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Amnesty lobby already walking back border enforcement before current amnesty even signed

By Conn Carroll
Published July 31, 2013 4:00am ET
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Amnesty lobby already walking back border enforcement before current amnesty even signed
Lawmakers are beginning to signal that the portion of the immigration reform bill that adds 20,000 border agents may be scrapped in conference. (Getty Images/File) | John Moore

If you have followed immigration policy in the United States at all over the past 30 years, you already know the script for “comprehensive” immigration reform: illegal immigrants get legalization now, enhanced immigration enforcement is promised for later, and then the promised enhanced immigration enforcement never happens.

Longtime amnesty advocate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., flipped the script a bit, however, Tuesday, when he told the AFL-CIO that the big-ticket enforcement item in the Schumer-Rubio amnesty plan may get scrapped before the bill ever becomes law. ABC News reports:

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