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DREAM supporters seek a holiday miracle in D.C.
Houston Chronicle ^ | Dec. 14, 2010 | Gary Martin SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS

Posted on 12/14/2010 7:16:29 PM PST by moonshinner_09

WASHINGTON — Texas clergy from San Antonio, Houston and Dallas joined a Tuesday march on Capitol Hill to press senators to approve an immigration bill that would provide citizenship for foreign-born children.

More than 100 leaders from 10 states took part in a march around U.S. Senate office buildings as lawmakers scrambled to finish their legislative work in a lame-duck session and adjourn for the holidays.

"We are hoping for a Christmas miracle," said the Rev. Harry Knox with Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church in Houston.

The Rev. Lorenza Andrade Smith, a San Antonio Methodist minister, and Maria Antonietta Berriozabal, a former San Antonio councilwoman, took part in the Washington activities just days after their Nov. 29 arrest for protesting at the San Antonio office of Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.Measure 'too expansive' Knox, Berriozabal and Smith were among the activists who called on Hutchison to drop her opposition to the DREAM Act. Its full name is the Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors Act.

Hutchison and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, say the bill would result in chain migration of relatives by granting citizenship to illegal immigrant students and those who served in the military.

"The senator has been consistent and clear that she cannot support the DREAM Act legislation before the Senate because it is too expansive," said Courtney Sanders, a spokeswoman.

The House passed its version of the DREAM Act last week, but opposition by Senate Republicans and some Democrats make passage more unlikely there.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


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If I rob a bank, should I be able to keep the money even after serving a jail sentence? Should I be able to get a “speed pass” after being given a ticket for speeding? So, why should illegals be able to continue to benefit from their law breaking, that is why should they be able to stay in the Country? That’s why it’s called amnesty, because they are not really paying a price for breaking the law if they are allowed to stay here in the Country. The message continues that all illegals love America(except it’s hard to say that with so many of them not bothering to learn English, to pay taxes, to not stop committing crime, and to stop flying the flag of their Country of Birth), how they will make America better.
1 posted on 12/14/2010 7:16:33 PM PST by moonshinner_09
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To: moonshinner_09

christmas miracle would be obama resigning and getting arrested for high crimes and the lgoan act


2 posted on 12/14/2010 7:18:07 PM PST by truthbetold11 (truthbetold11)
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To: truthbetold11

We need to pray for a miracle that it does NOT pass.


3 posted on 12/14/2010 7:23:20 PM PST by MrInvisible
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To: moonshinner_09
"Texas clergy from San Antonio, Houston and Dallas joined a Tuesday march on Capitol Hill to press senators to approve an immigration bill that would provide citizenship for foreign-born children. "

That's a group of clergy I have absolutely no problem telling to go to hell....and meaning it.

4 posted on 12/14/2010 7:23:25 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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To: truthbetold11

Hopefully, the Republicans will keep arguing about taxes and the budget until the next Congress. Why on earth would the Republicans want to give the Dems a victory on anything?


5 posted on 12/14/2010 7:24:05 PM PST by WilliamHouston
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To: MrInvisible

Amen.


6 posted on 12/14/2010 7:35:25 PM PST by Sister_T ("Calling ILLEGAL aliens "immigrants" is like calling shoplifters 'customers'!"-UCFRoadWarrior ><>)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

When Clergy and other Church’s do stuff like this I consider them primary political activists/community organizers who talk about the Bible on the side.


7 posted on 12/14/2010 7:40:50 PM PST by matt04
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To: matt04

LBJ Hospital in Houston is building a new wing to deal with the influx of anchors. The driver for my husband’s co. said that an employee there said that they are delivering a baby every 6 minutes from the Hispanic community. They expect it to get to i every minute. We are under attack. Pray for America.


8 posted on 12/14/2010 7:49:07 PM PST by magna carta
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To: moonshinner_09

Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should the United States reward foreign criminals with citizenship.

Their first act was to violate our territorial integrity and spit on our laws.

I don’t care about their excuses and sob stories.

The American people should never suffer the consequences of the acts of foreign criminals.


9 posted on 12/14/2010 8:00:54 PM PST by radpolis (Liberals: You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy)
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Wouldn't this "Christmas miracle" be a violation of church and state if the pinheads in the federal government give the illegal alien lawbreakers an anmesty gift certificate?
10 posted on 12/14/2010 8:09:19 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Merry Christmas to all of my FReeper FRiends!)
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Anmesty = amnesty. It really doesn’t matter how it’s spelled if the Commie’RATS are allowed to get away with this commie crap.


11 posted on 12/14/2010 8:11:29 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Merry Christmas to all of my FReeper FRiends!)
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To: moonshinner_09

Force the reading of the intire bill on the floor. That should but ...days, and thats what we need to do to these dems, run out the clock on this 5hit!


12 posted on 12/14/2010 8:19:07 PM PST by Spitzensparkin1 (Arrest and deport all illegal aliens. Americans demand our jobs back! Whooorah, Arizona!)
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My Archdiocese in Omaha has been pushing “immigration compassion” for the past year and I’m getting sick of it.

Come to think of it, they’re giving more time to “social justice” lately. They’re dabbling in ceaser’s world when it should be God’s.

If they keep this up, they will lost part of their flock.


13 posted on 12/14/2010 8:30:38 PM PST by ak267
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My Archdiocese... has been pushing “immigration compassion” for the past year

The reason that many organizations are infiltrated by the Left is that the leftists are better organizers than moderate and conservative Americans.

Resist, be vocal, organize your like minded friends. Don't sit home alone and cry.

14 posted on 12/15/2010 2:41:32 AM PST by iowamark
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To: MrInvisible

Sorry Jim Demint Said On the Lou Dobbs Show Yesterday afternoon that the Deal has Already Been Made By the REPUBLICAN leadership,In Exchange for the Tax Rate Extensions the Democrats get The DREAM act ,Dont Ask Dont Tell Repealed and the START Treaty Approved. Dobbs Was Stunned,Demint Said The deal was Approved By the REPUBLICAN leadership !! The Lying Scumbags are Traitors


15 posted on 12/15/2010 3:52:55 AM PST by ballplayer
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OMG - if that’s so, not only are those guys lying scumbags but pathetic negotiators. Absolutely moronic.


16 posted on 12/15/2010 6:25:52 AM PST by MrInvisible
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To: ballplayer

You are the only one that seems to have heard this.

Why haven’t you returned to your vanity post to defend this same allegation?


17 posted on 12/15/2010 6:29:09 AM PST by FreedomOfExpression
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To: ballplayer

Prove it.


18 posted on 12/15/2010 6:32:39 AM PST by Lazamataz (Only 21 days of Democrat fascism left!)
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To: ballplayer
Ballplayer, you are full of

I looked for, on Google, "Jim Demint Deal" and there is NOTHING to support your claim. Your thread got pulled, BTW.

19 posted on 12/15/2010 6:38:48 AM PST by Lazamataz (Only 21 days of Democrat fascism left!)
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To: FreedomOfExpression
Cuz he's full of
20 posted on 12/15/2010 6:40:11 AM PST by Lazamataz (Only 21 days of Democrat fascism left!)
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