Dems Who Voted Down 2007 Immigration Reform Are Undecided on DREAM Act
Monday, September 20, 2010 at 1:05 pm
When a comprehensive immigration reform bill failed in 2007, eight Democrats voted to kill it. The Hill reported today some of these senators may again help to block immigration reform legislation: Five of the Democrats who voted “no” in 2007 are unsure how they will vote on the DREAM Act when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) adds it as an amendment to the defense authorization bill to be taken up this week.
The Hill talked to Sens. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.), all of whom said they were still undecided. Landrieu, Dorgan and Conrad gave no indication of how they would vote on the DREAM Act, while McCaskill leaned more toward a “yes”:
“It depends on the language,” she said. “I have some problems with the way the bill was drafted last time. I am certainly more comfortable with the notion that somebody who has been in the country for five years and who came here through the fault of their parents and not their fault ought to get a green card to serve in the military. I’m very sympathetic to that. I’m just looking at the drafting now.”
But Pryor is leaning no.
“I’ll have to look at it and see, but my inclination is probably to vote against it again,” he said. “But I want to look at it and see. I know there’s been some changes.”
With Democrats undecided, the likelihood of the DREAM Act passing as an amendment remains up in the air. Reid will need 60 votes to pass the bill because several Republicans have vowed to block the DREAM Act, claiming it has nothing to do with defense spending. Previous Republican supporters of the DREAM Act, such as Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), have said they will vote against the bill.
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Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 5:25 pm
If any kind of “amnesty” is passed, everyone who put out good money to be here legally needs to sue the government to get their money back!!!!
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 5:26 pm
Let Dreams Come True: Please support the DREAM Act
Honorable Senator,
I am writing to you today to strongly urge you to support the DREAM Act. I am an undocumented alien, working towards my master’s degree. This bill is urgently needed so that immigrant students who grew up in the USA can achieve their dreams of going to college and so that they can be freed up to fully contribute to our country. The U.S. is my only home. I have served this country in different ways, from volunteering at non-profit organizations to tutoring my fellow students. I am just as American as my neighbor, but I do not enjoy the bounties that many legal residents overlook everyday.
I urge you to support the DREAM Act. I will be graduating with masters in statistics this fall. Yet, my life is on hold. If my status does not get adjusted by next fall, I will have absolutely nothing to do after I graduate. I will not be able to work here, or apply for adjustment of status. Therefore, I will be forced out of this country. The people who want to benefit America by becoming efficient workers and businessmen are leaving this country because they are considered less “American” than their peers.
I would also urge you to look into the facts behind this proposed legislation. If this act passes, more underprivileged children would enroll in college. This act will clear up a huge hurdle that many students are not able to overcome. The students who graduate from college will work in the US and pay taxes. They will pay back their student loans. Many would open up their own businesses. This bill would be a step in the right direction, and it will surely benefit America, because you will be granting legal status to people who realize how lucky they are for being Americans. These children would give back to their communities, and I am sure the passage of this act will motivate them further to reach their goals.
DREAM Act will help those who will serve America. If undocumented students who are long-term U.S. residents continue to face setbacks, they will have to drop out and a great deal of potential will go wasted.
While you defeat those who threaten the values that America stands for, please help those who want to help America. I hope you will do everything in your power to make this bill a law as soon as possible. I will also urge you to discuss this matter with your fellow senators, Congressmen and enlist their support. Please do not punish innocent children for dreaming for a brighter future. Despite what anti-immigrants say, legislation that will remove this artificial barrier will only make this country and its economy stronger. PLEASE do not let anyone block the DREAM Act.
Sincerely,
Your fellow American
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 5:38 pm
Times have changed and America needs to stop paying for foreigners who don’t respect our laws (identity theft, tax evasion, welfare fraud…) and think of their own children. This has nothing to do with the Christian value of welcoming strangers. I went to a McDonald’s last weekend down the street from the courthouse, and no one there, workers or customers, spoke English. I felt like the stranger. In Biblical times, when natural resources could no longer sustain the people in an area, by necessity, brothers separated. We cannot support the entire world. Please call your elected representatives and plead with them to stop this madness, because our President is going to try to push this through this week.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 5:40 pm
BLAME YOUR PARENTS FOR BREAKING THE LAW! I came here from Iraq 30 years ago. It took 6 years and moving to turkey then germany to get to this great country. Stand in line with the rest of us. spend save and work for the thousands of dollars my family had to get to come here. My dad worked 4 jobs at one time while we ate bread and saved every penny to pay our way here.
