Bush is the Ring Leader of Plot to Grant Amnesty

On Monday, May 21 st the acrid air of a back room plot to deliver amnesty for up to 20 million illegal aliens on the eleventh hour leaked out the “Grand Bargain” nest at the Whitehouse and into the Senate Gallery for an unveiling followed by a rushed vote. Neither the dismaying secretiveness nor the slight-of-hand haste with which it was presented was designed to allow the majority of Senators to know the hidden elements of the amnesty bill much less to give the American public a chance to weigh in with opinions. The plotters, lead by Republicans Senator John Kyle, John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Saxby Chamblis, speaking to the body of the Senate vowed to muzzle amendments that would dilute the main trust of the bill: (1) to offer amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens and having accomplished that, (2) to increase the number of cheap foreign workers with increased legal immigration and guest worker schemes. These goals are designed to benefit transnational and domestic employers of illegal aliens some of whom stand out as generous political contributors to seemingly outstanding Senators.

On Tuesday the plotters blocked an amendment offered by North Dakota Democrat Sen. Byron Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota who is a friend of the American worker and organized labor. Sen. Dorgan’s amendment would have removed 600,000 annual guest workers that the labor unions shout depress wages. The labor union’s concerns are well documented by research by Harvard University world renowned economist George Borjas and from U.S. Labor Department statistics that show that, for example, cheap foreign workers depressed the salaries of meat packers from approximately $19 per hour in the 1980’s to about $9 today. The labor unions rebuke South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (up for re-election in November of 2008), who insists millions of cheap guest workers will not depress the wages of union members. Senator Graham holds the disingenuous view that the amnesty bill (SB 1348) does not threaten the American worker because the employer lobbyists (Essential Workers Coalition and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) promise that the same (low) wage will be offered to all applicants in an over-saturated labor market. This is rather unrealistic because it would require the government to monitor compliance by the employers of 145 million workers. The unions point out, to the apparently naïve Sen. Graham, that monitoring 145 million workers is impossible and besides that there are so many loop holes on how job openings will be advertised that fudging with the system is a given. On the Hannity and Colmes TV program on Tuesday, May 22, 2007, Sen. Graham brushed off the union’s concerns. The labor unions pledge to continue fighting guest worker schemes and Senator Lindsey Graham and his co-conspirators. For an eye opening report from the United States Government Accountability Office (GOA is a Congressional agency entrusted with bipartisan economic impact studies) go to this link: http://www.dolz.com/gao.html

This report illustrates the impossibility of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ever catching up with all the corruption and the backlog of immigration cases which currently are running about 7 years behind with the current case load. Just imagine if DHS had to keep track of millions more cases and keeping the employers of 145 million workers honest?

I had the opportunity to visit many Senator offices beginning on Monday May 21 st in order to poll them on calls their offices received regarding opposition to the amnesty bill. I was able to confirm what has been reported in the Washington Post and the Washington Times. The phones are overwhelming the senator’s staffs. Senator Diane Feinstein conceded that in three days her office had received 8000 callers urging a no vote on amnesty bill SB 1348. That works out to about one call about every three waking minutes. This level of grassroots opposition should have a chilling effect on those Senators who are facing re-election in 2008 and who are being forcefully tugged by the employers of illegal aliens and their lobbyist; the Essential Workers Alliance and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to vote for the amnesty bill.

The polls have been very consistent for a year or more: Mr. Bush is abysmally unpopular and sadly the voters trust Congress and the core group of Senators behind the secret negotiations even less.

Almost to a Senator, all agree that Senator Ted Kennedy’s inspired 1986 Comprehensive Immigration Bill has made it highly unlikely that the current amnesty bill gain traction. Why? Because the 1986 immigration made three promises of which it only kept one – Amnesty.

The 1986 immigration bill (1) gave amnesty to 3 million illegal aliens (to “permanently” end illegal immigration); and (2) promised that our border would thereafter be secured and (3) that employers of illegal aliens would be severely prosecuted. The result was predictable: The government gave amnesty to 3 million law-breaking aliens but it neither secured the border nor enforced employer sanctions.

