It’s Tax Freedom Day (for some that it is, and not for NY). Freedom, what real economic freedom is there in this?

Ten ‘Outrageous’ Wastes of U.S. Taxes

Friday, 13 Apr 2012 03:43 PM NewsMax By Drew Johnson

(Julie Schaul lobbies passing motorists in Santa Cruz, Calif. (AP Image)

This Tax Day, the federal government expects to rake in $945 billion in individual income tax payments from U.S. taxpayers.

According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worked 32 days last year just to pay their income tax bill from Uncle Sam, and that doesn’t even include federal Social Security, Medicare or unemployment insurance programs, or any state or local tax burdens.As taxpayers across the nation rush to calculate their share of taxes and say a final goodbye to some of their hard-earned dollars, the same question crosses the minds of many Americans: “What is the government doing with all of this money?”
Unfortunately, the answer is rarely anything useful, responsible, necessary, constitutional, valuable or meaningful.
The Taxpayers Protection Alliance has identified 10 outrageous federal expenditures that cost taxpayers dearly, while providing little benefit in return. The programs, and their price tags this year, include:

1. $17 billion for fraudulent and erroneous Medicare overpayments to healthcare providers because no one actually checks Medicare claims for accuracy.
2. $7.1 billion to purchase 98 V-22 Osprey helicopters, despite the fact that MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters offer similar capabilities for one-third of the price and are much safer. The V-22 Osprey is commonly referred to as a “death trap” by pilots because 34 American servicemen and women have been killed in Osprey accidents.
3. $1.5 billion in foreign aid to countries to which the federal government owes money. As the government borrows trillions of dollars from countries such as China, Brazil, Russia and Ireland to underwrite the bloated federal budget, Congress hands U.S. tax dollars right back to those wealthy nations to pick up the tab for their healthcare, agriculture, military, economic development, infrastructure and higher education costs.
4. $1.4 billion to bail out Amtrak. Rather than privatizing the insolvent government-run passenger rail line, federal lawmakers hand over $55 in taxpayer subsidies for every ticket sold.
5. $328 million to bankroll the research and production of energy efficient vehicles, shielding the companies that stand to profit from the sale of the vehicles from much of the economic risk at the expense of taxpayers.
6. $232 million for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which shells out taxpayer-funded giveaways to museums such as the Mob Museum in Las Vegas, the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Nebraska, the American Museum of Magic in Michigan and a merry-go-round museum in upstate New York.
7. $226 million to fund the Community Transformation Grants aimed at such nanny state activities as banning sodas in schools, making sure adults eat their veggies, and driving up prices for fast food and tobacco products. The scheme, which is part of Obamacare, has granted $18 million to get Minnesotans to lose weight, $1 million to slap calorie counts on menus in Boston and $147,106 to encourage emotional wellness and healthy eating in the Republic of Palau.
8. $174 million in Department of Commerce handouts to subsidize broadband development in areas that lack the population to justify the expenditure. Worse for taxpayers, new private sector technology is already making many of these expensive government efforts obsolete before they are even completed.
9. $70 million to upgrade federal employees from regular coach seats to swanky business or first class cabins on domestic flights purchased with tax dollars.
10. $11 million in subsidies to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a think tank beholden to elected officials since it accepts federal money from Congress and features Cabinet members on its board. The Center recently bestowed its most prestigious award on controversial Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who is perhaps best known for denying his county’s genocide of more than a million Armenians after World War I.

Regrettably, this list barely scratches the surface of the outrageous amount of careless spending or the ridiculous number of unnecessary programs crammed inside the $3.8 trillion federal budget.
In total, these 10 examples of wasteful programs and misused tax dollars alone cost every federal taxpayer this year an average of $400 — making it even more frustrating to write that check to the IRS this year.

Drew Johnson is a senior fellow at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational organization dedicated to a smaller, more responsible government. Read more reports from Drew Johnseon — Click Here Now.

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The 11th “Outrageous” Waste Of Your US Tax Dollars (or perhaps more appropriately stated, #1 abuse thereof)

Illegal Aliens Receive Billions in IRS Tax Benefits

Sep 23, 2011 … Illegal aliens are receiving billions of dollars in IRS tax benefits. … these the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), and the result is tax refunds that …

Tax Cut Talks Focus on Budget Cuts, New Fees

Jan 15, 2012 … Tax Cut Talks Focus on Budget Cuts, New Fees. … at least $9 billion by blocking illegal immigrants from claiming the refundable income tax credit.

GOP: No Tax Break for Illegal Immigrants

Feb 9, 2012 … Republicans are looking to deny tax credits to illegal immigrants, refund checks averaging $1800 a family, in an effort that has roused …

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Tax Facts for Journalists (and Taxpayers)

April 11, 2012

Washington, D.C., April 11, 2012—The deadline for filing federal tax returns this year is April 17^th, and with that date fast approaching, the Tax Foundation has compiled a few statistics to help journalists put the nation’s income tax system in perspective.

This edition of Tax Facts was compiled by Tax Foundation economist Will McBride. The following are based on the most recent Internal Revenue Service data for tax year 2010 and the IRS National Taxpayer Advocate’s 2011 Report to Congress.

• 143 million tax returns were filed with the IRS in 2010, some of which represent households and married couples.
• Americans paid federal incomes taxes of $945 billion.
• Only 85 million actually paid taxes out of the 143 million filers.  In other words, 58 million, or 41%, were non-payers.  96% of these non-payers made less than $50,000.
• The IRS paid out $105 billion in refundable credits to filers who paid no income tax.
• The effective tax rate for those making less than $50,000 was 3.5%, and their share of taxes paid was 6.7%.
• The effective tax rate for those making more than $50,000 was 14.1%, and their share of taxes paid was 93.3%.
• The effective tax rate for those making more than $250,000 was 23.4%, and their share of taxes paid was 45.7%.
• 33% of tax filers itemized.
• 25% of tax filers took the mortgage interest deduction, which reduced taxable income by $381 billion.
• 27% of tax filers took the charitable donations deduction, which reduced taxable income by $158 billion.
• 26 million filers took the refundable earned income tax credit, and they received $56 billion from the IRS despite having paid no income taxes.
• 21 million filers took the refundable child credit, and they received $27 billion from the IRS despite having paid no income taxes.
• 4 million paid the Alternative Minimum Tax.
• The IRS estimates that it takes more than 7 billion hours to comply with the tax code each year.
• The tax code is now 3.8 million words long.
• Over the last ten years there have been about 4,428 changes to the tax code, or more than one a day, including about 579 changes in 2010 alone.

The Tax Foundation is a nonpartisan research organization that has monitored fiscal policy at the federal, state and local levels since 1937. To schedule an interview, please contact Richard Morrison, the Tax Foundation’s Manager of Communications, at 202-464-5102 or morrison@taxfoundation.org.

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Special Report No. 198: Tax Freedom Day 2012

April 2, 2012

Tax Freedom Day® 2012 arrives on April 17 this year, four days later than last year due to higher federal income and corporate tax collections. That means Americans will work 107 days into the year, from January 1 to April 17, to earn enough money to pay this year’s combined 29.2% federal, state, and local tax bill…

Tax Freedom Day By State (And it’s not good news for those in CT [worst] or NY and NJ [tied for 2nd] who have the longest tax freedom days in the country!)

Latest version released April 2012

TX Gov. Rick Perry on Obama Immigration Speech: ‘The Guy is a Stand Up Comic’ and more on illegal immigration.

TX Gov. Rick Perry on Obama Immigration Speech: ‘The Guy is a Stand Up Comic’

“More interested in trying out for Saturday Night Live.”

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Obama to Tout Amnesty in Speech Near Mexican City That Had More Casualties Than Afghanistan

Monday, May 09, 2011, 05:42 PM

The Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform wants to know why the president, in discussing ‘immigration reform’ proposals, has been speaking only to people who agree with him. 

• Obama to Deliver Speech on Immigration (with the way he has treated Texas, they ought to boo him all the way back to D.C.)

Blaze Exclusive Social Justice in School PART 1: Piven & Professors Push Voting Rights for Non-Citizens & Borderless, One-World, Anti-Capitalism, Government

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Rogue Arizona: No More Waiting for the Feds.

AZ Going With Online Donations and Prison Labor to Build Border Fence

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Obama Demeans Himself on Immigration

May 12, 2011 By Steve McCann

The mendacity of Barack Obama continues to know no bounds.  He has now embarked on a campaign to sow the seeds of distrust and animosity within the Latino community on the issue of illegal immigration.  With his “the ends justify the means” mentality he has no hesitation to play the race card and to utter the most inflammatory rhetoric at every opportunity in order to win re-election. 

The matter of illegal immigration, and more importantly the current regime’s unwillingness to secure the southern border, is among the defining issues of the day.   It encompasses not only the legality of unfettered immigration and its impact on a devastated economy, but rampant crime and national security.  Yet this President treats it as if it was simply a topic to exploit for his personal ends. 

For a President of the United States to behave in this manner is crass and reprehensible, as he has no intention on working with others to solve this issue in a fair and equitable manner.  Illegal immigration is first and foremost a violation of the law and cannot be rewarded.

more… 

When Immigrants Invade … Your Refrigerator: Sonja Tees Off on Illegal Immigration & Victimhood

“We all immigrated the same time, my mom , my dad and I. We left the Soviet Union, then had to go through Poland, Austria then Italy…we had to see and be interviewed before we were able to enter the U.S. as refugees legally. In fact, that was the only way to do it.” – Dan

TAKE ACTION: https://www.immigration911.org/indexlo.php

 

Illegal immigration: Phony numbers, undermining America, Obama’s lawbreaking, bad policy, and constant impeachability; Border threat generally plus Hezbollah and terrorism; Hispanic commie tactics esp in Calif, hollywood tactics, the lefts tactics of mass action and lawbreaking, the unions and teachers, and NYC’s idiot mayor; The will of the “American People”, the costs and numbers, take action now and stop illegal immigration!

 Ariz. Sheriff: Feds Order Release of Illegals to Phony Up Numbers

The U.S. Border Patrol has told its agents to stop arresting illegal aliens crossing the border from Mexico to keep the illegal immigration numbers down, Arizona Sheriff Larry Dever says.
FULL STORY

“For the secretary of homeland security to say the border is more secure than ever, well, I’ve been there forever and there was a happier time than what it is today. We have a long, long way to go,” says Sheriff Larry Dever.

• Hispanics to Halt Immigration Enforcement Tactic
• Groups Sue to Block New Utah Immigration Law
• Ex-Intel Agent: Hezbollah Terrorists Within Miles of US
• McCain Hits Napolitano on Illegal Border Spotters
• Man Indicted in Arizona Border Agent’s Killing

• Pa. Rep. Barletta Forms House Immigration Caucus

• Utah Laws Seek to Fill Federal Void on Immigration

• Illinois drops federal immigrant screening program

Obama Drops Immigration Ball on Congress
President Barack Obama wants immigration, but he also wants Congress to do the heavy lifting, The Hill reports. That’s trademark Obama style, mirroring his approach to healthcare, financial reform, energy reform, and the budget. Indeed, congressmen on both sides of the aisle have complained about his lack of leadership on these issues.

As for immigration reform, it has little chance of passage without the president’s full engagement. And even if he does get heavily involved the gap between Republican and Democratic views on the issue is huge.

Some critics speculate that Obama is bringing up immigration now simply to assure Hispanic voters that he agrees with them on the issue so that he doesn’t lose their votes next November.

• U.S. Urged to Keep National Guard at Border
  - YOU DECIDE: Extend Guard Deployment at Border?