He made us learn english while we waited for our turn in line. YOUR DAD BROKE THE LAW and now you expect sympathy.
If the dream act passes i agree with ghetsit pay my dad back for his sacrifice and hard work to bring me and my bro and sisters to this great land.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 5:44 pm
Pass the Dream Act and let them get on with their lives and contribute to America!
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 5:46 pm
If you are undocumented, I hope our American benefits are not paying for your education.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 5:47 pm
You have no sympathy for them they have no sympathy for you, What about the people who did all that you have done and were not as lucky, what if they were denied and turned away after letting their children starve and moving them from country to country. You should remember your plight, and count yourself lucky.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 5:47 pm
This is an alternative for ambitious students who are getting an education with hopes of getting a job after graduation.
Imagine going to college for years paying out of pocket because you are not eligible for financial aid, not being able to obtain not even a part time job to help supplement your needs (because again you are not eligible to work), only to graduate and not be able to obtain a job.
Imagine how depressing this can be for an individual. One who tries so hard, one who is qualified but not accepted because of their status. The government accepts their monies for tuition with no problem, but denies them the opportunity to reap what they have sewn.
Give these individuals a chance to live their lives to the fullest. They have been here for years, they are educated, they are willing. Please support and pass the DREAM Act.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 5:48 pm
You thing people that come here illegally do not pay a great deal of money. If putting up money was the only requirement then you can have it as long as people that are just looking for a better life just like you dad did 30 years ago and are honest hardworking inidividuals can become legal then this would not be a problem
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 5:53 pm
You should be ashamed to even justify something with biblical times. Whatever happen to love your neighbor as you would love yourself? It's about the have and have nots. You support the latter, because you're afraid. You should really be afraid of China buying up the US debt but I guess that's a little too hard to understand. You mentioned paying foreigners? You did that when you purchases a computer, ipod, latop, or even your clothes because they were made in CHINA. You support the bias everyday when you shop at Walmart. The truth stings, doesn't it. If we had a draft today would you say that the undocumented people should not be drafted? After all they don't belong int he US according to your simplistic attitude.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 5:57 pm
Boy…I sincerely hope that any of you who do not support the DREAM act have to face the plights we do…..I would watch you crumble in a day without your federal funding. The DREAM act doesn't give Illegals any handouts, it gives us an opportunity to Join the Military and go to college and get jobs that will help the economy in the long run….last I heard Marine Training and college is not easy….
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 6:04 pm
DREAM candidates will not receive grants of any kind. However, they will be eligible for LOANS.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 6:05 pm
i dont get this comment how do they pay to be here legally
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 6:07 pm
Mike, I agree with you to an extent. There is a big misconception that people make now days about how immigrants don't pay taxes. Well, here's the truth. Taxes are always being paid in one way or another. For example, when people “steal” a social security number to get job, taxes are taken out of their peychecks just like everyone else's. However, they can never reclaim that money. So where does that money go? The states keep it. Think about it, who's losing money, and who's winning?
Now, the dream act is not going to help just anyone. It will only help those who are and have been serving our country and helping the community. We need people like that, we ask for them everyday, and now that they show up you want to get rid of them?
Read this kid's blog to get a different point of view. He's an American in all but papers.
http://dreamacts.blogspot.com
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 6:14 pm
Many of the people here arent here by there own choice. They were brought at a young age and couldnt do anything about it. They are innocent.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 6:16 pm
Its not like its for people who arent doing anything for this coutry. Its for students who wanna do better for THIS country. Students who want to serve THIS great nation. Not bums who arent paying taxes and leeching off it.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 6:18 pm
I totally respect the fact that your family had to go through that. However, it is much difficult to get here today than it was 30 years ago, I know YOU know that. I have family who have been waiting since 1995 to be able to come here and in a country like Nicaragua where I am from and its government it will be impossible for them to come now. So what should a family do if they are starving in the second poorest country in the Americas and have no way of getting jobs.. And the only opportunity and light at the end of the tunnel is coming here where there are plenty of opportunities supposedly… I came here when I was eight years old, not ilegally but with a visa but I overstayed it since my parents' lawyer told us that we could work something out but never did.. I don't want to go back to Nicaragua since my family is here and I want to go to school here and stay with my friends and live my life here.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 6:27 pm
FACTS about the “Nightmare” Act –
FACT – This bill is NOT just for teens and college students. Senate DREAM bill allows you to be up to 35 years old to qualify. House bill has NO upper limit!
