Gun Owners of America“[A] Pew poll suggests that illegal immigrants, if given citizenship, would vote for liberal, anti-gun candidates by an 8-to-1 margin.” – GOA’s Erich Pratt, commenting on Pew poll findings as reported in The Washington Post (7/22/13)
Next Wednesday, the House Republican leadership will announce a set of “principles” for immigration reform. Supposedly, if these “principles” are not well-received, the House will shelve the issue for the remainder of the year.
To be blunt: The health of the Second Amendment relies on demolishing these “principles.”
Immigration reform will add over 8,000,000 anti-gun voters to the voting rolls. There may be as many as 11.5 million persons illegally in the United States. And, a Pew poll from last year indicated that if illegal immigrants were given citizenship, they would vote for liberal, anti-gun candidates by an 8-to-1 margin.
This is exactly what happened to California — which was once a Red State. Because of the Simpson-Mazzoli amnesty bill of 1986, the state lurched violently to the left and now can’t pass gun control restrictions fast enough.
If this were to happen at the national level, we would lose the ability to stop massive gun bans and gun registration schemes. And all of this occurs at a time when a Fox poll shows the American people oppose Obama’s immigration policies by a margin of 36% to 54%.
The first reality is this: If the House passes ANYTHING, the Senate will tack on its amnesty bill and send it to conference. And the national conversation will turn off of ObamaCare and onto immigration.
And guess what? Every gun-hating institution which moved heaven and earth to pass gun control will move heaven and earth to get the House to retreat — if not to a “pathway to citizenship,” to a “pathway to legalization.”
They will have created the biggest and most motivated Obama-loving movement in the country — devoted to electing anti-gun politicians and retaining Harry Reid’s control of the Senate.
What will Republicans get, in exchange for creating an army of pro-Obama election warriors?
Very little. (Be sure to read GOA legislative counsel Michael Hammond’s analysis, which shows, in great detail, how the Republican leadership’s “principles” will end up back-firing on gun owners.)
The bottom line is that there is a reason why Barack Obama and his “puppet press” have been campaigning for a year to force the Republican House to wade into “immigration reform.” It is nothing but benefits for anti-gun politicians, and nothing but pain for pro-gun legislators.
Who would be stupid enough to inflict that level of pain on themselves?
ACTION: Contact your Representative. If he is a Republican, the pre-written letter will ask him to reject the ridiculous “immigration principles” being hawked by the leadership — principles that will eventually destroy the pro-gun movement in America. The pre-written letter for Democrats is a generic opposition letter.
—– Pre-written letters —–
Dear Republican Representative:
Next Wednesday, the House Republican leadership will announce a set of “principles” for immigration reform. Supposedly, if these “principles” are not well-received, the House will shelve the issue for the remainder of the year.
I agree with Gun Owners of America that the health of the Second Amendment relies on demolishing these “principles.”
Immigration reform will add over 8,000,000 anti-gun voters to the voting rolls. There may be as many as 11.5 million persons illegally in the United States. And, a Pew poll from last year indicated that if illegal immigrants were given citizenship, they would vote for liberal, anti-gun candidates by an 8-to-1 margin.
This is exactly what happened to California — which was once a Red State. Because of the Simpson-Mazzoli amnesty bill of 1986, the state lurched violently to the left and now can’t pass gun control restrictions fast enough.
If this were to happen at the national level, we would lose the ability to stop massive gun bans and gun registration schemes. And all of this occurs at a time when a Fox poll shows the American people oppose Obama’s immigration policies by a margin of 36% to 54%.
The first reality is this: If the House passes ANYTHING, the Senate will tack on its amnesty bill and send it to conference. And the national conversation will turn off of ObamaCare and onto immigration.
And guess what? Every gun-hating institution which moved heaven and earth to pass gun control will move heaven and earth to get the House to retreat — if not to a “pathway to citizenship,” to a “pathway to legalization.”
They will have created the biggest and most motivated Obama-loving movement in the country — devoted to electing anti-gun politicians and retaining Harry Reid’s control of the Senate.