Blaze Exclusive Social Justice in School PART 1: Piven & Professors Push Voting Rights for Non-Citizens & Borderless, One-World, Anti-Capitalism, 

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Bill Fletcher Jr - Leading Socialist Calls for Mass Actions, Law Breaking, to Re-Elect Obama in 2012 (and that includes illegals of course)

Submitted by Trevor on April 28, 2011

Bill Fletcher, Jr., is a Senior Scholar with the far left Institute for Policy Studies, and a member of both Democratic Socialists of America and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

In 2008, Fletcher co-founded Progressives for Obama, with veteran communist activist Tom Hayden, leftist actor as well as Chavez and Castro lover Danny Glover and fellow DSAer Barbara Ehrenreich.

Writing in The Rag Blog, Fletcher explains what “progressives” must do, to secure a victory for Barack Obama in 2008.

It is a grass roots vision, taking focus off the President and instead using mass action and the people’s movements to unseat to defeat Republicans and centrist Democrats.

It is a revolutionary vision, in that it calls for law breaking, and “masses of people making a situation untenable”.

It is an internationalist vision, looking to revolutions abroad, both for inspiration and solidarity.

This is a “people’s power” strategy, owing not a little to recent events in the Middle East.

Comrade Fletcher now talking what “progressives” must do for Obama in 2012;

1. Forget running a candidate against Obama in 2012. That would be a sure way to alienate much of his black and Latin base. Instead, there needs to be a progressive strategy focused on Congressional races. That means identifying key races to run genuine progressive candidates against conservative Democrats and/or Republicans.

2. We need to build an electoral organization that can run such candidates. There are examples of these around the country but we need to expand, ultimately building something at the national level that rivals the vision of the National Rainbow Coalition from the late 1980s. It needs to be an organization that has a mass base and can run candidates inside and outside the Democratic Party.

3. We desperately need mass action. Wisconsin was wonderful for many reasons but one important one was the sustained presence in the capitol. A protest movement focused on power needs to be prepared to break the law, not through the actions of a few individuals, but much as happened in Wisconsin, as well as in the Civil Rights movement, with masses of people making a situation untenable.

But we also have to develop key strategic targets for our actions where we are clear on what we want them to do. This will largely happen at the local level at first, but it can also happen at the national level, such as through selective boycotts.

4. We have to think and act globally and locally. We must link with social movements around the world challenging U.S. foreign policy, providing such movements with whatever level of support we can. We cannot allow more Honduras coup situations, and we have to make it clear that U.S. policy in Afghanistan is a disaster.

While many on the US left express disappointment with Obama, when push comes to shove, they will back their man to the hilt,

The US left understands that 2012 is decisive.

If a conservative Republican wins, they know that many of the US left’s hard fought gains will  be rolled back.

If Obama wins, they know the socialist juggernaut will be virtually unstoppable.

Consequently the US left, from Democrats to socialists, to Marxist-Leninists, will throw every thing into this election. Look for mass protests, street violence, intimidation and mass law breaking,  as the US left mounts a do or die, last gasp “The Offensive” against Middle America and its values.

More from New Zeal:

• LEFTIST LOS ANGELES SCHOOL TEACHERS LEAD STUDENTS AT MAY MARCH – 5/1/2011
• Mexican-American Studies Problem in the Tucson Unified School District
• SEIU’s Full Frontal Communism
• AFL-CIO’s Thug in Chief Richard Trumka: Fight, Mobilize, Educate Workers. Spoken like a true Communist. The union members are being used horribly by the union leadership for political and monetary gain.
• California’s Socialist Assembly Member, Gil Cedillo. He and others- ties to La Raza, SEIU, the Obama administration…
• Hezbollah in Mexico

Eva Longoria, Presidential Advisor? (Unbelievable, hollywood dopes advising a President, though maybe fitting considering him a dope too)

• Posted on May 6, 2011 at 2:47pm by Mike Opelka

So, Eva Longoria was brainstorming with the President last week… (wait, what?)

Please tell me this is just a ‘sweeps stunt’ for a very special episode of ABC‘s ’Desperate Housewives.’ (Desperate White House Wives?)

Nope. Ms. Longoria met with the President last week, not just once, but twice. She was part of a small group of Latino celebs brainstorming with the President “to reframe the immigration argument.’

Watch the short clip as she reveals a key part of the Democratic Party’s plan to take back the House in 2012.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwaV7r5gcAY&feature=player_embedded

Based on that brief statement, it is apparent that Democrats are enlisting Latino celebrities to revive the Dream Act. And any incumbent who does not support Immigration Reform, ‘will pay.’

H/T to CNS News

Oooh, look how pretty she is, we should all bow down and listen. We have a better idea, hey Eva and the rest of you pompous privileged hollywoodites, go get a makeover and shutup. We don’t care how much latino support he got, those were legal latinos, not invading foreign nationals (or were they?)

 

Longoria: Latinos Helped Elect Obama So There’s a “Need for Action” on Immigration

Friday, May 06, 2011, 04:36 PM

Actress Eva Longoria, who has met with President Barack Obama at the White House to discuss immigration reform told CNSNews.com that given the amount of Latinos that supported Obama in the 2008 election, there is “…

 

Interior Secretary Salazar Wants Latino Art Museum Added to National Mall (why, so you can hang up paintings of Che Guerva and Fidel Castro in D.C.)

 

NY DAILY NEWS: Mayor Bloomberg has solution to immigration problem: Make them live in Detroit. Mayor Bloomberg has a fix for the nation’s immigration debate: Send ‘em to Detroit. “If I were the federal government,” Bloomberg told David Gregory on NBC‘s Meet the Press Sunday morning. “Assuming you could wave a magic wand and pull everybody together, you pass a law letting immigrants come in as long as they agree to go to Detroit and live there for five or ten years.” Full story

 

Detroit, the end game of liberalism
May 06, 2011
What do you get when a mighty industrial city is subject to six decades of one party rule and unchecked union greed? Detroit.

 

Workforce Report: Half of Detroiters Can’t Read

A Chat About Illegal Immigration- A liberal accidentally explains why she supports illegal immigration.

The Immigration911 citizens’ bill for immigration reform

Stop illegal immigration and protect the rule of law in the United States. Polls show that over 70% of the American people want sweeping changes in our immigration laws and strict enforcement. With runaway government spending leading us toward bankruptcy, immigration reform is essential to shoring up deficits, curbing entitlement growth and creating American jobs. To ensure this reform reflects the will of American citizens, we must take action now!

2009 Federal Expenditures on Illegal Immigrants  $28,795,400,000
2009 State / Local Expenditures on Illegal Immigrants  $84,211,000,000
NET TOTAL after offset of various taxes received $99,594,600,000

and since 2009: $157,748,601,348 and growing!

The Immigration911 citizens’ bill subjects your lawmakers to the will of American citizens. This website allows you to vote on the issues and generate multiple, individually addressed copies of a standard or custom letter to your elected officials. It automatically determines who your elected officials are and what their addresses are. It also tallies votes specific to each elected official’s jurisdiction and attaches a statistical addendum to each letter. This means that with every letter they receive, they will be up-to-date on the latest numbers reflecting their constituent’s feelings on immigration reform. It also means their choice will be clear: Either vote to reflect the will of the people or be voted out of office!

Please join the Immigration911 movement and help save our country. You may feel helpless now, but by spending 10 minutes to complete the following 5 steps, you will be doing something that counts to stop illegal immigration!

Brewer: The Government Has ‘Failed’ Arizona and the American People; Several States, Federal Government at odds over illegal immigration, and more

States, Federal Government at odds over illegal immigration> Yesterday in The Republican: Governor Susana Martinez moves one step closer to fulfilling her campaign promise to end the issuance of driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants

James Walsh -Immigrant Fraud Imperils Medicaid

Oklahoma Legislature Crafts AZ-Like Immigration Law

Brewer Ready for War: The Government Has ‘Failed’ Arizona and the American People

 

First Lady Pushes Amnesty for Illegals

FLOTUS on ‘Al Punto’

First lady pushes immigration bill

By AMIE PARNES | 02/12/11  Michelle Obama is urging the Latino community to help push immigration legislation, such as the Dream Act …  Read more 

Illegal Immigrant Charged With Murder in Virginia

Doc Jailed for Plot to Alter Immigrant’s Fingerprints

Illegal Immigrants Hiding in Walls of Construction Site 

Jan Brewer sues feds for failing to control U.S./Mexico border

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says state will countersue federal government for failing to enforce immigration laws More headlines from FoxNews.com:

Immigration Reform…Should America Follow Arizona’s Lead?
http://www.personalliberty.com/poll/immigration-reform/index.php?SC=BEL2534

Byron York – To House GOP, illegal immigration is a jobs issue

With Republicans now in control of the House Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric Holder and other Justice Department officials are going to be answering a lot of questions in the next two years. Rep. Lamar Smith, new chairman of the committee, lists a bunch of priorities: immigration, national security, the constitutionality of Obamacare, lawsuit abuse, intellectual property, and more.There are many areas in which Republicans and Holder are likely to disagree, but the most contentious could be immigration, starting with the enforcement of federal laws to prevent the employment of illegal immigrants. Ask Smith what he’ll be investigating, and it’s the first thing he mentions. “One initial hearing will be on work site enforcement,” he says. “We want to find out why the administration is not doing more to enforce current laws. Workplace enforcement has dropped 70 percent under the Obama administration.”

Day One: GOP Congressman Introduces Bill to End ‘Birthright Citizenship

Chris Matthews: Do Democrats Want More Illegal Immigration? (In his bantering way of admitting something, the short answer is Yes) Read Article

Amnesty Groups Expect Tough Going for 2011 Read Article. (Also: Analysis of DREAM Act Vote Shows Opportunity for True Immigration Reform Gains Read the story)

New Poll Shows Majority in U.S. Say All Immigration Has a Negative Impact Read Article

 

FAIR president Dan Stein discusses birthright citizenship on Fox News. (It is an abuse, misuse, and liberal misinterpretation of the 14th amendment) Watch now.

 

 

Feel Safe? Two Young Girls Climb US/Mexico Border Fence in Under 18 Seconds

 

Book Celebrating Suicide Bombers Found in Arizona Desert US – “In Memory of Our Martyrs” -

 

Fox News has an exclusive report detailing how a book celebrating suicide bombers has been found in the Arizona desert just north of the U.S.- Mexican border: The book, “In Memory of Our Martyrs,” was spotted Tuesday by a U.S. Border Patrol agent out of the Casa Grande substation who was patrolling a route known for smuggling illegal immigrants and drugs. Agents also say that the book appears to have been exposed to weather in the desert “for at least several days or weeks.”

Published in Iran, it consists of short biographies of Islamic suicide bombers and other Islamic militants who died carrying out attacks. According to internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection documents, “The book also includes letters from suicide attackers to their families, as well as some of their last wills and testaments.“ Each biographical page contains ”the terrorist’s name, date of death, and how they died.”

Read the entire report from FoxNews.com.

Editor’s note: A portion of the recent documentary, “Rumor of War,” released by Glenn Beck deals specifically with this topic. It discusses Iran’s infiltration of Mexican drug cartels and the push to enter America through its southern border. That documentary can be viewed here.

Government as Source of Inequality (and enabler of illegals taking jobs from Citizens)
Bruce Kesler – Many young Americans cannot climb the ladder of upward mobility, as unskilled posts are being filled by illegal migrant workers…

 

The American Dream, Doled Out by Democrats When Convenient
By Kerri Toloczko (and a funny thing, how they sometimes are willing to give it to non-Americans before their own citizens.) 

Another Tea Party Battle – Get Our Language Back!
By Thomas D. Segel – YOU BET YA. A MAJOR MAJORITY OF AMERICAN CITIZENS HAVE CLAMORED FOR YEARS FOR ENGLISH ONLY AND HAVE BEEN IGNORED TIME AND TIME AGAIN. TIME’S UP!

