House GOP Plans To Save Obama With Immigration Reform

President Obama expects House Republicans to jump-start his presidency by embracing amnesty for illegal aliens. But if it does, the GOP could wreck its chances to take back the Senate.

Republicans should own the issue of immigration. After all, the last time — 1986 — the nation took the "comprehensive" approach that Democrats now propose, nothing ended up being fixed in exchange for the amnesty for millions of illegals. And today, insisting on securing the border before doing anything else is no-lose politically.

Yet the House GOP is poised to use a piecemeal strategy as cover to enact, more or less, the Democrats' agenda on immigration — giving the party millions of dependable Democratic votes as a consequence. What political party in the history of the world has ever been this self-loathing?

As the Hill reported last week, Senate Democrats were told by Obama to expect House Speaker John Boehner to succeed this year in passing an immigration reform that would include amnesty...

Boehner is set to release a one-page list of immigration "principles" some time before Obama delivers his State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday.

Not every GOP leader is of the self-destructive variety. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, a Tea Party favorite and likely 2016 presidential candidate, last month warned that an embrace of amnesty by the House GOP would ensure continued Democratic control of the Senate as the result of this year's elections....

Last month, a Pew poll found that Hispanics believe 55%-35% that finding a way for illegals to live and work in the U.S. lawfully without fear of deportation is more important than giving them amnesty. So the idea that GOP support for amnesty is the prerequisite to gaining more Hispanic votes doesn't bear scrutiny....

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