GOP Members Release New Anti-Amnesty Amendment

Daily Caller ^ | 10:08 PM 12/09/2014 | Neil Munro

[Red Steel]

GOP members have released their draft amendment to defund President Barack Obama’s national amnesty.

“None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available, including any funds or fees collected or otherwise made available for expenditure, by this division or any other Act, or otherwise available to the Secretary of Homeland Security, for any fiscal year may be used to implement, administer, carry out, or enforce the [amnesty] policies,” says the short amendment.

The new anti-amnesty language is being pushed by Arizona Rep. Matt Salmon, South Carolina’s Rep. Mick Mulvaney and Virginia Rep. Dave Brat, who unseated the GOP’s pro-amnesty majority leader, Rep. Eric Cantor, in a June 2014 primary vote.

They’re urging voters to call their legislators’ offices to demand passage of the amendment.

“Rep. Salmon is committed to fighting to ensure that our nation’s laws be faithfully enforced as written and voted on by our legislators in Congress,” said a statement from his spokesman, Tristan Daedalus.

Top GOP leaders want to block the popular anti-amnesty amendment, even though they have repeatedly denounced Obama’s unpopular amnesty, and have fought to include roughly other 100 other policy related amendments in the massive $1 trillion 2015 budget bill.

Those 100 riders are complicating the last-minute negotiations between GOP leaders and Democratic leaders. Maryland Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski “did such a good job in the caucus explaining what she’s been through with the nearly 100 [GOP-drafted] riders that she’s had to try to fight off,” Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid told reporters.

Those various riders would block marijuana legalization in the District of Columbia, provide government support for anti-terror insurance policies and change the 2010 bank reform bill.

GOP leaders want to block and complicate the anti-amnesty fight because the GOP might win the fight against Obama, said one GOP Hill aide. That victory would derail their plans for an GOP-designed amnesty in 2015, and complicate their efforts to keep immigration out of the 2016 election, the aide explained.

The fights over the other 100 riders help the leadership downplay the new anti-amnesty rider, he said. ”Instead of a straightforward vote showing the GOP opposes amnesty and forcing the Democrats to vote with Obama or in opposition to him, we’ve got things muddled beyond recognition,” the aide said.

But numerous GOP legislators say they want to add anti-amnesty language to the funding bill.

The draft amendment bars various agencies from spending any money to implement Obama’s amnesty, including any fees paid by legal immigrants to immigration agencies.

No money could be spent to implement “the memoranda issued by the Secretary on Homeland Security on November 20, 2014, on any of the following subjects,” according to the amendment.

They include “Southern border and approaches campaign … Policies for the apprehension, detention, and removal of undocumented immigrants … Secure Communities … Personnel reform for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers … Exercising prosecutorial discretion with respect to individuals who came to the United States as children and with respect to certain individuals who are the parents of U.S. citizens or permanent residents … Expansion of the Provisional Waiver Program … Policies supporting U.S. high skilled businesses and workers … [and] directive to provide consistency regarding advanced parole.”

So far, the GOP leadership — which is allied to major business groups — has not tried to block Obama’s amnesty, despite many polls showing deep public opposition to immigration and foreign workers.

The amendment will be examined on Wednesday by the powerful rules committee, which sets the rules for debates.

Unless there’s huge wave of phone calls from voters to Congress, the request will likely be rejected by GOP leaders. That’s because the chairman of the rules committee, Texas Rep. Pete Sessions, told Democrats last week that he’ll push for an 2015 amnesty that would provide more foreign workers to U.S. companies.

Session is a close ally of Boehner, who has so far blocked efforts to defund the unpopular amnesty.

“Salmon hopes the Rules Committee will approve an amendment to the spending package, like Rep. Mulvaney’s, that would restrict the President’s executive amnesty,” said Daedalus. “He will continue to use every tool available to him to fight for an up-or-down vote on this language in the House.”

