GOP Civil War has broken out on Fox News again. This time, it’s over immigration reform. In one corner, there was Lindsey Graham on Your World yesterday. Shortly before him (neatly placed so he was allowed the opportunity to rebut) was Michelle Malkin. Malkin, as usual, was in a snit. But, in a nice change of pace, she spewed her venom at “capitulationist” Republicans promoting “shamnesty” rather than Democrats.
With her voice rising and looking away from the camera, Malkin let fly. “I think that there’s a stampede by many Republican capitulationists and that does include your upcoming guest, Lindsey Graham.”
Even if the guest order didn’t tip you off, there was no doubt which side of the rift guest host Stuart Varney sat on. “What’s in their political interests to rush this through?” he asked.
Calling it “post-election pandering,” Malkin said, “(T)here are many self-deluded Republicans in Washington who feel that this kind of shamnesty is a salvation for a party that is in shambles.”
She continued, “The point is that this federal government under both Republican and Democrat (sic) administrations, has done the least amount possible to fulfill its Constitutional mandate. …How about the half million people who are deportation evaders? People who have already been identified by border security, by detention and removal, by immigration judges who violated their immigration deportation orders... and guess what? We haven’t done a thing to track these people down and kick them out of our country.”
Varney asked, “Do you think America has the stomach to round up a half million people and throw them out?”
Malkin answered, “If we’re talking about these deportation invaders who have multiple criminal records, why not? …These are absconders.”
Varney countered again. “There is another side of the coin… Some Republicans will say we can never make inroads into the Hispanic vote if we take a very, very hard line, which is what you are taking.”
“What is hard line about enforcing the law against people who defy judicial orders?” Malkin replied.
“Throwing out a half million people and rounding up some others, that’s a hard line,” Varney answered.
“It is not a hard line because there used to be bi-partisan agreement that this was a national security threat,” she countered.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration has seriously tightened the border. Attempts to cross the border illegally are down 80% from peak, and seizures of illegal drugs, weapons, and other contraband are up. But nobody mentioned that. Also not mentioned? As the Christian Science Monitor reported, "The United States deported more than 400,000 illegal immigrants in 2012, the most of any year in the nation’s history, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reports." Nobody mentioned that, either.
Video below via Mediaite.
Malkin Goes Off On GOP For 'Receding From Post-9/11 Mentality' That Illegal Immigration Is Nat'l Security Threat
Appearing on Fox News this afternoon, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin went off on the Republican "Gang of Eight" and "open borders" Democrats for abandoning what she believes was a bipartisan post-9/11 belief that illegal immigration represented a "national security threat."
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I can’t help but wonder if, during Ms. Maglalang’s rant, she stopped to think that it was a form of “shamnesty” that allowed HER PARENTS to have her in Philadelphia instead of the Philippine Islands?
Irony. Missed.
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