Senate immigration bill full of bad, so-far-ignored provisions

The Daily Caller ^ | 6/19/2013 | Betsy McCaughey

[sheikdetailfeather]

Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is pushing for a final up-or-down vote on comprehensive immigration reform by the end of next week. “Comprehensive” is another word for unread. Lawmakers need to know what’s in this bill before they pass it. It’s full of questionable provisions that so far haven’t been subject to much debate.

One portion of the Senate bill would loosen the rules for seeking asylum. Sec. 3401 removes the one-year deadline for applying for asylum; Sec. 3504 adds another layer of appeals for aliens turned down; and Sec. 3502 allows the U.S. attorney general to provide government-funded legal counsel to aliens, something current law bars.

Americans have nothing to gain from loosening these rules. Ask the people of Boston. The Chechen parents of the Boston Marathon bombers were asylum seekers. Before them, in 1993, a Pakistani asylum seeker, Ramzi Yousef, bombed the World Trade Center. Another Pakistani asylum seeker, Mir Aimal Kasi, gunned down two CIA agents in Virginia. If anything, the U.S. should stop granting asylum to people from countries that spawn terrorists.

Sec. 2106 of the immigration bill outsources the job of guiding aliens through amnesty from the Department of Homeland Security to community organizations. These organizations will get federal grants to screen aliens for eligibility, assist them in documenting their residence, tax status, employment, and tax history, coordinate applications for family members, and apply for waivers where needed. Outsourcing these functions risks allowing them to be politicized. Community activists can say and do things government employees can’t. On a smaller scale, outsourcing has been going on since 2009. One past recipient is the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights, which claims to “build political power through citizenship drives and voter registration.”

[sheikdetailfeather]

I just heard her on Mark Levin's radio show. No republican should be voting for this bill whatsoever.

[bicyclerepair]

The R’s should at least pretend to care about the country.

[sheikdetailfeather]

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Sec. 2106 of the immigration bill outsources the job of guiding aliens through amnesty from the Department of Homeland Security to community organizations. These organizations will get federal grants to screen aliens for eligibility, assist them in documenting their residence, tax status, employment, and tax history, coordinate applications for family members, and apply for waivers where needed. Outsourcing these functions risks allowing them to be politicized. Community activists can say and do things government employees can’t. On a smaller scale, outsourcing has been going on since 2009. One past recipient is the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights, which claims to “build political power through citizenship drives and voter registration.”

This outsourcing is reminiscent of how the Obama health law entrusts the important job of helping people enroll in health insurance to community organizations. Together, these outsourcing provisions make community activists the “go-to” people for accessing government help, like a fifth estate with power and government funding but few rules.

[Diogenesis]

The GOP gave America gay marriage (by Romney)
and ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE (by Romney) and
destroyed all conservatives (by Romney and Rove).

Anyone expecting ANYTHING other than treason
by the GOP .. is a probably a fool.

[SC_Pete]

There is one party: The Re-Election Party (or is it an orgy?)

[SC_Pete]

Reid says they need to pass it to find out what’s in it.

[ncalburt]

I call everyday now
Lines are busy so I call local offices.
Rubio are on lock down.
Direct to voice mail .

The Obama media , Fox Pro Amnesty News and Hannity and Rove tell us everyone loves him !
Not reality .
He is dirt and finished

[Terry L Smith]

Any legislation to cover the illegal immigrants, as i see it, is treason.

I don’t care WHERE ‘they’ are from, I want ‘them’ gone!
I have no qualms, as to the matter of ‘how’, either.

[sheikdetailfeather]

Good for you! I heard Rush Limbaugh say today that you cannot get through to the phone numbers. He thinks they have taken the phone lines off the hook! I am calling local numbers too.

[jimsin]

EVERY NIGHT Hannity helps America by putting' ANN COULTER on his show. At every turn SHE provides us with the ABSOLUTE TRUTH about IMMIGRATION.....MARK hates it ANNIE hates it....with these 2 BRAINIACS leading the way only a fool would buy into this waste of time danger to America. PERIOD.

