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Amnesty By Fiat

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Thumbing his nose at the Constitutional requirement that immigration policy originates with Congress, President Lame Duck today announced he has decided that  he is suspending the deportation of most illegal aliens under the age of 31.  And he will give them forever-renewable work permits.

No matter that 20 million American citizens are currently unemployed.

No matter that the millions of young Americans graduating from high school and college this month can’t find work.

No matter that unemployment of black youth in particular is somewhere in the neighborhood of 50%.

No matter that this is a slap in the face to every person who came to America legally.

No matter that every attempt to pass some sort of DREAM Act has – rightfully – failed to make it through both House and Senate.

No matter that a majority of Americans do not want any more amnesty programs but instead want sane legal immigration policy and secure borders.

No, all that matters is pandering to the deliberate, pre-meditated criminal leeches who suck the lifeblood of the American taxpayer.  Leeches who can’t even legally vote (but in too many cases do) but who are seen as future Democrat victims…errr…voters by slavering progressive liberals.

Congress has the power to put a stop to this banana republic dictator-wannabe nonsense now.  The question is:  do they have big enough cojones to do it?

A New DREAM Act

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It finally occurred to me how we can handle the problem of illegal immigrants (criminals) in this country.  This should satisfy those who tearfully claim that the allegiance of their “innocent children” is to America by letting them prove it.

When they reach the age of 18, draft every single “innocent child” whose criminal parents brought them here or popped them out here in order to take advantage of the American taxpayer and now wish to jump the line ahead of those following the legal process to become a naturalized citizen.  Their military enlistment would be no less than 4 years of active duty followed immediately by 4 more years of service in the National Guard.  No exceptions.

Take this newly-formed group of soldiers and send them to Mexico to the Mexican government clean out the drug cartels and assist them with restoring order to the country.  (As the most powerful nation on Earth, don’t we owe it to our southern neighbors to help them?)  These soldiers may also be used to secure the border and their experience would give them opportunity to later work for the DEA to help clean out the drug dealers here in the United States.

Upon completion of their enlistment, they may be given one moving van with which to pack up their criminal parents and relatives here and move them back to their native home.  Upon completion of this removal, they may then go through finalization steps for citizenship; however, they will never be allowed to sponsor anyone for entry into the United States.

Those who do not complete their 8 years of military service or complete the removal of their criminal family members within 30 days of completing their military service would be promptly deported.

This would serve to make Mexico the land the peace-loving and honest Mexican citizens want and would reduce the costs to the United States of going through several million deportation hearings and removals, as well as save billions in the hidden costs of fighting the increased crime and the medical care and welfare payments we are now providing to criminals.  It would also remove the incentives for others with criminal intent to enter the country illegally and well as slow the flow of illegal drugs and more criminals into the United States.

Quote(s) Of The Day

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“The problem is, if we secure the border, then you all won’t have any reason to support ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’ “

(President Obama to Senator Kyl when asked directly about securing Arizona’s border with Mexico)

 

“They want to get something in return for doing their duty.”

(Senator Kyle, R-AZ)

A Fatal Blow To The Republic

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I’m not sure where we are this evening, dear readers, but we’re certainly not in the Republic of the United States any more.  At 1045 p.m., the House of Representatives voted to change this great nation into a banana republic by passing the Senate’s version of health care “reform”.  They then voted to send their even more restrictive and more debt-containing “reconciliation” bill over to the Senate.  A Senate that has absolutely no obligation to even consider it, mind you, let alone actually pass it into law. 

Michigan Representative Bart Stupak and most of his pro-life Democratic delegation voted “yes” for this blatant reversal of the Hyde amendment prohibiting the use of taxpayer funding of abortions, based only on a worthless piece of paper that His Transparency agreed at the last hour to sign as an Executive Order.  An order that in first draft merely reiterates bits and pieces of the Senate bill and has absolutely NO weight behind it since an Executive Order can’t trump law.

