Posted on 12/15/2009 8:46:45 PM PST by Steelfish
Immigration Overhaul Bill Unveiled In House The legislation, which includes a path to legalization, is met with criticism from conservatives and liberals.
By Antonio Olivo and Teresa Watanabe December 15, 2009
Reporting from Los Angeles and Chicago - Raising the curtain on a new round of debate over immigration reform, a group of Democratic congressional lawmakers introduced a comprehensive bill today that, among other provisions, would offer a path to legalization for the country's estimated 12 million illegal immigrants.
The bill, championed by Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) was decidedly more pro-immigrant than the bipartisan legislation House lawmakers defeated two years ago. And the latest version drew immediate fire from the left as well as the right. Groups opposed to legalization derided it as a form of amnesty, and more-liberal factions complained that it relied too heavily on enforcement.
In Los Angeles, immigration activists hailed the measure at a news conference before heading to local lawmakers' offices -- aboard a yellow school bus festooned with banners -- to urge their support.
"This is a big day for us," said Jorge-Mario Cabrera of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. "Our community has been awaiting this bill for a long time."
Cabrera called Gutierrez's bill the most generous immigration legislation in more than two decades, citing provisions that would allow migrants to legalize their status without returning to their home countries, prohibit separation of families, offer more visas for workers and relatives and eliminate local enforcement of federal immigration law.
The bill also calls for beefing up border security and overhauling the federal detention system for jailed immigrants to provide for better medical treatment and other services.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
what about the other 20 million?
Uncontrolled “legal” immigration and “anchor-babies” immigration has already changed our nation. This Bill will formally and officially end the US as we know it. Sad. Whoever thought that in less than 12 months those 67% voters aged 19-29 and white single women who (according to Gallup) voted “overwhelmingly’ for Obama would have sent an entire nation hurtling into self-destruction.
Over and over again democrats are being warned that they will NOT be reelected if they vote yes on healthcare.
THIS is the democratic response to that threat.
Democrats have every intention of making absolutely positively sure illegal aliens and likely 3/4 of the population of Mexico become immediate democrat voters. It is NOT being done for compassion - it is self-serving and will be a fatal blow to all Americans (especially the jobless) and to the standard of living our children and grandchildren will be forced to endure.
This will be the fight of our lifetime for the preservation of our nation.
Just for the hell of it I gave Nancy Pelosi a call to ask if she thought it was fair to make taxpayers pay for the education and medical costs of illegal aliens, especially since it was a failure of federal enforcement and administration that allowed illegal aliens to mass in this country, as well as multi-billion dollar document forgery, people smuggling, and identity theft industries to form ... and is it fair to now reward lawbreakers with amnesty, and the failed government with more power and ready made voters?
Her reply? “Are you serious? ARE YOU SERIOUS???”
Pelosi et al are guilty of plotting to unleash this type of terror upon us:
Declassified report of Insurgent Training Camp in Mexico
Contrary to the belief of some they're all good people just looking for a better life (and the link will show MANY drug apprehensions, not listed here::
USBP Weekly Blotter - December 3- December 9
Snips:
Rio Grande Valley Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Honduras near Falfurrias, Texas. Records checks revealed the subject was a Mara Salvatrucha 13 (MS-13) gang member and had been previously removed from the United States.
Tucson Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Mexico near Naco, Arizona. Records checks revealed the subject had a prior conviction for lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 and had been previously removed from the United States.
Del Rio Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Mexico near Carrizo Springs, Texas. During processing, the subject admitted to being a Sureño 13 gang member. Records checks revealed he had an extensive criminal history and had been previously removed from the United States.
Tucson Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Mexico near Sells, Arizona. During processing, the subject admitted to being a member of the Sureño gang. Records checks revealed the subject had an extensive criminal history and had been previously removed from the United States.
