Posted on 02/21/2008 8:33:12 AM PST by AuntB
A former California Republican Party official who resigned last year in a controversy over his immigration status had no valid visa or work permit during his high-profile career as a Washington lobbyist for conservative icon Grover Norquist.....
Michael Kamburowski, an Australian citizen who served briefly as chief operating officer of the state GOP, worked from 1995 to 2000 as a vice president of Americans for Tax Reform in Washington, D.C., an organization headed by Norquist - an architect of modern conservatism who has advised President Bush and top GOP political leaders.
For Norquist, Kamburowski lobbied Congress on dozens of issues, including immigration reform, according to his resume. .....
But when he went to work for Norquist, Kamburowski had no legal right to live or work in the U.S., according to documents filed recently in federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y., in connection with a wrongful-arrest lawsuit he filed against U.S. immigration officials.....
Said immigration lawyer Sheila Quinlan: "No way was he legally employed by these people."
With control of illegal immigration a hot-button topic for Republicans in the 2008 election, the apparent violation by one of the nation's leading conservative voices underscores the challenges of the issue, political ......
Norquist is a longtime anti-tax activist and a confidante of both Bush and Karl Rove, Bush's former political strategist......
By law, after it hired Kamburowski Americans for Tax Reform was required to file an Employment Eligibility Verification Form, also known as an I-9, with the government.....
Kamburowski later was promoted to vice president for legislative affairs. In 1998 and 1999, Kamburowski lobbied on many bills involving tax issues. In his resume, he said he also lobbied Congress in support of a measure to make it easier for foreigners to get employment visas in the United States.....
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Trackback, Norquist:
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=Grover+Norquist++immigration
Smart, now I see how media’s working it.
Here we go... set up to connect the NYT McCain story with the AZ mob story, immigration moving on later to C’s drug use, charity, his former wife then Norquist’s old beef with Mc.
Oh, well, it’s just another one of those AUSTRALIAN immigrants illegally flooding our country, blaring out their “Helen Reddy” music. Next thing you know, they’ll be all over the place at Outback restaurants....
They may demand we return Australia to them. /s/
Norquist is all for McCain now, all prior disagreements have
been forgiven.
Actually this piece of trash also paid someone to marry him are something like that once didn't he, has he been finally kicked out of the country??? I hope. I hope!, Now Rush can get mad about that statement!
More than anything else, this points to the idiocy of how it was likely all-but-impossible for a civic-minded, English-speaking, and presumably somewhat-educated Australian to navigate the screwed up legal immigration system, because the employment-based Visa system is hopelessly broken and, anyways, most of the Visas go to Third Worlders through either the diversity lottery or endless family chain immigration.
Reading the article, this is the kind of person we’d like to have immigrate to the United States.
“Reading the article, this is the kind of person we’d like to have immigrate to the United States.”
Yes, legally immigrated would have been nice. Not that ‘legal’ matters to Norquist. He wants to make the ALL legal, especially his fellow muslims.
Does this mean he gets free instate tuition?
Hey, don’t blame me - I didn’t write the immigration laws. Ted Kennedy did.
Obviously, we don’t want the country flooded with Mexican peasants, but somehow I don’t think that Australian tax policy experts (and Republicans) are a great threat tp anyone.
The plain truth is that this fellow - and probably more than a few others like him - have to either resort to this kind of stuff or otherwise remain in home nations they would rather not be in because the legal immigration system is so utterly broken.
Yes. If you’re a gay Sudanese Muslim terrorist with AIDS and leprosy, you can get a green card in five minutes by claiming you are a refugee from persecution. If you’re a well-educated Brit or an Aussie, you have to fight for years to get one.
Doing work Americans wouldn’t do.
“Hey, don’t blame me - I didn’t write the immigration laws. Ted Kennedy did.”
No one is blaming you...why so defensive....now, McCain...plenty of blame there. So, if it’s the GOP hiring the aliens it’s okay?
Perhttp://www.hispanicvista.com/HVC/Columnist/rcontreras/071507contreras1.htm
A healthy, college-educated, English-speaking German with a solid, existing job shouldn't have to jump through any hoops at all.
She is the definition of what America should want in a prospective citizen.
Norquist is pro illegal!
Forget that - what about Canadians?
I was born twenty minutes from the U.S. border but, under the present system, immigrating legally is pretty much impossible for me since I don’t have any immediate family in the United States (even though, I should note, that my earliest ancestor arrived in Massachusetts is 1635 and founded Concord, MA - and another ancestor of mine commanded the militia at the Battle of Lexington).
Alas, since I’m relatively young - and since I want to run for office - I haven’t resorted to expedients like immigrating illegally or attempting a sham marriage, yet.
Frankly, I’m hoping for immigration reform. Or, failing that, for Sec. Gates to exercise his authority to recruit members of the U.S. Army from abroad in exchange for Green Cards.
No, but I’d welcome a flood of Mexican pheasants.....I hear they’re quite tasty!
Militant
Frankly, I think Norquist is a Islamist mole and his anti-tax stance is just to lure in conservatives and diminish our treasury.
If the GOP is hiring Australian aliens who obviously have a profound desire to come to the United States and be citizens of the United States and be absolutely and totally loyal to the United States?
Sounds good to me.
The problem with illegal immigration is that it brings in millions of people who don’t speak English and who have no loyalty to the United States. That is to say, Mexicans or whatever, who remain Mexicans but just become Mexicans living in California.
If millions of Mexicans were swarming over the border because they were determined to enter American civilization, to defend it, and to be unreservedly loyal to it, I’d have no more problem with that than I’d have with the many Europeans who stepped directly off of boats and into Union blue during the Civil War.
Which makes me wonder if Kamburowski was pushed on Nehring and, now that it has blown up, is being used to stain Nehring (who may? not be on the McCain bandwagon?)
There seems to be a power-play going for control of the CRP.
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