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Democrats Will Use Immigration to Divide and Conquer
HumanEventsOnline.com ^ | Mar 28, 2006 | Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa)

Posted on 03/28/2006 11:08:53 AM PST by boryeulb

It reads like a page directly out of the Democrat's playbook on midterm elections. Let Republicans self-destruct by splitting from their base on a core issue. Senate Republicans this week will decide if the federal government will respond to 89 percent of Americans who believe illegal immigration is a serious problem.

Any bill that does not refuse amnesty, and require true border and internal enforcement will collapse public confidence in the GOP Congress, and therefore be the breaking point of the Republican Party. The bill passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee rewards lawbreakers with amnesty, plain and clear.

The temporary worker/amnesty bill from the Senate Judiciary Committee will cause every Democrat in Congress will jump onto it, because they know that this single issue is the opportunity to divide and conquer. If anything costs Republicans the majority this November, it will be this amnesty bill in the Senate that they are trying to force-feed to Congress and the American people.

In the face of bitter opposition from the majority of American citizens, the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill to reward millions of illegal aliens with legal worker status -- despite the fact these aliens have already proven their disregard for the laws of this nation. Beyond sending a message to potential residents and legal immigrants that we don't take our own laws seriously, this is a misguided and dangerous path for our nation, particularly in a post 9/11 world.

Any policy that reduces or eliminates the penalty for violating our immigration laws is amnesty. It is disingenuous for any lawmaker to claim they are against amnesty, but support these temporary worker amnesty programs.

Economically, these programs don't help our country, but hinder its growth. Americans are conditioned to believe that illegal aliens support our workforce, because they supposedly take jobs Americans will not do. The reality is, employers hire illegal workers who will work for much less than legal workers, driving wages down and making it impossible for legal workers to compete. There is no job Americans will not do. The hottest, most difficult, dirtiest and dangerous job in the world is rooting terrorists out of Fallujah. Marines are doing that job for $8.09 an hour.

The core of the strength of America has always been an ever-broadening middle class. The flood of immigration, both legal and illegal threatens an eventual destruction of the middle class and is resulting in the creation of a servant class. We cannot stand by while our middle class is eroded so that the ruling class in America can create a servant class for themselves.

We can stop illegal workers from taking jobs in the U.S. My New Illegal Deduction Elimination Act, or New IDEA, H.R. 3095, would eliminate the tax deduction employers can take on wages and benefits paid to illegal workers so it becomes a taxable event. The result would be to raise the cost of a $10 per hour illegal to a $16 per hour worker, creating the opportunity for American workers, shutting down the jobs magnet and broadening our middle class.

In addition, it would be ludicrous to base our national and economic security policy on the promise that temporary workers will return home once their worker permit expires. There has never been a successful temporary worker program in history.

History has proven time and again that legalizing the illegals won't solve the problem, it only serves to exacerbate it. Since 1986, Congress has passed seven amnesties for illegal aliens. The mass amnesty bill passed in 1986 that legalized 3 million aliens backfired, and the illegal alien population quickly doubled in a decade and tripled in less than 15 years. Further, dangling the prospect of citizenship in front of potential lawbreakers will only spur a mad stampede for the U.S. border to get in line for the next amnesty.

As a sovereign nation, we must control our borders and enforce our own laws. Ignoring our laws is not the path to maintaining a free, safe and prosperous society.

The House passed a comprehensive immigration reform policy in December that provides tools to secure America's future. H.R. 4437 does not reward any amnesty program and includes heavier border enforcement and construction of a border fence. The bill also provides for real enforcement in our interior, reduces the jobs magnet by requiring worker verification, and invokes penalties for local governments that provide sanctuary for illegal aliens.

The Senate must use these provisions as a baseline for their debate. This issue has pushed fed-up Americans to the abyss, and if we don't take the right turn, we deserve to be pushed into it.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: 109th; aliens; amnesty; borders; dncstrategy; fence; guestworker; hr4437; illegals; immigration; mexico; specter; steveking; usrepsteveking
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To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888

Please if burning an American flag is "free speech" then demonstrators waving others is also. Sovereignty is not at issue with flag waving.

