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Conservatives weigh in on immigration reform -- Sean Hannity, John Boehner & Charles Krauthammer express their views

Sean Hannity says he now supports a pathway to citizenship –VIDEO

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CATHY HAYES,
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Published Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 7:51 AM
Updated Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 9:52 AM

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According to Frank Sharry, the Founder and Executive Director of America’s Voice,  the “tectonic plates are shifting on immigration.”

“The fact that leading movement conservative voices are joining Republican leaders in calling for immigration reform that includes relief for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in America is a major development that will open up space for the GOP to do the right thing and help pass sensible reform legislation,” Sharry wrote in an American Voice blog.

Over the weekend, Sen. Chuck Schumer said he would be making a renewed appeal to pass nation’s immigration laws along with Sen. Lindsey Graham.

America’s Voice points to the latest comments regarding the topic from various influential Republicans and conservatives as a sure sign that reform will happen sooner, rather than later.

Sean Hannity, the influential Fox News television and radio host said on his show last Thursday that he has “evolved” on the issue. He said the US needs to “get rid of the immigration issue altogether” and that he supports a “pathway to citizenship.”

Speaker of the House John Boehner told ABC News that the issue has been around far too long.

“A comprehensive approach is long overdue, and I’m confident that the president, myself and others can find the common ground to take care of this issue once and for all,” he said.

Conservative columnist and pundit Charles Krauthammer wrote in the Washington Post, that amnesty may be likely.

“In securing the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney made the strategic error of (unnecessarily) going to the right of Rick Perry. Romney could never successfully tack back.  For the party in general, however, the problem is hardly structural. It requires but a single policy change: Border fence plus amnesty. Yes, amnesty.”

Krauthammer added: “promise amnesty right up front. Secure the border with guaranteed legalization to follow on the day the four border-state governors affirm that illegal immigration has slowed to a trickle.”

The GOP's Mad Rush To Embrace Immigration Reform:

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breandan | Nov 18, 2012, 09:39 AM EST
The 12 mm or so illegals already here are the thin end of the wedge. Once they become eligible they'll demand to bring not only their children and spouses but their parents and grandparents. Just like the amnesty of the 1980s another amnesty will only encourage the next wave of illegals. If you break the law long enough you'll get to keep what you stole. Yes illegals work cheaply and natives won't (often) work for that wage but without all those illegals the wages would rise. Another option is to stop all immigration, legal and illegal, for the next decade until we take care of the 12 mm who are here now illegally and any millions of their family members that they want to sponsor.

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seanomelb | Nov 16, 2012, 07:07 PM EST
You're a poster boy for political correctness seanmor

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Seanmor | Nov 15, 2012, 11:07 AM EST
The U.S. had a practical immigration policy up to about the mid 1960s. In those days permanent visas were granted only to to thse who did NO have a police record or a contagious disease, had a basic knowledge of English, and in the case of males of military age, were wilkling to register with the draft and be prepared to serve. In addition, green card-holders were required to register with the I.N.S. in january of every year - as I had to do during my 4 years in the Marine Corps as an Irish citizen. To my knowlgde, no politician, prelate or editor called this system anti-immigrant, anti-foreigner, profiling, racism or anything else. It was simply the law of the land anw we as permanent residents, gladly complied with with such a law.

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seanomelb | Nov 13, 2012, 10:10 PM EST
Piper It's what to do with the 12,000,000 that are here is the problem problem. If you wish to send back the economy would be in turmoil What's your solution

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PiperMac52 | Nov 13, 2012, 09:56 PM EST
Let's put immigration in context instead of using it for political hyperbole. Any sovereign nation has a right to protect it's borders and limit immigration or it no longer is a sovereign nation. My great grandparents came here from Ireland in the 19th century and became American citizens. many fought in wars dating to the civil war. Americans have no problem with immigrants that come here legally and within the bounds of established law. Those that come here illegally taking jobs and using resources at a time when millions of Americans are unemployed are the problem. Those who come here across our southern border with no intentions of assimilating while demanding "rights" are not welcome.

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seanomelb | Nov 13, 2012, 05:05 PM EST
The republicans had to carried kicking and screaming to the reality of immigration reform

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eiriamach | Nov 13, 2012, 12:15 PM EST
If we could separate the illegal drug trafficking problem along with concerns over the cost of welfare programs from the problem of undocumented workers, we could exorcise the fears that stymie immigration reform. Most of the men and women who cross the USA's southern border cross it *every day* -- to work as migrant laborers in lettuce and soybean fields. They cross the border again every evening to return to Mexico. They take work that Americans will not do because it pays so poorly. Mexicans laborers pay taxes on their American salaries yet have no access to American health care, education, "welfare," or other publicly-supported benefits, and they do not run drugs across our border. Yes, some have stayed as "undocumented." We need their work, and we owe them and their children the same benefits as other workers have.

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cillowen | Nov 13, 2012, 10:32 AM EST
what a sorry lot - coming about albeit it slowly

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Seanmor | Nov 13, 2012, 10:18 AM EST
Does immigration reform mean that all futre immigrants who illegally enter the U.S. will be rewarded with full amnesty and easy citizenship within a few years of their arrival? Will reform also include a one-size-fits-all policy, whererby immigrants who legally enter with permanent visas and become hard working, tax-paying, English-speaking residents then be be categorized with those who come here illegally and cash in on all available free bnefits as the expense of U.S. taxpayers?

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Portia777 | Nov 13, 2012, 10:08 AM EST
How unevolved human people are to still believe in boundaries/countries in this patriarchal system. Mother Earth provided for free for all her children. No one can own her as she never sold herself or divided herself out to groups of peoples and forcing one group to live inside the fence like sheep and the others inside other fences.

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Portia777 | Nov 13, 2012, 10:05 AM EST
citizen ship - ah yes admiralty law......and most people are clueless as to its meaning

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Murph46 | Nov 13, 2012, 10:01 AM EST
Enforce existing laws-no sanctuarry cities,no killing Arizona with social costs of illegals!

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Murph46 | Nov 13, 2012, 09:59 AM EST
Where is my post?

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