FACT – Bill is open to gigantic fraud. The bill is written so that the 2, 3 or 4 million illegal-alien applicants only have to CLAIM to meet the criteria. They don't have to PROVE anything.
FACT – This amnesty has no enforcement measures at all. It allows employers to continue to hire illegal aliens, enticing millions more parents to bring their children here illegally and stay long enough for them to become high school students and demand another amnesty in a few years.
FACT – DREAM leaves intact the chain migration system that will allow these 2.1+ million illegal aliens to eventually send for millions more relatives. A large percentage of the illegal aliens in the U.S. today are extended family members of the illegal aliens who got amnesty in 1986 and also those in the six more-limited amnesties in the 1990s.
WAKE UP AMERICA! Our elected officials are selling us RIGHT DOWN the river, and feeding us the lies necessary to pass this KRAP legislation. Call your Congressman ASAP and stop this from passing !!!!
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Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 6:53 pm
For the people who dont support the Dream Act or Illegal Immigration. What are your ideas to get all the Illegals out of this country?? Magicians maybe? The “Dreamers” are at a wall so why not give them a shot at sucess or you rather have your tax dollars going to CEOs for their boat payments??
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:02 pm
Thank you so much for explaining this to everyone. I was brought here where I was 4 years old. I'm just as American as the rest of you! Most of your parents are immigrants too, so what's the big deal.
We are just wanting to get a degree, which no, Ghetsit, your “American benefits” are NOT paying for my eduction. I am having to pay for college out of my own pocket. No grants, loans, scholarships…no help. So don't give me that crap about “oh my taxes are helping you and nuh nuh nuh.” I pay my taxes too, and I'm not able to benefit from them. Talk about being robbed huh?
Anyways, Thank you Dreamactivistforever for your post :)
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:03 pm
pass the DREAM ACT American support it… UT Orrin hatch said he will support it
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:04 pm
Hiring a lawyer to find a way to get to legal residence/citizenship
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:06 pm
FACTS right out the NUMBERS USA page.. all bunch skewed number none buys Them
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:10 pm
Thank you, I'm in that boat at the moment. And the most aggravating thing is that I can't use financial aid, and I see people abusing the assistance that the government gives them. For example, I was at the grocery store the other day and a black middle aged man came up to me and asked if he could pay for my groceries with his welfare card, and I give him cash for it. He willingly said he needed the cash for his drug addiction… -_- I told him no, and as soon as he turned around I called the cops. He's stealing from the government, stealing from taxpayers, buying drugs, which the dealer doesn't report as income, or pay taxes on. All I want to do is get my electrical engineering degree, and I can't even get 2 cents from the government. *sigh*
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:14 pm
mike they're not interest in find out the truth because the reasoning behind anyone opposing immigration reform in any way is the fear of change or a sense of losing control weather is racial, cultural you name so the oppose it not in fact but in a very emotinal ( irrational) level reform is the way to move this country foward we need the unskill workforce to remain competive against china and to be able to substain the country's soc security program alive..
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:22 pm
Any immigration bill which includes legalization and initiated by democrats and a democratic president will surely fail. Firstly because, for republicans, it will be too easy to just say NO and please their conservative base. Second, they don't want the democrats to succeed in the issue and get all hispanic votes. Lastly, the democrats don't have party unity. Many say they're democrats but are inclined to support a republican agenda. Pres G W Bush is a very likable man. That's why he was voted in for two terms. It's just that he doesn't have the Reagan-like charisma to push for immigration reform. But he almost succeeded.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:28 pm
Orrin Hatch? The guy is responsible for the DREAM ACT to begin with. A republican, YES it was his bill from the start. Now, he's against it. What gives? There are only two choices, deport everyone or make them right. We need hard working men and women, soon American won't be the destination, it will be the bypass, and it will be our fault for turning away hardworking people.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:28 pm
U.S.A Needs it…400$ dollars a pop for a green card and 7 years later another 400$ for citizenship .. Can you say Debt free America!!!! Besides its only going to be given to Law Abiding students who need it. Lets give it a shot what else do we have to loose. PASS THE DREAM ACT!!! Give Immigrants the same chance that our Founding immigrant fathers have had.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:30 pm
I THINK WE SHOULD OPEN THE BORDERS AND LET EVERYONE IN. SCREW THE WHOLE NATIONAL IDENTITY THING – WE REALLY DON'T HAVE ONE ANYWAY. THE GOVERNMENT WOULD GO BROKE PAYING FOR ALL OF THE BENEFITS AND WE COULD BECOME A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY. THEN WE COULD APPLY TO THE UN FOR PEACEKEEPERS AND LOANS. EVERYONE COULD RETAIN THEIR NATIONAL IDENTITIES. WE COULD RENAME THE COUNTRY UPICKASTAN. THAT WOULD FIT IN JUST RIGHT WITH OUR EMERGING OBAMA SUPPORTED MUSLIM IDENTITY. WE COULD HAVE “THE KNACK” WRITE OUR NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM “MY SHARIA.”
