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Backdoor Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Is (Still) Political Cyanide

Republicans should have learned this lesson over ten years ago. Yet they’re preparing to die on the amnesty hill yet again.

William Sullivan | April 12, 2026

Do you remember Eric Cantor?

I reckon that few Americans today do.  But he was kind of a big deal a little over a decade ago. 

First elected to Virginia’s 7th district in 2001, Cantor served as the House minority whip from 2009 to 2011, during which time he was instrumental in orchestrating Republican opposition to the 2009 Obama stimulus and 2010 passage of Obamacare, against which Republicans stood resolute as fiscal hawks, and without a single Republican voting for the latter abomination.  Then, when Republicans had won the House in November of 2010, he served behind Speaker John Boehner as the House majority leader. 

Republican voters would later prove that they would tolerate many hypocrisies from the GOP politicians whom they had given the legislative mandate.  Under Boehner, for example, the spending packages only got bigger than they were in the Obama years, somehow, prompting many conservatives to wonder if Republicans were interested in the reduction of spending at all. 

Though it seems that American voters of all stripes, for some reason, have become okay with reckless fiscal spending that has us careening toward a suicidal debt cliff at breakneck speed, there is one thing that has long been understood as excommunicable for Republican politicians, and that is the rewarding of illegal aliens with amnesty.

Eric Cantor may have been an effective and promising........

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