Setting the stage for America’s degraded future, Part 3
by Frosty Wooldridge
This continuing series expects to educate Americans as to the accelerating ramifications brought upon our civilization by adding 70 million immigrants in the next 25 years and 300 million people within 70 years. It’s interesting how many emails I receive that ‘deny’ and ‘defend’ unlimited immigration, and utterly disregard the facts, figures and realities exposed by this series. It’s like they cannot or will not extend their……

From THE HILL By Bridget Johnson
An anti-illegal immigration group said after Saturday’s defeat of the DREAM Act in the Senate (vote 55-41 to end debate, not clearing the 60-vote threshold) that “we look forward to moving aggressively to offense.” Roy Beck, president and founder of NumbersUSA, countered however by saying “Now, the next Congress can start to put unemployed Americans back to work by eliminating the ability for illegal aliens to hold jobs and by reducing the number of unnecessary permanent foreign workers we currently bring in legally every month,” “Perhaps now we look forward to moving aggressively to offense,” “The next Congress has the strongest pro-enforcement membership since 1995 and probably since 1924.”

 

Obama quietly erasing borders

Dem administration advancing ‘North American Union’ agenda

Posted: December 15, 2010 By Jerome R. Corsi © 2010 WorldNetDaily

Acting quietly, below the radar of U.S. public opinion and without congressional approval, the Obama administration is implementing a key policy objective of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, to erase the border with Mexico and Canada.

The administration is acting under a State Department-declared policy initiative described in a March 23 fact sheet titled “United States-Mexico Partnership: A New Border Vision.”  More….

Obama government using domestic spy group to watch Americans (while illegals who have invaded our country, are given aid and comfort by the administration’s policies run amok, and while one of the biggest threats with regard to radical Islam is our illegal immigration and open borders)

Published in December 20th, 2010 Posted by WhatIfTheyWereARepublican in Liberal hypocrisy

The government led by Barack Obama is creating a domestic spying network to collect information about Americans, the Washington Post reported Monday. FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators are being used to do the collection of information. The system collects, stores and analyzes information about thousands of US citizens and residents, many of whom have not been accused of any wrongdoing. The government’s goal is to have law enforcement agencies in the country feed information to Washington to aid the FBI in the collection. According to the report, the network includes 4,058 federal, state and local organizations, each with its own counter-terrorism responsibilities and jurisdictions.

In use are technologies and techniques developed on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan and have been adapted for use in the United States. In addition, the FBI is building a database with the names and personal information of thousands of US citizens and residents, the report said. The database is accessible to an increasing number of local law enforcement and military criminal investigators, the report noted.

In a bid to counter what is seen as a threat from radical Islam, some law enforcement agencies have hired as trainers people whose extremist views on Islam and terrorism are considered inaccurate and counterproductive by US intelligence agencies. This year, 3.8 billion dollars has been allocated to local law enforcement agencies.

Leftist water carrying Journalist Group Complains ‘Illegal Immigrant’ Term is ‘Offensive’ to Latinos

Really! FIRST OF ALL IT SHOULDN’T BE OFFENSIVE TO “LEGAL” LATINO (or is it Hispanic) IMMIGRANTS, BUT RATHER A COMPLIMENT. LEGAL IMMIGRANTS COME HERE ABOVE BOARD, PAY THEIR DUES, FOLLOW OUR LAW, AND ASSIMILATE. ILLEGALS DON’T! SECONDLY, WHAT THE HECK MAKES YOU THINK ALL “ILLEGALS” ARE LATINOS. WE DON’T CARE IF YOUR BLACK FROM HAITI, WHITE FROM RUSSIA, ARAB FROM SOME MID EASTERN PLACE, IF YOU’VE INVADED OUR COUNTRY YOUR AN “ILLEGAL” IMMIGRANT AND WE WILL NEVER STOP CALLING YOU THAT. IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT – GET OUT, THAT’S ALL WE WANT TO BEGIN WITH. IF YOU WANT TO COME BACK, DO IT LEGALLY AND IF YOUR WORTHY WE’LL EXCEPT YOU, IF YOUR NOT BECAUSE YOUR A GANG MEMBER, A MURDERER, A ROBBER, A RAPIST, A TERRORIST, OR WHAT HAVE YOU,  THEN WE WON’T!

Watch – Megyn Kelly: Calling Illegal Immigrants ‘Undocumented’ Is Like Calling Rape ‘Sex’

 

 

“Frustrated by what they see as a lack of government enforcement and support, some states are taking illegal immigration into their own hands, considering a variety of legislation and action at local levels. Several states, including Utah and Michigan have been debating immigration legislation. And now, the chairman of Prince William County, Virginia, Corey Stewart, is suing the Department of Homeland Security, seeking records about illegal immigrants in his county.” – Fox News

AZ State Sen. Pearce Battles CNN Reporter On Constitutionality Of Illegal Immigration; and other news

December 29, 2010

Video: AZ State Sen. Battles CNN Reporter On Constitutionality Of Illegal Immigration

posted by : Nancy Kennon

Cover-Up: Mexico Admits Troops Killed U.S. Man

“I want him to be remembered as a hardworking person.”

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Journolist – WHAT FOOLS; FIRST OF ALL IT SHOULDN’T BE OFFENSIVE TO “LEGAL” LATIN IMMIGRANTS, BUT RATHER A COMPLIMENT. SECONDLY WHAT THE HECK MAKES YOU THINK ALL “ILLEGALS” ARE LATIN. WE DON’T CARE IF YOUR BLACK FROM HAITI, WHITE FROM RUSSIA, ARAB FROM SOME MID EASTERN PLACE, IF YOU’VE INVADED OUR COUNTRY YOUR AN “ILLEGAL” IMMIGRANT AND WE WILL NEVER STOP CALLING YOU THAT. IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT – GET OUT, THAT’S ALL WE WANT TO BEGIN WITH. IF YOU WANT TO COME BACK, DO IT LEGALLY AND IF YOUR WORTHY WE’LL EXCEPT YOU, IF YOUR NOT BECAUSE YOUR A GANG MEMBER, A MURDERER, A ROBBER, A RAPIST, A TERRORIST, OR WHAT HAVE YOU – THEN WE WON’T!

Journalist Group Complains ‘Illegal Immigrant’ Term is ‘Offensive’ to Latinos Meredith Jessup

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Watch – Megyn Kelly: Calling Illegal Immigrants ‘Undocumented’ Is Like Calling Rape ‘Sex’ Media

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MSNBC’s Matthews: Democrats Don’t Really Want to Stop Illegal Immigrants, Do They? Media

“They like it.”  Read More »

James Walsh

Illegals Drive Up Healthcare Costs for Taxpayers in Massachusetts

 

 

 

Laura Ingram’s Need to Know

 

White House fudges the numbers on deportations

14 year old Mexican gang thug is a US citizen
Napolitano’s ICE caught lying about deportation record

A 14-year-old American citizen was arrested for being a hitman for a Mexican drug cartel. While the media paints him as a sympathetic figure in the drug war, the Washington Post points out ICE’s fuzzy math when it comes to touting its record of deportations this past year.

Call of the Day: Alex wants our laws enforced. (Yeh don’t we all, well at least most of us)

10 things you need to know about the DREAM act – why it must be stopped, again! and related illegal immigration issues

