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Senate immigration bill includes nearly $300 million in slush funds for immigrants' rights groups
Daily Mail on line ^ | 7/19/13 | David Martosko

Posted on 07/19/2013 8:27:35 PM PDT by Baynative

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To: sickoflibs; Baynative; Liz; cripplecreek; Tennessee Nana; TADSLOS; stephenjohnbanker; Impy; ...

Does that idiot GOP congressman Mike Simpson from Idaho know what is in the senate bill he wants to go to conference with?

The more “comprehensive immigration” c**p they pass in the House, the more likely it is to help senate traitors and Obama to put us on the path to a leftist one party system.


21 posted on 07/20/2013 1:25:16 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Fool me once, shame on you -- twice, shame on me -- 100 times, it's U. S. immigration policy.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Like the Senate bill we will smell the dog-sh.. pretty fast,

But now its endless balloons.


22 posted on 07/20/2013 1:32:54 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker

Yep,
go to House-Senate conference with a bill that the 14 Senate sellouts in your own party who made it possible now deny that they even know what’s even in it.

Makes perfect sense.


23 posted on 07/20/2013 1:51:15 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Count on Obama’s right hand man the besotten John Boehner for dereliction of duty: as Speaker of the House, as leader of the opposition party, as a member of congress, he will do all he can to fulfill Obama’s Amnesty Agenda.

John Boehner is a traitor to the United States. He enriches himself with no regard to his duty under the Constitution.


24 posted on 07/20/2013 2:08:24 AM PDT by Ray76 (An armed society is a polite society.)
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To: Ray76

Bonehead & Rubio

Treason Twins powers activate!

form of unregistered foreign agent...

form of tears...

AGAIN? Is that all you have John?

**sniffles**


25 posted on 07/20/2013 2:13:52 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

Boehner’s been in the pickle barrel for a long time, Rubio is just a racist punk.


26 posted on 07/20/2013 2:48:10 AM PDT by Ray76 (An armed society is a polite society.)
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To: Baynative

Republican politicians love supporting legislation that funds the progressive movement by giving grants to a myriad of community and social organizations. Without these federal slush funds there would have been no Obama because there’d have been no money to hire a community organizer.


27 posted on 07/20/2013 3:35:32 AM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: sickoflibs; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; no-to-illegals; AuntB; Tennessee Nana; TADSLOS
There needs to be investigations on several fronts.Clearly, The Gang of Eight is getting their marching orders from Third World hellholes and organized latino pressure groups inside the US.

OMINOUS SILENCE Conspicuously silent is the tax-funded "Congressional Hispanic Caucus" on Capitol Hill, "Voto Latino," the numerous tax- funded "Hispanic Federations," the tax-funded blood thirsty "La Raza," as well as countless "latino legal rights" groups.

La Raza is a race baiting organization already funded with million of our tax dollars.......agitating for more Third World immigration, and endless US tax-funded social services to illegals.

God only knows how many tax dollars La Raza is sucking up via the Castro's (one in Congress and one in San Antonio).

Joaquin's Cong member items and earmarks should be scrutinized. San Antonio govt budgets, agencies, and bank accounts under Julian's control should be examined with a fine-tooth comb for govt fraud, racketeering, conspiracy, collusion, nepotism, secret LLC accounts, and money laundering, wire fraud, tax evasion, etc, etc, etc.

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The super-secretive criminal latino underworld is infesting the US political system. The collusive tight-knit coterie of conspiratorial political operatives have one goal----to loot the public treasury, and act as a pressure group to advance the Third World's ambitions.

"Citizenship" is the latino word for "pressure group." Citizenship and welfare benefits are a small part of amnesty---get ready for zillions in foreign aid and other federal handouts.

LYING IN WAIT FOR OUR TAX DOLLARS--- THESE IMPOVERISHED COUNTRIES CURRENTLY HAVE ORGANIZED PRESSURE GROUPS INSIDE THE US (here illegally): Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico (stateside)l Salvador, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela.

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AS ONE EXAMPLE: Dominican Republic travel brochures reveal the Third World hellhole provides no safety nets for its impoverished populations. The DR depends on the billion dollars per year their illegal population collect in the US and send back home.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC STRANGLEHOLD ON US POLITICS--- It is an unconscionable travesty against representative democracy---to have the corrupt Dominican Republic meddling in our affairs---cooking the books to help Sen Booby Menendez (D-NJ) stay in power. Menendez is on-record using US govt authority to grease the skids for a billion dollar Dominican port-deal (that can facilitate drug cargo to the US).

28 posted on 07/20/2013 3:57:58 AM PDT by Liz
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To: ConservativeMan55

This money is tax payer money used against us. When are we going to get angry here? If we dont turn this around in 2014 we are sunk


29 posted on 07/20/2013 4:01:36 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Yesterdays conspiracies are todays truths)
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L/E should rigorously investigate the latino criminal uderworld---corrupt parasites undermining the US political system----proof-positve here that govt documents were falsified to hide the corrupt use of tax dollars. L/E might find the latino underworld doled out tax funds to finance drug habits, sex romps and other outrageous conduct.

