The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol appeared on Fox News Sunday to discuss immigration reform and the editorial he co-penned with the National Review's Rich Lowry about the need for Republicans to "Kill the Bill" in the House, calling the legislation passed by the U.S. Senate "fundamentally misguided" and holding no likelihood of serious enforcement:
CHRIS WALLACE: And what is fundamentally wrong with the Senate bill?
KRISTOL: There's no promise, there's no likelihood in my view of serious enforcement. So I think the magnet, the incentives for people to continue coming when they get legalization remains, and I think there's a huge increase in immigration in that bill. Two to three times the number of immigrants over the next decade as over the last decade. That is bad for working-class and middle-class wages and economic opportunity in this country. I think that's something Republicans need to get serious about.
Former Democrat Congresswoman Jane Harman told Kristol he was taking Republicans on a suicide mission and called it "tragic" to have 11 million people living in the country's shadows, leading Kristol to deliver a sharp rebuke:
KRISTOL: So tragic. Wait a second. It's so tragic. Well, I think we'll do just fine, frankly, in the next presidential election and Senate elections in 2014. It's so tragic. The President of the United States was a Democrat. In 2009, 2010, Barack Obama, he had 60 senators and huge majorities in the House. Did he move an immigration bill to deal with this pressing problem, the tragedy of these people in the shadows? I missed that. I missed President Obama doing anything about immigration.