Obama’s Nov. 21 policy awards work permits, tax payments and Social Security cards to roughly five million illegals with children who are citizens or legalized. The five million will be free to seek jobs sought by the four million Americans who turn 18 each year.

Those Americans are already competing against the roughly 600,000 working-age immigrant who arrive each year, and the roughly 650,000 blue-collar and white-collar guest workers who arrive for short-term or long-term jobs.

This huge increase to supply of new Americans workers is favored by companies, many of whom want to hire foreign workers. Those workers will work for low wages, in part, because they need to be employed while they’re waiting to receive the very valuable prize of U.S. citizenship.

A large proportion of the five million illegals are former guest workers, who work as professionals in financial, medical and technology jobs sought by Americans.

Obama’s policy also puts some illegals on a fast-track to citizenship, boosts the inflow of foreign blue-collar and white-collar guest-workers, and dismantles Secure Communities program that repatriated illegals who were caught by local police for minor or severe crimes.

The new policy also directs border police to release border-crossers who claim to be eligible for the Nov. 21 amnesty, and it effectively bars agents from repatriating the many tourists and guest-workers who overstay their visas and try to get jobs in the United States.

[ExCTCitizen]

Oh... I was wondering if he was doing that as a congressmen elect...Still impressed that he is doing this...

[sheana]

I didn’t see that they pulled out the1 billion they’re giving Obama to care for his children illegals. When that comes out I MAY start to believe them again. Til then......they can screw off.

[Gene Eric]

>> Amnesty is here to stay - just like Obamacare. :)

Tired, feeling apathetic?

[SunkenCiv]

"Rep. Salmon is committed to fighting to ensure that our nation's laws be faithfully enforced as written and voted on by our legislators in Congress," said a statement from his spokesman, Tristan Daedalus.

Tristan Daedalus? WT...

[Liz]

BTW, also included in the $trillion dollar funding bill is an extortion payment to Central America-----they get $266 million tax dollars to "help them assist child victims of violence." (more on this below)

REALITY CHECK---WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS TO HUMANITARIAN US FOREIGN AID The crooked Guatemalan president absconded to the US w/ the country's foreign aid money.

Former Guatemala Prez used US banks to launder millions (Portillo was elected to (ahem) "redistribute" the nation's wealth)

READ ON An ex-president of the Central American country of Guatemala faced charges in New York that he used US banks to launder millions looted from his impoverished nation. Alfonso Portillo took office in 2000 pledging to (ahem) redistribute Guatemala’s wealth.

Portillo, 61, allegedly ran scams to drain the impoverished country's coffers. The feds say Portillo embezzled about $2.5M provided by the Taiwanese embassy....$1.5 million was earmarked for “Libraries for Peace”....books for school kids.

Portillo personally endorsed three, $500,000 checks issued against an account at the Intl Bank of China in Manhattan, then deposited the cash in the Miami bank account of a Guatemalan bank controlled by “a close associate and political supporter”.

The embezzled money was funneled to bank accounts in Paris in the names of Portillo’s ex-wife and daughter.

Portillo swindled nearly $4M defense funds ...and plundered the national bank run by his alleged co-conspirator through overdrafts financed by public reserves.

Stolen foreign aid money paid for expensive watches and cars, for Portillo and his associates, according to the indictment. (NY POST 5/28/13)

SOURCE http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/former_guatemala_program_used_from_bJ7Akdr3YK85070OumW5FN

(more below)

[Liz]

REMINDER: $266 million of our tax dollars are going to Central America federales to "Help them assist child
victims of violence."

Guatemalan President Otto Perez warns the US will be
inundated w/ even more contagious illegals if billions
of US tax dollars are not handed over.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The United States should provide billions of dollars to help Central American nations curb the flow of illegal migrants, Guatemalan President Otto Perez said, and his government warns the problem will get worse if Washington fails to help.