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:33 pm
pass dream act God bless america we ll be praying for this to happen if this happens even people that dont want it will relaise that it was the right thing to do thank u supporters
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:34 pm
NONE They don't have a solution. The like the status quo, they are afraid by doing so they will take away their jobs. Deep within their souls however it's really just hatred. They think mini Palin will save them, frank is she can't even save herself. Didn't even have a degree until 2 months ago, can't pay for her house, can't manage her own finances but she wants to be Senator.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:37 pm
You can start by not supporting the bias. Don't be so cheap, after all if an American is picking strawberries in the fields 12 hours a day. It's going to cost a lot more than $1.00 lbs try $10
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:39 pm
i know somebody that has 2 kids and his wiffe is american 3rd generation and he come illegally now he cant become americancitizen does anybody disagre that is not fair
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:49 pm
I think it's about time this bill be passed. The bill doesn't call for legalization of any and all immigrants, just a select group through which no fault of their own have been handicapped in the United States. I myself am an immigrant to the U.S. i arrived when I was four and been living there for the past 20 years. Just recently I got deported and am now currently in my native country. Although I hold a passport and have all the rights of a citizen, I am completely lost. To me it's a foreign land where I don't know any of the customs, history, or politics of the country. Though by birth I may be a native of this country, I am an American by every other mean. I need this bill to pass, I need to get back home.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:50 pm
I am an illegal student in college and I pay cash…i cant get financial aid and I pay my taxes I dont get income tax I have to pay the IRS because I earn cash and I declared and besides I pay taxes on everything…so there is no way if you are undocumented t get financial aid you have to pay from your own pockect..
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:53 pm
Supporting what bias???? We are no longer a Christian nation per the president. We have hyphenated being an American to the point where being American no longer has meaning. We have surrendered parts of the American Southwest to drug lords and human traffickers. We have mortgaged our future to China. Our leadership is driving toward the model of European tax structure where most people pay over 50% of their income to taxes. And, you worried about stawberries. Is this a joke?
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 7:58 pm
pass the dream act, peple who goes to school and get an education and speak the language should deserve a chance to be here legally and serve the country, this new law is for people who grew up here and became part of the american culture is like growing up here being from here and have the american identity in your heart, but you just dont have the papers to prove it. I really hope they pass this law
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 8:13 pm
I will be praying today that the Dream ACT will pass, it needs to happen. I was reading some of the posts here and I'm amazed how much ignorance there is. Friends don't waste your time talking to ignorant people who don't even have a clue what the Dream ACT is. These are people that hate their lives and instead of focusing on making a change (like we are) they focus on other people. Let's be positive and pray! IT WILL PASS
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 8:16 pm
It takes doesn't take an intellect to understand the basic idea of what I said. You missed the point because your mind in clouded. Who's doing the work American's won't do? Who do you think is picking the fruits in our fields, planting them, harvesting the grapes, washing your hotel sheets, cleaning up after the kids, packing the meats you buy everyday. Building houses and offices, mowing laws. It's all apart of the economy fool. You support the bias by supporting the economy for undocumented immigrants. As for the joke? You're it.
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Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 8:20 pm
Why everybody say the emigrants no pay taxes.All emigrants want to pay taxes. But Republicans and they who don't want to pass the Emigration bill they don't need money for emigrants. Everybody pay taxes. Emigrants pay taxes.
