Posted on 10/19/2009 5:38:31 PM PDT by La Lydia
Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) has released the “core principles” of the amnesty bill he is planning to introduce in Congress later this year. The bill will be similar to other pieces of amnesty legislation from previous sessions of Congress, including (1) several different amnesty programs aimed at legalizing the 12 million illegal aliens currently living in the United States and (2) empty promises of enforcement.
The three amnesty programs included in Rep. Gutierrez’s proposal are:
• An amnesty for illegal alien “workers.” In Gutierrez’ own words: “We need a bill that says if you come here to hurt our communities, we will not support you. But if you are here to work hard – if you are here to make a better life for your family – you will have the opportunity to earn your citizenship.”
• The AgJOBS amnesty. This legislation would grant amnesty to millions of illegal alien agricultural workers and “reform” the H-2A temporary agricultural worker program to allow employers easier access to cheap foreign labor.
• The DREAM Act amnesty. The DREAM Act (1) grants amnesty to illegal aliens who entered the country as children and have met certain minimal educational requirements and (2) reverses current federal law to allow states to provide taxpayer-subsidized in-state tuition to illegal aliens...
The Gutierrez bill will also provide for increases in legal immigration, according to a press release from the pro-amnesty “Reform Immigration for America” coalition. According to the release, the forthcoming legislation will “allocate sufficient visas to close unlawful migration channels.” . However, a recent report released by The New York Times indicates that this provision in the Gutierrez bill would actually open additional channels of unlawful migration. According to The Times, “the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country.” In fact, federal officials estimate that “40 percent of the…illegal immigrants in the United States came on legal visas and overstayed.” Accordingly, Congressman Gutierrez’ plan to increase legal immigration by allocating more visas would actually exacerbate the problem of illegal immigration in the United States....
Hm... I’m thinking that if this gets anywhere close to going through there is trouble brewing.
LG is part of the problem, not part of the solution... then again he is a Democrat.
Controversies
In October 2008, Gutiérrez became subject to federal scrutiny as a result of a $200,000 loan he received from a campaign contributor on whose behalf he personally lobbied the mayor of Chicago to back a real estate development. The contributor, Calvin Boender, was the developer of the Galewood Yards residential and commercial real estate project who received support from Gutiérrez in a July 7, 2004 letter to the mayor, Richard M. Daley. Gutierrez used the loan to help buy a vacant lot from Boender. Federal authorities have subpoenaed Gutierrez’s letter and other city records related to the project as part of a grand jury investigation into Chicago’s zoning process. Gutierrez defended his lobbying at “entirely appropriate” and provided bank documents stating he repaid the loan, and has said he never gets involved in local zoning matters.[18][19]
In discussing his request for a moratorium on immigration raids, Gutierrez remarked:
“You know who is in charge now? The Gestapo agents at [the Department of] Homeland Security. They are in charge, I think it is election season, and they have decided it did not work for us one way [with comprehensive reform], so let’s try to exploit it politically another way”[20].
It sounds like a fair proposition. He gets amnesty for all of the illegals and in reutnr we get a bushel basket of empty promises for enforcement. Sounds fair right? I don’t think so.
Like those who have come before, he has yet to demonstrate how granting amnesty to these illegal aliens, and making them American citizens with all the entitlements they think they are going to receive, will discourage others from immigrating here illegally. You get more of what you reward.
I’m afraid Tea Parties are going to be enough to stop this madness...
“are”=aren’t
If the vast, vast majority of illegal immigrants were not hispanic, but rather were Scandinavian, Luis Gutierrez would be demanding their summary executions.
The illegals DO NOT WANT to become Amnerian citizens, or to assimilate: They want to take as much as they can from America. They have no allegiance at all to the United States or its laws or customs or institutions (aside from the Welfare Department and the Department of Education, which happily send illegals to school at the American taxpayer’s expense).
And 12 million Democratic votes.
Gutierrez is for the overthrow of this nation.
They want to become American citizens because it will allow them to collect welfare, get free health care, collect Social Security, bring in the rest of their relatives, in short, drink more deeply from the fountain of taxpayer benefits than they are now, while maintaining allegiance to their native lands.
In fact, proposing such a thing makes the person who proposes it a legitimate target of anti-treason enforcement action, including action required at the hands of "civilians", because the official enforcement agencies are so obviously compromised or corrupted by said 5th column.
Yes, he has given every reason to believe that the country to whom he is loyal is not ours, and the people he represents are not Americans.
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