In order to pass with popular support the 2007 Amnesty Bill would require that the people trust that the senate will not lie nor sell their votes as many suspect they did on the 1986 amnesty bill.

On the basis of TRUST in GOVERNMENT alone, this 2007 amnesty bill does not have a prayer of a chance to fool the American people. Do Americans trust the government?

The Ring Leader of the secret maneuvers in the Senate (the Grand Bargain) is the free-fall unpopular strongman George W. Bush. Mr. Bush’s war-time ruling style is increasingly characterized by arrogance and arbitrariness in dealing with domestic issues.

The secret negotiations’ tyrannical tale-tale signs include (1) restricting details of the plan on a “need-to-know” basis, (2) demanding an immediate vote in the Senate without a fair opportunity to read and analyze the bill and (3) chocking amendments that threaten the “Grand Bargain”, such as the rejection of Senator’s Byron Dorgan’s amendment to scrap the guest worker scheme. These bruising tactics are best reserved for dealing with the enemy in war entanglements.

The highest law enforcement official in the land, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, has taken an oath to abide by the Constitution of the United States and enforce the law. The most critical responsibility of Alberto Gonzales, especially since the terror attack of 9/11, is to protect our borders. Several MILLION illegal aliens have entered our country illegally since Attorney General Alberto Gonzales took his oath of office in February of 2005. Any number of those clandestine illegal border crossers could or are terrorists according to a House Committee on Homeland Security, see the report here: (http://www.house.gov/mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf)

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reports that “Other than Mexicans” (OTMs) known to originate from countries that harbor terrorist has steadily increased (see the numbers below). The chilling fact is that Alberto Gonzales has released these thousands of dangerous illegal aliens on their own recognizance – a sign of madness or worse a sign of how our government yields to the transnational and domestic illegal alien employers that today employ 1 in 5 workers in America! As you can expect, these illegal aliens benefiting from the government’s “catch and release” policy are fugitives at large and there are over 150,000 of them.

1. 30,147 OTMS apprehended in FY2003, 44,614 in FY2004, 165,178 in FY2005 and 108,025 in FY2006. The implication of double, triple or up to nine times the number who slipped through.

2. DHS has reported a 41% increase in apprehensions of Special Interest Aliens (aliens from countries such as Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan, Cuba, Brazil, Ecuador, China, Russia, Yemen, Albania, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan)

While we slept last night approximately 5000 violated our southern border as they did the night before and the night before that. Mr. Bush has complicated Attorney General Alberto Gonzales job by giving Gonzales two competing responsibilities; one as a law enforcer and another as a lobbyist for the Mr. Bush’s failed border security policy.

Michael Chertoff is the Secretary of Homeland Security. Chertoff controls a budget of $44.6 billion and has 185,500 tax-paid employees at this disposal to secure our borders. Mr. Chertoff has also been given two jobs by Mr. Bush. Chertoff is increasingly playing a public relations role to justify Mr. Bush’s open-borders, pro-amnesty, pro-guest worker schemes. This put Mr. Chertoff in the difficult position of both managing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and at the same time given a role in putting a spin on why our borders have been surrendered to the control of drug cartels; traffickers in drugs, arms and humans. Why? In order to maintain the low level enforcement needed to keep a steady supply of cheap and docile illegal alien workers flowing to the meat packers, the carpet manufacturers, the hospitality industry, the restaurant owners associations, the construction industry and many other profiteers.

The secret negotiations for an amnesty bill excluded every senator except the handful that brokered the deal for the Whitehouse over a four months period. Essentially Mr. Bush kicked off his amnesty offensive immediately following the defeat of SB 2611, the amnesty bill that was defeated in 2006. Mr. Bush’s self concept does not allow him to accept the immense unpopularity of amnesty for foreigners who have jumped over the fence to get in front of the line – aliens who commit identity and tax fraud every day of their unlawful stay in the United States.

Whereas the small number of senators that were allowed in the secret negotiations game were few and some of them jumped off temporarily because they were facing election and the wrath of the voters, Alberto Gonzales and Michael Chertoff held fast and loyal to their boss, the strongman Mr. Bush.

