Back room deals in Congress may give Obama immigration reform without border security measures

In the midst of any situation or calamity going on these days in Washington, there's always something being cooked up in the back rooms...and it's usually up to no good...

TheBlaze: Back room deals are underway in the House of Representatives to advance a number of immigration bills to the Senate before the end of October. But a growing number of lawmakers and border security experts say passing any bill now may derail efforts to get border security measures enacted.

Why? Because it will open the door for closed-door “conference” negotiations that are expected to focus on amnesty for nearly 11 million illegal immigrants and gut or weaken border security measures.

How? It all comes down to timing.

Five separate immigration-related bills are progressing through the Republican-controlled House, with only one addressing border security, and some lawmakers fear that they may be bundled into a package that will face off against the Democrat-controlled Senate’s versions. Critics such as Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) expect such a face-off to lead to a compromise that could strip out the border provisions to make it more likely to be signed into law by President Barack Obama.

“The public and Republican members need to understand that going to conference with the Senate will bring about a similar ‘Gang of Eight’ bill that rejects real border security measures,” said King. “Doing business with the president is not going to give us anything that we like. He’s completely untrustworthy on this and there’s no merit to the House taking up anything because nothing good can get to the president’s desk that he’ll put his signature on.”

King, vice-chair of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, told TheBlaze he will do all he can to inform the American public and members of his party that taking any immigration bill to the Senate at this point could lead to a failure for a comprehensive immigration reform package.

This administration lives by its creed: never let a crisis go to waste...particularly when it comes to beefing up their potential voter base through legal means or otherwise.