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Posted on 10/02/2005 11:51:09 AM PDT by wagglebee
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is urging the Department of Homeland Security to assure illegal immigrants that they will get their fair share of Hurricane Katrina relief aid without fear of being deported.
In a statement posted to her official Senate web site on Wednesday, Clinton said that the DHS should "issue a formal statement reassuring immigrant victims of Hurricane Rita and Katrina that they can seek help from relief agencies without fear of deportation or being turned over to immigration authorities."
In a letter written directly to Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, Clinton and other Senate Democrats complained that they first asked for Katrina amnesty for illegals more than two weeks ago, but have not received a response.
"In fact," they said, "we were surprised and troubled to learn that DHS has placed some individuals in deportation proceedings after these individuals sought assistance, despite the fact that the government had previously encouraged all storm victims to come forward to seek help.
"Particularly given the widely publicized reports that DHS will deport some immigrant victims of Katrina who sought assistance, we believe such a public assurance is crucial."
Mrs. Clinton urged Chertoff to "terminate removal proceedings against those [illegal immigrants] who were placed in proceedings after they sought assistance."
Other Senate Democrats who signed onto Mrs. Clinton bid to obtain Katrina aid for illegal immigrants include Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, Maria Cantwell, Barack Obama, Russ Feingold, Daniel Akaka, Frank Lautenberg, Joe Lieberman, Carl Levin, John F. Kerry, Chris Dodd, Pat Leahy and Jon Corzine.
There are voters who are only looking for more handouts from the government. The Democrats want to steal money from business and us and give it to people who haven't earned it. The Republicans want to help business grow and provide more jobs for us who wish to earn it and take responsibilty for ourselves. These immigrants may think the Democrats can give them more. In the long run they are wrong.
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And who thinks the position of the Bush Admin and Congressional GOP leadership would be any different than theirs?
I agree. Give em some food, water, other necessities along with a ticket to the border.
We as a country certainly can't be THAT lost to fall for this political rhetoric, can we?
And at the same time takes this "possible dribble" as set in stone accurate reporting?
Aid them right back over the border.
We are maintaining "superpower" status even with the constant political pounding presented by the MSM presented to us and are still seen as the most free society on earth to the demise of some of them.
Doom and gloom rhetoric may be effective to a point but it cannot change reality.
Let's just send our bank accounts in and let EVERYBODY have at it!! Why should anybody be excluded.. We could invite the world in and the RATS would find something else to whine about.
How much did the Wide-load contribute out of her own money?
This woman has no clue on how illegal immigration effects our economy. This woman has no clue on how illegals commit welfare fraud. This woman has no clue on how illegal immigration allows in dangerous criminals into our country. This woman needs to ask the rest of us what we think.
Hitlery may or may not know some of this stuff, although some of her handlers certainly do.
The bottom line is that the only thing Hitlery CAREAS about is her own personal power
What doesn't hillary understand about the word
ILLEGAL?
Again, NOT the "smartest woman in the world" !
You don't want Hillary Rodham-Rodham in the White House. That would result in Bill "Slick Willy" Clinton running the country again. I wonder who would be his next "Monica Llewinsky?"
When we are a third world nation we won't have a border problem. See, the Dems and the Reps are really solving this problem by thinking outside the box. All of this in the spirit of bipartisanship.
When we are a third world nation we won't have a border problem. See, the Dems and the Reps are really solving this problem by thinking outside the box. All of this in the spirit of bipartisanship.
I agree with you. The sooner every thing tanks the sooner we can rebuild. Republicans should just go ahead and give all illegal aliens all our tax money.
All Hillary is doing is bribing illegal aliens so she can set up her version of utopia which even the illegal aliens would not want.
Why would I want to donate money to criminals?
Still playing both sides of the fence, I see.
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