By employing Gonzales and Chertoff as lobbyist for his amnesty plan, Mr. Bush has demolished the credibility of the two lawmen and added to the growing suspicion that Mr. Bush likes to surround himself with cheerfully agreeable appointees and to stonewall opposition to his unpopular projects.

A number of Federal Attorneys have recently felt the knive in the back for being less than cheerfully agreeable to the political demands of their jobs. All of them except the notorious Federal Attorney Johnny Sutton a long time acquaintance and the hammer that intimidates border patrol agents (i.e. Compean, Ramos) who are selected for prosecution by the Mexican government.

For five years we have waited for Mr. Bush to implement the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and secure our borders. He has failed to do so or perhaps more accurately, he has refused to do so. When citizens have pointed out his failures he has called them vigilantes. When the House and Senate passed a bill authorizing the building of a 700 mile fence along the border, he signed the bill which made it the law of the land and yet he has refused to build the fence. Mr. Bush will not give up. When the House of Representatives refused to consider the Senate’s 2006 amnesty bill, he launched the plot and lead the choreography of a new amnesty bill from the Oval Office without losing a step.

I am a Cuban-born Hispanic legal immigrant and my wife is also a foreign-born immigrant. Many of our business associates and friends are legal immigrants. We have friends who dream of completing their legal admission to the United States as law-abiding immigrants. As true immigrants and law abiding people we DO NOT need amnesty or guest worker programs; only scofflaws and foreigners committing identity theft and identity and tax fraud need amnesty. Mr. Bush’s scheme granting the privilege to live and work in the United States indefinitely, whether with a path to citizenship or not is a slap on the face of true immigrants.

According to reports from the Washington Times and the Washington Post the amnesty bill is dividing the Republican Party. Saturday, May 19 th, at GOP conventions the delegates booed Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia for their roles in plotting the amnesty bill.

The 2.7 million members of the American Legion, America’s oldest and largest veteran’s group went on record as opposing the amnesty bill. The American Federation of Labor has come out on record as opposing the guest worker provision of the amnesty bill. The 11,000 member National Border Patrol Council, representing the men and women who risk their lives to protect our borders and our lives have passed a resolution of NO CONFIDENCE against their political boss, Chief David Aguilar (who works for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security who in turn work for Mr. Bush.

The opposition to the amnesty bill is big and furious and it is being felt from many quarters representing a diversity of interests and opinions.

Mr. Bush will not listen. He would rather go down in flames that change his mind. We need a plan. This is what I suggest. For the next two weeks, keep faxing, calling and visiting the Senator’s offices. Calling is the most important. Since the Republican National Committee (RNC) rubber stamp’s Mr. Bush’s wishes (and the President wishes Amnesty), it is imperative that you contribute generously to your favorite border security ONLY candidate; while at the same time DENY the Republican National Committee any contributions whatsoever. Some Republicans that feel betrayed beyond repair have suggested changing party affiliation to Independent. This last suggestion has its risks; you will have to be the judge.

Senator Ted Kennedy strategy for keeping the dead 2006 Amnesty Bill afloat in 2007 will sink the Republican Party in the treacherous political waters of the 2008 election. Deep divisions over immigration and bobbing support for the Iraq war punched the air out of Republican Party’s hope to survive the 2006 election with control of the House and the Senate. Jumping on Kennedy’s boat on amnesty will be the death of many a Republican seeking re-election while millions of illegal aliens and guest workers seeking a social services life-lines will get roped by the Democrats and in so doing Democrats will ensure that the Republican Party will never resurface as a majority party for decades into the future.

A very clever amendment introduced by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) on Thursday, March 24 th, unmasked those Senators that have been playing both sides of the Amnesty charade. Sen. Vitter offered an amendment that would have stripped out all provisions to reward nearly all the 20 million illegal aliens with permanent legal status. The amendment sent the normally sedate and elderly Senators clumsily scrambling for cover. Senator Lamar Alexander tried his best to help his Republican colleagues dodge having to show their true color as Amnestistas by attacking the amendment, but to no avail. So here are the Senators that are now known to support Amnesty while feigning to oppose it.

If your state is on this list, you have your work cut out for you. Please do not let any of the Senators off the hook. They voted NO on the Vitter amendment. Go to www.DOLZ.com/call and start calling them.