Those pretending to be conservatives while joining the Left in hysterical attacks on the President are anything but conservative.


181 posted on 03/30/2006 1:13:49 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit

You're just throwing dust in the air to try and obfuscate.


182 posted on 03/30/2006 1:21:27 PM PST by EternalVigilance (www.usbordersecurity.org)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Those of us who realize that the GOP cannot maintain power if it appeals only to the Ultra Right are not "moderates" just Realists.

Funny how you 'realists' are always coming down on the liberal side and harshly criticizing conservatives.

I'd say you're 'real' alright...real liberals masquerading as something else entirely. Liberals trying to change the definition of conservatism.

183 posted on 03/30/2006 1:23:59 PM PST by EternalVigilance (www.usbordersecurity.org)
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To: EternalVigilance

Every word in that post is true. I don't deal in dust. Angel or otherwise.


184 posted on 03/30/2006 1:26:36 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Please if burning an American flag is "free speech" then demonstrators waving others is also. Sovereignty is not at issue with flag waving.

For you to call the image below a simple "waving of the Mexican flag", and to not see the symbolism re national sovereignty, proves you are a blind party loyalist and not a realist.


185 posted on 03/30/2006 1:28:28 PM PST by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888 (The purpose of this forum is to fight socialism (see FR homepage), not to defend Republicans.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit

Yeah, right. Just more of your normal nasty attacks on conservatives.


186 posted on 03/30/2006 1:29:35 PM PST by EternalVigilance (www.usbordersecurity.org)
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To: EternalVigilance

We just got an excellent demonstration of the cluelessness of the Far Right here in Illinois where rather than pull out of the GOP primary and throwing his support to a conservative with a chance to beat Topinka the candidate of the Far Right remained in the race guaranteeing Topinka's victory. And now to show that he has no principle he comes out and ENDORSE Topinka.

Realists do not automatically come down on the far right just when they do stupid things like get hysterical over a Ports deal or Illegals. Realists just like conservatives like Reagan who understood that politics is not as straightforward as the ideologues pretend and that compromise is a fact of life.

It is so easy to beat the conservatives through divide and conquer it is not funny. The Left does it with ease.


187 posted on 03/30/2006 1:41:39 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888

You must be under the impression that doing that is against the law.


188 posted on 03/30/2006 1:42:52 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: EternalVigilance

I never attack real conservatives only faux conservatives trying to split the GOP and aid the RATS.


189 posted on 03/30/2006 1:44:05 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: boryeulb

I hate to say it but it's not a Republican or Democrat issue.. it's an American issue.. people from both parties want a resoultion.

But politics is a reality. You have Senator Clinton calling Republicans racist even for the tepid little bill before the Senate now.

Political suicide is a reality.. since the Republicans have the power they have the pressure to bear. Democrats might secretly want it done but they can sit back and let the Republicans take all the heat.. they get voted in and then not change anything.

It's a sad sad game.


190 posted on 03/30/2006 1:51:16 PM PST by Almondjoy
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To: justshutupandtakeit
I never attack real conservatives only faux conservatives trying to split the GOP and aid the RATS.

Yeah, right.

You're the 'faux' conservative.

Your sort of 'realism' is the source of division in GOP ranks...you're continuously planting the seeds of division and defeat.

191 posted on 03/30/2006 2:01:12 PM PST by EternalVigilance (www.usbordersecurity.org)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
We just got an excellent demonstration of the cluelessness of the Far Right here in Illinois where rather than pull out of the GOP primary and throwing his support to a conservative with a chance to beat Topinka the candidate of the Far Right remained in the race guaranteeing Topinka's victory. And now to show that he has no principle he comes out and ENDORSE Topinka.

Brady was a phony. What a surprise. People who were paying attention knew that. Sorry, but the story of his sorry actions don't back up your assertions, they erode them.

