Obama’s shamnesty distraction
I’m not sure why Drudge is hyping the New York Times’ stenography piece on Obama’s plans to carry through on his promise to pitch a shamnesty bill. It’s not news. It’s a White House-planted distraction sourced mainly to La Raza/The Race lobbyist-turned-White House open borders czar Cecilia Munoz.
I pointed a few weeks ago to Obama’s meeting with Latino groups pushing for faster action on paving the pathway to citizenship for millions of illegal aliens. You know that the DREAM Act has been reintroduced in Congress. You know about the Obama Census plan to Leave No Illegal Alien Behind. And you know that Nancy Pelosi has been banging the “stop the unpatriotic raids” drum.
You also know that there is already a de facto shamnesty plan already in place — overseen by DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, who is eroding interior immigration enforcement. A West Coast source tells me that customs and border patrol agents have been ordered not to confiscate Washington state IDs from illegal aliens. ICE agents are feeling pressure to curtail workplace investigations. And illegal alien deportation fugitive Zeituni Onyango, aunt of the president, is going nowhere.
What is more newsworthy is the rising tide of voices standing up against lax immigration enforcement and its costs.
It’s not just conservative immigration enforcement activists.
It’s politicians who have to answer to their law-abiding constituents demanding to know why scarce resources should be allocated to illegal aliens over citizens. Like the five Democrats in Colorado who helped kill the state version of the DREAM Act. And the local health officials in northern California who are finally ending taxpayer subsidies for non-emergency illegal alien care.
It’s citizens who have suffered the loss of loved ones as a result of bloody sanctuary policies. Like Ray Tranchant, who testified on Capitol Hill last week on how failure of local and federal immigration officials to cooperate contributed to the death of his daughter and her best friend at the hands of a revolving door illegal alien drunk driver. Or like Daniella Bologna, who filed suit against the open-borders government of San Francisco on Tuesday:
The family of a father and his two sons who were gunned down last year have filed a lawsuit against the city of San Francisco, claiming its sanctuary policy contributed to their deaths.
Anthony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, were gunned down in the Excelsior District on June 16 after possibly being mistaken for rival gang members, according to police.Edwin Ramos, 22, a suspected member of the MS-13 gang, has been charged with their murders.
The Bologna family lawsuit alleges that the city’s sanctuary policy shielding illegal immigrants – even those charged with a crime – allowed Ramos to stay in this country illegally. Ramos had a history of violence and several prior contacts with San Francisco police as a minor. But city policy prevented officers from turning him over to federal immigration authorities for deportation.
“What we’re saying is that the city adopted and enforced a policy that was actually inconsistent with and prohibited by federal law,” Michael Kelly, an attorney for the Bologna family, said Tuesday.
Since the last immigration battle, more and more citizens and local and state officials have begun to recognize the ravages of lax enforcement. When Obama moves forward with his official shamnesty legislation, he better be prepared. We’ve been there. Done that. And the White House should know that we are ready to stop the Open-Borders Express again.
Stick that on your front page, Fishwrap of Record.
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So should Congress.
It seems they never learn. They are going to once again try to stuff this amnesty legislation down our throats, like it or not. That along with the effort to re-install an even more stringent assault weapons ban just might be the straw that it takes to push it over the brink. Time will tell.
Obama and the Democrats seem to have no fear of alienating voters. They are pushing thier entire agenda at such a rapid pace that I believe (and hope) that the American people will end up rejecting this nonsense.
They are passing legislation that has not been read.
They are taking over private industry.
Their smart diplomacy is looking like limp wristed Jimmy Carter redux.
They cut sucessful defense programs while increasing all other facets of givernment entitlements.
And thier hypocrisy on so many subjects is the only think transparent in the government.
Sooner or later this radical leftist agenda will loose the support of the moderates who wanted to give Obama a chance. Granting amnesty now while the Americna economy suffers will not be popular.
Yep, agreed AlohaGuy.
Great work as always MM for the addressing this subject.
The last time a major amnesty was considered by Congress, the phone system failed by sheer volume due to the outrage by Americans. What do you suspect looms for the next ‘try’?
Note for Obama, his Administration and Congress: we’re watching, and despite what you might like to believe, most Americans adamantly do not even want to consider another Amnesty because, they, unlike you, know that it is a failed policy and will only do damage to the country in the long run. Just don’t do it.