You can tell that many Senators believe that you represent a major bloc of voters because 3 of the Democrats who voted for the amnesty last year but voted against it today are up for re-election next year:DEMOCRAT HEROS

The most important action you can take is CALL these senators. Call every time there is an amendment for consideration. Since there will be many amendments considered daily you are justified in calling many, many times per day. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you know your City and Zip Code when you call. The absolute best place to find the right telephone number for the senators and the committees is here: www.dolz.com/call

For more information on how to wage “citizenship” in defeating this amnesty bill, contact the following websites for information and tools.

The amnesty bill will be voted on Monday, June 4 th. Immediately after reading this article, get on the phone. Call, call and call again. Call on the weekend; call during office hours and outside of office hours. Call from your car, call from the commuter train, call from where you are on vacation. If the cell numbers are listed in www.dolz.com/call then call the senators cell numbers. Call the staffers at the office and at their cell numbers. Call the committees where these senators serve. Call them at home. Call, Call and Call. We will not be able to UNDO amnesty. You have to stop it now.

When this is over, we will concentrate on rewarding those senators that put our sovereignty, the American worker and the tax payer first and we will work acidulously to defeat those senators that have plotted to push the amnesty bill.

“have threads here with pics of me marching for Bush...over and over

i feel like so much used chump

i will be very wary of anyone next time”

No, you marched for him when he represented We The People. You marched for me and my family and I don’t know you, but you have more conviction (or perhaps more time GRIN) and Americans know a kindred brother/sister when they see one :) We should all march to what is good and right for our countrymen. We The People very often act benevolently towards the rest of the world we just won’t do for foolish back-door Mexican constituent ass kissing politicians. I liked Bush his first term but then it was like he became addicted to heroine or something. He should have stayed himself instead of trying to become daddy or Condi Rice.

“Good grief, you sound drunk.”

LOL that’s what I was thinking. First he says God Bless you to the delusional cop whom feels justice is a matter of what is practical not what the law is and then he acts like your from Big Momma’s house, wants to sleep with you and then says stick to the issues. Very wierd people coming out of the woodworks on this issue.

Instead, a great way to address the problem is to turn the heat up, way way up, on employers who hire illegals.

You may think it a great way but it is as unrealistic as booting out all the illegals.

You do realize that a majority of these employers you refer to are very large contributors to the campaign coffers of those elected officials who are pushing for this amnesty, don't you?

Why would they want to go after the corporations who are greasing them? That's not the way things work in Washington. They are not interested in what you and I have to say on the subject because there's no money in it. Follow the Benjamins.
The only thing they'll listen to is the sound of their ticket on the Gravy Train being threatened. That's why We The People must make a LOT of noise about this shafting were about to be given.

If we don't, we'll be getting the brown end of the stick again and it WILL hurt.

“WE are not liberals....we do not act like a pack of rabid wild dogs...keep your head, keep your common sense, and let’s work FOR something rather than trying to destroy.”

First may I suggest you lead your local community by doing what you are paid to do which is uphold the law? Come on now Moses, you are in no position to be leading the Israelites to the promised land as you talk about the law being a matter of convenience. Don’t ever come to my town, I partially moved here because I like and respect the cops.

“Thanks for abusing your power to uphold the law at all costs and consider upholding it a matter of being practical or not practical”

There is no abuse of power in what I do. There is an utter failure to understand reality on your part. It is a practical impossibility to enforce all the laws all the time 100% every day of every week of every year...to do so would bring about a police state more similar to the Soviet Union than the United States. I suppose it would be ok with you if, for the sake of law enforcement, we ignored the bill of rights and conducted searches outside of the scope as defined by the Supreme Court? I suppose that we could, for the sake of enforcement, go ahead and arrest people without probable cause, just because they might be doing something wrong - a hunch a guess...cause we don’t like how they look. The simple reality is, that sometimes verbal warnings can do as much to deal with a problem than a ticket or an arrest. Sometimes taking a kid home to his parents and discussing a problem works better than tossing them into the juvenile court system. The best solutions to problems often comes from working with the community and looking to find the core problems, using your logic we’d never be able to get past the symptoms most of the time. using your logic, compassion is not something that law enforcement can be allowed to have. Yet, the reality is that without compassion and respect for our fellow citizens we would be nothing more than Gestapo. Try as you might, you can not take decision making and discretion out of the law enforcement equation.

