Senate immigration bill includes nearly $300 million in slush funds for immigrants' rights groups

Daily Mail on line ^ | 7/19/13 | David Martosko

[Baynative]

A former senior policy analyst at the National Council of La Raza supervised the drafting of a U.S. Senate bill, passed on June 27, that would give an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants a path to citizenship if the House of Representatives goes along. And La Raza figures to enlarge its budget significantly, thanks to slush funds buried deep in the legislation.

A bombshell report published Thursday by Investor's Business Daily shows that the immigration reform bill would set aside hundreds of millions of dollars for La Raza and other liberal immigrants' rights groups, which the federal government would contract to assist future U.S. citizens with applications and offer them legal advice.

[Wanderer99]

They destroyed South America and turned into a den of drugs, murder, and starving orphans.

They will not stop parasitically feeding off the USA until we end up being just as poor and ruined.

We have only two choices: exterminate all of Obama's people or watch our own families be exterminated. Time is running out!

[apocalypto]

We need extensive organization to fight against amnesty and any special deals for illegal aliens and to make it as rough for them as possible. We need border protection and we need to deport them. And we should borrow from the Communists the effectiveness of propaganda and ridicule and use them to fight to save our country from this invasion.

[Wanderer99]

ok but can you make that plan work faster than the rate at which illegals are being imported?

[Madame Dufarge]

Thanks.

Metastasizing rapidly(sigh).

[Liz]

Just found this.

Massachusetts state auditor, Suzanne Bump reported on welfare scams: Welfare payments issued to recipients long after they were listed as dead..... Multiple recipients using one Social Security number – and multiple Social Security numbers being used by one person. .....EBT cards from Massachusetts being used in places like Hawaii, Las Vegas, and the Virgin Islands...... Tens of thousands of blank EBT cards missing from state welfare offices...... Repeated requests for "lost" benefit cards to be replaced.

The June 2013 report covered only a two-year period, identified at least $18 million in illegal or suspicious welfare payments If this sounds familiar, it should. Blistering exposés of welfare fraud and abuse, in Massachusetts and elsewhere, have become almost routine.

Over a 22-month period in New Jersey, that state's comptroller disclosed last week..... prison inmates collected almost $24 million in unlawful welfare benefits – including $10.6 million in UI nd $4.2 million in food stamps....... TV reporters in Florida documented the use of welfare benefit cards in strip clubs, liquor stores, bowling alleys, and bingo parlors........

A 65-year-old cashier in New Hampshire was fired last year for refusing to let a young man use an EBT card to buy cigarettes.

The new Massachusetts audit, meanwhile, followed an earlier report by the state's inspector general, who estimated that the state is squandering $25 million a year on improper welfare payments. And before that was a national investigation by the US Department of Agriculture, which administers the food stamp program. It uncovered fraud in every state it reviewed.

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NY food stamp recipients ship welfare-funded groceries to Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti

NY POST EXCLUSIVE Food stamps are paying to buy and ship food to Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. A spokeswoman for the US Dept of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service said the $86 BILLION welfare program is reserved for poor US households that buy and prepare food. "States should intervene if people are caught shipping non-perishables abroad", she said. A senior fellow at the Cato Institute called it another example of welfare abuse. “The purpose of this program is to help Americans who don’t have enough to eat. This is not intended as a form of foreign aid.” The US spent $522.7 million on foreign aid to the Caribbean last fiscal year, govt data show. The $40 barrels are shipped filled with $500 to $2,000 worth of EBT-paid groceries to impoverished homelands.

Pioneer Supermarket, Brooklyn sells plastic barrels used to ship food to family members in the Caribbean / J.C. Rice

[isthisnickcool]

It is amazing that we have to go to the UK to get real news for America!

La Raza came to our town in Texas a few years back because they did not like an English only law we were considering. I have met several La Raza big shots. They are all lawyers. I looked in to some of their business activities and cound that :a Raza operates what are essentially nursing homes for aged Hispanics. What they do is take in all the individuals government benefits and dole out the money and that includes to themselves. La Raza has had its hands in the taxpayers pockets for years and they are heavily involved in bashing legislation like I mentioned above or pushing their own agendas. So, I’m not surprised they were involved in this crap piece of so-called “immigration reform”.

Rubio, McCain and others are traitors.

[MEGoody]

It makes one wonder what it is that has Marco Rubio walking point for this freedom killing legislation, doesn't it?

Indeed.

[uncitizen]

the UK media gets the scoop on the LSM again.

[Aetius]

I wonder if Rubio is a fraud and intentionally sold out his supporters, or if he is just a dimwit who got schooled by Schumer? It’s probably both, as he was soft on illegals while in the Florida Houses, and he certainly doesn’t come across as particularly intelligent.