Commentary
If an awards show were created to honor Washington politicians for the most outlandish, hypocritical, and contradictory positions, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) would be among the top contenders.
In a 2009 speech at Georgetown Law School, Sen. Schumer said the following: “… illegal immigration is wrong. We must create a system that converts the flow of primarily low-skilled illegal immigrants into the United States into a more manageable and controlled flow of legal immigrants who can be absorbed by our economy.”
Fast-forward to last week and a different Chuck Schumer emerged. Citing a “drop” in the U.S. birth rate (could the aborting of 60 million-plus babies be a factor?), Schumer said, “The only way we are going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants, dreamers, and all of them, because our ultimate goal is to help the dreamers, but get a path to citizenship for all 11 million or however many undocumented there are here.”…