As a lawyer, Stupak knows all this, which makes him a traitor of the worst sort.  But, as is said, once a Democrat, always a Democrat and so it is that Americans, if they still believe in the inalienable Rights given to them by the literal blood and sweat of the Founding Fathers, now have a long, hard road ahead.  Life as we know it is going to be messy for a good long while since there will be immediate court challenges filed against the unconstitutional aspects of the Senate bill, including the individual mandate that NOT doing something now becomes a crime.  In 38 states, attorney generals are readying lawsuits to exempt their states from the legislation.  And the true conservative part of the GOP has begun the effort to gather support for an outright appeal of it.

And yet most of us have to get up tomorrow morning and go about our regular business of making a living and living our regular lives.  It’s a surreal feeling tonight and I weep with both Lady Liberty and Justice.  I weep because the America I so dearly love does not deserve this usurpation of her liberties, this castration of those things that have made Her the most powerful nation on earth, even though a majority of her citizens were stupid enough to believe that “hope and change” meant something a little less tyrannical.

Immigration reform is next, you know.  The Democrats are hoping that an infusion of millions of grateful new citizens via amnesty, though they are today all criminals, will help them next November.  No matter there is then the risk of these criminals legally displacing more American workers at a time when America’s unemployment rate still hovers near 10%.  No matter that hard-working Americans will have even more health insurance (and abortions) to subsidize with their tax dollars.

The road ahead is, indeed, going to be long and hard.  And bloodier than previously anticipated.

May God have mercy on us.

The Dems Are Faking Suicide

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The Democrat-controlled Congress is busy planning how to ram their visions of health care “reform” down America’s throat and the rising backlash against their tactics and, indeed, against their progressive liberal ideology is becoming more and more severe.

So severe, that true to the form of all yellow-bellied selfish cowards, Democrats are turning tail and dropping out of 2010 elections left and right.  And the pious spinning begins.  Among the louder dropouts is the infamous sleazeball Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn).  Perhaps to spend some time licking his wounds at his Countrywide sweetheart-deal-bought cottage in Ireland? 

 
Yeah, right.  He seems to forget our flying pigs are waiting patiently in the wings.
 
The real reason that Dodd, Dorgan (ND), Kaufman (DE), and Burris (IL), along with Colorado Governor Bill Ritter are leading the rat charge off the sinking ship is because in the larger progressive liberal Democrat scheme of things, they’re expendable.
 
How can they be expendable when the Democrats need their 60-vote majority in the Senate?  Let us count the ways.  The first answer is contained in three little words:  “universal voter registration”.
 
Simply put, this is a tactic planned by the Democrats that will force – by federal mandate – the states to register everyone to vote. 
In January, Chuck Schumer and Barney Frank will propose universal voter registration. …  It means all of the state laws on elections will be overridden by a federal mandate. The feds will tell the states: “take everyone on every list of welfare that you have, take everyone on every list of unemployed you have, take everyone on every list of property owners, take everyone on every list of driver’s license holders and register them to vote regardless of whether they want to be …” 
 
The problems with universal voter registration are numerous and obvious. Many states’ lists include vast numbers of illegals, including some states which allow illegals to obtain drivers licenses; because many homeowners have more than one home, there will be duplicates; because so many people are on so many separate federal and state government agency lists, there will be duplicates; and because so many lists exist with little or no cross-checking capability, all of these duplicates are likely to go uncorrected. Add to this the fact that Dems hope to extend voting rights to felons, and the whole thing begins to look like a nationwide Democrat voter registration drive facilitated by taxpayers.
 
