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Posted on 12/03/2010 5:36:21 AM PST by Kaslin
Open-borders radicalism means never having to apologize for absurd self-contradiction.
The way illegal alien students on college campuses across the country tell it, America is a cruel, selfish and racist nation that has never given them or their families a break. Yet despite their bottomless grievances, they're not going anywhere.
And despite their gripes about being forced "into the shadows," they've been out in the open protesting at media-driven hunger strikes and flooding the airwaves demanding passage of the so-called DREAM Act. This bailout plan would benefit an estimated 2.1 million illegal aliens at an estimated cost of up to $20 billion.
While votes on various DREAM Act proposals are imminent, the Congressional Budget Office has yet to release any official cost scoring. Viva transparency!
To sow more confusion and obfuscate the debate, Democrats in the Senate have foisted four different versions of the bill on the legislative calendar, which all offer variations on the same amnesty theme: Because they arrived here through "no fault of their own," illegal alien children deserve federal education access and benefits, plus a conditional pass from deportation and a special path toward green cards and U.S. citizenship for themselves and unlimited relatives.
In a last-ditch attempt to win over fence-sitters, DREAM Act sponsors have tinkered with eligibility requirements. But supporters know that the words on bill pages -- which hardly anyone will read before voting -- don't matter. Built into the proposals are broad "public interest" waiver powers for the illegal immigration-friendly Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
University of Texas-San Antonio student Lucy Martinez embodies the entitlement mentality of the DREAM Act agitators: "We have done lobbying, legislative visits, marches, sit-ins. We are tired of it," she complained to the San Antonio Express News. The illegal alien student hunger strike "is similar to what we go through in our everyday lives -- starving without a future." But neither she nor her peers have been denied their elementary, secondary or college educations. Neither she nor her peers face arrest for defiantly announcing their illegal status. And for all the hysterical rhetoric about "starving," the federal government and the federal immigration courts have been overly generous in providing wave after wave of de facto and de jure amnesties allowing tens of millions of illegal border-crossers, visa overstayers and deportation evaders from around the world to live, work and prosper here in subversion of our laws.
Among the major acts of Congress providing mass pardons and citizenship benefits:
-- The 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act blanket amnesty for an estimated 2.7 million illegal aliens.
-- 1994: The "Section 245(i)" temporary rolling amnesty for 578,000 illegal aliens.
-- 1997: Extension of the Section 245(i) amnesty.
-- 1997: The Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act for nearly one million illegal aliens from Central America.
-- 1998: The Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act amnesty for 125,000 illegal aliens from Haiti.
-- 2000: Extension of amnesty for some 400,000 illegal aliens who claimed eligibility under the 1986 act.
-- 2000: The Legal Immigration Family Equity Act, which included a restoration of the rolling Section 245(i) amnesty for 900,000 illegal aliens.
This is in addition to hundreds of "private relief bills" sponsored in Congress every year.
Most recently, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to stay the deportation of illegal alien DREAM Act activist Steve Li -- whose family's asylum claim was rejected and whom a federal immigration court judge ordered deported in 2004.
These illegal alien passes needn't be approved by Congress for the recipients to gain benefits. Mere introduction of the bills buys the deportable aliens time that ordinary, law-abiding citizens can't buy in our court system. The DREAM Act schemers pretend this isn't a zero-sum game. But every time a private illegal alien relief bill passes, the number of available visas for that year is reduced by the number of illegal alien/deportable immigrant recipients granted legal status/deportation relief through the special legislation.
In Austin, Texas, this week, one illegal alien DREAM Act activist blithely argued to me that "it's not like the government would be sending a message that breaking the law is OK." Reality check: The number of illegal aliens in the U.S. has tripled since President Reagan signed the first amnesty in 1986. The total effect of the amnesties was even larger because relatives later joined amnesty recipients, and this number was multiplied by an unknown number of children born to amnesty recipients who then acquired automatic U.S. citizenship.
At a time of nearly double-digit unemployment and drastic higher education cutbacks, a $20 billion special education preference package for up to 2.1 million illegal aliens is not and should not be a priority in Washington. It certainly isn't in the rest of America. And it certainly shouldn't be a priority for federal immigration and homeland security officials, who have a 400,000 deportation fugitives problem, a three-year naturalization application backlog and borders that remain in chaos.
Grownups need to tell the DREAM Act agitators to get in the back of the line.
Anything that does not deport 100% of all Illegal Aliens is Amnesty...
I am tired of all these America-Haters, Open Borders Nutjobs, pushing this Illegal Alien Amnesty nonsense
We need to deport or imprison ALL illegal aliens, including their anchor babies, seal/secure the border with a wall and fence and have a lethal response to anyone trying to re-enter illegally.
What I haven’t been able to figure out is why politicians go out on the limb for a potential future vote that alienates millions of registered voters who are already here and hurting because of the pandering. Think of how many billions of dollars that could be instantly saved by merely enforcing the laws that are already on the books. Medical care, education, social services all could benefit people who are citizens and hurting. Cheap labor and votes at the cost of untold amounts of suffering. If we survive this period historians will refer to it as a period of national shame on both parties.
Then go back to your native country.
Problem solved!
Sorry, LOT FULL!
*What I haven’t been able to figure out is why politicians go out on the limb for a potential future vote that alienates millions of registered voters who are already here and hurting because of the pandering. Think of how many billions of dollars that could be instantly saved by merely enforcing the laws that are already on the books. Medical care, education, social services all could benefit people who are citizens and hurting. Cheap labor and votes at the cost of untold amounts of suffering. If we survive this period historians will refer to it as a period of national shame on both parties.*
This is really a smack in the face to the 10% plus legal Americans that are out of work!