"Hispanic Federation honchos"--Roberto Ramirez (left)
and Luis Miranda--look like they have a BIG secret.

The "federation" has ties to latino crime family nonprofits---which are corrupt political machines.

Twi$ted web of political nonprofits in Bronx, NY / By CANDICE M. GIOVE; w/ Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein

EXCLUSIVE The dating life of ex-Assemblywoman Naomi Rivera (ousted from office by voters) has shed light on a web of Latino nonprofits in The Bronx — groups that benefit a close-knit network of political insiders as much as the community.

Rivera installed a boyfriend, Vincent Pinela, as head of the Bronx Council for Economic Development, a taxpayer-funded nonprofit he admits being unqualified to run. He alleges she used the group to fund their dates and her campaign.

But the Bronx economic council is only one nonprofit of many organized under the Hispanic Federation, which has taken in $24 million in taxpayer money since 1998. The federation has ties to almost every Hispanic lawmaker in The Bronx, including Rivera, but primarily benefits two men: political strategist Luis Miranda, who co-founded it and once served as its president, and Roberto Ramirez, a former Bronx Democratic Party boss. The men run a private political consulting firm, the MirRam Group. It’s paid by the Hispanic Federation and is hired by politicians who steer taxpayer money to the nonprofit.

A NY Post investigation has found:

<><><>* The Hispanic Federation paid MirRam and Miranda Towns, a firm registered to Miranda and his wife, $681,644 between 1999 and 2008 for “consulting,” records show.

<><><>* In 2005, the federation paid MirRam $88,000 to survey Latinos on topics including the mayor’s race. At the same time, MirRam was paid $1.37 million by Fernando Ferrer, then a mayoral candidate.

<><><>* Ramirez and Miranda gave political allies jobs at the nonprofit. Ex-Secretary of State Lorraine Cortez Vazquez, who had been Ramirez’s chief of staff, made more than $180,000 a year there.

<><><>* The Hispanic Federation paid MirRam $33,000 this year to lobby the City Council, records show.

<><><>* The group often pays out small amounts, from $400 to $800, to individuals without detailing why on official documents as required by law. A source in the group said these are sometimes payments for favor. "I have to pay a lady who is bringing latino seniors to a political event,” the source said. “They promised to send the lady to the Dominican Republic with her family in exchange for rounding up votes.” An Hispanic Federation spokesman lied---and said the payments were for families of victims of American Airlines Flight 587, which crashed in Queens in 2001, or "other people in need."

Miranda launched the Hispanic Federation in 1990, the year Ramirez won an Assembly seat in Fordham. Ramirez left politics in 2000 and handed the party reins to Assemblyman José Rivera, father of sexpot Naomi, in 2002. Insiders say that if you want influence in The Bronx, you have to deal with the Hispanic Federation and, by extension, MirRam consultants. Nonprofits, for instance, pay the Hispanic Federation to do their bookkeeping.

Rivera's Bronx Economic Development council was charged $12,000 a year for Hispanic Federation services according toher boytoy Pinela. Every year, the federation throws a fund-raising gala packed with politicians---a bash at the Waldorf-Astoria last Apri1 brought out mayoral hopefuls City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Bill Thompson and New York Giant Victor Cruz.

But the blurring of a nonprofit and a consultant group means there’s little or no accountability, said the source inside the Hispanic Federation. “If we were helping the Little League around the corner to get bats or gloves . . . the ends justify the means,” the source said. “But when you are giving extra money to a senior center because they delivered people to a [political] event, it’s a different story.”

A federation spokesman called the allegations “simply untrue,” saying it only provides funds for those in need of disaster relief. As for payments to MirRam, the group noted that Miranda was no longer its president and MirRam is “arguably the top Latino lobbying and strategic consulting firm in our city.”

SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/twi_ted_web_in_bx_Fxatn1KxaBpb4reW6SaeqI#ixzz24f02JyRG

30 posted on 07/20/2013 4:05:37 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

Thanks Liz. Not surprising really with the number of nations we contribute too that hate Americans also. Have wondered why for years and the only conclusion can come to is there has to be kickbacks taking place.


31 posted on 07/20/2013 4:16:16 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Baynative

http://www.kansascity.com/2013/07/19/4353959/obama-to-speak-in-warrensburg.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3044849/posts

Big government is pulling out all their stops to pass amnesty after the August recess.


32 posted on 07/20/2013 4:18:25 AM PDT by Just mythoughts (Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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MASSIVE MORTGAGE FRAUD ON CAPITOL HILL FACILITATED W/ OUR TAX DOLLARS :

The Congressional Hispanic Institute, Inc, is an entity organized by Cong Joe Baca (D-Cali) in his capacity as head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

Cong Baca created "HOGAR" (Spanish for home) in 2003 to work with the mortgage industry, F/M, lenders, banks and latino community groups to increase mortgage lending to what savvy observers consider to be unqualified Latinos.

"HOGAR" colluded w/ Cong Baca in what was to become a massive bilking of taxpayers. Cong Baca calculatedly hyped the fact that the national Latino homeownership rate was 47%, compared with 68% for the overall population.