The second answer is that odious little poster child for all things fraudulent and illegal:  ACORN.  Under investigation in numerous states for their 2008 “assistance” to the Obama campaign, when something as precious as a 60-seat Democrat Senate majority hangs in the balance, you can bet your bottom dollar that there will be hundreds of thousands, if not millions of false voters registered and as many fraudulent ballots cast.  Politico nicely outlined the ACORN problem last year:

Larry Lomax, the chief elections officer in Las Vegas, responded that the group’s claims it had extensive quality controls to catch fraudulent registrations were “pathetic.” He noted that ACORN had hired 59 inmates from a work-release program at a nearby prison and that some inmates who had been convicted of identity theft had been made supervisors. That led some local wags to joke that at least ACORN was hiring specialists to do their work.

ACORN’s second line of defense has been that fraudulent registrations can’t turn into fraudulent votes, as if the felony of polluting voter lists was somehow not all that serious. But that defense goes only a short distance. “How would you know if people using fake names had cast votes in states without strict ID laws?” says GOP Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita, who this year won a major Supreme Court case upholding his state’s photo identification law. “It’s almost impossible to detect and once the fraudulent voter leaves the precinct or casts an absentee ballot, that vote is thrown in with other secret ballots there’s no way to trace it.”

Anita MonCrief, an ACORN whistle-blower who worked for both it and its Project Vote registration affiliate from 2005 until early this year, agrees. “It’s ludicrous to say that fake registrations can’t become fraudulent votes,” she told me. “I assure you that if you can get them on the rolls you can get them to vote, especially using absentee ballots.”

…some ACORN affiliates had a conscious strategy of flooding voter registration offices with suspect last-minute forms in part to create confusion and chaos that would make it more likely suspect voters would be allowed to cast ballots by overworked officials. Nate Toller, who worked on ACORN registration drives and headed an ACORN campaign against Wal-Mart in California until 2006, agrees. “There’s no quality control on purpose, no checks and balances,” he told me.

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Perhaps the clearest look at how fraudulent registrations can be converted into votes comes from Wisconsin. Earlier this year, the Milwaukee Police Department’s Special Investigation Unit released a stunning 67-page report detailing an “illegal organized attempt to influence the outcome” of the 2004 presidential election. 

 It noted many documented cases of staffers for a presidential campaign and an allied 527 group who illegally voted. Those involved in the scheme “represent multiple levels of both the organizations, from upper management to the street level canvassers.” The task force report found many ineligible voters had cast ballots, ineligible felons not only had voted but also worked at the polls, transient college students had cast illegal votes along with day-trippers from nearby Chicago, and homeless voters may well have voted more than once.

 The Milwaukee police report explained just how easy it is to cast an illegal vote without ever being detected., “Michael A. Smith can become Mike Smith, M.A. Smith, or Mickey Smith, depending on the person reviewing the Same Day registration card, and unless a specific allegation is made against one of those name variants, the new name would just be added to the overall database. Even if the new system were capable of discerning the differences in recorded names, the finding would not be discovered until after any multiple ballots had been cast and recorded.” Indeed, the task force found that 1,100 registration cards filled in by voters were declared invalid or untraceable by election officials.

 Another way that fraudulent registrations can be converted into illegal votes is when groups like ACORN either purposely or recklessly sign up visitors from out-of-state or felons who are ineligible to vote. The New York Daily News reported in August, 2004 on how some 46,000 New Yorkers are registered to vote in both the city and Florida, what it called a “shocking finding” because it “found that between 400 and 1,000 registered voters have voted twice in at least one election, a federal offense punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine,” and noted that “efforts to prevent people from registering in more than one state rely mostly on the honor system.”

For answer number three, we can’t forget granting amnesty to illegal immigrants.  Aka giving criminals given an easy path to citizenship.  While it has been reported that House members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus have threatened to vote against any health care bill that doesn’t allow illegal (criminal) immigrants access, word is slipping out that they’ll back down if they get an agreement from Obama that health care coverage for criminals who “earn” a path to citizenship will be addressed in an immigration bill.  A bill rumored to be already in the planning stages.  Then beholden to their savior, the Democrats are counting on their votes.

