Chuck Schumer: America ‘Would Be a Different Place’ If Amnesty for Illegals Had Passed Congress in 2013John Binder 19 Mar 2025
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says America “would be a different place” if Congress had passed the infamous “Gang of Eight” amnesty scheme in 2013. The plan would have given amnesty to most of the nation’s 11 to 22 million illegal aliens and was only stopped thanks to grassroots conservatives pressuring House and Senate Republicans to vote it down.
The quote from Schumer is one of many from a June 2023 interview with New York Times journalists Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater for their new book, which also describes a 2013 meeting between the leading Senate Democrat, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and the late Rush Limbaugh.
According to Karni and Broadwater, billionaire Rupert Murdoch had brokered the meeting so that Schumer and Graham could sell Limbaugh, and thus his conservative audience, on the Gang of Eight amnesty scheme.
When Limbaugh refused to support the amnesty, Murdoch dropped much of Fox News’s support for the plan as well. The amnesty, at that point, had been touted by Fox News, many House and Senate Republicans, and some conservative pundits.
Limbaugh, along with Ann Coulter, Phyllis Schlafly, Laura Ingraham, and Mickey Kaus, were among the conservative grassroots that fiercely opposed the Gang of Eight amnesty, which was chronicled extensively by Breitbart News at the time.
Fast-forward to June 2023: Schumer suggested to Karni and Broadwater that getting the amnesty scheme passed through Congress remained one of his biggest policy goals.
“The one thing I’d really like to do is immigration reform. If that bill had passed, the country would be a different place,” Schumer said. “But it was never going to be that simple, because nothing ever is.”
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