Ten Things You Need To Know About S.3827, The DREAM Act

By Senator Jeff Sessions Thursday, November 18 2010

1. The DREAM Act Is NOT Limited to Children, And It Will Be Funded On the Backs Of Hard Working, Law-Abiding Americans Proponents of the DREAM Act frequently claim the bill offers relief only to illegal alien “kids.” Incredibly, previous versions of the DREAM Act had no age limit at all, so illegal aliens of any age who satisfied the Act’s requirements—not just children—could obtain lawful permanent resident (LPR) status. In response to this criticism, S.3827 includes a requirement that aliens be under the age of 35 on the date of enactment to be eligible for LPR status. Even with this cap, many aliens would be at least 41 years old before obtaining full LPR status under the Act—hardly the “kids” the Act’s advocates keep talking about. The DREAM Act requires that DHS/USCIS process all DREAM Act applications (applications that would require complex, multi-step adjudication) without being able to increase fees to handle processing. This mandate would require either additional Congressional appropriations, or for USCIS, a primarily fee-funded agency, to raise fees on other types of immigration benefit applications. This would unfairly spread the cost of administering the DREAM Act legalization program among applicants and petitioners who have abided by U.S. laws and force taxpayers to pay for amnesty. Taxpayers would also be on the hook for all Federal benefits the DREAM Act seeks to offer illegal aliens, including student loans and grants. 2. The DREAM Act PROVIDES SAFE HARBOR FOR ANY ALIEN, Including Criminals, From Being Removed or Deported If They Simply Submit An Application Although DREAM Act proponents claim it will benefit only those who meet certain age, presence, and educational requirements, amazingly the Act protects ANY alien who simply submits an application for status no matter how frivolous. The bill forbids the Secretary of Homeland Security from removing “any alien who has a pending application for conditional status” under the DREAM Act—regardless of age or criminal record—providing a safe harbor for all illegal aliens. This loophole will open the floodgates for applications that could stay pending for many years or be litigated as a delay tactic to prevent the illegal aliens’ removal from the United States. The provision will further erode any chances of ending the rampant illegality and fraud in the existing system. 3. Certain Criminal Aliens Will Be Eligible For Amnesty Under The DREAM Act Certain categories of criminal aliens will be eligible for the DREAM Act amnesty, including alien gang members and aliens with misdemeanor convictions, even DUIs. The DREAM Act allows illegal aliens guilty of the following offenses to be eligible for amnesty: alien absconders (aliens who failed to attend their removal proceedings), aliens who have engaged in voter fraud or unlawfully voted, aliens who have falsely claimed U.S. citizenship, aliens who have abused their student visas, and aliens who have committed marriage fraud. Additionally, illegal aliens who pose a public health risk, aliens who have been permanently barred from obtaining U.S. citizenship, and aliens who are likely to become a public charge are also eligible. 4. Estimates Suggest That At Least 2.1 Million Illegal Aliens Will Be Eligible For the DREAM Act Amnesty. In Reality, We Have No Idea How Many Illegal Aliens Will Apply Section 4(d) of the DREAM Act waives all numerical limitations on green cards, and prohibits any numerical limitation on the number of aliens eligible for amnesty under its provisions. The Migration Policy Institute estimates that the DREAM Act will make approximately 2.1 million illegal aliens eligible for amnesty. It is highly likely that the number of illegal aliens receiving amnesty under the DREAM Act will be much higher than the estimated 2.1 million due to fraud and our inherent inability to accurately estimate the illegal alien population. Clearly, the message sent by the DREAM Act will be that if any young person can enter the country illegally, within 5 years, they will be placed on a path to citizenship. 5. Illegal Aliens Will Get In-State Tuition Benefits The DREAM Act will allow illegal aliens to qualify for in-state tuition, even when it is not being offered to U.S. citizens and legally present aliens living just across state lines. Section 3 of the DREAM Act repeals Section 505 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1623) which prohibits giving education benefits to an unlawfully present individual unless that same benefit is offered to all U.S. citizens. 6. The DREAM Act Does Not Require That An Illegal Alien Finish Any Type of Degree (Vocational, Two-Year, or Bachelor’s Degree) As A Condition of Amnesty DREAM Act supporters would have you believe that the bill is intended to benefit illegal immigrants who have graduated from high school and are on their way to earning college degrees. However, the bill is careful to ensure that illegal alien high school drop-outs will also be put on a pathway to citizenship – they simply have to get a GED and be admitted to “an institution of higher education,” defined by the Higher Education Act of 1965. Under the Higher Education Act, an “institution of higher education” includes institutions that provide 2-year programs (community colleges) and any “school that provides not less than a 1-year program of training to prepare students for gainful employment” (a vocational school). Within 8 years of the initial grant of status, the alien must prove only that they finished 2 years of a bachelor’s degree program, not that they completed any program or earned any degree. If the alien is unable to complete 2 years of college but can demonstrate that their removal would result in hardship to themselves or their U.S. citizen or LPR spouse, child, or parent, the education requirement can be waived altogether. 7. The DREAM Act does not require that an illegal alien serve in the military as a condition for amnesty, and There is ALREADY A Legal Process In Place For Illegal Aliens to Obtain U.S. Citizenship Through Military Service DREAM Act supporters would have you believe that illegal aliens who don’t go to college will earn their citizenship through service in the U.S. Armed Forces. However, the bill does not require aliens to join the U.S. Armed Forces (the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard); instead it requires enlistment in the “uniformed services.” This means that aliens need only go to work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or Public Health Service for 2 years to get U.S. citizenship. If the alien is unable to complete 2 years in the “uniformed services,” and can demonstrate that their removal would result in hardship to themselves or their U.S. citizen or LPR spouse, child, or parent, the military service requirement can be waived altogether. Such claims will likely engender much litigation and place a huge burden on DHS. Furthermore, under current law (10 USC § 504), the Secretary of Defense can authorize the enlistment of illegal aliens. Once enlisted in the U.S. Armed Forces, under 8 USC § 1440, these illegal aliens can become naturalized citizens through expedited processing, often obtaining U.S. citizenship in six months. 8. Despite Their Current Illegal Status, DREAM Act Aliens Will Be Given All The Rights That Legal Immigrants Receive—Including The Legal Right To Sponsor Their Parents and Extended Family Members For Immigration Under current federal law, U.S. citizens have the right to immigrate their “immediate relatives” to the U.S. without regard to numerical caps. Similarly, lawful permanent residents can immigrate their spouses and children to the U.S. as long as they retain their status. This means illegal aliens who receive amnesty under the DREAM Act will have the right to immigrate their family members—including the parents who sent for or brought them to the U.S. illegally in the first place—in unlimited numbers as soon as they become U.S. citizens (6 to 8 years after enactment) and are 21 years of age. Additionally, amnestied aliens who become U.S. citizens will be able to petition for their adult siblings living abroad to immigrate to the U.S., further incentivizing chain migration and potentially illegal entry into the United States (for those who don’t want to wait for the petition process overseas). When an adult brother or sister receives a green card, the family (spouse and children) of the adult sibling receive green cards as well. 9. Current Illegal Aliens Will Get Federal Student Loans, Federal Work Study Programs, and Other Forms of Federal Financial Aid Section 10 of the DREAM Act allows illegal aliens amnestied under the bill’s provisions to qualify for federal student assistance under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) in the form of federal student loans (Stafford Loans, Perkins Loans, Federal Direct Stafford/Ford Loans), federal work-study programs, and other federal education services such as tutoring and counseling. 10. DHS Is Prohibited From Using the Information Provided By Illegal Aliens Whose DREAM Act Amnesty Applications Are Denied To Initiate Their Removal Proceedings or Investigate or Prosecute Fraud in the Application Process When an illegal alien’s DREAM Act amnesty application is denied, the bill states that the alien will revert to their “previous immigration status,” which is likely illegal or deportable. The bill, however, prohibits using any of the information contained in the amnesty application (name, address, length of illegal presence that the alien admits to, etc) to initiate a removal proceeding or investigate or prosecute fraud in the application process. Thus, it will be extremely hard for DHS to remove aliens who they now know are illegally present in the U.S., because illegal aliens will be able to claim that the legal action is a product of the amnesty application, and DHS will have the nearly impossible task of proving a negative. The Honorable Jeff Sessions is a Republican U.S. Senator from Alabama.  ———————————————————————————————- Oppose this now by taking action: Go to http://www.numbersusa.com and fax your Congress persons (free) White House Steps up DREAM Pressure; Focuses on Key Republican Senators Updated: Friday, December 3, 2010, 3:49 PM The White House is reaching out to fence-sitting Republican Senators trying to earn their vote on the DREAM Act. A new report from the National Journal says that members of the President’s cabinet are targeting Sens. Collins and Snowe from Maine, Sen. LeMieux of Florida, and Sen. Hutchison of Texas. Call the Capitol Switchboard NOW and urge these Senators and your Members of Congress to oppose the DREAM Act Amnesty — 202-224-3121. In the last few days, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Cecelia Munoz, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan have all tried to lure “yes” votes out of key Senators.Read Full Story November Jobless Rate up to 9.8%; DREAM Act Would Add at least 2.1 Million Workers to Job Market Friday, December 3, 2010, 8:36 AM EST – posted on NumbersUSA The jobless rate inched up in November to 9.8% after settling at 9.6% for the past several months. The jobless rate for most vulnerable groups of U.S. citizens and legal immigrants all increased in November. If passed by Congress, the DREAM Act Amnesty would add at least 2.1 million individuals to the depressed job market. We need to put our own citizens back to work, not illegal aliens!Read Full Story CIS Estimates DREAM Act Would Cost American Taxpayers $6.2 Billion Per Year Friday, December 3, 2010, 8:03 AM EST – posted on NumbersUSA The Center for Immigration Studies says passage of the DREAM Act would cost American taxpayers at least $6.2 billion per year. According to CIS, at least 1.2 million illegal aliens would enroll in public colleges and universities, qualifying for in-state tuition rates. The average $6,000 in-state tuition benefit would be subsidized to the taxpayers.Read Full Story Sen. Sessions Urges Fellow Senators to Oppose the DREAM Act Thursday, December 2, 2010, 11:34 AM EST – posted on NumbersUSA Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who also serves as the Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote a letter to his Senate colleagues urging them to oppose the DREAM Act. In his letter, Sen….  Read Full Story Sen. Sessions: ‘The American People Did Not Vote for Amnesty’ Sen. Vitter Criticizes DREAM Act; Requests CBO Score Rep. Steve King Requests Cost Analysis of the DREAM Act   Senate Republicans Vow to Oppose Cloture on DREAM Act until Votes on

12 Days Until Christmas Ends Amnesty Threat

By Roy Beck

Friday, December 3, 2010, 2:52 PM EST – posted on NumbersUSA

Essentially, there are 12 legislative days until Christmas ends the amnesty threat. The title of this blog is the name of our remaining grassroots mobilization campaign of the year. Our activist members will be working through these 12 days to make 2010 the 9th year in a row that the grassroots will have completely killed off all attempts to pass any kind of amnesty. It now looks like next Wednesday is the next day that an amnesty vote is being threatened.

Read Full Entry 

Of All Problems With DREAM Amnesty, One Overshadows All Others — It Protects Jobs Magnet For Future Illegal Aliens

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Fighting Toe to Toe for Our Nation: More Calls Needed! Friday, December 03 @ 10:03:37 EST by admin

Friends of ALIPAC,There are different reports about the timing of the Amnesty vote. Congressman Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) was on MSNBC last night rallying illegal alien supporters saying the vote could come anytime today… Friday.Please get back on the phones to call our refined targets list! Please use our new tips and please focus on the message which has the illegals in an uproar and also making threats.Please keep repeating this to Congressional offices….”Please oppose the Dream Act Amnesty because it would displace and replace millions of innocent American students, workers, and voters with illegal aliens!”…

Luis (the Anarchist. or is it the Seditionist, or both)  said:

The Senate is set to vote on a controversial immigration bill. If it fails, Rep. Luis Gutiérrez tells Bryan Curtis he’s prepared to ditch Obama and the Democrats—and take the movement to the streets.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-12-01/luis-gutirrez-and-coming-latino-revolt/

UPDATE DEC. 6, 2010 – First Dream Act Amnesty votes now scheduled for Wednesday Dec. 8

WARNING: According to our friends at NumbersUSA, the illegal aliens and their supporters are beating us with more calls arriving in support of Amnesty than opposed to Amnesty with your lawmakers. 

Even though several scientific polls show we Americans over-whelmingly oppose Dream Act Amnesty, and only 22% support it (and of course you know why, for all the wrong reasons), the well planned and well financed efforts of the Open Borders Lobby are winning in DC.

To turn thing around we need you to: A. Mobilize and respond to our requests for help. B. Mobilize and organize others around our requests for help. (Be the media!) C. Combine your time and funds to help us get more lawmakers and media sources opposing Dream Amnesty ASAP! …

Please take action now by going to: http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-1140509.html#1140509

ALIPAC Moderator – Location: New Alien City-(formerly New York City)

“If a man sneaks into your home he is a burglar, not an undocumented tenant you must provide for!”

 

ALIPAC New Recruit! – Location: Upstate New York

 

 

I just want to make sure I do this correctly. I want to send press releases to all the local papers in the area around where I live, whenever you have them, and when I do, do I send the entire thing?

 

ALIPAC President William Gheen

 

Yes please email or fax the entire release, Thank you.

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 Federation for American Immigration Reform

Poll Shows Most Voters Do Not Support DREAM Act

Anti-Hispanic Hate Crime Drops Three Years in a Row, What Will Mass Immigration Advocates Use Now to Stifle Debate?

National Exit Polling Shows Voters Support Strong Immigration Enforcement

FAIR Urges New Congress to Promote True Immigration Reform

Take action- the facts- and what you can do

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Beware of bad DREAMs

The DREAM Act is presently attached to a defense spending authorization bill awaiting passage in Congress. (and needs to be severed immediately!)

Beware of lame ducks

Meeting with leaders of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus at the White House Tuesday, President Obama reiterated his support for fixing the country’s “broken immigration system” — but gave little indication that in this year’s remaining lame-duck congressional session, his administration could win passage of key legislation granting legal status to some illegal immigrant students.

The president, in a White House statement released following the meeting, thanked caucus members Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) “for their constant efforts on this issue” (AMNESTY KINGS AND QUEENS) 

Congressman Gutierrez said in a statement Tuesday afternoon that he was “all-in” for the DREAM Act, and that he was optimistic the provision could pass in the remaining congressional calendar. “Speaker Pelosi has indicated to me personally that she wants the House to move on the DREAM Act. Majority Leader Harry Reid has consistently supported a DREAM Act vote during lame-duck, and now the president and I have had an opportunity to discuss the lame-duck strategy,” read the release.

  

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Most Latinos Say Illegals Should Pay Fines, but Not Be Deported

DUH, could that be because most are friends or family. Hope your not going to shape policy on favoritism (Dem’s will but Rep’s won’t)

But there’s some good news too.

While lawmakers, politicians and voters debate among themselves about what should be done with the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants now in the country, a Pew Hispanic Center survey conducted Aug. 17-Sept. 19 of Latinos shows a majority believe they should pay a fine but not be deported.

Twenty-eight percent of Hispanics/Latinos say those here illegally should not be punished, 13 percent believe they should be deported and 6 percent are undecided.

Hispanics make up about four out of five of the nation’s illegal immigrants.

However, when it comes to the impact that the illegal immigrant question has had, Latinos are more conflicted about it than they were in 2007.

31 percent said the effect of illegal immigration has been a negative while only 29 percent consider it to be positive, with 30 percent attributing no effect to it.

In 2007, 50 percent regarded it as positive.

61 percent of Latinos consider discrimination against them to be a major problem compared to 54 percent in 2007, this slight increase was of course fueled large in part to the fervor about Arizona’s new law.

However again another interesting twist. Brewer was re-elected Governor of Arizona and other gains were made within the Republican ranks (the party of a secure border and no Amnesty) among Hispanics themselves: Susana Martinez is now the Governor of New Mexico, Brian Sandoval is now the Governor of Nevada, and Marco Rubio is now US Senator in Florida, for example.

Colin Powell has officially lost it – contributes to our illegal immigration problem

Well this is just unbelievable. We rarely go after a military type like former General Powell (well unless your Wesley Clark, but thats a whole seperate post) but Colin has just lost it. After years of abuse by race baiters calling the likes of him, Rice and others, uncle Tom’s and house negroes, he finally caved as you recall, endorsing Obama – yep just because he’s black, but then what happened can only be described as taking in swin in the liberal pool and swallowing to much of the water. It infected him and he’s lost it. We will thank him for one thing though, through his admissions we now know where to send the IRS, ICE, DOJ, and JAG, acronyms we’re sure he knows quite well.