But there is a small sliver of hope.  Business Week reports that America’s “misery index” (the sum of a country’s unemployment and inflation rates)  has reached 11.8% and there is no reason to think it will not continue to move higher over the next year.  This is its highest point since May 1991, and more than 3 percentage points higher than its average since then.  It topped out at 22% in 1980 – helping to usher in the Reagan era.

It can be another case where misery loves company.  In this case, the company can be found at the polls.  And in such numbers the Democrats’ attempts to steal any election will be so blatant they are put away for good.

Selling Out the 14th Amendment For Criminal Votes

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“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

Penned by Emma Lazarus in 1883, this is perhaps the most famous part of her small sonnet, originally simply a donation read at the opening of a fundraiser for construction of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty and then quickly forgotten.  Through the efforts of a friend, in 1903 it was inscribed on a plaque and mounted inside the Statue of Liberty.  It was these words that then turned the original symbol of the Republic into a beacon of hope for countless immigrants when they passed by Lady Liberty as they sailed through New York Harbor.

Legal immigrants.  Those like my grandfathers, and maybe even yours, who came here hoping to create a better life; knowing no one and unable to speak the language yet determined to become one with their adopted country.  Who worked hard and with pride, fought for the United States during the Great Wars; they took no handouts from anyone and were grateful right ’til the day they died for the opportunity provided to them by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, for they had seen with their own eyes the evil that walks upright, the evil that lures with progressive dreams designed only to hide its real intent – the enslaving of the people in a fascist regime.

As I write this piece there are some 22+ million illegal immigrants in the United States.  Ninety-eight percent of them from Mexico.  Yes, 98% of them.  And some 11+ million of them are working in skilled trades, thereby displacing American citizens.  Some 1 million of them are either incarcerated or considered fugitives – ironic when you consider that their illegal status already made them criminals.

The Democrats, now even more encouraged by President Obama and his administration, are looking once again at amnesty for illegal immigrants.  They are looking at how to grant citizenship to criminals who are growing more and more bold in their organizing and seeking out the bleeding hearts with sympathetic ears – not to ask, mind you, but to demand health care, welfare and other services, all the while waving the Mexican flag.

What is wrong with this picture?

They broke the law the moment they crossed the border.  Simply being here doesn’t make them American citizens, even if they choose to pay taxes (using someone else’s Social Security number).  Nor are their children American citizens, even if they are born on U.S. soil.  It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand the intent of the 14th Amendment:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside.

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

An illegal immigrant is NOT subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to any extent beyond humane treatment as provided by the Geneva Conventions while being ushered out of the country. They remain citizens of their native country and therefore under the legal jurisdiction of their native country.  Their children, too, remain under the legal jurisdiction of their native country.

In United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), the Supreme Court addressed the 14th Amended as it applied to someone born in the United States – but what most are not aware of or do not want to know is that his parents were considered to be here legally.  It is only those who see an opportunity to expand their base of possible votes by giving away the hard-earned tax dollars of America’s legal citizens who could think any child born on American soil is automatically a United States citizen and encourage this misconception within our society.  Yet for the same reason – potential votes – they would be the first to argue that the children of Americans born abroad inherit their parents’ citizenship, but the truth is that you can’t have it both ways.

It can also be argued that granting amnesty to illegals both abridges and deprives legal Americans the fruits (property) of their labors since the  tax dollars of legal Americans go to support those who pay nothing towards those things that were intended to benefit the collective.

If we can send men to the Moon, we can send illegal immigrants back home.  Especially those entering from Mexico, so round ’em all up now.  If they have come here legally and overstayed their welcome, consider amnesty ONLY if they have proof of having paid taxes during their time here, are currently employed, and have no criminal record.  Otherwise, all of them – including the children – go back over the border.  If they don’t like what is going on in their own country, then let them take their outrage over their “victim” status and unite against the mistreatments and inequalities there.  Their flag can fly equally well in protest in their own country, and they won’t have to press any extra buttons on their telephones to speak to someone in Spanish.