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9/11 GROUP VOWS TO PUT CONGRESS' 'FEET TO FIRE'(Restrick ILLEGAL ALIENS now)
New York Post ^ | 01/04/2005 | MATTHEW SWEENEY

Posted on 01/04/2005 7:53:09 AM PST by nanak

January 4, 2005 -- Relatives of 9/11 victims vowed yesterday to press Congress to tighten the borders and crack down on illegal immigration. "We're going to hold their feet to the fire," Joan Molinaro, a member of 9/11 Families for a Secure America, said during a press conference at Ground Zero.

Members of the group, which represents families of 300 people who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, said they wanted to remind Congress, which convenes today, that it must revisit border security and tighter identification requirements for visas and driver's licenses.

The group joined Rep. James Sensenbrenner (Wis.), House Judiciary Committee chairman, and some other prominent Republicans last year in a failed attempt to include measures against illegal immigration in the intelligence bill that President Bush signed last month.

Sensenbrenner is expected to re-introduce the legislation today.

Families for a Secure America has charged that the failure to keep out unauthorized aliens led directly to the 9/11 attacks.

The group calls the problem of illegal entry into the country "massive" and warns that it has grown over the past 30 years.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 911families; aliens; congress; dhs; immigrantlist; immigration
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To: Ben Ficklin
crew the Rats; Republicans own all three branches of the legislature.
Time for them to stand up and fight for what conservatism is supposed to stand for: rule of law, protect our sovereign borders, respect for citizenship, etc.

It's the courts that keep fighting the people; IE: AZ's Prop 200.

Regards

41 posted on 01/04/2005 7:46:52 PM PST by FBD (Report illegals and their employers at: http://www.reportillegals.com/)
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To: JustAnotherSavage; Happy2BMe; Travis McGee; Marine Inspector; Bikers4Bush; broadsword; nanak; ...
damn good post there JAS!

PING to "Just Another Savage" post.
He pretty well covers the entire OBL crowd's personal ad homonym attacks:

..."you find, after being a patriotic, religious, conservative, self-reliant, first amendment type your entire life, that you are now a racist, xenophobic, idiot, undereducated moronic, lazy, Mexican/Bush hating Buchananite anti-semite isolationist...."

Michelle Malkin wrote about people who critisize proponents of secure borders here:

Michelle Malkin: "Activists smear anyone who wants better borders"

42 posted on 01/04/2005 7:50:41 PM PST by FBD (Report illegals and their employers at: http://www.reportillegals.com/)
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To: FBD

No savvy 3 branches of the legislature, hombre.


43 posted on 01/04/2005 7:54:09 PM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: exnavychick
9/11 GROUP VOWS TO PUT CONGRESS' 'FEET TO FIRE'(Restrick ILLEGAL ALIENS now)

There is a ping list...if you are interested in this topic..
Contact: FBD.
44 posted on 01/04/2005 7:55:59 PM PST by Ginifer ("All great spirits have encountered opposition from mediocre minds" - A. Einstein)
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To: Ben Ficklin
But there is something very odd about the Bush Plan, it doesn't exist.

It doesn't? What might this be: Fact Sheet: Fair and Secure Immigration Reform

45 posted on 01/04/2005 7:57:32 PM PST by Marine Inspector (Customs & Border Protection Officer)
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To: Marine Inspector

Is there a bill number?


46 posted on 01/04/2005 8:02:01 PM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin
ah, ok, you got me! duh... ;^D

Ok, Republicans own 2 branches; Executive and both sides of the legislature (That's where I came up with my 3) ...we are screwed on the Judicial branch.

I still say: Screw the Rats! Full speed ahead!

47 posted on 01/04/2005 8:04:47 PM PST by FBD (Report illegals and their employers at: http://www.reportillegals.com/)
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To: FBD
What the 9th may or may not do regarding prop 200 is irrelevant.

If implemented, prop 200 is not going to make very many, if any, illegals get up and leave.

48 posted on 01/04/2005 8:11:49 PM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: FBD

Good post.


