A Logic Problem
I have a problem with the logic employed by the Democrat party in supporting the amnesty immigration bill.
According to the excerpt from Yahoo News below, Democrats supported an amendment that would prohibit fewer known criminals from gaining legal status than that proposed in Sen. Cornyn’s amendment yesterday.
Immigration bill in doubt after vote - Yahoo! News
The Senate voted 51-46 to reject a proposal by Sen. John Cornyn (news, bio, voting record), R-Texas, to bar criminals - including those ordered by judges to be deported - from gaining legal status. Democrats siphoned support from Cornyn’s proposal by winning adoption, 66-32, of a rival version that would bar a more limited set of criminals, including certain gang members and sex offenders, from gaining legalization.
This means, from my reading of the press report, that more known criminals would be granted legal status under this bill.
This comes from the same party that says that legal US citizens shouldn’t have the right to own firearms that they think are too dangerous.
I have a problem following the logic of this - you will allow more known criminals in this country, but you won’t allow known law-abiding citizens to arm themselves.
Why is this supposed to make sense?
It reminds me of the P.J. O’Rourke comment about the Democrats supporting abortion, but opposing capital punishment.
It must be all about the vote.
