Posted on 05/17/2013 9:25:45 AM PDT by jazusamo
Among the criticisms leveled at the new Senate immigration bill is the secretive manner in which it was written. And given the details, it's hardly any wonder that the eight senators overseeing the proceedings - the "Gang of Eight" - refused to hold hearings or debate until after the bill's release. Tucked away in the measure are two sections that would route a combined $150 million or more
to "public or private, non-profit organizations" that are "community, faith-based or other immigrant-serving." Recipient groups could use funds to aid potentially tens of millions of illegal immigrants and family members to obtain lawful permanent resident status and eventual citizenship. In other words, the grantees would consist heavily of the sorts of people who have been pushing for amnesty all along! This appears to be another case of the Left funding their campaigns at taxpayer expense.
National Legal and Policy Center, here and here, has taken the bipartisan Gang of Eight to task for the 844-page immigration bill they finished on April 16 and unleashed during the wee hours of the following morning. The senators and their staffers since have expanded this document to 867 pages. The legislation, as NLPC noted at length, is egregious on a procedural as well as a substantive level. The main players - Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., John McCain, R-Ariz., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla. - went to great lengths to shield themselves from criticism until the final draft was made public...
(Excerpt) Read more at nlpc.org ...
It singles out three groups but adds many more will be added if bill passes and the cost could be far more expensive over the long run than even their initial five-year combined cost ceiling of $150 million:
1. American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
2. Casa de Maryland (Previously headed by Thomas Perez of the DOJ)
3. National Council of La Raza ("the Race" or NCLR)
This is but one part of this immigration bill that the "Gang of Eight" supports.
No Amnesty, No Reform, Until REAL Border Security 100% Implemented.
Anything less is now UNACCEPTABLE.
Wonder if those who oppose will be audited?
Ah... the part the FastTalker, Marco Rubio conveniently chose to ignore when on his tour promoting this wonderful piece of legislation.
I am so damned disappointed in Rubio... I realized early on he wasn’t going to be a firebrand about securing the borders, but with this single-minded push for amnesty, he’s really marched off the conservative radar screen.
Starts at $150 million and goes up exponentially from there. You can't commit a crime against the country without making sure that all the criminals get a share of the loot.
Not sure what actions anyone else is taking, but I’m posting all over their facebooks and twitter accounts.
This is so freakin pathetic!
Yep, it looks like $150 Mil is just a starting point, and it’s for the anti-American amnesty crowd.
Did they address states’ rights to enforce federal immigration laws or the consequences for the federal government to refuse to enforce the law?
Even if we could get a fair law to address illegal immigration, the Democrats selectively enforce the law. Everyone knows that.
Obama should have been charged with obstruction of justice for his interference with law enforcement. And someone in his administration should be tried for treason for the gun running to Mexican drug cartels resulting in the death of law enforcement officers.
The biggest triumph of the ideologues on the left is how they create legislation to use taxpayer funds from everyone to reshape the country into what they want. That is why they love 1000 page bills that no one reads, because buried down in the bill is some sort of wealth transferal mechanism to permanently fund the social transformation of our country. This is the conveyor belt of communism that those in the 50s and 60s warned us about.
Don’t be surprised other Hispanic Hate Groups like MALDEF, MEChA, La Voz de Aztlan, and others get their cut too
Bump.
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