Tucson Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Mexico near Willcox, Arizona. During processing, the subject admitted to being a Latin Kings gang member. Records checks revealed he had an extensive criminal record and an arrest warrant for probation violation in the State of Illinois. The subject had also been previously removed from the United States.
Laredo Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Mexico near Laredo, Texas. During processing, the subject admitted to being an MS-13 gang member. Records checks revealed he had been previously removed from the United States.
Swanton Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Haiti near Newport Center, Vermont. Records checks revealed the subject had a previous arrest record, was a member of the Top 6 gang, and is a suspected member of the Bloods gang.
Tucson Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Honduras near Tombstone, Arizona. During processing, the subject admitted to being an MS-13 gang member. Records checks revealed extensive criminal and immigration histories, to include felony convictions for robbery, theft, and drug sales.
El Paso Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Mexico near Fort Hancock, Texas. Records checks revealed the subject had a prior conviction for indecency with a child in the State of Texas and had been previously removed from the United States.
Tucson Sector – A Border Patrol agent and his canine partner were assaulted by an illegal alien from Honduras near Amado, Arizona. The subject, an MS-13 gang member, struck both the agent and his canine in the head with rocks, and absconded. Border Patrol agents searched the area and located the subject, resulting in his arrest.
Laredo Sector – Border Patrol agents seized a small amount of marijuana and a 1991 Oldsmobile, and arrested a USC and an illegal alien from Mexico at the traffic checkpoint near Bruni, Texas. The USC presented himself for inspection and a Border Patrol canine alerted to the vehicle. Records checks revealed the USC had multiple drug convictions and was a member of the Mexican Mafia gang.
San Diego Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Honduras near Jamul, California. During processing, the subject admitted to being an MS-13 gang member. Records checks revealed the subject had been previously removed from the United States.
Tucson Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Mexico near Eloy, Arizona. Records checks revealed the subject had prior arrests for rape, kidnapping and sodomy with force, and was a registered sex offender in the State of California. The subject had also been previously removed from the United States.
Tucson Sector – Border Patrol agents arrested an illegal alien from Mexico near Nogales, Arizona. Records checks revealed the subject had a prior conviction for gross vehicle manslaughter while intoxicated in the State of California, and had been previously removed from the United States.
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What in God's name are you talking about?
Do you recall McCain-Kennedy, the Amnesty Bill of May 2007?
When we literally burned down the phone lines to the Senate?
When McNutcase's "popularity" plummeted? ( I don't know anyone who likes him, so I'm not sure what "popularity" means in this context)
As far as the election in Arizona, he's about out of that dance finally, now that everyone sees him for the fraud that he is.
Was that a press conference held here in Los Angeles? I'm asking because I'm wondering how they were able to use a school bus.
From the article: In Los Angeles, immigration activists hailed the measure at a news conference before heading to local lawmakers' offices -- aboard a yellow school bus festooned with banners -- to urge their support.
No, the press conference was held in the Rayburn building in DC.
Thanks. Since I'm here in L.A. I'm going to try and see if I can find out how one gets to use school buses for protest activities.
In 2005 the number was 38 million, 36 million illegals plus 2 million visa overstays. Who knows what the number is now.
Walsh is a former scholar and Federal prosecutor. He knows the immigration stats inside out and has done his homework. He is the real deal that's why no one ever talks about him.
Are they trying to pass the trifecta of Health Care, Cap and Trade and Amnesty all in the same week before the end of the year? Just wondering.”
Yes and is there REALLY any way to stop them?
But LaRaza likes it!
Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Gutierrez Challenges the Harmful Status Quo
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/clarissa-martinez-de-castro/comprehensive-immigration_b_392621.html
We should make this FR's Signature tune! Please share with as many as you can?!
What more do you have to say? They are here against the laws of the US. That makes them illegal immigrant or aliens for that matter. What else do you need?
I prefer calling them "tourists without visas".
I want words to have a meaning and not have people make up and limit definitions. That’s a propaganda technique.
I prefer calling them what they are: illegal aliens.
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