"...Everything comes from the top. We don’t have any authority to make those decisions without someone signing off on them. There has to be a directive.” If true why hasn't some enterprising reporter gotten us a copy of it? It may or may not exist but we will not know for sure until people in the Cincinnati office are testifying under oath. Forget talking to political appointees and getting more lies and "I don't know" while they work to destroy evidence.

If the Rubio, Graham, McCain, Flake amnesty bill passes 2016 doesn't matter too much anyway.

TEA Party types are too busy dodging IRS audits by this criminal enterprise to be pulled along by anyone.

It's an appropriate term. This whole administration is a circus and we now see the end result of letting the clowns run the show. .

Richwine doesn't seem to understand that in today's USA it is settled science that the only acceptable explanation for ANY differences in the performance of racial or ethnic groups in ANY area is discrimination by the evil white majority.

All the talk by Rubio and his 7 silent partners about all of the requirements they are putting on those applying for legal status is BS and they know it. There are not enough agents whose job it is to evaluate visa applications and other such US entry requests, including deferred action (Obama dream act) applications, to really investigate the applications in their current workload in a timely fashion. To further compound the problem and ensure that little checking is really done the agents are evaluated based on how quickly they process the applications which may be why they have approved 99.5% of the dream act applications they have processed. How much vetting do you think the 11, 12, or 20 million (who knows) applications of...

Secure the workplace first with e-Verify (and some high profile employer arrests) to turn off the jobs magnet and gaining control of the border becomes much easier. .

I cannot believe Hugh Hewitt actually used "comprehensive reform" in a positive sense. One thing you can take to the bank is that any measure that congress tries to sell as "comprehensive" is another multi-hundred page monster which primarily serves as smoke and mirrors to hide the true intent of those who crafted the bill, and often to hide their incompetence, until after the measure becomes law and we finally get to see what's in it.

Your definition would work except it would also require honest politicians who would not write exceptions into the tax code for their friends and supporters.

One hearing and limited if any amendments. Ah yes. Let's pass another huge bill so we can find out what's in it.