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Colin Powell Says Illegal Immigrants Do His Home Repairs

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Washington (AP) – Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says illegal immigrants do essential work in the U.S., and he has firsthand knowledge of that — because they fix his house.

Powell, a Republican who endorsed Democrat Barack Obama, urged his party Sunday to support immigration reform because it is “what’s keeping this country’s lifeblood moving forward.”

(first off your party? If you mean the Republicans – they are no longer your party! As to the other comment – are you kidding? How about praising your fellow American citizens along with upstanding legal immigrants, not people who illegally invade our country! What are you stupid, don’t you remember your oath!) 

In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he said a path to legal status should be offered to illegal immigrants because they “are doing things we need done in this country.”

(Yeah because we don’t have millions of unemployed citizens capable and willing to do home repairs, wow!)

He added: “They’re all over my house, doing things whenever I call for repairs, and I’m sure you’ve seen them at your house. We’ve got to find a way to bring these people out of the darkness and give them some kind of status.”

(No we haven’t seen them at our house and if they ever show up they be brought out of the darkness and given status alright, deportation status!) 

Powell did not say whether he’s hired illegal immigrants directly or they showed up with contractors.

Powell was President George W. Bush’s first-term secretary of state and the nation’s top military officer in the presidency of Bush’s father and in the early months of the Clinton administration. Despite his Republican standing — he was once considered a formidable prospect for the GOP presidential or vice presidential nominations but stayed out of contention — he endorsed Democrat Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election.

(Once a prospect, no more. We would advise you against running for anything, ever. Heck if you even run for local dogcatcher, we’ll be there to campaign against you) 

In lamenting the party’s rightward drift Sunday, he said Republicans must not become anti-immigration and spoke in support of legislation that would give certain children of illegal immigrants a way to become citizens if they pursue a college education or military service.

(Republicans, us included are very pro-immigration, pro-LEGAL immigration that is! As far as college education – do you mean free – which isnt free - gee we’re born and raised US citizens and our kids don’t get “free” college education. As far as military, service, it’s perplexing why anyone would advocate putting people in a position of defending a Nation that they are not even a citizen of, that’s just crazy.)  

Immigration, he said, offers the U.S. a chance to maintain a youthful population in contrast with the aging of Europe and Japan.

(Whaaat? Did you really just offer us that twisted logic, see next statement – you want to talk about fringer!)

Powell also said “fringe” elements on the right are taking a low road when they label Obama a foreign-born Muslim and peddle other false theories about non-American influences on the president’s character. Obama was born in the U.S. and is Christian.

“Let’s attack him on policy, not nonsense,” he said.

(Ok Colin well let’s hear it. Let’s go with your attacks on policy, after all – you say in your next statement that most Americans support controlled federal spending and adherence to the Constitution – and Obama is the anti-thesis to both!)

And he said the tea party may not become an enduring force unless it moves beyond slogans and promotes an agenda that people “can see, touch and actually believe in.” It’s not enough, he said, to call for goals that most Americans support, such as controlled federal spending and adherence to the Constitution.

(for you to make this remark regarding the Tea Party movement shows that you are way out of touch, not paying attention, don’t care, or again swallowed way to much of that water, or all of the above) 

The former secretary of state said he still sees Obama as a transformational figure, if one who has lost some of his ability to connect with people.

(that’s nice, but here’s what we see. Not a muslim, but rather an apologist, appeaser, and symphathizer, who displays the traits of someone with foreign ideals, dual allegiances, and a neo-lib view, regardless of where he was born, who is quite simply a radical marxist, the worst president is our history, who has duped the American public with alittle help from his friends and dupes like you, and who in this short time has already done enough to warrant impeachment)

Powell said he’s not giving up on the GOP, even in the face of a rightward drift, and says it might actually help Obama if Republicans win the House in November and gain responsibility for driving policy, not just opposing Democrats.

(again that’s nice but you can give up any time and probably should, because this drift to the right you speak of is simply the GOP finding their way back home, from which they once got lost. Now we’re going to make sure no one gets lost again, and quite obviously you don’t get that.

The latest on our detestable illegal immigration problem

Our loathing; of the illegal immigration (invasion and insurrection) problem in our country and our state; of the Obama administration,  the DOJ, and their war on Arizona; and of the democrats generally and specifically their insanely left leadership; has not diminished in the least. Here’s some of the latest…

Regardless of what one  liberal activist Federal Judge (a Clinton appointee) has to say, polling hasn’t changed with Americans still overwhelmingly supporting the State of Arizona and their efforts and opposing santuary cities, amnesty efforts, and illegal immigration in general.

So Gov Brewer, Sheriff Arpaio, Rep Pearce, Professor Kobach, and others – WE STAND WITH YOU.

Gov. Jan Brewer called Wednesday’s decision “a bump in the road” and vowed to appeal. The key sponsor of Arizona’s law, Republican Rep. Russell Pearce, said the judge was wrong and predicted that the state would ultimately win the case. “The ruling … should not be a reason for Utah to not move forward,” said Utah state Rep. Carl Wimmer, a Republican from Herriman City, who said he plans to co-sponsor a bill similar to Arizona’s next year and wasn’t surprised it was blocked. “For too long the states have cowered in the corner because of one ruling by one federal judge.”

 

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Tom Rowan

Welcome back to the Wild West America! “Federal Judge Bolton” blocked Arizona’s claim to enforce laws today, whether federal, state, or local. 

If this decree is allowed to stand, then I demand that Florida become a “sanctuary state” in regards to drilling for oil. Why not? We could be richer than Kuwait in a matter of months! Scofflaws are to be held in a higher esteem by judges than those who would dare to enforce the laws.

We have just witnessed dyslexic liberal logic at its finest folks. Judge Bolton has decided that actual enforcement of federal laws somehow interferes with the federal government’s prerogative to ignore federal law.

Bolton has pulled yet another thread from the fabric that holds our society and ordered liberty together; The United States was grounded on being a nation of laws and not of men and their current fashions. When illegal becomes fashionable are we to ignore unfashionable laws already on the books? If the AZ law is so outside the bounds then where is the clamor to repeal the federal laws that it simply mirrors?

If this ruling stands, then all bets are off in regards to the rule of law. Far away men in black robes shall decide our fate, safety, and lives from the comfort of their benches. The ACLU runs our legal system along with our wars. Do we have to ask the ACLU permission to go to the bathroom? Apparently, we better check with our guardians of civil rights.

Federal laws against marijuana are flouted in California yet that never seems to collide with State Vs Feds authority of enforcement. Do federal kidnapping laws trump enforcement of state and local law enforcement of kidnapping? If the feds will not enforce kidnapping laws or bank robbery are we all just to throw up our hands and give up and give in to crime? Ignorance of the law or ignoring the law does not make something legal.

Decriminalization of law is practiced everyday by liberal judges. They smite mandatory minimum sentencing laws, reduce sentences for the alleged problem of “overcrowding” in prisons, and generally turn out menaces to society on a daily basis. (Hello Lindsey Lohan!)

It was once said that God created all men and Sam Colt made them equal. But don’t worry; the feds are wasting no time in decriminalizing illegality and criminalizing the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. No wonder ammo & gun sales are up in the downer Obama economy. “Does hope & change” really mean the return to the Wild West where the rule of law came at the point of a gun?

Judge Bolton’s decree invites Arizonans to ignore her very own decree in the instant case. Why not? It’s all the rage, it is very fashionable, and everyone else is doing it.

 (Look how much worse the problem is in NY than AZ, and what is the NYS Governement doing, nothing but going in the wrong direction. Sanctuary cities in Ny contributing to the problem have only grown worse, and as the the budget gap issue, well these are 2009 numbers, and as we know 2010 is far far worse)

HOW MUCH IS ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION COSTING YOUR STATE?

State Budget Gaps vs. State and Local Outlays for
Illegal Immigration 2009 (Figures Shown in Millions)
Red = Neg
State		Budget Gap				Illegal Alien Cost				Difference		As % of gap
Alabama		$1,070				$298				$772.00		27.9%
Alaska		$1,520				$139				$1,381.00		9.1%
Arizona		$2,432				$2,569				$136.80		105.6%
Arkansas		n/a			$244
California		$19,639				$21,756				$2,117.00		110.8%
Colorado		$1,185				$1,451				$265.70		122.4%
Connecticut		$1,353				$957				$396.20		70.7%
Delaware		$236				$312				$75.90		132.1%
Florida		$3,175				$305				$2,870.00		9.6%
Georgia		$2,926				$5,463				$2,536.60		186.7%
Hawaii		$639				$155				$483.90		24.3%
Idaho		$405				$188				$217.30		46.4%
Illinois		$4,317				$4,592				$275.00		106.4%
Indiana		$973				$608				$364.80		62.5%
Iowa		$35				$350				$315.00		1000.0%
Kansas		$186				$442				$256.20		237.9%
Kentucky		$456				$326				$130.10		71.5%
Louisiana		$341				$224				$117.00		65.7%
Maine		$270				$66				$203.60		24.5%
Maryland		$1,385				$1,724				$339.50		124.5%
Massachusetts		$2,950				$1,862				$1,088.00		63.1%
Michigan		$313				$929				$616.00		296.8%
Minnesota		$426				$744				$318.00		174.6%
Mississippi		$407				$106				$300.50		26.1%
Missouri		$779				$338				$440.50		43.4%
Montana		n/a				$32
Nebraska		$5				$262				$256.60		4851.9%
Nevada		$1,094				$1,191				$97.00		108.9%
New Hampshire		$250				$129				$121.00		51.6%
New Jersey		$4,400				$3,478				$922.00		79.0%
New Mexico		$454				$608				$153.80		133.9%
New York		$1,707				$9,479				$7,772.00		555.3%
North Carolina		$2,200				$2,063				$137.00		93.8%
North Dakota		n/a				$33
Ohio		$1,181				$765				$415.70		64.8%
Oklahoma		$7				$465				$458.20		6838.2%
Oregon		$755				$705				$50.00		93.4%
Pennsylvania		$2,600				$1,378				$1,222.00		53.0%
Rhode Island		$449				$278				$171.30		61.9%
South Carolina		$1,185				$391				$793.70		33.0%
South Dakota			$71				$39		$32.40		54.6%
Tennessee			$1,074				$547		$527.00		50.9%
Texas			n/a				$8,878
Utah			$875				$453		$422.00		51.8%
Vermont			$75				$63		$11.70		84.3%
Virginia			$1,660				$1,905		$245.30		114.8%
Washington	$1,373						$1,510		$137.00		110.0%
West Virginia			n/a				$71
Wisconsin			$942				$883		$59.00		93.7%
Wyoming				n/a				$59
Source: National Conference of State Legislatures, “State Budget Update: July 2009

 

As if the security risks and various degrees of economic harm aren’t bad enough, how about this perspective concerning our health:

Is Illegal Immigration Bad for America’s Health?

by Dr. Manny Alvarez

The simple answer is: Yes. If you look at the way that legal immigration is conducted around the world, it is always based on a set of checks and balances. One of those checks is the prevention of certain communicable diseases.

Here is a list of things people applying for visa/residency status in this country may be tested for during their physical exam as required by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Tuberculosis, Syphilis (for applicants 15 years or older), HIV (blood test), Gonorrhea, Narcotic drug addiction, Physical or mental disorders with associated harmful behavior, Chancroid, Lymphogranuloma venerum, Granuloma inguinal

Under the immigration laws of the United States, a foreign national who applies for an immigrant visa abroad, or who seeks to adjust status to a permanent resident while in the U.S., is required to receive vaccinations to prevent the following diseases:

Mumps Measles-Rubella, Polio, Tetanus and Diphtheria Toxoids, Pertussis, Haemophilus influenzae type B, Hepatitis B, Any other vaccine-preventable diseases recommended by the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices

Now, this list is not just an American standard — you will find similar lists in most developed countries around the world. Without a system of checks and balances, we run the risk of having diseases that have otherwise been eradicated in this country coming back in a big way. When people travel here illegally, they could have the potential to spread certain diseases that could be very devastating to the general population.