Instead, tell us how you’re going to secure the border, effectively do immigration enforcement in the interior of the country and help ensure that people coming to the US do so for all the correct (’right’) reasons and not the wrong ones. After all that happens, I *might* be willing to hear your pleadings…
This one subject is perhaps the most poignant one in demonstrating just how out of touch or alienated the political machinery (especially the Executive Branch) is, in regard to the ordinary lives of most Americans. A majority of Republicans, Democrats, Independents, etc. DO NOT WANT AMNESTY! Get a clue people.
Oh, just an afterthought for those that track this issue closely…
NumbersUSA has posted an analysis about the newly introduced (but re-hashed) attempt at the ‘DREAM Act’.
It is anything but a DREAM and includes loopholes so large just about an illegal alien (and parents, regardless of age) could claim and be approved ultimate legal residency in the US. If you care anything about this subject, please do check it out. I highly recommend the reading above.
The libs feel if you have to break a few eggs to make an omelete, so what?
But in this case the “eggs” include the law of the land and the welfare–in some cases, the lives–of law-abiding citizens. So what? It’s all for the greater good, right???
Just exactly what part of ILLEGAL do our elected officials NOT understand?
What part of NATION OF LAWS do they NOT understand?
I am sooooooooo sick of this even being an issue.
We are broke, can not take care of our own people,
stop trying to import even more.
I went to DU to see what the DUmmies think about this latest shamnesty news. Amazingly, it looks like 50% or better or commenting DUmmies do not like the idea either. And if the Obama faithful will not get behind it, he would be very smart to drop it.
Let’s not forget Houston’s illustrious Mayor, Bill “sanctuary city? what sanctuary city? I blame the federal government for illegals wreaking havoc in Houston” White, who’s planning to ride his “success” with Hurricane Ike into the U.S. Senate to fill Kay “Bailout”’s seat.
Same mayor who went on the defensive when an illegal drug dealer shot a HPD officer in the face, blamed the Fed. Gov., and took offense when a local talk radio show (Michael Berry) dared to ask the illustrious mayor about his policy of refusing to enforce immigration laws.
By allowing the illegals to stay, and counting them as part of the census, the democrats hope to resdistrict many areas to get more of the them into Congress. That’s what it is all about…more power and keeping it.
Elections have consequences. They will try to ram it down our throats to their own detriment in 2010!
I hope you’re right; I don’t trust either the Dems or Repubs enough to make a prediction.
Nice back hand, love it!
Darn straight! The congress and liberals (republican and democraps alike) have pushed us hard on this. The push-back will be overwhelming for sure. Our useless representative, Jason Altmire, is appearing at a $25 per plate breakfast hosted by our Chamber of Commerce at a local comedy club (yes, a fitting venue for a democrap). It will not be comfortable for the fast talking fake conservative democrap. I’ll be there to raise this topic. He’ll vote with Pelosi but he will knows the good citizens of Pennsylvania’s 4th Congressional District are not going to take it anymore!
This whole thing is about the Dems taking over control of the government and our voting system. We’ve already had stolen elections. I’m truly sorry but unless you came here legally you MUST go home. We’re changing the culture of our country and not for the good. We need to do it slowly. What was it I read recently, over 1 million became citizens last year. That’s a whole lot of people. I have a friend whose c ompany will outsource to India before the year is over and her job is gone while we’re still allowing H1-b (?) visas for people to come to this country and take our jobs. We need to freeze immigration and outsourcing until we get back on track!
In MA, there are two new measures being introduced.
Drivers License for Illegals. Why:
.
And Another to Extend Voter Rights for Illegals. Why:
Both will likely go down when the dust settles, but just the fact that these are introduced – most likely to just test the waters for the Odumbo administration – is incredibly insulting.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone. We knew this was coming whether Obama or McCain won. This should require nothing more than pulling the plan off the shelf, blowing the dust off, and going to work. Small problem though: since folks didn’t really put much thought into the truly important elections last year (e.g. the Congressional races), I doubt there will be many that listen to the anti-illegal immigration rants. Bottom line: Congress just doesn’t care what you think.