49 posted on 01/04/2005 8:12:40 PM PST by Happy2BMe ("Islam fears democracy worse than anything-It castrates their stranglehold at the lowest level.")
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To: FBD

Thanks for the ping.


50 posted on 01/04/2005 8:15:22 PM PST by Ginifer ("All great spirits have encountered opposition from mediocre minds" - A. Einstein)
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To: FBD; Spiff; JackelopeBreeder; TexasCowboy; B4Ranch; hershey; JustPiper; JohnHuang2; dennisw; ...
FBD's got a JEWEL ON #34 - ping.

(Migrant Invasion reaches PRIME TIME media coverage!)

The graphic depciting the massive invasion (from Time Magazine no less) even mentions the Ladd and Morin Ranch overruns in Arizona.

Well worth grabbing folks.

51 posted on 01/04/2005 8:18:36 PM PST by Happy2BMe ("Islam fears democracy worse than anything-It castrates their stranglehold at the lowest level.")
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To: Pylot
"Poll after poll has shown that the vast majority of Americans want zero illegal immigration, want our borders protected and want national security placed above special interests."

Finally! This is great.

52 posted on 01/04/2005 8:20:16 PM PST by stopem
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To: Marine Inspector
"Fact Sheet: Fair and Secure Immigration Reform "

The sleaze and dishonesty of this administration on this issue is breathtaking.

They roll out a plan that blesses and encourages massive illegal immigration and they all it "secure".

They seek to cram down our throats a scheme that's a kick in the teeth to every legal immigrant, wait-listed immigrant, and visa-refusee who played by the rules - and they have the nerve to call it "fair".

These lies speak to the character of those uttering/stuttering them.

53 posted on 01/04/2005 8:25:18 PM PST by dagnabbit (Vincente Fox's opening line at the Mexico-USA summit meeting: "Bring out the Gimp!")
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To: JustAnotherSavage
"FROBL’s, though they proclaim their superiority in every way over YOU, only have one vote, too. "

And at the moment they are very much the minority along with the libs who love illegals.

54 posted on 01/04/2005 8:27:57 PM PST by stopem
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To: Happy2BMe

Thanks for the ping Happy. I'd like to see a map like that on Texas illegals.


55 posted on 01/04/2005 8:35:48 PM PST by potlatch (Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else.)
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To: nanak
I think if we keep writing, calling, and generally harassing them, the Congress and Whitehouse will have to take action. I send letters, email, and faxes weekly. They know me by name and address. I don't care if they think I'm a pain in the posterior! I tell my Senators and Representatives in each posting that I helped elect them (OK, so I kind of fudge the truth with the Dems), and I can select the next time to vote for them or not. It is their choice.
56 posted on 01/04/2005 8:38:44 PM PST by Ginifer ("All great spirits have encountered opposition from mediocre minds" - A. Einstein)
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To: potlatch; FBD

57 posted on 01/04/2005 8:44:41 PM PST by Happy2BMe ("Islam fears democracy worse than anything-It castrates their stranglehold at the lowest level.")
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To: janetgreen

"The insults and stings many of us have received from the open borders Bush worshiping crowd only reinforce my belief that in some way they benefit from illegal immigration."

Of course they do...it's called lobbyists, big business, special interests, or family left behind in a foreign land. You wouldn't be against a plan to protect our borders if you didn't have something to gain by it IMHO.


58 posted on 01/04/2005 8:50:27 PM PST by Ginifer ("All great spirits have encountered opposition from mediocre minds" - A. Einstein)
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To: FBD

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1314180/posts


59 posted on 01/04/2005 8:53:28 PM PST by JustAnotherSavage (Government spends what government receives plus as much as it can get away with-Milton Friedman)
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To: Ben Ficklin
We have got to start somewhere. I get tired of hearing defeatist attitudes like the one you've just expressed: "This won't work, that won't work; we can't seal our borders, we can't keep illegals out, etc. That's negative thinking.

Don't declare defeat before we've really tried.

This cartoon says it all:

60 posted on 01/04/2005 8:56:17 PM PST by FBD (Report illegals and their employers at: http://www.reportillegals.com/)
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