Realists do not automatically come down on the far right just when they do stupid things like get hysterical over a Ports deal or Illegals. Realists just like conservatives like Reagan who understood that politics is not as straightforward as the ideologues pretend and that compromise is a fact of life.

The problem is, for RINOs, compromise is a WAY of life.

It is so easy to beat the conservatives through divide and conquer it is not funny. The Left does it with ease.

Only because liberal Republicans surrender before most battles even get started...and they spend a good portion of the rest of their time beating on conservatives.

192 posted on 03/30/2006 2:08:14 PM PST by EternalVigilance (www.usbordersecurity.org)
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To: EternalVigilance

Of course I am the problem not the phonies who manage to get pissed off with the President on EVERY issue.

Come on admit it you have never been a Republican and don't vote for them.


193 posted on 03/30/2006 2:15:40 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: EternalVigilance

And now the most conservative guy running was a "phony"? There are no such things conservatives in the GOP just 95% RINOS to hear you clowns tell it.

Such wisdom has gotten how many people elected....hmmm...how about NONE.


194 posted on 03/30/2006 2:17:43 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: Almondjoy
Any amnesty, and every bill except HR 4437 is an amnesty, is a win for the leftists.

These marches we have seen are funded by communist front orgs. Their aim is to gain an unbeatable majority on the left. With the last two Presidential elections being split nearly 50/50 it won't be hard to do.

Posted by Jeff Head. Take the link he has posted and see just who has organized it all and what they say they really want. What they say they want is a cover. It is just to recruit the gullible for the marches.

This has been planned for a while. The Dems inserted the poison pill of making illegal entry a felony into HR 4437. That is what the protesters are calling racist. Funny that Hillary suddenly discovered the 'immigration issue' a week before the protests and labeled Republicans evil because "they would make Jesus a criminal."

Here is a poster for tomorrow's march. Notice the orgs behind it in the lower lefthand corner. Latino communist front orgs not unlike MoveOn.org or ANSWER.

Consider that our Congress is currently debating how best to appease these protesters who for the most part are foreign nationals. The people behind it most definitely are. This is without an electoral majority or even an election.

Border Patrol- Increase in illegal immigrants coming And they just can‘t stop it.

The promise of amnesty is already spurring the next big wave of Dem voters. This was organized ahead of time. International communists/socialists are clearly behind this. Where did 500,000 people get ready-made T-shirts, thousands of signs and weeks of advertising on Spanish language radio and TV? It wasn't funded by these kids in the street as the Mexica website claims.

It is not just the GOP that is about to be permanently skewered.

195 posted on 03/30/2006 2:19:11 PM PST by TigersEye (Sedition and treason are getting to be a Beltway fashion.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit
"Bush has not "encouraged" any of this "

Your memory is very short right after Bush was elected in 2000 he started talking about another amnesty and how "family values to not end at the border". Instant huge increase in illegal immigration resulted. Now if that is not encouraging then I don't know what is.

196 posted on 03/30/2006 2:22:31 PM PST by jpsb
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To: jpsb

Tell that to the hundreds of thousands who are returned every year. Oh, btw I doubt any of those statesments you attribute to Bush were ever made except by those wanting to undermine the President and the GOP. And I doubt you ever voted for either.


197 posted on 03/30/2006 2:25:16 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: TigersEye

We have a group here at FR happy to join the RAT-led attacks on the President and the GOP. These are largely those who have consistently attacked the president since his election aided by the gullible.


198 posted on 03/30/2006 2:28:46 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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To: justshutupandtakeit

He was elected by the gullible?


199 posted on 03/30/2006 2:31:11 PM PST by TigersEye (Sedition and treason are getting to be a Beltway fashion.)
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To: TigersEye

NOt at all most of the critics come from the Perpetually Pissed Off who have criticized almost everything he has done and bitched because he hasn't waved his magik wand and implemented far right conservativism.


200 posted on 03/30/2006 2:32:56 PM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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