Posted on 09/15/2010 7:09:58 PM PDT by freespirited
ABC quoted me as saying that there is no question that many of the teenagers who would get an amnesty through the DREAM Act make for "compelling" cases. But I'm also quoted saying that this DREAM amnesty should not be passed.
If the DREAM Act were actually limited to the PR rhetoric that comes out of the pro-amnesty organizations, there might be reason for a debate.
If you barely paid attention, you would think this amnesty is just about illegal aliens who are high school valedictorians.
If you pay a little more attention you would know it is larger than that but think it is for good students who are teenagers or college students who were brought to the U.S. illegally when they were toddlers. You would think that they don't know the language of their home country, have no ties there and if not given a U.S. amnesty would be without a country.
And you might have believed all the rhetoric of the pro-amnesty forces of the last year that they only want legalization (amnesty) for illegal aliens if it is coupled with strong enforcement measures that will prevent a buildup of an illegal population in the future.
Well, the open-borders people have spent millions of dollars on PR firms to figure out how to lie to and mislead the American people in the smoothest way possible -- how to seem to be saying things that they actually aren't.
Here's the real story:
No. 1: Not valedictorians -- or even necessarily good students.
Any illegal alien who can manage to meet the minimum requirements to graduate from high school or get an equivalent degree meets the first test.
No. 2: Primarily NOT teens or college students.
The Senate DREAM bill allows you to be up to 35 years old!
The House bill has no upper limit.
No. 3: Don't have to have come when a child.
An illegal alien can get this amnesty even if he didn't arrive in the U.S. until age 15. That's right -- he can spend his first 15 years learning the language and culture of his home country and developing all kinds of ties there and then come to the U.S. and later claim need for a DREAM amnesty because he supposedly has no country to go back to.
I was on a national Hispanic cable TV show last week on which a videotaped profile was run of a well-heeled-looking woman from another country bragging in front of New York City scenery that a few years ago she had illegally overstayed her tourist visa when her son was 15 so he could go to a U.S. college and pursue a U.S. career. DREAM would reward her and all the rest of people in the world who might think like her.
No. 4: Bill is open to gigantic fraud.
The bill is written so that the 2, 3 or 4 million illegal-alien applicants only have to CLAIM to meet the criteria. They don't have to PROVE anything.
The government has to build a case, one illegal at a time, and prove the claims on the application are false in order for the illegal alien to lose the amnesty. Can you imagine how many times that is likely to happen?
No. 5: DREAM does nothing to stop the behavior that put teenagers into their situation. It leaves the jobs magnet in place.
This amnesty has no enforcement measures at all. It allows employers to continue to hire illegal aliens, enticing millions more parents to bring their children here illegally and stay long enough for them to become high school students and demand another amnesty in a few years.
No. 6: DREAM leaves intact the chain migration system that will allow these 2.1 million illegal aliens to eventually send for millions more relatives.
Rather quickly, the amnestied illegal aliens would be able to get green cards for their parents. And millions of additional relatives would be able to start planning their applications and getting in line. This starts with adult siblings and moves on to aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.
A large percentage of the illegal aliens in the U.S. today are extended family members of the illegal aliens who got amnesty in 1986 and also those in the six more-limited amnesties in the 1990s.
Friends, when you call a Senate office and hear (or know) that that Senator is thinking about voting for DREAM, please draw from the points above to press the Senator to hold off until somebody draws up a bill that matches the rhetoric of all the PR promises.
This is nothing more and nothing less than amnesty for all illegals under the age of 36.
Awwwwww it seems so mean ,, i mean it’s the DREAM act. Who could be against a dream?? /
Is this going to be presented as an amendment? Is the primary DoD bill a budget bill requiring only a 51 votes?
Call your senators!
Let me confirm that I got an e mail dated 9/14/10, from LULAC, that applauded dingy Harry for promising to offer up the dream act as an attachment to the defense appropriations bill.I`d post a link but that`d give away my secret enemies e mail account address and I`ve got too many subscriptions to enemies alerts on that baby,good Intel is often worth it`s weight in gold.
They can’t join the military if they are illegal....many would, of course, if it would make them legal...that is one part of the “Dream Act”.
Democrats strategy is looking for ‘new voters’, obviously, because they can’t con the other voters anymore.
Does anyone have a list of each Senator’s leaning on this matter?
That's my understanding.
Is the primary DoD bill a budget bill requiring only a 51 votes?
Yes 51 to pass, but first have to have 60 votes to cut off debate.
Support Christine O’Donnell - she won’t have to wait until January to start serving, and will be able to help stop this.
Thanks!
“This is nothing more and nothing less than amnesty for all illegals under the age of 36.”
Good point.
I dont have anything current, but here's the roll call from when it was brought up a few years back.
At some point we need to give these people a chance to legalize themselves. They were brought here when they were young and had no choice in the matter. One day they wake up and can’t get a social security number, a drivers license, a job, or college. Guess what....gang numbers increase. I would be in favor of a modified version of the act that requires military service as the only means to legalization.
Blocking the DA should be incredibly easy and supporting the DA should severely damage careers.
The problem is that I can’t get anyone willing to help.
If anyone wants to do what tens of thousands of others have failed to do, find a smart, experienced person to “cross-examine” a DA supporter on video, using a question such as the one here:
http://24ahead.com/s/dream-act
I even made a video almost *three and a half years ago* suggesting the same line of questioning for Hillary:
A video of a politician being “cross-examined” about this by a smart, experienced person could get hundreds of thousands of views on Youtube. But, if no one’s willing to do anything, then Reid might win.
under Dream act AMNESTY everyone regaless of citizenship becomes an anchor baby.
it reverses the 1996 Republican reforms.
this was ted kennedy’s wet dream (reverse operation wetback to quote history?)
remember when CNN does “latino” stories, Latino=illegal.
Thank you, taking notes for review.
How about some priveledged incentives for American kids to be able to go to college ?
Because I am pretty sure that a non-citizen living in another country can already get US citizenship by serving in the US armed forces.
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