When pay for groceries, for gas, for everything for our emigrant life,Emigrants pay taxes.PASS the EMIGRATION BILL, because you have to pay $100 for change the light bulb.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 8:24 pm
The Republican they kicked out will for for it. Lets see one in Alaska, one in Delaware. The two from Maine, Hatch should come around and bring Bennett. Count Brown, seems he uses his brain some and count Lugar. That's 8 enough to get it done.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 8:31 pm
I was here and i think they should pass the dream act. I'm in New York City and alot in my generation dont care/bother to go to school so why not give other's a chance. Sometimes i wonder if people are bias because they know deep down that Illegals are smarter then their own kids…just a thought. PASS THE DREAM ACT
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 8:48 pm
And all those geniuses that say the Dream Act is backdoor amnesty..how is it amnesty if you have to wait 6 years total under the Dream Act??? and to petition for others takes 10 years after you become a U.S citizen…
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 8:57 pm
Learn English pls…Its IMMIGRATION not Emmigration!!!!
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 9:03 pm
My wish is for the Dream Act to pass. I worked hard in High School and graduated in the top 20 of my class, my graduation year was 2010. I had so much hope for college where I could study and work obtaining a degree so that I could become an Anthropologist. Its not only me who couldn't attend college this year, many of us are future doctors, lawyers, scientist, etc. We speak english well and we consider the United States our home not where we were orginally born. Therefore we are Americans and love our country.
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Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 10:20 pm
1. I somewhat agree and disagree on this issue. I don't like the idea that it extends to 35 year olds, unfortunately. There are many that graduated high school and made English their primary language … they even started a family here. I think a young family should have equal chance to redeem themselves rather than tear the family apart, taking way father, mother .. or both. There is a HUMAN element that here that people so blatantly cast away. But ultimately, this should be completely separate method of reform that is not directly congruent to the Dream Act..
2. I absolutely agree here, open to fraud; however; there should be some proof. i.e. high school transcripts.
3. I disagree, it is not an amnesty. (this is obviously not a fact, it's just your opinion). Employers hire at will, and even more unfortunate, we Americans have become lazy and soft … we expect everything to be made easy for us and cry foul to unions when others workers become more competitive (I SEE IT ALL THE TIME). That's why so many companies take their manufacturing to other nations. So yes.. employers will continue to hire at will to achieve their ultimate goal and meet the bottom line. You would do the same if you were a CEO earning half a million per year.
4. No that's not really true. first of all. Many will fall short of meeting the criteria, the few that do, can only petition immediate 1st tier relatives (mother, father, son, daughter) and petitioning takes seven years… 2nd tier relatives (brothers, sisters) take up to 10 years… That comment is not FACT but instead just misleading cynicism that may as well state “Copulation will lead to billions of humans being born!” (yes in 10,000 years it sure will). And after the past amnesties, we are still doing well, up until 2000 but that's not their fault. (I have a friend who got amnesty, now she's a doctor and she's saving lives, her son works in law enforcement doing the same).
5. Humanity has always been sailing down the river. The only time that the crud hits the fan is when fear mongers rally-up witch hunts (Salem, Mass.) McCarthyism (1950's) or spread anti-Semitism (Hitler). Anyone that can read between the lines knows what this is all about … “Hating Mexicans”, because I'm absolutely sure that no one would moan and whine because a German, Englishman, or Canadian was here illegally, In fact most people wouldn't think twice about it. And the ONLY reason you would say otherwise, is to save face of the obvious hate on Mexicans.
… Just wear your swastika and stfu.
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 10:26 pm
Wow! Christian? Really?
- Here's your swastika!
Comment posted September 20, 2010 @ 10:32 pm
I love how the people benefitting from this are so innocent. I equate this to any other crime. If your parents stole a “desk-or put whatever here” from the local school, should we just let you keep it? It should be taken away or you should have to earn it. Anyone going thru this should have to do service to the country. Skip basic aid, try Americore. This bill also does nothing to go after the offender. How about turning in those the so 'injustly' brought you here? Want to stay, your parents or whoever has to leave. Make ammends.
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Comment posted September 21, 2010 @ 1:37 am
brown has had a tough stance on immigration, but he has 5 more years before re-election, and is going to be the most liberal rep you have ever seen!! he has buckled on a bunch!!!