You know the bottom line to this whole DREAM Act (amnesty) thing is that if the government grants amnesty to illegal immigrants they are advocating criminal behavior. Plain and simple!
Ping!
After all, these Iowa kids were unable to graduate from high school in California through no fault of their own, because their parents couldn't find a job their through no fault of their own which would have made the kid eligible for in-state tuition rates.
REALITY CHECK----DREAM Act is $20 Billion Give-away to Illegal Aliens
FR Posted by epithermal
Washington D.C.- Congressman Steve King (R-IA) today issued the following statement after requesting the release of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) scoring of the DREAM Act.
Press reports indicate that Senate Democrats may be blocking a release of the score to cover-up the true costs of the legislation to the public.
At least one published report suggests that CBO has scored the DREAM Act, legislation which rewards a defined class of illegal aliens with amnesty, as carrying a $20 billion cost. “There are reports that Senate Democrats are covering-up an analysis showing that granting illegal aliens amnesty under the DREAM Act will cost upwards of $20 billion,” said King.
“If these reports are true, Democrats are willfully misleading Members of Congress, and the American public, about the costs of their open-borders agenda in order to secure support for their controversial amnesty legislation.”
“Since Congress may vote on the DREAM Act as early as tomorrow, I have contacted CBO’s Director, Douglas Elmendorf, to request that he release the current scoring of the bill prior to Congress voting on the matter. "
"Democrats know that the American public will not tolerate the passage of a $20 billion giveaway program for illegal aliens, and Democrats should not be allowed to conceal a score they don’t like. "
"CBO has a responsibility to ensure that Members of Congress have the information they need to make an informed vote on the legislation, and should release their current analysis of the DREAM Act immediately.”
I don't know if they are collectively intelligent enough to recognize it.
Sen. Graham said earlier that efforts to pass THE DREAM ACT (THAT RAINS $20B IN GOVT FREEBIES ON ILLEGALS) -- "is going nowhere." "How can you give citizenship to 2 million people without securing our borders first?" Graham asked.
Graham also announced he's switching from Folger's Decaf to Lipton's flow-thru tea bags.
This is just the beginning.
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TAX CHEAT GUTIERREZ' HOUSE LISTED ON TAX ROLLS AS "VACANT LOT" The same Chicago tax assessor that finagled Rahm Emanuel's property taxes, carried the home of former cab driver Cong Luis Guiterrez (D-Ill) on the tax rolls as a "vacant lot."
The assessor argued---- after the story became public----that Guiterrez should not be penalized for a "clerical error." This came after Guiterrez paid minimal taxes for years and years b/c Guiterrez' home was listed on the tax rolls as a vacant lot.
Cong Gutierrez (D-Ill) has made a career out of helping illegal aliens drain whatever they could out of America. Good chance Gutierrez was aiding and abetting govt financial fraud and ID fraud. How many fake ID's were used to bilk govt agencies?
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City investigating program that helped daughter of Gutierrez D-ILL---The Chicago Sun Times | May 4, 2010 |
The City of Chicago's inspector general has opened an investigation into an affordable-housing program under which U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez's daughter was able to buy a condominium at a discount, despite family income of more than $93,000, and resell it after 14 months at a 55 percent profit.(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
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FBI agents ask about Gutierrez, developer The FBI has interviewed City Hall employees and Chicago aldermen (a former cab driver) about U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez's ties to a corrupt developer, according to records and interviews that raise new questions about the congressman amid an ongoing federal investigation.
A former alderman convicted in the investigation told FBI agents that Gutierrez boasted of helping his longtime political supporter Calvin Boender obtain a lucrative zoning change for a development on the city's West Side. Another alderman told agents this year she thought Gutierrez was going to buy a home in the development. (Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Gotta love those third world values...
Mexican president Calderon and Ohaha.
Let the redistricting begin----we demand this Marxist national security nightmare named Raul Grijalva be redistricted out----just as he was gerrymandered in.
FReeper LUKE21 POSTED: Republican idiots in the Arizona legislature took its most loyal GOP region, Yuma, replete with two military bases, and jammed them into Grijalva's district, where they could have no representation at all. Yuma is on the other side of the state from Grijalva, in a weird gerrymandered district that has existed for three decades. Yuma County even voted for Bob Dole. True deadheads live in the district, and many of them are Hispanic, Anglo-hating bigots. Grijalva won four previous House elections with more than 60 percent of the total votes. now he's clinging to a razor-thin margin. How did this guy Grijalva ever get elected? There were accusations that 65% of 5000 voter registration forms, submitted by hate groups like Mi Familia Vota and One Vote Arizona, in Yuma County on the last day of filling are invalid due to the registrant not being a citizen, wrong/invalid address, false signature, etc.
REFERENCE US Rep. Steve King to Laura Ingraham : " I’m wondering if we look at the map of Arizona Congressman Grijalva’s congressional district, if we haven’t already ceded that component of Arizona to Mexico, judging by the voice that comes out of Grijalva. Grijalva’s advocating for Mexico rather than the United States and against the rule of law, which is one of the central pillars of American exceptionalism."
THE BEST CONGRESSMAN MEXICO EVER HAD Hundreds Protest AZ Congressman Raul Grijalva at tea party protest
June, 27, 2010 — http://nicedeb.files.wordpress.com
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