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Immigration Chicanery
Townhall.com ^ | September 16, 2014 | Phyllis Schlafly

Posted on 09/16/2014 9:36:12 AM PDT by Kaslin

The strategists who base their political advice on public opinion polls have just had a surprise. A new poll reports that the American people are now more likely to trust Republicans to handle immigration and less likely to trust Democratic plans to offer illegals a path to citizenship (aka amnesty).

Many people have believed this for some time. But it is now confirmed in a poll taken by the pro-amnesty Wall Street Journal, so it must be so.

The new survey is decisive; 35 percent say the Republican Party would do a better job on immigration while only 27 percent say the Democrats would. That's a dramatic reversal from the previous year.

The Wall Street Journal poll also revealed another change in public opinion that should get the attention of candidates. Support for the much-discussed "pathway to citizenship" has dropped significantly from 64 percent in April to 53 percent today.

Obama had promised to ease the entry of more illegals this summer, but he obviously has heard from Democrats running for office in November. The Central American kids who are crashing over our border have made it more difficult to pretend there is no problem.

Another pollster, the Polling Company Inc. reports that half of Americans age 65 and over support a zero immigration policy and that three-quarters of respondents believe "green cards" should be given to fewer than 100,000 immigrants per year. The Polling Company Inc. also reports that Independents (47 percent) are more likely than Republicans (40 percent) or Democrats (37 percent) to want zero new immigrants allowed into our country.

With colossal impertinence, the Mexican government attacked Texas Gov. Rick Perry for sending National Guard troops to guard our Southern border, saying that Mexico "deeply rejects and condemns the deployment." The Mexicans accused Perry of taking this action to advance his political ambitions.

Perry did order 1,000 guardsmen to the border in July in support roles to assist the Texas Department of Public Safety, which Perry believes was necessary to compensate for federal inaction. They are deployed in support roles such as observation and tracking of illegal activity.

The Mexico City annual conference of the Telmex Foundation, headed by Mexican billionaire (and New York Times investor) Carlos Slim, included speeches by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Slim was perhaps repaying the honor of having received the 2012 Global Citizen Award from the Clinton Global Initiative.

In his so-called keynote speech on Sept. 5 to Slim's assembly of "global citizens," Zuckerberg took the opportunity to attack America's laws. He said, "We have a strange immigration policy for a nation of immigrants. And it's a policy unfit for today's world."

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was in Mexico City for a separate meeting on Sept. 4, but he found time to attack the United States for what he called its "foolish regulation" of energy, such as laws that help keep oil and gas prices low by limiting the export of those precious resources. He refused to answer reporters' questions about security along our border with Mexico, but issued this teaser: "I won't have anything to say on immigration unless, and until, I become a candidate for the president of the United States."

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, on a two-day "state visit" to California, speaking in Spanish to a joint session of the California state legislature on Aug. 26, praised legislators for allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses and state-funded scholarships at public universities. He ignored American demonstrators demanding the release of Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi, the U.S. Marine who has been wrongly held in a Mexican prison for over 5 months.

Obama was saying all summer that his plan was to bypass Congress and the Constitution and issue an "executive amnesty" for millions of illegal aliens. His amnesty plan has since changed to be issued only after the 2014 elections so as not to defeat Democrats up for election in November.

His planned amnesty will include work permits, photo ID's and Social Security numbers for millions of people who entered the U.S. illegally, overstayed their visas or defrauded U.S. immigration authorities.

As Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said, "Never in recent memory has the divide between the everyday citizen and the political elite been as wide as it is now." He says the immigration debate comes down to several major questions:

Does our country have the right to decide who comes to live and work here? Do we have the right to demand that our representatives enforce our laws? Should American workers get priority for jobs?

If your answer is yes, it is essential to block Obama's planned executive amnesty and demand that Harry Reid call this up for a vote.

As Sessions said, "Let this sink in. The majority leader of the Senate is bragging that he knows the president will circumvent Congress to issue executive amnesty to millions."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: 0bamaadmin; aliens; bordersecurity; dingyharryreid; immigration

1 posted on 09/16/2014 9:36:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Amnesty = ISIS


2 posted on 09/16/2014 10:07:18 AM PDT by Vaduz
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and if they hadn’t been half way pro amnesty they could have owned this issue and campaigned on it. Dummies.


3 posted on 09/16/2014 11:59:49 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (This is where the left is taking us http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-tyranny)
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Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, on an Aug 26 "state visit" to California, praised legislators for all the giveaways to his people who jumped the border, including drivers' licenses and tax-funded scholarships at public universities.