Using your logic, drug investigations units would never get to the high end dealers.

As for your DWI remark, if I catch someone drinking and driving they go to jail. I don’t drink and drive period. That is an issue of personal integrity.

It’s fine that you are done posting to me, you have your head in some dreamworld where the practical realities of life simply don’t intrude.

Yup, and every day those officers in your town make decisions on who they are gonna ticket, who they are gonna arrest, and who they are gonna just warn and release....all of those things depend on the facts of each situation...you would be stunned at how often the police in your town ignore some things in order to deal with something else. It’s called officer discretion. As I said in anothe rpost, if you want to live in another Soviet Union, fine, go to live there - as for me...I’m pretty happy living here in the US.

Your hatred of one person is bliding you to find solutions. Bush is not going to be impeached, maybe he should be - maybe not, but reality is it’s not going to happen. The immigration bill IS before Congress. We, as a group of conservatives, can effect change through dealing with the solutions that are available to us...namely placing pressure on the House and Senate to ditch the amnesty bill. You want to moan and groan about Bush....heck you sound like a libut at the DU more than you do a conservative, but you refuse to address the problem....which isn’t Bush, it’s the legislation that he will sign if we don’t make every effort to stop it. I always prever practical solutions. It would appear you just like pi$$ing in to the wind and then moaning and griping cause you smell.

I don’t disagree with your assessment. Your solution is essentially the same as mine. We must make those in the Beltway grasp the concept that any legislation that allows amnesty will be legislation that ensures they will not be re-elected. We must make them see that reducing the carrot bringing illegals into this country - employment - isn’t available anymore. I recalled a phone call on Limbaugh’s Shopw discussing how a local community managed to do exactly that...something about a local tv station exposing a local employer for employing a bunch of illegals.

Nor do I disagree with yours. It's just that in this day and age, the way things work, it may not be possible to mount an entirely effective grassroots effort. Especially considering the fact that the very process of voting has been corrupted and subverted by the very people we need to expel from positions of power. Their efforts have been methodical and very well planned and executed.
Though we may be able to get these mental midgets to grasp the concept that supporting legislation such as this is a danger to their jobs, we may not be able to do anything about it.
Jerking their ticket and tossing them from the Gravy Train may need to be done in some other fashion.

...something about a local tv station exposing a local employer for employing a bunch of illegals.

For the record, the monies I speak of do not come from small potatoes employers in small towns around the country. I am referring to Cargill, Tyson, Hormel, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Monsanto and a host of other very large, very rich corporations that have no problem doing what is necessary to buy influence in Washington. It is a partnership made in Hell and is a very deeply ingrained part of the culture in our nation's capital. The task of breaking it is nothing short of monumental.

I agree with you that we are both on the same track but personally, I do not think that trying to get dirty politicians to turn on their masters who finance their campaigns and exorbitant lifestyles will return any satisfying result. It is a worthwhile effort to strike at these companies and their political lapdogs on the Hill but the power to excise the corruption, once exposed, must come from the other two branches of our government....or from the end of a pike.
Until that happens it will be Business As Usual.

I appreciate your thoughtful comments.

He may not win it, but at least I gave it a shot when I emmigrate out of this country before Hillary allows it to be destroyed.

I love this country. Over the Memorial Day holiday, I returned to the small rural village cemetery where my father's family are buried. My great great grandfather is buried there and he was born in 1813. I know my ancestors voted for Lincoln and were always Republicans as am I. This country has been very good to me and I do have the luxury of emigrating if I choose. I found it interesting, that you mention Hillary. For me, it is not the prospect of a Hillary Presidency that would trigger my emigration, it is the current spectacle of Republican Senators such a Kyl getting in bed with Teddy Kennedy. It is the silence of Mitch McConnell because his wife is a cabinet member. It is that rumblings the Kay Bailey Hutchison has given in kowtowing to Jorge Bush. It is a leader like Lott who is no leader at all. I understand that Santiago, Chile has a nice climate and is a nice city to live in.

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