At least Rahm doesn't have too far to bend down to get under the bus.
Posted on 12/18/2008 9:15:04 PM PST by STARWISE
A former INS official who attended meetings with Rahm Emanuel when Emanuel was a White House aide says the hard-charging Democrat relaxed rules to naturalize even criminal immigrants and secure their votes for President Clinton ahead of the 1996 presidential election
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President-elect Barack Obama, who has chosen Emanuel to run White House operations as his chief of staff, has promised to sign legislation that loosens immigration and puts even illegal aliens on a fast track to citizenship . Emanuel coordinated with Hispanic community organizers in Chicago to rubberstamp immigrants for citizenship, the INS official said in an exclusive interview with WND.
It turns out the long-time Chicago political operative was the behind-the-scenes catalyst for Citizenship USA, a project run out of then-Vice President Al Gore’s office.
“Rahm was doing it under the guise of Al Gore’s Reinventing Government program,” said the official, who helped direct INS security policy. “He was definitely the point man and was past his neck in the scandal at INS.”
Emanuel, now caught up in the corruption scandal involving Democrat Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, refused to cooperate with an investigation into the citizenship project by the Justice Department Inspector General.
“He got every rule changed in the hiring of adjudicators so they could naturalize more Mexican nationals to vote for Bill Clinton, not to mention getting the rules changed to naturalize anyone,” regardless of their criminal background, said the official, who’s still employed by the federal government and requested anonymity to avoid reprisals.
“They had immigration ceremonies at stadiums with DNC (Democratic National Committee) staff registering them as voters right there,” he added.
At one Chicago ceremony held inside Soldier Field, some 11,000 new citizens were sworn in.
Another former INS official, William Carroll, said Emanuel “took midnight trips to INS headquarters to meet with (Commissioner) Doris Meissner about Citizenship USA.”
He said that in March 1996 he and other INS district directors were given “marching orders” by headquarters to push through as many new citizens as possible ahead of the election, even if no criminal and national security background checks were completed.
INS deportation officer Tom Conklin said that he and other agents were pressured to rubberstamp immigrants “with two or three arrests for crimes like burglary.”
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With that willingness to break immigration laws he could have worked for Bush.
Get ready for what? The MSM has given all these crooks a pass. They are all teflon, dontcha know.
Which is just classic corruption.
I'm sort of curious about something.
Let's say someone, soon after the Nov. 4th election, submitted a form to the local registrar of voters to change political parties. This person is told that they'll receive their voter's card in "four to six weeks."
This person calls five weeks later (no card received yet) to follow up. Someone else at the RoV office answers the phone. Why the delay? "Oh, we've had so many people register around the time of the election, we don't have time to process all the forms." So when will the card arrive? "Maybe January 15th."
So if there was no time to process the forms (e.g. verify name and signature, and address) how did all those other newly-registered people manage to vote? And what party were they registered for?
bttt
El BINGO
The idiots don’t seem to realize that their greed for power will destroy the country their children and grandchildren will live in. The trade isn’t worth it.
The strategy appears to be paintball Rahmbo. Hit him with every color you got until he’s a rainbow.
At least Rahm doesn't have too far to bend down to get under the bus.
He was taught by the King of Crooks.
Meaning ?
What a pathetic way to get votes. It’s so pathetic it’s unbelievable.
Nobody cares. Hussein and his lapdogs can do no wrong.
Baloney.
If Rahmbo is implicated in Blago's pay-to-play deal, that would solve Nancy's problem of Rahmbo over-reaching in "her" House. A nasty scandal would take him out of the chief of staff post, and PlasticNancy is back to making deals.
From your comment I conclude that you are clueless. Or stupid. Or both.
I pray for the people around you in your non-cyber world.
And this is a surprise to...?!
I'm sure Rahm is a changed man, after all his boss is all about change and hope
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