I call it smart.
obambi needs the red herring and badly:
the socalled stress test of banks went so poorly they have postpone
laughing stock of planet
dems backing away
GOP showing hints of growing some spine
attempt to screw VETS failed on making them pay for injuries
attempt to bar DOD from selling once used ammo to reloaders failed
etc etc
tea partys are days away and they are getting grasp of how big they shall be.
look for la raza types to be used as squashers out west is my inkling….
This will be the breaking point. If the GOP doesn’t stand 100% UNIFIED against this (including Snowjob, Collins and Specter), it’s time to start the Patriot Party. It’s now or never. And the moderate dems need to stand firm too.
If they manage to pass this one, we’re toast. It will a permanent radical left America.
the Patriot Party?
cant we vote on the new party name?
PP initials are bad idea…….
Erin,
“It will a permanent radical left America.”
dust off your books of the history of this great nation
we are not euroweenies it is our duty to fight tyranny.
Awww, ok, I guess I can be open to suggestions. The name has to reflect sovereignty and pride.
If obamashamnesty doesn’t hype people up to go to the tax day tax parties, I don’t know what will.
The conservative who is loudest and most unapologetic in leading the charge against this shamnesty WILL WIN the 2012 nomination.
Unfortunately, I do not share your confidence. Remember, an ever growing percentage of people are now dependent on the federal government for their existence. Almost 50% no longer pay taxes. Certain groups vote for democrats ALL THE TIME. We are less than two years out from the next election and the republicans are in complete disarray. The collectivists in congress know this.
I do not have any confidence that 2010 will be the “awakening” we all hope for. Demographics works against it.
JJ,
I agree with your conclusion.
P.S.
2009 like it or not will have bloodshed this summer. make no mistake the left and obambi want a fight.
it is what it is
Most of my family is laid off from their jobs, and they want to legalize illegals who steal the jobs that most Americans need and want to do because of a failed economy that was caused by the same people who want to legalize illegals. Outrageous. Our government has sold our country down the river to satisfy their own liberal interests. Day after day, my anger grows toward these incompetent fools being held up by ignorant fool American citizens.
Patron,
If not too personal may I ask if they were union jobs?
They’ll ram through citizenship for the illegals before the 2010 election cycle. They’ll need to as a counter to the Tea Party movement.
Maybe after enough (other than border town) hospitals, clinics, and other social service offices close down because of the strain from ACLU/Liberal “do good with other people’s money” policies, and when enough people who are laid off can’t find work because of illegals, then maybe the rest of the nation will get angry enough to put a stop to this. Once it starts hitting close to home on’e outlook changes quickly.
When you stop putting bird food in the feeder, the birds will stop coming. You won’t have the mess to clean up and you’ll save the money you were spending on the feed.
Just another Iron in the fire for this usurper!
It is a “Divide & Conquer” technic, and he is using it well. You have the Financial Crisis, Mortgage Crisis,War in Iraq and Afganistan, Nuclear trouble with N. Korea and Iran… ALL at once!
He is tearing this country apart piece by piece, and they LAUGH at us and our “Tea Parties”… Cant blame them.
Bowing before a Muslim King, saying Christianity NO LONGER EXSISTS IN AMERICA?
You have ACORN joining the Census just before an Amnesty? What a SHOCK!
So much going on, one does not know where to start, it is scarry.
God Bless Everyone, & God Bless America.
No, ban, none of them were union. Why do you ask?
Enough is enough! How many time do we have to tell those clowns NO!!!!
I think it’s already started, ami (see my post above), and I think people are getting angrier (like me) every day.
The Obama crowd has three tactics; fear, distraction, and multity directional assaults.
The simultaneously will use fear and trial balloons to get you off guard while they come at you on other multiple issues, hoping you cannot defend everything and confuse the voters, so they finally go into sensory overload and just nod yes.
They have the assets to do it, so that’s what they are doing.
When the government granted amnesty to 1 million illegals back in 1986, more than 3 million took advantage of it. Two years later, more than half of those were living off the public dime.
Now they estimate there are 12 million illegals living here. If the government gets their way, it will be more like 40 million and if 1986 is indicative of thing to come, our taxes will go sky high to pay for 20 million “voting” freeloaders. Our country will never be the same again.
demand they are not eligible to vote, period. How many demolosers would back it then?
