I thought you were my friend’: Immigration meltdown exposes GOP hostilities

Moderate House Republicans suspected they were being played.

For weeks they’d been negotiating with Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows in a quest to clinch an immigration deal that could pass the House. But whenever the two sides got close, they said, immigration hard-liners would ask for more. Then, on the morning of a scheduled June 21 vote, moderates got their hands on an explosive missive from the Freedom Caucus’ top staffer: an email warning group members that voters would punish them for backing any bill with a whiff of “amnesty.”

This is bull—-,” Rep. Tom MacArthur scolded Meadows at a meeting in Speaker Paul Ryan’s office that day. The New Jersey Republican, who had worked closely with Meadows in the past and wanted a deal, demanded to know why Meadows appeared to be backing away from a bill he helped craft.

Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.), a leader of the pro-immigration reform centrists, read the Freedom Caucus email aloud, as Meadows insisted he had no knowledge of it. Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.) said he’d been warned not to trust the Freedom Caucus, seething that he’d never make that mistake again.

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Haha stupid moderates.

Very good actors lmao

Hollywood is the place for them, not Congress.

Really? Is this why they kept postponing the discharge petition that guaranteed votes for ALL FOUR BILLS - THE TWO SHITLATTE VERSIONS, DREAM ACT, AND USA ACT??

Miller and his KKK fantasy team are using backchannels to prevent elected officials from achieving a fair solution once and for all. I always wonder how some can hate fellow humans so much that preventing them from having the opportunity to live w dignity is their one goal in life.

Schedule votes for the USA Act and Dream Act. The only way forward.

The Freedom Caucus was just a smokescreen by the Republican moderates and they know it, now all of a sudden they’re trying to play the victim card?

I call BS! Election time is around the corner for these moderates and they want to go back to their constituents and say “look we tried, but it was their fault”.

I won’t fall for this crap! The Republicans moderates knew all along how this would all play out.

If it's not BS they need to put the discharge petition back on the table immediately

Other wise hope people defending Republicans in this board need to wake the fuck up

"three-fifths of Republican voters “would be LESS LIKELY to vote to re-elect a GOP Member of Congress who voted to provide amnesty for a group of illegal immigrants."

Enough said.

Nothing is as it seems anymore though. People may hold one opinion but are acting to the contrary. SMH.

It's exactly as it seem. Republicans hate us. We're nothing but illegal immigrants to them. And some of you clowns want to be their pet dreamers.

lol "pet Dreamers"