Let’s take tuberculosis for instance. Active tuberculosis is a very dangerous communicable disease that is easily spread if someone is an active carrier. Early onset of tuberculosis may not have any warning signs, and yet it could develop into a full-blown case of the disease, as we have seen happen many times over the last decade in this country. One of the scariest things about tuberculosis, is that there are now many strains of the disease that are resistant to the current medical treatments.

The prevalence of other diseases like malaria and Chagas disease – which is a parasitic infection in the blood stream – are being seen more frequently in areas of the country where some of these diseases were not present before. In the case of Chagas disease, more and more blood banks are testing for this parasite since it can be transmitted inadvertently during a routine blood transfusion. If infected blood happens to be given to patient with a compromised immune system, the consequences can be deadly.

I’m not here to argue what the best solution is for immigration laws in this country. My family and I are certainly beneficiaries of having the opportunity to come to this country and embrace the American dream. However, I do know that whatever immigration policy this administration decides to implement, a non-compromising point must be that the health of the American people be protected, because if we do not protect the health of our citizens, the long-term effects could be dangerous.

Speaking of health, does this sound like emergency life savings proceedures to you?

PENIS PUMPS FOR ILLEGALS?

by Todd StarnesA Minnesota town is outraged over reports that an illegal immigrant was implanted with a penis pump – paid for by taxpayers.

Shakopee Police Chief Jeff Tate said the expense to taxpayers was more than $50,000.

“It’s shocking,” he told FOX News Radio. “It’s certainly disturbing as well. You know it’s not going to set well with the public at large.”

Scott County Attorney Pat Ciliberto wants to know how an illegal immigrant was able to obtain tens of thousands of dollars in medical assistance.

“There’s no logical argument for why that should have been approved,” Ciliberto told the Shakopee News. “I don’t know how many illegal aliens are getting emergency medical assistance for such a procedure.”

Ciliberto told county commissioners the cost of taking care of illegal immigrants in their community is skyrocketing.

“It should be obvious when Scott County goes from seven bookings in 2006 to 90 bookings in 2009 – that Arizona’s problem is Minnesota’s problem, too,” he told the newspaper.

According to published numbers, the county spent more than $800,000 housing inmates with immigration holds – and that doesn’t include medical coverage.

“We have no control over the southern border,” he said. “We don’t know who is coming in and what country they’re coming from.”

Regardless, local officials said they are required by federal and state laws to provide welfare to illegals – from court costs to health care – including a penis pump.

At least one local said they sympathize with the plight of Arizonans.

“My hats off to Arizona, to people who’ve said, ‘We’ve had enough,’” Commissioner Barbara Marschall told the newspaper. “We’re thousands (of) miles away from the southern border. It’s here and it’s going to get worse.”

AZ Accuses ACLU of Spreading Hate, Fear - Because they are. Remember the ACLU is, was, and apprently will always be a communist and anti christian front group. They are a despotic organization and we have nothing but utter contempt for their positions on this issue.

And yet another example of how much of the “public” education system in many instances is on the wrong side of this issue too!

UNIVERSITY ACCUSED OF HELPING ILLEGALS

A Georgia university president is under fire for granting in-state tuition to a student who is an illegal immigrant and to make matters worse, for using taxpayer-funded resources to interfere with and stop the student’s deportation process.

The controversy surrounds Jessica Colotl. In March her life began to unravel. Colotl was stopped by campus police and arrested on charges of not having a valid driver’s license. Police ran a background check and determined she was in fact – an illegal immigrant.

According to an account in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, her family snuck into the country from Mexico 11 years ago. Until now, the family’s illegal immigration status had gone unnoticed.

A ridiculous policy to begin with; undocumented students are allowed to enroll at Georgia universities but they must pay out-of-state tuition – typically three times as much as in-state. Colotl though was allowed to pay in-state tuition.

As a result of an agreement between local police and the federal government, Colotl was transferred to a detention center where deportation proceedings were launched. That’s where the story gets a bit unusual.

KSU’s president, Daniel Papp allegedly intervened on her behalf. According to the AJC, the university released a statement that said Coltl was a student in good standing and a leader of several campus groups (so what). He also asked that, within the letter of the law, she be allowed to return to the university to finish her education (uh, the letter of the law would be that she is deported and comes back through legal means).

Last week, authorities decided to release her from custody and President Papp said she will be welcomed back to the university. “She was granted a deferment to finish her education,” Papp said in a written statement. “This is great news for Ms. Colotl, her family and friends and for the KSU community. (really!)

Not everyone is overjoyed at the news. Phil Kent, a spokesman for Americans For Immigration Control is demanding the KSU president be fired. “President Papp ought to be fired by the regents of the university,” Kent told WAGA. “He’s undermined the rule of law.”

“Our colleges must not be turned into sanctuaries for illegal immigrants,” he said in a prepared statement. “Papp’s bleeding-heart actions are especially an insult to Georgia taxpayers and their children who hope to attend college yet are discriminated against in favor of illegal immigrants.”

The Republican candidate for governor is also making political hay out of the issue. Eric Johnson issued a statement calling for tougher rules for students who are in the country illegally.

As for Colotl’s family, they are troubled by the incident. Her mother, who does not speak English (still after 11 years !), told WAGA through a translator that the fair solution is to let her daughter finish her education and then return to Mexico. (Fair, you know whats not fair, you sneaking into our country, remaining knowingly illegal all this time, driving without licenses, taking advantage of the tax payers of this country vis a vis the tuition issue, and who knows what else. Want someone to blame, blame yourselves).

Federal Failure and Arizona
Anthony W. Hager
Washington’s wink-and-nod approach to immigration is a losing position whether or not Arizona successfully defends its immigration enforcement statute. More

July 23, 2010
Federal Judge Rips Pres. Obama’s Lawsuit Against Arizona

Did you know? and do you wonder why?

Rhode island – no lawsuit no boycott, Arizona – a lawsuit and a boycott.

Supporters of Arizona’s new illegal immigration law have in recent weeks cited Rhode Island as a state where police have been quietly carrying out comparably tough enforcement without a court challenge from the Obama administration.

In Rhode Island, both sides of the debate agree that the executive order issued by Gov. Don Carcieri in 2008 is less sweeping than the Arizona law, which takes effect this month. However there are comparisons of the two approaches which do tend to rationalize the law in Arizona, generally more conservative than Rhode Island, a heavily Democratic state. Of course not is you ask Steven Brown, a leading critic of the governor’s order and executive director of the Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union.

“The only reason I can see individuals focusing on Rhode Island is for political purposes and stretching what’s happened here as a way to try and compare a largely Democratic state — a blue state — with a red state and somehow claim that Rhode Island should be looked at similarly,” Brown said. Arizona’s law makes it a crime to be in the state illegally; Rhode Island’s executive order has no such provision. Arizona’s law requires local police officers, while enforcing other laws, to check the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being in the country illegally. Rhode Island’s order directs the State Police to help with immigration enforcement and encourages — but, importantly, does not require — local police to seek a suspect’s immigration status.

Really,

State troopers in Rhode Island routinely check the immigration status of crime suspects, as well as people pulled over for traffic violations, if they have reasonable suspicion and will alert federal immigration authorities if it’s determined someone is in the country illegally, said State Police Superintendent Brendan Doherty.

A Boston-based federal appeals court last year upheld a Rhode Island trooper’s decision during a 2006 traffic stop to seek immigration documents from passengers in a van carrying about a dozen Guatemalans who were in the country illegally.

In a July 7 post on the National Review website titled “United States v. Arizona — How ‘Bout United States v. Rhode Island?”, commentator Andrew McCarthy, a former New York federal prosecutor, asked why the Obama administration had not already sued Rhode Island for “carrying out the procedures at issue in the Arizona immigration statute.”

William Jacobson, an associate law professor at Cornell University, wrote this month on his blog, Legal Insurrection, that “Arizona is the new Rhode Island” and said it was ironic that strict enforcement practices would be carried out in the “state of Sheldon Whitehouse,” a Democratic senator.

And an Internet post this month by commentator Ed Morrissey said Rhode Island has been doing for years what Arizona now wants to do — but “without a peep” from the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Justice Department did not immediately return an e-mail seeking comment Monday on whether it had considered challenging laws in states other than Arizona.

Carcieri imposed the executive order in March 2008, blaming illegal immigrants for using up state resources and, like Arizona officials, faulting the federal government for failing to control the problem. The Pew Hispanic Center has estimated Rhode Island’s illegal immigrant population as between 20,000 and 40,000. (now consider why AZ’s approach though similar, is tougher, than RI. The numbers are in the 100′s of thousands, not 10′s of thousands)

The executive order in Rhode Island, as well as Arizona’s law, prompted an outcry from civil rights groups and immigrant advocates who feared it could lead to racial profiling. Some who support the order say they don’t think it goes far enough and prefer the Arizona law, which is the target of a Justice Department lawsuit and is set to take effect July 29.

 

Now as we’ve advocated many times, on the issue of sanctuary cities, to which there are varying degrees of throughout the country, some are outright aggregious (several in NY, and especially Gavin Newsome’s San Francisco as one of the worst examples). They need to be shut down, officials thrown out of office, and some even prosecuted.

Critics Question Why Obama Administration Doesn’t Crack Down on Sanctuary Cities

By Molly Henneberg

Published July 15, 2010

Now that the Obama administration is suing Arizona over its tough immigration law, some critics are asking why so-called sanctuary cities are getting a pass for ignoring federal immigration law.

More than 50 cities in the U.S provide sanctuaries to illegal immigrants. Supporters of such policies say they want the local police to focus on solving crimes and leave the immigration work to the federal authorities.

“What sanctuary cities are saying is, we are not going to preempt the federal government. It’s the federal government’s responsibilities,” said Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.

But Richard Land, the president of Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Liberty Commission, said while he supports comprehensive immigration reform, he opposes sanctuary cities.

“We can’t have government officials deciding which laws they are going to enforce or not enforce. That undermines the rule of law. We have to have officials who are under the rule of law,” he said.

Sanctuary cities are not a new idea. They’ve been around for decades and no administration — Democrat of Republican — has really gone after them.

But the Obama administration is going after Arizona for its new law that permits officers to ask about a person’s immigration status during the course of other law enforcement duties, such as a traffic stops. Opponents say the law promotes racial profiling and is unconstitutional. But supporters deny those charges.

“The Arizona law is in compliance with federal law,” said Rosemary Jenks, director of government relations at Numbers USA. “The Justice Department should stay out of it. They should be encouraging Arizona to be enforcing the laws. Secondly, they should be enforcing federal immigration law, which means challenging cities and states that have sanctuary policies.”

The Justice Department sees it differently, saying Arizona is unconstitutionally interfering with the federal government’s role in immigration control. “There is a big difference between a state or locality saying they are not going to use their resources to enforce a federal law, as so-called sanctuary cities have done, and a state passing its own immigration policy that actively interferes with federal law,” Justice spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said.

(We dissent, Schmaler – Holder – State officials in sanctuary cities – et al, are not only wrong but they are fools. It is they who are acting unconstitutionally not doing their duty, violating their oaths of office, while perpetuating bad policy and disregard for the law that brings harm in many ways to this Country and our States. To suggest that it’s OK for states not to uphold enumerated constitutional federal laws in this instance is to suggest they don’t have to uphold or enforce any, which is course is a crock. Furthermore, states have rights and also a duty to protect their “citizens” and in a border state like AZ, they have even more constitutional authority in the matter than a state like RI.)