DESTROYED IT MUST BE!

[molson209]

Reid says they need to pass it to find out what’s in it.

they need to pass it before people find out what’s in it

ObamaCare Part Deux

[zerosix]

Where are we hearing about any concern for the “unemployed?”

[Graewoulf]

llegal aliens invade the USA for Welfare and Wages.

1.) End the Federal ‘Anchor Baby Law.’

2.) End the Federal ‘Hospital Emergency Room No Payment Law’ (EMTALA).

3.) End ANY other Welfare to Aliens.

4.) Fine US employers $1,000 per day per alien employee hired.

5.) Spend NO money on “securing the border.” It is 2,000 miles of desert.

6.) Spend money on Chainlink/ Concertina wire prisons in the desert for repeat offenders who have invaded our Country.

7.) Transfer Border Invasion Enforcement to the US Coast Guard and the US National Guard in each State, and controlled by each States’ Governor.

8.) Repeal all State and Federal Laws that prohibit voter officials and Police from requesting proof of US Citizenship for any reason what so ever.

[Excellence]

Did you read McCaughey’s article in the 6-18 Investors.com editorial?

[TurboZamboni]

Here are the 30 Republican betrayers:
Alexander (R-TN), Ayotte (R-NH), Blunt (R-MO), Burr (R-NC), Chambliss (R-GA), Chiesa (R-NJ), Coats (R-IN), Cochran (R-MS), Coburn (R-OK), Collins (R-ME), Corker (R-TN), Cornyn (R-TX), Fischer (R-NE), Flake (R-AZ), Graham (R-SC), Hatch (R-UT), Heller (R-NV), Hoeven (R-ND), Isakson (R-GA), Johanns (R-NE), Johnson (R-WI), McConnell (R-KY), Moran (R-KS), Murkowski (R-AK), Paul (R-KY), Portman (R-OH), Rubio (R-FL), Thune (R-SD), Toomey (R-PA), Wicker (R-MS).

https://secure.freedomdonations.com/cfif/amnestyfilibusterii/?a=1015-gt-conservativevideos-cfif-np

Slow path to progress for U.S. immigrants: 43% on welfare after 20 years

The study, which covers all immigrants, legal and illegal, and their U.S.-born children younger than 18, found that immigrants tend to make economic progress by most measures the longer they live in the U.S. but lag well behind native-born Americans on factors such as poverty, health insurance coverage and homeownership.

The study, based on 2010 and 2011 census data, found that 43 percent of immigrants who have been in the U.S. at least 20 years were using welfare benefits, a rate that is nearly twice as high as native-born Americans and nearly 50 percent higher than recent immigrants.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/8/slow-path-to-progress-for-us-immigrants/

so more amnesty from republicans helps our country how again?

fight on!

http://www.grassfire.com/1985/offer.asp?Ref_ID=21439&CID=985&RID=39683311

https://www.numbersusa.com/content/congress/phone-numbers-and-mailing-addresses-memb.html

https://www.pullrubiofalsead.com/

[sheikdetailfeather]

No I didn’t. I will try to find it.

[sheikdetailfeather]

Using ObamaCare To Create A Permanent Democratic Majority

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/061813-660457-california-democrats-fund-left-wing-groups-with-taxpayer-dollars.htm

[Excellence]

Yep. I spoke with my CA assemblyman’s rep today and he said I have to talk to my House of Rep guy, so I’ll do that tomorrow. I’m livid.

[SC_Pete]

We suffer the greatest tragedy of human history: the crowning glory of Western civilization, the very embodiment of individual freedom and liberty and self-governance, is being parceled out for Obamaphones.

[Excellence]

I’m glad you found the link. I was on my phone and couldn’t copy and paste a link. Although the phone might be able to do that, I don’t know. It’s new and I haven’t figured it out.