Fleeing violence, trying to reach relatives already in the United States or seeking jobs, record numbers of child migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have been stopped at the southern U.S. border this year, causing widespread alarm. Last month, the three countries pitched Washington an ambitious development plan to confront the issue.

They want to pump about $10 billion into the region to create jobs and lift living standards, with the bulk of funding coming from the United States, Perez told Reuters. He hopes the plan could come up with about $2 billion a year from 2015 to 2019, a sum he equated to roughly 10 percent of annual U.S. spending on border security and immigration enforcement.

"Now we understand it's not simply a question of the United States saying: 'Right, here's $2 billion a year for five years' for example - the governments of the three countries have to play their part too," the conservative Perez, who took power in early 2012, said in an interview late on Monday.

The US aid package would boost infrastructure and provide more jobs in all three countries, especially in areas that send large numbers of migrants to the United States, he added.

The three Central American governments are urging the United States to shoulder the lion's share of the costs, arguing that U.S. demand for illegal narcotics has fueled violence among drug gangs across much of the impoverished region.

"The United States has to support this, it has no other option," Guatemala's foreign minister, Carlos Morales, told Reuters. "If they don't support it, the crisis will kick off again, you can count on it."

Perez said he hoped the United States would put up about 60 percent of funding. "But we'll have to discuss it calmly and see what each individual country can do, and what can be achieved by common consent."

During meetings in New York in September, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Central American officials he hoped Congress could approve about $300 million in funding, Morales said, noting the sum was "nothing" given the scale of the problem.

Central American leaders are due to meet Vice President Joe Biden on Nov. 12 in Washington to sound out U.S. support for their plan, Morales added.--SNIP--

(Reporting by Dave Graham; Editing by Kieran Murray) http://news.yahoo.com/u-stump-billions-curb-central-america-migration-perez-171130651.html

[stephenjohnbanker]

LOL!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Those 100 riders are complicating the last-minute negotiations between GOP leaders and Democratic leaders. Maryland Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski “did such a good job in the caucus explaining what she’s been through with the nearly 100 [GOP-drafted] riders that she’s had to try to fight off,” Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid told reporters.

Maryland "Freak State" PING!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Guatemalan President Otto Perez warns the US will be inundated w/ even more contagious illegals if billions of US tax dollars are not handed over.

Thee extortion, eet ees good south of the border, sí?

[Tennessee Nana]

Meanwhile REAL immigrants still have to pay all their own fees..

But of course theyre not speshall ...

“Stoopeed greengo I’m not an real immigrant ..I just play one on the border...”

[A CA Guy]

Bet thid did not get into the budget.

[Pelham]

If this bill fails to demand the deportation of foreign citizens living illegally in the United States then it is just one more example of the GOPe lying and collaborating while trying to fool the public.

The Republican party is at a saddle point in its history. If it enables Obama’s treasonous amnesty policy then it will remove all doubt that it has become as evil a force in American politics as the Obama Democrats.

The Republicans, like the Democrats before them, will have abandoned the American people. Where do we turn then?

[Theodore R.]

That’s right; the fix is in. The American people surrendered permanently to liberalism, probably in 1964 and 1968. Since this it’s just been Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy, and a little “conservative” rhetoric.

[Liz]

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<><>GOP now controls the MINN State House.

<><> Ohio's historic GOP statehouse takeover (Gun Control is toast)

<><> Ohio's Gov, Lt. Gov, AG, Secy of State, State Auditor, State Treasurer--all R---Sup/Ct - 6 R/1 D

<><> Britt Hume: "latino vote is zilch"---"over-50" is significant 30% voting segment.

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<><> GOP has every congressional seat in Arkansas; first time in 141 years...

<><> Environmentalists fogged out---suffered huge losses.

<><> Gun Control Candidates blitzed.

<><> "War on Women" became a ntl joke.

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<><> 73 percent of LA's white voters say told they "strongly disapproved" of the president.

<><>Republican Congress holds largest House majority in 83 years...