Comment posted September 21, 2010 @ 2:29 am
I hope they pass the Dream Act. It is no fault to the children that was brought here at a young age by their parents. They had no concept of legal and illegal, so why punish them? Without their knowledge and success to strive for a better future, the United States would have a great down fall. We are going to benefit from it. If our parents stole something, we are not responsible for it..It's their faul and we should not be punish for what they did! Now, all you racist, selfish people need to stop looking at the “Illegal” part and think logical. These young children/adults didn't have a say while their parents dragged them to the U.S.
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Comment posted September 21, 2010 @ 1:39 pm
I am a US resident and I have a 12 year old sister that is a Mexican national but has lived in the US for 11 years. She doesn't know Mexico, she doesn't know her culture. The US is all she knows!
NOW FOR ALL YOU PEOPLE THAT ARE SAYING DON'T PASS THE DREAM ACT, WHO ARE YOU TO SAY THAT??? OUR FOUNDING FATHERS WERE IN THESE IMMIGRANTS SHOES!!
This country is made of IMMIGRANTS. Just like my sister, there are millions of young adults that are going to have this big problem when they finish high school if something is not done. We Immigrants are here for a reason and that reason is to be better people and citizens. Yes, I know, there are those people that come here and are criminals, but of course this DREAM ACT won't benefit them. I will be praying with all my Latinos today to pass the DREAM ACT
Comment posted September 21, 2010 @ 1:45 pm
Wow, you got me!!! When you can't argue the facts, insult the person.
Americans can't do the work because there are enough illegals who will work for less than the minium wage. If there were no illegals, the market would take care of the wage required to pick the fields, clean the sheets and wipe the kids noses.
Shame on you for criticizing America. Where is your criticism of third world leaders whose only interest is to line their own pockets and let their people live in sh*tholes. Where is your ire at the Mexican president who stands in our Congress and criticizes American policy when his own thugs arrest illegals that come into his country and places them in jail.
Where is your anger and frustration? Why are you so quick to open our doors and make Americans pay for what other countries turn away?
Comment posted September 21, 2010 @ 2:26 pm
So many criminals, people who live their entire lives on welfare, bums, people in jail and good-for-nothing, actually have a green-card. Could the government take those away and give it to those who went to school and are willing to work? Could the government give it to those who are here for medical reasons? The gov is actually issuing visas now for people out of the country with no skills, who want to work here temporarily. Go figure!
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Dec.9th,2010
Fellow Americans, Democrats in Congress done it again, Voting to legalized any one that is here in violation of our immigration laws is to void the law. Obama refusing to secure our borders, enforce our immigration laws and suing Arizona for doing the job that he refused to do, is not doing what is right for the American people?
Americans should hold congress accountable for betraying the American people.
Members of congress, in case you don’t know it, your disregard for our constitution, the rule of law, the rights of states to protect their citizens and your failure to secure our borders is the result of this huge invasion of Mexicans including the drug cartels, the exodus of Mexicans mainly to the USA is because your immigration policy.
Democrats and President Obama, are to blame for policies that made millions of Americans to lost their jobs and the decreased of their wages, because Mexicans are willing to work for less wages than Americans are able to work for it.
Obama and the Democrats immigration policy cost the States billions of Dollars on social services, education, law enforcement and the drug cartels criminal activities.
Obama and the Democrats must do what is right for America or they will be out of the job, no one that betray the will of the people should be elected to office.
Mr. politician this is what Americans want and what is best for our country. To fix your policies and save our country from becoming third world country.
1-Build the fence and secure our Borders, enforce all immigration laws and revise our refuge and asylum policies, to insure their return to their country of origin when is safe for them to return.
2- Pass a legislation that will make every state part of the enforcement of the immigration laws and fund this obligation with the confiscation and sales of property from drug dealers, human traffickers and organized crimes, also by a sales tax.
2- Work on a immigration reform that will not allowed any family reunion clause or petitions for parents, siblings or any relative and exclude and deport any one with criminal record also deport any one that is given US residence upon conviction of any felony crimes.
3- Change our constitution to stop anchor babies (U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC Bill)
4- prosecute any employer that hire an illegal immigrant. The responsibility for compliance rest on the owner or the president, vise-president and human resources directors if the violator is a corporation. Violation of this law should be a jail sentence of the minimum of 5 years.
We the people will work to get the traitors of of Washington. We ask you that get inform and vote out of office the politicians that fail to vote for what is best for Americans.
