until Congress acknowledges our credibility problem when it comes to enforcing our immigration laws, including border security, and until such time as we take serious action to fix it, we're never going to get true immigration reform,” Cornyn continued.
Demands results
Cornyn said his “amendment goes beyond mere promises and platitudes. It demands results and it creates a mechanism for ensuring them.”
Calling it like most Texans see it, Cornyn wrote:
"Unfortunately, many of our colleagues don't want a real trigger when it comes to border security."
The time for empty promises is over...
" Above all, they want a pathway to citizenship, and I'm not convinced beyond that they have much concern for whether we keep our promises with regard to border security."
"They are hoping that once again, once again the American people will put their faith in empty promises, but the time for empty promises is over when it comes to our broken immigration system."
We need to guarantee results...not the poison pill...
"If we're ever going to push immigration reform across the finish line, which I want to do, we need to guarantee results, and my amendment does that."
"I would contend, Mr. President, that rather than my amendment being the poison pill, the failure to pass a credible provision ensuring border security and interior enforcement, that will be the poison pill that causes immigration reform to die. That is not a result that I want."
"I want us to see a solution. I do not want the status quo because the status quo is broken. It serves no one's best interests.”
We still don't have secure borders
"We've had 27 years of input since the 1986 amnesty and we still don't have secure borders, and now it's beyond time to guarantee, not just for promises or inputs, but real outputs.
"In other words, my amendment, Mr. President, is not a poison pill. It's the antidote because it's the only way we're ever going to truly have bipartisan immigration reform."