In the People’s republic of MA, it is much worse, they simply want to erase all differences between citizens and non-citizens
http://michaelgraham.com/
And let’s not forget BHO’s Aunt is still here illegally, so we need to get this law passed!!
Patron,
I asked because so many people are being fired they are not “layed off”, “layed off” is a union term as one has a theoretical right to return should biz conditions change.
( have noticed media is saying everyone is layed off these days which simply is not true )
Also, have noticed and this is not new that union people when they get layed off always blame anyone BUT the union.
Patron I hope your family members who have lost jobs are okay and adjust to these changing times rapidly, will put them in mah Prayers,,B
Fly,
they have assets? well guess what we have assets and buying MORE assets daily hence the shortage in some industries snicker.
have said b4 and I say it again tea parties are for cityfolk in the country we have Whiskey rebellions….
Still think McCain wasn’t conservative enough, Michelle?
You won’t be able to stop this, it’s out of the hands of conservatives who have absolutely no influence on this administration whatsoever. Amnesty is going to happen.. not a matter of if, but when.
You gave up any influence you might have had on this issue when you decided that it was more important to form circular firing squads last November than it was to prevent Barack Obama from winning the election and being in a position to sign an amnesty bill into law.
Yep, it sucks.
But you reap what you sow.
Irish,
blunt and true. cant have it both ways
I think that is why the Obama puppet masters are bringing this up now…the tea parties. They hope people will show up at the parties with signs opposing amnesty. They will show this on the MSM and say it’s the reason for the protest…..and all those protesting are, you guessed it, racist.
hm said that poorly DOINK
MM cant have it both ways
first they take away all our guns, then they turn the
ILLEGAL immigrants loose in the USA, and when crap does happen, we cannot defend ourselves. VERY serious things are happening in backroom deals, folks. Pay attention.HR 45 Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sales Act of 2009.
Please send this to everybody on your list … this is Obama gun control by secrecy.
This is the Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sale Act of 2009.
Even gun shop owners didn’t know about this because it is flying under the radar.
To find out about this – go to any government website and type in HR 45 or Google HR 45 Blair Holt Firearm Licensing & Record of Sales Act of 2009. You will get all the information.
Basically this would make it illegal to own a firearm – any rifle with a clip or ANY pistol unless:
It is registered.
You are fingerprinted.
You supply a current Driver’s License.
You supply your Social Security #.
You will submit to a physical & mental evaluation at any time of their choosing.
Each update – change or ownership through private or public sale must be reported and costs $25 – Failure to do so you automatically lose the right to own a firearm and are subject up to a year in jail.
There is a child provision clause on page 16 section 305 stating a child-access provision. Gun must be locked and inaccessible to any child under 18.
They would have the right to come and inspect that you are storing your gun safely away from accessibility to children and fine is punishable for up to 5 yrs. in prison.
If you think this is a joke – go to the website and take your pick of many options to read this. It is lengthy. But, more and more people are becoming aware of this. Pass the word along. Any hunters in your family – pass this along.
This is one to act on whether you own a gun or not.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.45:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h45/show
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-45
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) Findings- Congress finds that–
(1) the manufacture, distribution, and importation of firearms is inherently commercial in nature;
(2) firearms regularly move in interstate commerce;
(3) to the extent that firearms trafficking is intrastate in nature, it arises out of and is substantially connected with a commercial transaction, which, when viewed in the aggregate, substantially affects interstate commerce;
(4) because the intrastate and interstate trafficking of firearms are so commingled, full regulation of interstate commerce requires the incidental regulation of intrastate commerce;
(5) gun violence in the United States is associated with the majority of homicides, over half the suicides, and two-thirds of non-fatal violent injuries; and
(6) on the afternoon of May 10, 2007, Blair Holt, a junior at Julian High School in Chicago, was killed on a public bus riding home from school when he used his body to shield a girl who was in the line of fire after a young man boarded the bus and started shooting.
(b) Sense of the Congress- It is the sense of the Congress that–
(1) firearms trafficking is prevalent and widespread in and among the States, and it is usually impossible to distinguish between intrastate trafficking and interstate trafficking; and
(2) it is in the national interest and within the role of the Federal Government to ensure that the regulation of firearms is uniform among the States, that law enforcement can quickly and effectively trace firearms used in crime, and that firearms owners know how to use and safely store their firearms.