What will Republicans get, in exchange for creating an army of pro-Obama election warriors?
A secure border? The leadership’s “principles” will embrace the myth that Obama can be trusted to “secure the borders” if Republicans create 8,000,000 new Obama voters. But it should tell you something that Democrats have steadfastly refused to condition amnesty on measurable border progress, determined by an objective arbiter.
If the anti-gun ObamaCare law has shown us anything, it is that the law is irrelevant to Barack Obama, when it impedes his political objectives. You would have to be delusional to assume that Obama will do anything to secure the border, once his “quid pro quo” is firmly in hand.
What about E-Verify (also known as “Healthcare.gov for Jobs”)?
After the colossal failure of “government checks for guns” (“Brady Checks”) and “government checks for insurance” (ObamaCare), one would have to be crazy to prohibit any American from getting a job until they had been checked out by an ObamaCare-type database.
The only difference between healthcare.gov and E-Verify is that (1) E-Verify is a much larger and more intrusive database and, (2) the consequences of its failure will be much more cataclysmic. Incidentally, even a maid, nanny, or baby sitter would have to receive government approval if the Senate bill became law.
What about agricultural and high-tech visas? Well, it turns out that, as the result of a not-so-subtle loophole in the Senate bill, if an individual can claim that he is an “agricultural worker” over half the year, he may be on a faster pathway-to-citizenship than he would be under the regular “pathway-to-citizenship.”
What about the kids? As we saw when they chanted Obama’s campaign slogan, “Yes we can,” from the Senate gallery, this is the most rabidly political demographic of all. Obama has made sure that these supporters will not be deported.
But as pro-gun senators found out after the defeat of the Manchin-Toomey gun control amendment in April, these rabid “Obamaistas” will make their lives miserable. If all doubt about future deportation is removed, no Republican congressman can expect to ever again enjoy a peaceful town hall meeting (or breakfast at a local diner), but they will find these activists being bused around the country to cower conservative legislators into supporting the entire agenda of the Left — including gun control!
There is one final benefit for Obama in cowing the House to bring up immigration, and it is perhaps the most important consideration of all: Once the House falls into Obama’s “immigration trap,” it takes attention away from the collapsing, anti-gun ObamaCare program and changes the national conversation to another issue.
The bottom line: There is a reason why Barack Obama and his “puppet press” have been campaigning for a year to force the Republican House to wade into “immigration reform.” It is nothing but benefits for anti-gun politicians, and nothing but pain for pro-gun legislators.
Who would be stupid enough to inflict that level of pain on themselves?
Please reject the ridiculous “immigration principles” being hawked by the leadership.
Sincerely,
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Dear Democrat Representative:
Last year, the Senate passed an anti-gun amnesty bill (S. 744), and now the President is asking the House to follow suit.
I hope you will oppose any and all proposals, as anything the House passes will be merged with the anti-gun Senate version.
As for the proposals being bandied about in the House, E-Verify is “healthcare.gov” on steroids. After the colossal failure of “government checks for guns” (“Brady Checks”) and “government checks for insurance” (ObamaCare), one would have to be crazy to prohibit any American from getting a job until they had been checked out by an ObamaCare-type database.
The only difference between healthcare.gov and E-Verify is that (1) E-Verify is a much larger and more intrusive database and, (2) the consequences of its failure will be much more cataclysmic. Incidentally, even a maid, nanny, or baby sitter would have to receive government approval if the Senate bill became law.
Please oppose any legislation that could be conferenced with S. 744.
Sincerely,
I think the next big gun fight will stop the illegals long before they ever get to vote.
G.O.A. has honorable intentions, but unfortunately their actions are limited to the legislative process, and they don’t realize that their laws don’t matter anymore. People know that it’s more important to be armed now than it ever was in the past, so no one who matters will be obeying any new gun laws.
And I support Henry’s idea that if G.O.A.,and the N.R.A. really wanted to do something important, they would spend some of their donation money exposing the fact that the Sandy Hoax shooting was just another staged event to help propagandize the public into becoming unarmed victims of the communist insurgency.
8 million,damn,that’s a lot of ammo.