Francisco Canales
teapartyoftx@gmail.com
Comment posted December 9, 2010 @ 2:44 pm
December 7th,2010
Dlowes4ever, we have immigration laws, the true is that Obama and the corrupt Washington politicians encourage this invasion of Mexicans illegals and we need to stop it.
Fellow Americans, while President Obama, Janet Napolitano, Erick Holder and the pro-illegal Mexicans aliens Senators and congressmen working to stop the enforcement of our immigration laws and promoting the invasion of more illegal aliens through legislations like the DREAM ACT AND AMNESTY TO ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS. The Mexico’s drug cartels and other drug trafficking organizations have extended their network of criminals in the Mexicans communities across the United States and into Canada. The Mexicans cartels are in operation in more than 250 cities in the United States. Law enforcement authorities in US cities say that the Mexican cartels form their network of traffickers in the Mexican communities they used Mexicans illegal aliens and Americans of Mexican roots to distribute the cartels’ marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs.
State law enforcement said that crimes such as kidnappings, home invasion, shootings, human trafficking, killings and brutal assaults in Phoenix, Birmingham, Ala, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta GA, Las Vegas, Chicago, Anchorage, Boston, Newark, Billings Montana, Virginia, Vancouver, British Columbia and other US cities, are connected to the Mexican drug cartels.
United States law enforcement officials have identified 230 cities, where Mexican cartels and their affiliates “maintain drug distribution networks or supply drugs to distributors,” as a Justice Department report put it in December. The figure rose from 100 cities reported three years earlier, Department officials said that may be because of better data collection methods as well as the spread of the cartel organizations.
Border Governors Janice Brewer, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas has asked President Obama for National Guard troops to secure the border, and on September 2010, Obama completing his plans to secure our Mexican border deployed 224 agents for California, 524 for Arizona, 224 for Texas and 72 for New Mexico; with orders of not to arrest any one, they only be an extra eyes for the border patrol and inform the Border patrol to enforce the laws and make the arrest. Obama said enhanced security measures would include increased use of equipment at the ports of entry to detect weapons carried in cars crossing into Mexico from the United States, and more collaboration with Mexican law enforcement officers to trace weapons seized from crime scenes.
Obama, Janet Napolitano secretary of homeland security, Erick Holder and the US Dept. of justice, lack the will to secure our borders and protect the American people; their plan to secure our borders do not work, because we need about 10,000 Guards with orders to arrest and use force if need be, also they need to make sure that no Border patrol or immigration officer with Mexican roots be station in the Mexican Border. Many American citizens with Mexicans roots and families in Mexico will look the other way. Despite the fact that over $11 billion has been spent to beef up the border areas, only 10% of the Border Patrol agent recruits are ever given the simply polygraph test because of a “lack of money”! And in order to attract more agents, the recruits are assigned to an areas where they are from, this allows any connections to cartel members to remain if undetected. The FBI now has 13 squads along the border area watching the Border patrol agents on duty. There are now more than 400 under investigation! Arrests of Border Patrol agents is up from 24% last year to 40% this year.
Basically, the Mexican drug cartel traffickers are now infiltrating the US Border Patrol bribing the agents with Mexicans roots, money and intimidation are tactics use to corrupt the Immigration and Border Patrol agents.
Many agents know who are in the take but refused to talk and the Liberal Major Media Outlets (ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and even CNN) are hiding the facts by under-reporting the tragedy being played out in our border states. We don’t hear 90% of what is going on because it doesn’t fit the Liberal narrative of the poor, harmless undocumented “worker” who only wants to feed his starving family. If the FCC should revoke anybodies license it needs to be these liberal media outlets who only report the Democrats party line. The people need to start demanding in the streets that the Feds protect our borders and the lying media should be shut down.
If you care about our future, please pass this on and send faxes and letters to your Washington representatives and Obama, Janet Napolitano and Erick Holder and demand Border security and enforcement of the immigration laws.. Our biggest National threat is the Mexican invasion of immigrants and the Mexican drug cartels. National security should start at our Borders, our priority on National security should not be on North Korea, Afghanistan or any other country.
Voteforamerica@hotmail.com
http://directory.usayfoundation.org/
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101121114653AAEQZgB
http://gateamerica.blogspot.com/2010/11/mexican-drug-cartels-part-4-effects-in.html
http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_4_corruption.html
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34215.pdf
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/az-governor-obama-calderon-both-want-ill
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