(c) Purposes- The purposes of this Act and the amendments made by this Act are–
(1) to protect the public against the unreasonable risk of injury and death associated with the unrecorded sale or transfer of qualifying firearms to criminals and youth;
(2) to ensure that owners of qualifying firearms are knowledgeable in the safe use, handling, and storage of those firearms;
(3) to restrict the availability of qualifying firearms to criminals, youth, and other persons prohibited by Federal law from receiving firearms; and
(4) to facilitate the tracing of qualifying firearms used in crime by Federal and State law enforcement agencies.
friendly reminder:
tax day protests are more than just FED spending they are about STATE/LOCAL spending as well……
Over at HuffPo it looks more like 75% against. It seems the only ones that want this is the Dem leadership and illegal immigrants. If Obama and the Dems push this they are going to find themseleves on the losing side of a very big battle. I’m looking forward to the socialists being humbled by a broad coalition of American society.
Mrs. Malkin:
Didn’t the Califorina supreme court rule yesterday that the states rights take precendant over the federal imm. laws and they said that the state has the right to enforce it’s own border and Imm. and the feds cannot interfere?? It was late when I read it so please explain the ruling and how it effects the border Issue.
Thank you.
SKG
Mainah:
Also reference Bobby Rush’s bill for gun laws. Scary.
Maniah
Bobby Rush is also using holt as an example, also. Sorry about omitting that.
While I agree we would have had to fight amnesty with McCain……do people really believe, now, that there was, as I heard prior to the election, “no difference” between McCain and Obama?
There is IMO, absolutely no way that a McCain presidency would have been even remotely as bad as what we have now with Obama and the left wing loony Congress.
If nothing else, Sarah would have made it better.
Minah,
The chain email you copied this from are absolutely incorrect on the above two points.
Also, it fails to mention this bill does not have one single co-sponsor. I will bet you my lunch money that this bill never even sniffs a chance of getting out of committee.
How about the Founders Party?
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h45ih.txt.pdf
Link to HR 45.
Sorry for being OT, But this riles me and this shamnesty really riles me.Can’t wait for day without an illegal. Show us again please how you crippled our economy last year/scarcasm off
They’re not clowns. They’re pirates. Pirates in clown’s clothing.
If that be the case, then I’ll proudly call myself racist.
I don’t know… I still like Patriot Party. It says exactly what it is. Do acronyms really matter when you’re trying to save the last best hope of the world? Really?
Just stealing the jobs Americans used to have
And who is going to back this craziness.
There is no way in he!! we are going to allow them to do that to this country! Just think, if 13 million illegal aliens are granted amnesty, they would be so beholden to the dems, the republicans would never win another election…ever! I know that is their purpose and we can’t allow them to succeed. This is war, on so many fronts!
None of this can possibly be good for Michelle O’s children!
I so don’t care about their offspring. I do care about my offspring.
Chap, ok, lets let the government force us to register every gun we own, fingerprint us (cause, you know, the criminals and the illegals are going to follow the law…oh wait…) and HOPE they do not then expand the rules into forcing mental health exams at will.
Yes, you are right, right now they can only be privy to your mental health exams to date…
And of course, the govt has every right to take away a constitutional right and then also invade our privacy while doing so.
Once the guns are registered, a new law can pass, they now know where the guns are, and they can take those, too. Then we can all sit back and wait to be overrun by criminals, illegals, terrorists, sharia law…whatever.
and, you know, the AG has these little caveats built into the system:
Sure, pardon the stretch Chap. Why would I ever allow myself to believe that our dear government might try to take away our Constitutional rights?
NO WAY will I hand over guns, register them, or even admit I own them, till i NEED them. Then they can pry them out of my cold dead hands if they really want em.
Was that really necessary Michelle?
And there is Lindsay Graham and Juan McCain-two cowards of the first order. I fear we are seeing the Perfect Storm for the New World Order.
If we could and do stop any Congressional action we still have Obama, Holder and Napolitano NOT enforcing the laws. We do want want to let too many in too fast of course so as to make room for our guest from Guantanamo Bay.
Treason is not too strong a word.
Here, here! With each day, I am more convinced obama is the second coming of the Big H.
