May 23, 2019 11:49 AM
NRCC: McBath Votes for Amnesty for Gun Criminals
From the NRCC:
Lucy McBath (D – Tennessee) voted yesterday to oppose a measure to disqualify any DREAMER with a gun crime conviction from getting a green card.
This move came after her talk about the need for commonsense legislation to end gun violence.
Not giving legal status to people who have committed gun crimes feels a lot like common sense.
NRCC Comment: “It’s unfortunate that Lucy McBath would rather toe the party line instead of supporting commonsense gun violence legislation.” –NRCC Spokeswoman Camille Gallo
Not giving legal status to people who have committed gun crimes feels a lot like common sense.
NRCC Comment: “It’s unfortunate that Lucy McBath would rather toe the party line instead of supporting commonsense gun violence legislation.” –NRCC Spokeswoman Camille Gallo
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Lawton is a graduate of Georgia Southern University (the GSU) with a degree in Information Technology. He has held numerous positions within the Georgia Republican Party throughout the years.
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What’s the bill?
HR 2820 and HR 2821 – They were originally combined in H.R. 6 (the American Dream and Promise Act)
Here is an CNSnews.com overview
FTR, I chuckled too at the D-TN note but I can see why posters are concerned about front-page contributors having their thumbs on the scales re Handel.
Just me Lawton, but you don’t do yourself any favors when you cite an ‘overview’ that ends with the statement ‘The liberal media are terrified of the truth, especially when it leads to uncomfortable questions about their own leftist worldview.’ and then asks for donations.
Lol. Let’s straight up re-post an NRCC press release without providing any unique editorial input or context whatsoever.
If the DCCC comes out with a press release headlined “Karen Handel thinks small children should be separated from their families and left to die inside a prison cell” you guys gonna just run that thing verbatim?
Thanks for the input.
It seems like this bill was tailor-made to put her (and others who may run on gun violence issues) into a position at odds with other party priorities.
Also, is this provision a solution in search of a problem? Do we have any numbers- or ideas about #s?- of folks who would fall under this policy?
This USA Today article from last year has a breakdown of the numbers.
Thanks for the link. So, the article states 700,000 DACA enrollees, and that .2% of them had their status revoked because of criminal or gang activity. So, to start, we don’t have any specfics on “gun crimes”, as opposed to other “criminal activity”. I don’t know if we ever even could know given that the history of CDC and other agencies being forbidden to collect data on “gun crimes”. There is then a natural tendency to want to assume that 100% of crime is gun-related, but we can’t make that assumption at all. So, let’s just aplit the difference and say half of the crimes committed involved guns. You’re then looking at 700 idividuals who would be potentially impacted by such legislation. Then, as stated by the article, these individuals have already unenrolled from the DACA program, and are thus already ineligible for any residency or citizenship by way of the DACA program. So denying them green cards at this stage, by way of DACA, appears to be moot, a non-issue. Already not happening.
So, why not prohibit any one convicted of a gun crime from renwing LPR status or citizenship? Probably a;ready happening? And if not, why then is the restriction placed just on DACA enrolees, if not just to force the political issue?
What’s the point of posting a purely partisan article like this? Waste of time.
I did catch the cute (D-Tennesse) in the first line. I got a huge chuckle out of that.
But the link associated with it has a proven lie, “Georgia Democratic Rep. Lucy McBath was the target of some creative trolling by the Republican Party over her widely disputed claim that she actually lives in Georgia, after receiving and signing for a gift basket the GOP sent to her address — in Tennessee”. She didn’t sign for it, as the image clearly shows another first initial name. Really Lawton? I expect better from you.
Thanks for the input.
GA-6 is going to be one of the most contested Congressional races in 2020. Just as we have done the last 2 election cycles in GA-6, we will be covering a lot of GA-6 issues.
No one is saying “don’t cover GA-6.” Just show some effort outside of merely being an extension of the NRCC/Handel press shop.
For example, you could have followed with a discussion of the numbers in the USAToday article or a breakdown of what the bill does. Jeez at the most basic level you could have excised the sophomoric “D-Tennessee” joke.
I get that this is a free site and y’all ain’t compensated for your time. I get that some of y’all have political persuasions that will color your coverage. I get that some of y’all are personal friends of Karen and want to see her back in Congress. But y’all can do a better job of covering this race and I’m sure that, deep down, y’all know it.
Click on my name and see all the coverage I gave to Ossoff. I publish what I get.
Hey, it’s me. If you don’t like how we cover something, or think you can do better, go for it. Otherwise, shut up.
If y’all want additional contributors. I’m happy to spare some time here and there.
I’m not trying to make this into an attack or anything. But y’all have a powerful platform and I’m just trying to pass on what my uncle Ben told me while he lay dying in the street… “with great power comes great responsibility.”
I want to see this empty suit explain this vote to her constituents. Since she was basically elected as a Suzy one note anti 2A, the fact she placed far left immigration above what is common sense gun violence legislation is very telling.
I see a CD that is gonna flip back red come 2020.
We’ll see.
OK so, we are talking about people who were brought here as kids, who, in this speculative scenario, then commit a gun crime.
Item 1: Where are you going to send them to?
Item 2: If I understand what you are referring to, it is that she voted against a stupid amendment. That is not the same as voting for amnesty.
Item 3: At this point in the process; they are here, they have been here for a long time, they have committed a crime, they are presumably in jail or whatever: what’s wrong with just running this person through the regular judicial system? They are a citizen in all but the most technical of definitions.
item 4: The bill already says:
(1) GROUNDS OF INELIGIBILITY.—
…if any of the following apply:…
(i) any felony offense;
(ii) 3 or more misdemeanor offenses
and
(I) has been convicted of a misdemeanor offense punishable by a
term of imprisonment of more than 30 days…
So in other words, it was a sham amendment designed for hacks to be able to say things like “Lucy McBath votes for amnesty for gun criminals”.
sad.
I think the author is a bit confused. Lucy McBath is actually a Congresswoman from Georgia, according to the United States House of Representatives website. https://mcbath.house.gov/
Some anti-D’s get her confused with her mother.
I think the author was making a joke. Made me laugh. Others, not so much.
Seeing how Republicans gave us the joke that is President Donald J. Trump, I’d rather they refrain from comedy.
DJT: The Gift the keeps on Grifting.
I chuckled, until I read the rest of it.
Context does matter. A little light-hearted jab now and then ain’t so bad, but in the midst of a totally fabricated partisan hack job it looks more like perpetuating a lie.