Posted on 10/23/2003 5:04:52 AM PDT by sheltonmac
The stupid party is at it again! The Senate Judiciary Committee is working on a bill that will allow illegal aliens to pay in-state tuition for college and permit them a level of residency, thus legitimizing their criminal behavior of flagrantly violating our immigration laws. The Republicans are in the lead on this latest effort to destroy our culture and our sovereign integrity.
While 85% of Americans view immigration as a serious problem, the only thing that has prevented President George Bush from granting a general amnesty for illegal aliens was the backlash from 9-11. However, the political elites continue trying to devise a way to undermine American citizens without exposing their traitorous actions. Against the will of the American people, the Republicans are pushing for a modified form of amnesty for illegals, with the help of the donkey party, to paint themselves as a politically correct, multicultural party.
The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, which is sponsored by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), would lift a federal ban that prevents states from allowing illegal aliens to pay in-state tuition for college. Mind you, a number of states have already passed laws allowing illegals to pay in-state tuition, and no doubt the enforcement of the federal law over the state laws is currently in question. In addition, conditional resident status would be granted to illegals under 16 years of age who have lived more than five years in the U.S. and have graduated from high school, or served in the armed forces, or performed community service of some kind. This is a joke.
This is a sleight of hand trick to provide amnesty to illegals, as these teenagers aren’t being punished for their actions, and no doubt neither will their parents be punished. By granting residency status to minors, in turn politicians won’t want to look like ogres by expelling the illegal parents, as the kids will be left without parental authority and could end up wards of the state, or politicians will fear looking like destroyers of families. Once again, the politicians don’t want to hold people accountable for their actions (except the actual citizens of the U.S.) and will put a bigger burden on Americans by flooding our cities with illegals, thus driving down wages, draining our welfare and medical resources, and assuredly raising citizens’ taxes to shore up the depleted resources illegals will drain.
Senator Hatch says, “It will allow these illegal immigrant children the opportunity to not only dream of the infinite possibilities that their futures may hold in the United States, but it will also afford them the opportunity to realize their dreams.” Well, Senator, what about the dreams of American CITIZENS? We want our government to enforce our laws. We want elected officials to honor the oath of office they took and defend our rights as legal citizens. Quite frankly, who cares about the dreams of these criminals? I don’t care about their dreams any more than I do the dreams of a rapist, a murderer or any other criminal that contaminates our land. These people are criminals, hence the term ILLEGAL ALIEN. I’m concerned with the dreams of my children, American citizens, and the dreams of my fellow Americans who are all here legally. You took an oath to protect and defend our rights via your oath of office to uphold the U.S. Constitution.
The long-term damage this DREAM Act will inflict on our country can’t be seen by politicians, because they don’t want to look that far down the road. They are incapable of looking beyond the next election and attempting to appear compassionate. From where I sit, they have no compassion at all. For U.S. citizens that is. The DREAM Act is just another example of how the Republicans and Democrats are two sides of the same coin, and unworthy of support by all decent, honorable American citizens.
Once the genie is out of the bottle, not only will the flood of illegals increase, as more outsiders flock here waiting for the next amnesty, but the Democrats will jump on this and expand the boundaries of the Act to declare anyone who can touch our shores a citizen, qualified to vote, the second they get here. Citizenship will mean nothing.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will continue work on the DREAM Act on October 23rd. People need to let their senators and congressmen know they oppose amnesty in any form for illegals. The door was cracked open once before when Ronald Reagan signed an amnesty bill, which lead to a new flood of illegals. This is throwing the door wide open. Until the feds do their constitutional duty and shut the door, no talk of amnesty should move beyond political pundits, and definitely shouldn’t be taking shape in a bill on Capitol Hill. If this bill passes, we need to throw out of office anyone who votes for it.
Really? Did he tell you that on the golf course? Maybe in one of the White House meetings?
Wxcept for the "community service" loophole it is an example of the wise immigration reform measures we need.
These people did not break the immigration law.
The congress plans to sneak through a bill legalizing 2 million illegal aliens, mostly Mexicans. The bill is S-1645, the Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits, and Security Act of 2003. They will try to get it into the Omnibus appropriations bill and pass it without anyone noticing.
The bill would provide temporary residency status to anyone who can prove he or she has been working in agriculture for a certain amount of time up to August 31, 2003. We do not need this and it would leave us open to massive fraud.
WE DON'T NEED IT
If all illegal aliens were deported, America would thrive. Our automation industry would be stimulated by the need to mechanize our farms. Wages for farm work would rise to cover the social costs involved and we would not notice the difference in food prices. For example, it has been said that deportation would raise the cost of lettuce to five dollars a head. It has been shown that for lettuce to cost five dollars, farm workers would have to rise to $235 and hour. That is the work any American would do.
INVITATION TO FRAUD
This is the language of the bill regarding an application for qualification:
---`preliminary application' means a fully completed and signed application which contains specific information concerning the performance of qualifying employment in the United States, together with the payment of the appropriate fee and the submission of photographs and the documentary evidence which the applicant intends to submit as proof of such employment.---
Many Mexicans and others from south of the border have proven to be masters of deceit when it comes to forging documents and lying about status. This bill would lead to such MASSIVE FRAUD, financed and supported by the usual suspects, including MALDEF, LULAC, the National Council of La Raza, the Ford Foundation and Catholic Charities, that the Department of Homeland Security would be overwhelmed and unable to investigate claims. Sponsors claim the bill would cover 500,000. Those who know say millions would be legalized by fraud. This is exactly what happened in the 1987 amnesty.
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STOP THIS NONSENSE NOW
Call or write your congressman and Senator now. Tell them to vote no on amnesty, especially S-1645. Stop the fraud. Stop the importation of poverty. Stop the invasion.
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Although it needs some adjustment, this law is the best kind of immigration reform.
These immigrants did not break the law, they have shown an extra effort to succeed.
Opposing this is irrational IMO.
Living ILLEGALLY in the country for (at least) 5 years is not breaking law? I guess if you robbed a bank, or broke into somebody's house 5 years ago and spent all the money you stole, you would want amnesty because you got away with it for 5 years?
What extra effort did they show? I don't consider going to school like every other US citicen kid is required to do, extra effort. And to boot, they got a at least 5 years education on the backs of American taxpayers.
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