I have a friend who has a gun shop. He has been so busy, he can barely keep up with the sales. He says he is amazed at the number of average looking family types stocking up, and they pay whatever they have to to get the guns and ammo. Young moms. The elderly. Not just your average angry white males.
People are realizing what’s ahead, and they’re preparing for a fight.
Minah,
I am glad you have actually taken the time to read the bill now, rather than relying on spam mail for your information.
You can speculate all you want about what the government may or may not do, what laws may or may not pass, in the future. But it is disingenuous to claim that is what is already in the bill.
Oh and BTW, I think this bill (even as actually written) is vastly overreaching. Apparently most everyone else in Congress does too, as it does not have ONE SINGLE COSPONSOR. Not one. You know what that means? It means it, along with hundreds and hundreds of other bills that are introduced for no other reason than to appease the ego of some Congressperson, or to appease some constituency back home, has zero shot of seeing the light of day.
You should focus your energies on more realistic threats to your liberties.
I appreciate that, ban. God bless you and your’s as well.
As for the unions, I would never join one, and I know my family probably wouldn’t either. We don’t believe in them, and don’t want any part of them.
reminder, who is the AG?:
http://www.independent.org/issues/article.asp?id=2411
you’ve got that right chap…but where do you start?
Here’s some food for thought. Just look at someone who comes to this country legally, becomes a citizen, and continues to live the American dream. So far, so good.
However, It’s not long before his or her father, mother, brother, sister, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins come over too because they now have an “anchor” that gives them a “faster” track to legal immigration and citizenship.
Now take 12,000,000 illegals becoming legal. If you don’t think they won’t bring their relatives over to become legal citizens you have to be living in a dream world.
And with the liberals desire for benevolence using other people’s money and their propensity to sue the government for violating their civil rights if we don’t give them free healthcare, food and housing, all of the social services and healthcare we do have will be in jeopardy of collapsing rendering it useless for everyone.
“fishwrap of record”…I LOVE IT!!!
Must be the last ditch effort to save the Boston Globe….bring in more illegals and publish in spanish!!!
These morons never stop…
Since when do NON citizens have a say in what we do in this country?!So sick of these B*stards…We must put a stop to this game Once and For ALL!!!
Call me biased, but I kinda like “Patriot Party”. Maybe because it implies something that libtards can never be confused with.
I mean, I don’t think you’d ever see the term, “PINO” (Patriot in name only).
Minah,
Tell me again how Eric Holder passes legislation and/or why we should be terribly concerned with his view when Obama (you know…his boss) has stated he agrees with Heller?
“Patriots” reminds me of
“Pelosi’s Patriots” which pops into my head everytime I see yet another story about an illegal criminal victimizing Americans….
D*mn straight!!!
Well said.
If amnesty passes, the country will be irrevocably changed for the worse. There is at least 20M-30M illegals here. With amnesty, these “new citizens” will be eleigible to abuse chain migration (aka family reunification). After the 1986 amensty, it was estimated an average of 3 immmigrants were brougt in under chain migraiton by the new citizens. 100M new citizens within a decade, of mostly uneducated illiterate immigrants, is what we can expect. That will be the death knell for our country.
I MIGHT consider amnesty for select individuals (no criminal offenses, parents of anchor babies, etc) ONLY with the following conditions:
1. Elmination of “birthright citizneship” at a minimum. Possible revocation of anchor baby citizenship back to the last amnesty (1986)
2. No welfare, or gov’t assistance of any kind, for illegal aliens.
3. Full workplace enforcement with heavy fines and/or jail for offenders.
4. Legal immigration reductions to offset the impact of those amnestied
5. Tougher restrictions and requirements on H1-B visas
6. A visa tracking systme that flags someone as soon as their visa expires without having left the country through proper channels. An arrest warrant is then issued.
7. An amendment to the constitution stating amensty can never be provided in the future under any circumstance.
8. A limit be put in place for the number of amensty spots. Can not be open ended. Say 5M or so.
Basically, ELIMINATE THE MAGNETS that draw and keep them here. Frankly, these actions need to be done to stop the bleeding anyway. I don;t support amensty period but will compromise with the right incentives. Appeasement has never and will never work.
it doesn’t matter what the legislation says, it matters how you interpret the legislation…
and since the admin enforces the law, they can enforce what, and how they want to…I’m sure congress and the courts will be real upset…
Watching Fox news this morning, and here’s what we have:
Amnesty for 13 million illegals.