HOGAR was coached to call the figure "alarming," and to say "a concerted effort was required to ensure that by the end of the decade Latinos will share equally in the American Dream of home ownership."

HOGAR and Cong Baca conned the public, failing to note that most of the "dreamers" were illegals, citizens of Third World countries who had violated US borders.

Predictably, HOGAR colluded w/ co-conspirators which included:

(a) shaky mortgage companies that ran into big trouble;

(b) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both now under federal control after billions in taxpayer bailouts;

(c) Countrywide Financial Corp., sold to Bank of America Corp;

(d) Washington Mutual Inc., taken over by the US government and sold to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.; and,

(e) New Century Financial Corp. and Ameriquest Mortgage Corp, both now defunct, killed by defaulted subprime Latino mortgages.

HOGAR's ties to the subprime mortgage industry were substantial. Bribery and self-dealing were rampant:

<><> Companies that donated $150,000 to Cong Baca got the right to have their own research fellow who would conduct fraudulent studies, which were cunningly used by industry lobbyists to pump lending.

<><> Bribery and extortion in the form of $100,000 annual donations to Cong Baca, for which HOGAR provided phony news releases from Cong Baca's Hispanic Caucus promoting a lender's commercial products to the Latino market,

<><> The most shocking example of bribery well-substantitated by Hogar's literature..... HOGAR announced it worked with Freddie Mac on a self-serving two-year examination of Latino homeownership in 63 congressional districts.

The "study" found Hispanic ownership on the rise thanks to "new flexible mortgage loan products" that the industry was adopting at the urging of Cong Baca's collusive coterie.

<><> HOGAR conned lenders into even more lenient down-payment and underwriting standards.

<><> As the subprime debacle unfolded, HOGAR declined repeated requests for comment despite the economic havoc their activities precipitated.

The mortgage schemes demonstrated the criminal activities of border violators with multiple identities---perhaps violent, terrorist-connected foreigners---colluding and conspiring to defraud private companies and public entities. And mortgage racketeering enterprises which employed sub rosa finance and business practices to carry out deceptions and frauds.

The alleged ring of swindlers---a Congresman, individuals with multiple identities, banks, insurance companies, mortgage brokers--might be charged with cheating the US govt, taxpayers and bank share holders out of hundreds of millions of dollars via an elaborate web of mortgage and bank frauds.

The mortgage Dreamers used multiple phony identities, fraudulent Social Security numbers, purchased from identity forgers in order to obtain govt-subsidized benefits.

L/E will find that individuals with multiple identities obtained fraudulent mortgages then flipped the houses at ever-higher prices to family member who then absconded to foreign countries, sticking banks (and taxpayers) with hundreds of millions in fraudulent mortgages.

BACKGROUND A Wall Street Journal investigative report related that, according to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council examination of the borrowing spree, uncovered financial schemes by low-income housing groups, Hispanic lawmakers, a congressional Hispanic housing initiative, mortgage lenders and brokers, all colluding in fraduent schemes to increase homeownership among Latinos with forged documents which enabled massive fraud.

This was not simply the mortgage market at work. It was fueled by avarice, greed, and Congressional enabling fraudulent practices. In 2005 alone, mortgages to Hispanics jumped by 29%; Latinos with multiple fraudulent identities in low-paying jobs obtained subprime mortgages for prime properties---soaring to 169%.

(Research provided by Wall Street Journal. Some material excerpted from the NY Times).

33 posted on 07/20/2013 4:45:50 AM PDT by Liz
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To: sickoflibs
"The longer it draws out in the house the more of this gets out."

Paul Ryan who wanted to be our vice president is pushing this garbage to destroy the republic.

34 posted on 07/20/2013 6:01:27 AM PDT by Baynative (Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Which is worse? Rubio knew or Rubio didn’t know.


35 posted on 07/20/2013 7:00:59 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (The Stupid Party, they've earned it.)
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To: JouleZ

Just a minor correction, they were bought by Obama (just like he bought the drug companies), but they were paid for by us.


36 posted on 07/20/2013 7:02:57 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (The Stupid Party, they've earned it.)
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To: Baynative

Vote buying as usual. The stinking weak kneed liberal RINO party, formerly the republican party, will kiss liberal dims butts to be included. They might as well just switch parties and call themselves dimocrats and get it over with. Rubio is a punk. He has thrown in with the liberals.


37 posted on 07/20/2013 7:27:19 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (1 Cor 15: 50-54 & 1 Thess 4: 13-17. That about covers it.)
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Vote buying as usual.

Mexico is their Wal-Mart.

38 posted on 07/20/2013 7:29:51 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Baynative
A former senior policy analyst at the National Council of La Raza supervised the drafting of a U.S. Senate bill

How all legislation gets written. This is why they don't read the bill, they don't know enough about what's in the bill so they rely on an "expert".

That the expert has a vacation condo and a yacht, available at any time the lawmaker would like, plus a $100,000 campaign contribution has no bearing on the legislation being considered.

39 posted on 07/20/2013 7:30:52 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Rubio is dead to me. If he ever had principles instead of merely craving power, he has gone native.


40 posted on 07/20/2013 7:31:42 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. - Tacitus)
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