{"id":76024,"date":"2022-01-11T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76024"},"modified":"2022-01-11T16:35:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:35:39","slug":"76024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76024","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Trust but verify<\/strong><\/em>‘ works for me.<\/p>\n

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BLUF:
\n\u201cOne thing I\u2019ve learned is the Second Amendment is one of the most important amendments and you look at all my voting record. Listen, you watch this Congress itself\u2014we believe in the Constitution,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n

Exclusive \u2014 Kevin McCarthy Pledges as Speaker He Will Not Consider Amnesty or Gun Control Legislation<\/a><\/p>\n

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview taped in December that the House would not consider any legislation that grants amnesty to illegal aliens if he becomes the speaker next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know first and foremost one of our greatest strengths is the rule of law, so you have to have an immigration system based upon the rule of law. You have to secure the border. The immigration system is broken and we\u2019re going to fix it. Yes,\u201d McCarthy replied when asked if he could pledge no amnesty would be considered under his leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d he reaffirmed when pressed again.<\/p>\n

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McCarthy\u2019s comments came during the latest On The Hill long-form video special, taped in December at an Eastern Market establishment on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

McCarthy is the next likely speaker of the House should Republicans regain the House majority in November\u2019s midterm elections as widely expected. Making a pledge like this is a huge deal, and a massive blow to open borders advocates who have long hoped for a legislative amnesty to make it through Congress. It is also a sign of the changing direction of the Republican Party even after former President Donald Trump has left office.<\/p>\n

Not too long ago, back when former Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) was the speaker, amnesty advocates had an open borders champion in the highest position in the House GOP\u2014and before that, former Speaker John Boehner\u2019s leadership team, which included former GOP Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), openly worked to try to develop amnesty legislation back during former President Barack Obama\u2019s administration.<\/p>\n

Now, though, the GOP has shifted big time to a point where such considerations are off the table, and the next likely Speaker has ruled them out entirely.<\/p>\n

Of the 14 Senate Republicans who voted for the Gang of Eight amnesty plan in 2013, most are gone: former Sens. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Jeff Chiesa (R-NJ), Bob Corker (R-TN), Jeff Flake (R-AZ), John McCain (R-AZ), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Dean Heller (R-NV), and Mark Kirk (R-IL). Only five, Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Marco Rubio (R-FL), John Hoeven (R-ND), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), remain in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

That bill never came up in the House for a vote, as Boehner never put it on the floor, but that was not always a certainty during that point in time. As Breitbart News reported\u00a0throughout 2013<\/a>\u00a0and 2014<\/a>, Boehner kept the door open to considering the amnesty legislation for over a year after its U.S. Senate passage.<\/p>\n

Later, during the Trump administration, Ryan\u00a0crafted multiple amnesty plans<\/a>\u00a0to bestow legal status on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) illegal alien youths\u2014but those, despite the House holding votes on them, did not end up passing Congress. Ryan wasted months in 2018 pushing amnesty as a\u00a0\u201cbig priority\u201d<\/a> instead of focusing on the America First agenda that Trump had campaigned on in 2016.<\/p>\n

Now, with this pledge from McCarthy, it seems no such legislation will ever be considered if he is the speaker\u2014as such efforts appear to be off the table.<\/p>\n

Similarly, McCarthy also pledged that a House GOP majority under his leadership would not consider gun control proposals\u2014another blow to the left.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing I\u2019ve learned is the Second Amendment is one of the most important amendments and you look at all my voting record. Listen, you watch this Congress itself\u2014we believe in the Constitution,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Trust but verify‘ works for me. BLUF: \u201cOne thing I\u2019ve learned is the Second Amendment is one of the most important amendments and you look at all my voting record. Listen, you watch this Congress itself\u2014we believe in the Constitution,\u201d McCarthy said. Exclusive \u2014 Kevin McCarthy Pledges as Speaker He Will Not Consider Amnesty or … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,12,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-immigration","category-rights","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76026,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76024\/revisions\/76026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}