To those who support the Arizona law and oppose the idea of sanctuary cities, the Justice Department positions seem like a cop-out.

“The administration has shown again and again it has no intention of enforcing federal immigration laws,” Jenks said.

 

Obama’s Illegal Immigration Policy: Break the Law, Don’t get Sued

Usually if someone does something illegal, they face criminal charges, a lawsuit, or some other law enforcement action. If someone follows the law, then everything is OK. Afterall, the whole basis for having a law is so that people will follow it, right? Now, let’s look at that idea in terms of local governments. Applying the same principle, a state or local government that attempts to follow a federal law, should be in good shape. But those governments which don’t uphold the law should be subject to prosecution and lawsuits, right? Well, maybe in a “normal” country under “normal” circumstances. However, we are in Obama’s world now, and if you try to enforce illegal immigration laws, you will be sued. Ignore them, and you’ll be fine. Read more

Mexican Border: Route 66 for Terrorists?

July 24, 2010 by Norah Petersen,

 

 

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed this week, Representative Jane Harman (D-California) and Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) call attention to the on-going threat of Al- Qaeda’s pursuit of dirty bombs. In the article, Harman and Collins cite the danger of terrorist at-large, Adnan el-Shukrijumah, who was recently indicted for his connection to the New York City subway bomb plot. Harman and Collins relate that Shukrijumah is “a trained nuclear technician allegedly tasked by al Qaeda with carrying off an “American Hiroshima.”

What Harman and Collins fail to mention in their op-ed, is that, according to law enforcement officials , Shukrijumah (alias “Jafar the Pilot”) may have traveled into the United States via the Mexican border in 2004.

 Sigifredo Gonzalez, Jr., sheriff of Zapata County in Texas, stated in a 2009 written testimony before a subcomittee of the House Committee on Homeland Security : 

Amazing News Clip Video – everyone should watch this and forward it to everyone you know.

If you don’t live in AZ, this should give you some idea of WHAT SB1070 IS REALLY ALL ABOUT!

What the heck is going on with the Obama administration letting this happen???  We have got to stop this from continuing and reverse this problem now!!!  Please get the word out to every good citizen you know…

http://www.prisonplanet.com/mexicans-take-over-parts-of-arizona.html

and now for a word on jobs and our seriously everlasting unemployment problem

 

 Congress Avoids Best Solution to Assisting Unemployed Americans

 

 

 Congress Avoids Best Solution to Assisting Unemployed Americans

 

 Isn’t the danger of our unsecured border inextricably related to the threat of dirty bombs and the threat of terrorism in general? It would seem so. Yet, if those in Washington feel that way, they have done a smashing job of keeping it to themselves.

 

 

When will politicians stop sweeping this crisis under the rug? Without border security there is no homeland security and there is no national security.

 

 

“We have always maintained that if you don’t live on the border you don’t know how vulnerable this country is for a terrorist attack. Persons living 50 miles or more away from the border have the impression that this border is very well protected. This is a farce. The border is not protected.” 

by Chris Chmielenski, NumbersUSA

While the Senate spent a good part of the week working on an extension of benefits for unemployed Americans, the news was filled with stories that screamed of other obvious ways to help solve the problem.

First, court proceedings began in Arizona on Thursday where the federal government launched its effort at shutting down Arizona’s attempt at enforcing immigration laws. Earlier in the week, more than 80 Members of Congress signed a Friend-of-the-Court brief, supporting Arizona and its right to protect its citizens, especially the unemployed. Laws similar to the one passed in Arizona would help free up the 8 million jobs currently held by illegal aliens.

Meanwhile, a clear line was drawn in the Senate between lawmakers who want tougher enforcement of immigration laws and those that don’t. The Senate struck down an amendment offered by Sen. DeMint (R-S.C.) that would have prevented Justice Department funds from being used in the lawsuit against Arizona. Check our vote tracker to see how your two Senators voted and check your Action Board for new actions in response to their vote.

Also in the news this week was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s report to Congress on the state of the economy. Bernanke said it would be years before the unemployment rate dropped below 7%. Just a few weeks ago, the esteemed Brookings Institute released a report on the same topic, and by their calculations, it would take 11 years for the number of jobs lost during the recession to be recovered. But journalist and blogger David Frum was quick to note that the Brookings’ report factored in population growth, but failed to mention the greatest source of that growth – legal immigration.

So while leaders in Congress bickered over ways to provide benefits to America’s unemployed, they continue to avoid a simple, low-cost solution – enforce existing immigration laws and a call for a moratorium on legal immigration.

Obama and Co. Derelict and worse on immgration

Why isn’t Obama’s administration suing sanctuary cities?

By: Peyton R. Miller
Weekly Standard
06/23/10 12:21 PM EDT

The Justice Department is preparing a lawsuit against Arizona’s controversial immigration law, likely to be filed next week. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a South American interviewer last week that the Obama administration opposes the law because “the federal government should be determining immigration policy.” The idea that the administration seeks to uphold federal sovereignty in matters pertaining to immigration is hard to swallow.

U.S. law prohibits public universities from providing in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrant students, yet ten states currently allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition.  Numerous “sanctuary cities”deliberately subvert federal immigration policy by preventing local law enforcement and other officials from inquiring as to the immigration status of residents.  Some have gone even further by providing undocumented immigrants with local forms of identification.

President Obama immediately voiced opposition to the Arizona law, which enforces federal law at the state level, but has made no rhetorical or legal challenge to state laws that work against federal immigration policy. Such pro-illegal immigrant practices existed well before January 2009, but Obama did not campaign on the need to abolish them for the sake of restoring immigration policy to the federal domain.  In fact, when asked in a presidential debate whether he would “allow [sanctuary] cities to ignore the federal law regarding the reporting of illegal immigrants,” he refused to condemn sanctuary cities, commenting only briefly on the need for “comprehensive immigration reform.”

The notion that immigration policy should be handled at the federal level is a legitimate one, but it is difficult for the Obama administration to oppose Arizona’s law on these grounds since it has not lifted a finger in opposition to state-level policies that favor illegal immigrants. A different agenda is at work here.

Peyton R. Miller is the editor of the Harvard Salient and a Student Free Press Association Intern at THE WEEKLY STANDARD.

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Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Why-isnt-Obamas-administration-suing-sanctuary-cities-96985669.html#ixzz0rpjwG1lF

Amid crises, Obama declares war — on Arizona !

By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
June 22, 2010

The Obama administration has a lot of fights on its hands. Putting aside real wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there’s the battle against leaking oil in the Gulf, the struggle against 9.7 percent unemployment across the country, and clashes over the president’s agenda on Capitol Hill. Despite all that, the White House has found time to issue a new declaration of war, this time against an unlikely enemy: the state of Arizona.

The Justice Department is preparing to sue Arizona over its new immigration law. The president has stiffed Gov. Jan Brewer’s call for meaningful assistance in efforts to secure the border. And the White House has accused Arizona’s junior senator, Republican Jon Kyl, of lying about an Oval Office discussion with the president over comprehensive immigration reform. Put them all together, and you have an ugly state of affairs that’s getting uglier by the day.

First, the lawsuit. Last week, Brewer was appalled to learn the Justice Department’s intentions not from the Justice Department but from an interview done by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with an Ecuadorian TV outlet. “It would seem to me that if they were going to file suit against us,” Brewer told Fox News’ Greta van Susteren last week, “they definitely would have contacted us first and informed us before they informed citizens … of another nation.”

But they didn’t.

“There certainly seems to be an underlying disrespect for the state of Arizona,” says Kris Kobach, the law professor and former Bush administration Justice Department official who helped draft the Arizona law. Kobach points out that during the Bush years, several states openly flouted federal immigration law on issues like sanctuary cities and in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. Respecting the doctrines of comity and federalism, the Bush administration didn’t sue. Now, when Arizona passes a measure that is fully consistent with federal law, the Obama administration, says Kobach, “goes sprinting to the courthouse door.”

Then there is the matter of the White House’s assistance, or nonassistance, in Arizona’s border-security efforts. On June 3, the president, under criticism for refusing to meet or even talk to Brewer, reluctantly granted her an audience in the Oval Office. After the meeting, Brewer told reporters Obama pledged that administration officials would come to Arizona within two weeks with details of plans to secure the border.

June 17 marked two weeks, and there were no administration officials and no plans. There still aren’t. “What a disappointment,” Brewer told van Susteren. “You know, when you hear from the president of the United States and he gives you a commitment, you would think that they would stand up and stand by their word. It is totally disappointing.”

And now, there’s the Kyl controversy. On June 18, Kyl told a town meeting in North Phoenix that Obama personally told him the administration will not secure the U.S.-Mexico border because doing so would make it politically difficult to pass comprehensive immigration reform. “I met with the president in the Oval Office, just the two of us,” Kyl said. “Here’s what the president said. The problem is, he said, if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support comprehensive immigration reform.”

“In other words,” Kyl continued, “they’re holding it hostage. They don’t want to secure the border unless and until it is combined with comprehensive immigration reform.”

After Kyl’s statement went viral on the Internet, the White House issued a sharp denial. “The president didn’t say that and Senator Kyl knows it,” communications director Dan Pfeiffer wrote on the White House blog. “There are more resources dedicated toward border security today than ever before, but, as the president has made clear, truly securing the border will require a comprehensive solution to our broken immigration system.”

Kyl is not backing down. “What I said occurred, did occur,” he told an Arizona radio station. “Some spokesman down at the White House said no, that isn’t what happened at all, and then proceeded to say we need comprehensive immigration reform to secure the border. That is their position, and all I was doing was explaining why, from a conversation with the president, why it appears that that’s their position.”

Even if it didn’t have so many other fights on its hands, it would be unusual for an administration to align itself against an American state. But that’s precisely what has happened. Soon it will be up to the courts and voters to decide whether Obama’s campaign against Arizona will succeed or fail.

Byron York, The Examiner’s chief political correspondent, can be contacted at byork@washingtonexaminer.com. His column appears on Tuesday and Friday, and his stories and blog posts appears on ExaminerPolitics.com

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Amid-crises_-Obama-declares-war—-on-Arizona-96839529.html#ixzz0rpf847jM

How long before we see ‘Christie-Brewer in 2012′ and Someone in Arizona with the right idea

How long before we see ‘Christie-Brewer in 2012′ bumper stickers?

Published: Jun 04, 2010

In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie is giving the nation’s political class a seminar on how to deal with the public employee unions that are bankrupting state and local governments across the country with excessive compensation and pension demands. Christie is a tough customer who knows his facts, knows his opponents even better, and makes his case boldly. In Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer calls President Obama’s bluff on the immigration issue and in the process re-framing the national debate about securing the border, the true costs of dealing with illegal immigrants, confronting the reality of the drug war in Mexico and how it hurts this nation, and much else. Here’s betting that somewhere…

Continued…

HERE YOU GO

teapartypatriotsstore.com

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bios/mark-tapscott.html#ixzz0rpOvaO1L

Somebody in Arizona has the right idea about how to respond to immigration law boycotts

Published: Jun 08, 2010

It doesn’t seem to have been probed yet by Snopes.com and I haven’t been able to establish its original source, but you have to admit this billboard allegedly showing Arizona’s response to the Los Angeles city government’s boycott of the state in response to its immigration law is worth a…

Continued…

US Presidential and Congressional betrayal, and the Audacity of Mexico’s president

May 21, 2010

Congressman McClintock Answers President Calderon

Clarice Feldman

Saying what many of us feel. Congressman McClintock (R-Ca), responds to the outrageous address to Congress yesterday by Mexican President Calderon.

 

 

May 24, 2010

Is This Just a Nightmare, or Did It Really Happen?

