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Dick Durbin Claims Amnesty Is ‘Civil Rights Issue of Our Time’
Breitbart ^ | Jan 22, 2018 | by Neil Munro

Posted on 01/22/2018 6:30:32 PM PST by Jim Robinson

Democratic Senators believe amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants is the “civil rights issue of our time,” declared Sen. Dick Durbin, just before he voted January 22 to end the 2018 budget filibuster. Durbin’s promotion of illegal immigrants above African-Americans and other Americans spotlights the party’s decision that Americans’ deficits in wealth, job opportunities, and education are subordinate to the party’s strategy of allying with business to import foreign voters via the nation’s mass-immigration laws.

Durbin spoke just before the vote began, saying:

So many of you cast a vote that was very hard and very difficult because you believed — as I did — that the issue of immigration, the issue of dreamers, is the civil rights issue of our time. You stuck your necks out and said ‘I’m willing to go on record even if it is going to be hard to explain back home,’ but I will never forget that.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; daca; dickdurbin; dirtydickdurbin; illegalaliens; illegals; maga; schumershutdown
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To: Jim Robinson

Just five minutes ago, President Trump tweeted:


Big win for Republicans as Democrats cave on Shutdown. Now I want a big win for everyone, including Republicans, Democrats and DACA, but especially for our Great Military and Border Security. Should be able to get there. See you at the negotiating table!

Mr. President, Let. DACA. Go. Obama-invented madness that is not worth a second of yours or our time.


81 posted on 01/22/2018 8:38:28 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

Until SCOTUS says, “Can’t do that, they’re citizens.”


82 posted on 01/22/2018 8:40:03 PM PST by Rastus
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To: All

Restoring some sembalance of lawful DC government is the issue of the age. The odds are slim since (mostly) enemies of USConstitution, like Durbin occupy occupy the place.

Return to USConstitution, or perish.


83 posted on 01/22/2018 9:19:07 PM PST by veracious (UN = OIC = Islam ; Dems may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: Jim Robinson

THIS is why the Democrats are going to lose big in November. It’s going to be 2002 on steroids.


84 posted on 01/22/2018 9:19:36 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Democrats call Americans "Deplorables" and illegal aliens "Dreamers".)
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To: Jim Robinson

Civil rights are for U.S. citizens. Illegal aliens should get human rights recognition (e.g., not executed) as they are dumped back across the border.


85 posted on 01/22/2018 9:19:51 PM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: Jim Robinson

This Dick needs a history lesson. The Civil Rights struggles were about the disenfranchisement of American citizens. Not people who broke the law sneaking into the country.


86 posted on 01/22/2018 9:27:43 PM PST by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: Jim Robinson

It’s a humanitarian disaster scene all over, Jim. The comment about DACA luring “Dreamers” is at most only part true. DACA lured their FAMILIES into either dragging or (more cruelly) sending them over.

It never would have happened in a better world but it did. And plenty of America of both parties was there nodding and winking it over no matter what the “polling” said.

Now comes the task of unwinding a folly that has entangled many human souls. The wall, the wall, most certainly the wall. Make it stop. But the disposition of the rest is happening before an America that thought “how cute” when Disney aired a 60’s TV special showing the ocarina playing orphan Mexican kid sneaking in to his US citizen aunt in Tucson. One would have to be a monster not to empathize.

At the same time even hardshell traditionalists shouldn’t be too upset. Donald has focused a national spotlight on “Dreamers.” That leaves the rest out in the cold, out of the sympathetic circle. If a “Dreamers” amnesty (to turn them into permanent resident visa holders) and a Wall is had from this, it will be a victory.


87 posted on 01/22/2018 9:43:23 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: CincyRichieRich
I just put this on my facebook wall
Just days after the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday and the Democrats show us they have no regard for the true Civil Rights struggle for the past fifty years in America. Our U.S. Constitution did not declare rights to any foreign subject or citizen. This is proof that American Black lives don't matter at all to a Democrat. This Democrat Senator Dick Durbin is a sick joke.

Democratic Senators believe amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants is the “civil rights issue of our time,” declared Sen. Dick Durbin, just before he voted January 22 to end the 2018 budget filibuster.

Durbin spoke just before the vote began, saying:

"So many of you cast a vote that was very hard and very difficult because you believed — as I did — that the issue of immigration, the issue of dreamers, is the civil rights issue of our time. You stuck your necks out and said ‘I’m willing to go on record even if it is going to be hard to explain back home,’ but I will never forget that."


88 posted on 01/22/2018 11:01:57 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: kearnyirish2
Immigration in general has just become a massive wealth redistribution scheme

Keep your head down. You just busted the deep state.

89 posted on 01/22/2018 11:49:07 PM PST by onona
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To: Jim Robinson

Durbin is Chuck’s main butt buddy these days - Trump is doing what we thought would be impossible and putting them in their place.....


90 posted on 01/23/2018 4:06:22 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives......;-))
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To: Jim Robinson

Do you expect the Dims to start singing “We Shall Overcome” in Spanish?


91 posted on 01/23/2018 4:45:40 AM PST by tbpiper
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