Removal of Columbus day as a holiday.
Banning prayer (while allowing porn) at University of Maryland.
Newsweek predicts the decline and fall of Christian America.
And it’s still early in the day…
This is the hope and change I was promised?
this bill doesn’t really matter if it passes or not…with no enforcement of existing immigration laws…we already have a de-facto amnesty program in place….
Viva La Raza!!
might as well join the winning side…
Interpreting is one thing. Making stuff up about it is another.
And in any case, again, we are talking about legislation with no shot at passing. This bill has been introduced before, in 2007, and sat in committee without ever seeing a vote.
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
Maybe you all are just trying to stir us up or maybe I’m just depressed but I believe O will get his shamnesty passed.
We melted the phones on TARP – no one was listening.
We melted the phones on automakers bailout – no one was listening.
During the last shamnesty try – people in DC were actually picking up the phones. Bush was president. Congress was willing to say no to Bush and there were less Democrats.
Now we are just arrogant and derisive; for which you all need to apologize while you practice your bowing.
“A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachment is an object not more to be disired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elected. The subject of its jurisdiction are those offenses which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violations of some public trust.”
Alexander Hamilton
actually yes. we need to follow our european betters, they know more than we do, and the muslims are our friends, they’re the religion of peace, and we’re warmongers…
the world will be much better off with the US being relegated to a third-rate power….
and detroit is a wonderful place to live, the rest of the country will be better off looking like that…
and then cuba will be a better place to live….
Libs can easily usurp the word Patriot. Look how they did it by saying paying higher taxes is patriotic. Patriot Party would just get turned into jingoism. Right now with the Dems in power, they see any dissent as unpatriotic.
However, there can be no mistake how the founders felt.
Amnesty is part of the plan. Its so the census can record a new wave of voters to keep the Dems in power forever. HOw you gonna stop this when the Dems in Congress have the majority. We can whine all we want to but this Amnesty is gonna pass this time. Nothing we can do.
There is only one religion in a communist state.
katablog #82:
you have captured my despair eloquently.
nothing short of revolution will stop d.c. from trampling the order of law… in the name of law.
I agree with everything you wrote Michelle but we are living in the days of brazenly open corruption on daily public display from Washington and Wall Street.
Our one-party system is just not responsive and has been openly at war with voters since their first amnesty bill loss. Every presidential hopeful of both wings of the United Establishment Party is firmly in the pro-amnesty camp with Romney coming out a few days ago prodding Obama to do this ASAP “to get it behind us”. I just don’t believe this is merely a distraction.
Besides, it is beginning to look like participation in the April 15 Tea Parties is going to be boffo. We represent the heart of those 84% of Americans who made it clear in 2006 and 2007 that Americans just don’t want amnesty. We want border enforcement. Once our numbers appear in the streets next week, the media be forced to tell the story. We can then start expanding the narrative beyond the tax issue to include amnesty.
The NYT is desperate to get their circulation up and siding with American citizens against a corrupt government could save their franchise.
I have to respectfully disagree. Lib/marxists can steal anything they damn well please. But they simply can not steal the true Patriot philosophy. Everything they do is about sellling out the American ideal and American dream. They feel they have to apologize for patriotism, not stand for it.
They do not, never will, and never have owned the term. It’s ours. It’s not my opinion, its fact.
I can’t think of a better name for a new party based on Founding Fathers’ principles and adherance to Constitution and American sovereignty.
We have uncounted millions out there, layed off or fired, whose benefits have run out and they are no longer on the roles. To a large degree it was the younger voter and the comfortably employed that put this moron in the White House. They now have no future and some are waking up to that fact. Even the dumbest dimwit voter will eventually see they have made a huge mistake and look for something else. Even the dumbest dimwit voter will eventually see this country is broke, the promises made on healthcare, redistribution of income, the trashing of civil rights, and the business owners that will flee this country – setting us up for third world poverty status. The one thing I count on is the youth of today loves toys, comfort and Stuff… We have to recruit them before the next election. In the meantime, go to the tea parties and get involved with your local groups. Be that agitating fly in the ointment.