By Jared E. Peterson

Over the past week we witnessed presidential and congressional disloyalty without precedent in American history, events that should be indelibly imprinted on the American electorate’s collective memory. For the first time (at least to this writer’s knowledge), a foreign head of state who is promoting an ongoing, aggressive, illegal, and often violent invasion of America came to our country, met with our president, and, from the White House itself, received our president’s implicit but obvious public support for that invasion; and that same foreign leader spoke to Congress and received a standing ovation from its Democrat members’ for his country’s war on America’s borders.

Is this just a nightmare, or did it really happen? 

During Barrack Hussein Obama’s May 19, 2010 joint press conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderón, our president — constitutionally charged with the duty to defend America from all enemies, foreign and domestic — earned the scarlet “D”: By silence he aligned himself with the invaders of our country and their leader against the citizens of America’s own state of Arizona who have been forced by his dereliction to defend themselves.

Nearly as amazing, on Thursday, May 20, 2010, that same foreign president, speaking from where Churchill stood during World War II, received a standing ovation from the Democrat members of Congress when he reviled the citizens of Arizona for daring to try to fashion a defense of their part of the American-Mexican border. And the Republicans did not walk out or offer any other visible, dramatic objection. 

An aside: The feckless Republican non-response to the Mexican President’s May 20 congressional rant is probably the least astounding of the week’s events. Our stodgy Republican opposition, with a few exceptions (e.g., see Congressman Tom McClintock’s superlative speech) is notable for its lack of leadership, courage, eloquence, timing, and political prescience. That a foreign head of state who insults the overwhelming majority of America’s citizens from a congressional podium might require a dramatic response from them, and at the same time might present a perfect opportunity to make clear which party is aligned with the American people on illegal immigration, would not occur to most of the timid and unimaginative mediocrities in this bunch.

But to return to the point: Consider carefully the stain of disloyalty that President Obama indelibly affixed to himself during the week just past.

On Wednesday, May 19, 2010, Felipe Calderón, President of politically and economically failed Mexico, stood on the South Lawn of the White House as a guest of America. He proceeded to claim that Arizona’s recently enacted immigration law “is forcing our people there to face discrimination,” and thereby he publicly trashed the State of Arizona, its legislators and governor, and, if polls are accurate, about 70% of its residents (and probably nearly the same percentage of all Americans) who unambiguously want the border sealed and support Arizona’s benign efforts to accomplish that goal. He said more, but that was enough. 

Standing next to this boor, the President of the United States (sic) responded to the tirade against America with silence. Or as the rest of the world will interpret Obama’s muteness, “I agree with everything you just said.” Can anyone imagine similar complicit disloyalty from Lincoln, Roosevelt (T. or F.D.), Truman, Kennedy, or Reagan? 

Rather than defend the reasonable actions of his countrymen, our president joined in the foreigner’s indictment of them. Later, on television, while the offensive Mexican president was still in the country, Obama added his own condemnation of those vile Americans he risibly claims to lead and protect: Of the Arizona statute, he said, “The Justice Department is looking at the legislation to make sure it’s consistent with ‘our core values’ and ‘existing legal precedent.’” Again, code-speak for “I agree with El Presedente. The people of Arizona, their legislators and governor, and all those who support them are despicable bigots.”

When America is being invaded by a foreign power, one expects the President of the United States to be on America’s side. That’s how it’s worked in the past, anyway. If that’s too steep a demand, could we ask that our president not publicly endorse the enemy’s characterization of modest defensive efforts as “discriminatory”? If even that decent silence is too much, could our president at least not provide the invaders’ leader with a White House venue to denounce our people and our laws?

Note to those Americans who have not yet noticed: Barrack Hussein Obama does not like or sympathize with this country.

His instinctual affinities are with others, particularly if they come from the southern hemisphere or call themselves Muslims, and especially if they vote Democrat when they get here. For a long time, some have known this about America’s first anti-American president. Many have not yet perceived it. Had most Republican members of Congress not been asleep, confused, or afraid, the events of last week could have cast a brilliant light on this awful truth.

But exposing the charlatan when he allows the truth to spill out, as he did last week, requires a courageous, clear-thinking, and articulate opposition. Other than Representative McClintock and a few more, who among key GOP officeholders possesses these traits?

An effective, courageous, and astute opposition lacking, the only course for loyal Americans is never to let last week’s outrages be forgotten. 

Any Republican candidate who fails to remind the November electorate that Barrack Hussein Obama, and the congressional Democrats en masse, endorsed and applauded America’s invaders and condemned its defenders, does not have the requisite qualities of intellect and courage to be helpful in the struggle to reclaim our country.   

Jared E. Peterson graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in Political Philosophy, and from the Harvard Law School. He has been a practicing lawyer for more than thirty-five years.

True Agenda of Pro Illegal-Immigration Protests and the groups behind them

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The True Agenda of Immigration Protests

by  Ross Kaminsky

05/05/2010

Immigrant-rights protesters in Denver on Saturday blocked city streets while chanting “Si se puede!” (Yes we can!) and waving Mexican flags. Behind these seemingly spontaneous protest marches against Arizona’s tough immigration law are well-organized groups, some that have an agenda of reclaiming America for their race.

The un-American or anti-American façade of the protests is bad enough, but the reality of the “immigrant rights” movement is even worse. Here is a rundown of the groups behind the protests:

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the AFL-CIO:  Perhaps most the most insidious groups organizing protests against enforcing American immigration law are large labor unions, most notably SEIU and the AFL-CIO. An executive director of SEIU said that the union “will not be deterred” in their quest for amnesty, a major change for unions which were formerly opponents of such plans due to fear that the new workers would compete with their members. (In 2001, Vernon Briggs wrote an excellent and still relevant discussion of the history of the labor movement and immigration.) Now, they believe they’ll be able to unionize illegal immigrants if the illegals received amnesty.

MEChA:  MEChA, an acronym for Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, organized protests against the Arizona law on college campus across the country, most noticeably at elite institutions such as Cornell, Yale, and Stanford. MEChA describes itself as “part of our Raza’s future,” “raza” being the Spanish word for “race.” They argue that they are “Indigenous people to this land by placing our movement in Aztlan.” Aztlan is a legendary homeland for pre-Columbian Mexican cultures but has also become the touchstone for radical organizations which claim that most of Southwestern United States is Mexican territory occupied by Americans. MEChA fits that mold with their call to “undertake a struggle for liberation.”

National Council of La Raza:  Another major force in “immigrant rights” is National Council of La Raza, the perhaps the best-known Hispanic interest group and an organization whose racism is built right into their name. On La Raza’s web site they describe some principles governing their approach to “comprehensive immigration reform” (a synonym for amnesty in today’s political discussions), including “getting the 12 million undocumented people in our country to come forward, obtain legal status, learn English, and assume the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.” To be fair, La Raza claims to support “smart enforcement policies that uphold national security and the Constitution,” but the real effort here is clear: to create millions of new voters, voters who are likely to earn lower-than-average wages and likely to support the Democratic Party.

FIRM (Fair Immigration Reform Movement): FIRM is an umbrella group of “grassroots organizations fighting for immigrant rights.” They take credit for being “the cornerstone of the people-led movement that derailed the inhumane and unworkable immigration laws pushed by congressional leaders (in 2006).”

FIRM supports “the right of undocumented immigrant children to a public school education.” FIRM was organized by the Center for Community Change (CCC), a group run by a former high-ranking employee of ACORN, and whose board of directors is packed with radical leftists, union activists, and the executive director of MoveOn.org. The CCC believes that “everyone should have a voice in the decisions that affect our lives and be fully engaged in our democracy.”

Somos Un Pueblo Unido:  This Santa Fe, N.M.-based group helped organize protests in that city, causing one to question the accuracy of the group’s very name, that “We Are a United Town.” Somos pushes, among other things, for “access [to] in-state tuition and state financial aid regardless of immigration status” and claims to have been “instrumental in establishing one of the nation’s highest citywide minimum wage.” Groups like Somos argue that higher minimum wages are good for the entire community, but a far more likely outcome is that legal, i.e. American, low-skilled and young workers will be priced out of jobs while illegal workers who get paid under the table will work for less than the legal minimum wage.

El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos (The Center for Equality and Rights): This Albuquerque-based group kindly lets us know that “regardless of our nationality or immigration status, we all have rights” and which writes documents for immigrants, legal and otherwise, on the topic. El Centro reminds illegal immigrants that they are entitled to receive workers’ compensation if injured during work, that they have the right to participate in political protests (during non-work hours), that even if they can’t vote they “can participate in a political campaign…testify in hearings, and personally speak to politicians and policy makers,” and that they should teach their children not to open the door for immigration officers.

As we watch protesters in the streets of America, chanting in a language other than English, waving flags other than that of the United States, perhaps we all need to thank the legislators and governor of Arizona for pushing back against the menacing cries of “Si se puede.” Sorry, La Raza, Mecha, and SEIU, but No, You Can’t. 

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Ross Kaminsky has been a professional derivatives trader for over 20 years. Ross is a fellow of the Heartland Institute and writes about political economy and current events at Rossputin.com. He also contributes to blogs for the National Taxpayers Union and FreedomWorks among others.

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In their desperation, President Obama and senators with large Latino populations in their states (like Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.) are seeking to polarize Hispanic and Anglo sentiment over the issue of illegal immigration. In his frequent messages calling for a higher Latino and black turnout and his condemnation of the Arizona immigration law, Obama is trying to recapture over immigration the voter approval he lost over health care.

Arizona acted as it did because of a lack of federal enforcement of federal law barring undocumented immigrants. With a porous border, they felt that they were left no choice but to pass a law allowing potentially intrusive searches to ferret out illegal immigrants.

Because this law could subject American citizens of Hispanic origin to undue scrutiny and perhaps to needless trips to the police station, the Arizona law antagonizes the jump ball in the immigration debate — Latino-American voters. If there were a real national identification card, the requirement to produce papers might be less intrusive. But, as it is, with the burden of proof on the citizen (or the illegal immigrant), the law is bound to raise tensions between Anglo cops and Latino citizens.

But being forced to support or oppose the Arizona law is a false choice. It reflects the unimaginative politics of confrontation that jeopardize race relations and elect demagogues like Barack Obama. (Obama’s share of the white vote was the same as John Kerry won in 2004. He was elected only because of a 3 point increase in black turnout and a shift in Latino votes to his corner. He won because of race, and now he schemes to keep control of Congress by using the immigration issue.)

The real answer is not to round up Latinos in the streets of Phoenix and hope to catch illegals in the net. Nor is it even to pretend that we can stop determined men and women from crossing the border by more guards, more troops and better equipment. The answer is to dry up the will to cross the border in the first place by stopping employers from offering jobs to undocumented workers. If there were felony penalties — jail time — for hiring illegals, they would not be hired. And, if there were no jobs, there would be no illegal immigration.

The Republican position on illegal immigration should be to demand tough employer sanctions, including jail, and coupling that program with a vigorous guest worker program to bring needed workers in legally, pay them a living wage and then escort them out when they are no longer needed. The United States, in need of a younger population to pay for our current and future retirees, should also raise the allowed levels of immigration.

Both parties are hypocritical on immigration. Democrats, controlled by unions, want Latinos to vote but not work. Republicans, controlled by agribusiness interests, want them to work but not to vote. The answer is to stand up to union and to agribusiness pressure and take tough action to stop the hiring of illegal immigrants.

If there were no jobs for illegals outside of guest-worker programs, there would be no need for amnesty. They would all go home of their own accord or wait until they got legal status.

We would need a foolproof, biometric identity card to speed identification of those eligible for employment to accompany the sanctions against hiring illegals, but this is a small price to pay for an answer to so pressing a problem.

But Obama will not take the step that could end illegal immigration. Why? Because he wants immigration. He seeks to reshape the partisan balance in America by increasing the number of Latino voters and marrying them to the Democratic Party by provoking Republicans who just want law and order to appear as racist to Hispanic-Americans.

His is a game of great duplicity and racial opportunism. But good legislation can defeat his designs and solve one of our most pressing domestic problems at the same time.