And when Pena announced that, "California is another Mexico, " Gov Jerry Brown was so turned-on, he dropped to his knees and fellated Pena on the spot.

It's a wonder Pena didn't choke on his burrito.

4 posted on 09/17/2014 2:51:43 AM PDT by Liz
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Vote-crazed Obama's amnesty plan is calculatedly crafted to screw Americans bigtime. It will include work permits, photo ID's and Social Security numbers for millions of border jumpers, for those who overstayed their visas (like the Boston bombers) and for those who defrauded US immigration authorities.
5 posted on 09/17/2014 2:58:30 AM PDT by Liz
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.....as astounded Americans watched in horror-----tens of thousands of Third World underage illegals (including familes and adults) streamed across the Rio Grande.....the horrendous scene undercut Obama's unbelievable argument that legalizing one group would not create incentives for others to jump the border.

Now Obama says he won't act till "after midterms," if at all, leaving pressure groups who'd been salivating about getting power over Americans and fast-tracking massive foreign aid tax dollars to their homelands...."bitterly disappointed in Democrats"......

STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANEAs 2009 unfolded, Obama encouraged latino activists to believe he was committed to introducing a comprehensive reform bill. After a WH meeting, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, (Dem-Ill) told reporters Obama had promised a bill “in the very near future.”

And who could forget the imbecilic Gutierrez strutting around, crowing about "having the votes" to pass the Senate bill in the House? When that failed, latino pressure groups then segued to getting Obama to E/O amnesty.

REALITY CHECK.......a tsunami of 2014 voter polls indicate massive voter revulsion for Democrats---a decisive vote of "no confidence." So much so that Democrats forced Obama to delay his plan to grant amnesty to millions of illegals---hoping to stave off disaster to protect uneasy Democrats from voter wrath in November.....

But slimeball Democrat Rep. Luis Gutierrez (Dem-Ill), the leading mouthpiece for amnesty giveaways, isn't taking Obama's dismissal lying down. Gutierrez said the Congressional Hispanic Caucus will meet to determine a formal response.

“No more excuses, I don’t care what senator is dangling in the wind, I don’t care what Republican proposal is being made,” he said. “I don’t care what happens. We are moving forward.”

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IS GUTIERREZ PLOTTING A COUP AGAINST DEMOCRATS?---his mouthings sound dangerously like a latino threat to Democrats.
Question is: are Democrats who have been so loyal going to allow Gutierrez to threaten their re/elections?

Democrats need to get cracking and demand to know the details
about an individual threatening their candidacies. For instance:

<><><> the number of identities Gutierrez is using now, or has ever used (driving a cab in Illinois);

<><><> the number of US govt check Gutierrez, his family, and his staff are cashing;

<><><> whether Gutierrez has ever been labled a ntl security threat; <><><> whether Gutierrez used infamous crooked Chicago tactics to get elected;

<><><> the list of his memberships in violent latino groups advocating the overthrow of the US govt;

<><> How many stolen Social Security numbers are his family, staff and political entourage using?

<><><> how many identities are the Guiterrez family and campaign entourage using?

<><><> are his family, supporters, and political entourage paid agents of foreign governments?

WHO IS GIVING GUTIERREZ HIS MARCHING ORDERS? Democrats need to get the FBI to subpoena Gutierrez's phone records, emails and snail mail, wire transfers, etc .....

<><> Examine his campaign contributors, foreign travel;

<><> did Gutierrez employ foreign agents as staff w/ US tax dollars?

<><> did Gutierrez ever file falsified documents w/ the federal government?

<><> did he ever make false statements on tax returns?

<><> did he ever apply for EITC refunds listing children "back Home" that are not related to him?

<><> does he earn outside income as a paid political consultant to foreign governments?

<><> did Gutierrez fail to register as an agent of a foreign government;

<><> Is Gutierrez and The Congressional Hispanic Caucus using tax dollars to conduct a coup against Democrats.

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FBI TIPS PAGE---https://tips.fbi.gov

<><> DEMOCRATS should demand Gutierrez, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, La Raza, and other tax-funded latino groups, be investigated.

L/E should supboena Gutierrez' official filings, phone records, emails, snail mail copies, hard drives, bank accounts, checking accounts, credit cards, debit cards, wire transfers, social media contacts, and the like.

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Democrats should demand to know who these people are communicating with, and who is directing their activities.

Democrats should demand to know if Gutierrez, his family, his staff, The Congressional Hispanic caucus, are colluding to dump Democrats, and whether they are consorting with violent organizations advocating the overthrow of the Democrat Party.

6 posted on 09/17/2014 3:02:10 AM PDT by Liz
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