Stunning facts about the proposed immigration bill

NRO ^ | 4-6-06 | Mark Levin

[JustPiper]

SENATOR SESSIONS ON SECURING AMERICA'S BORDERS ACT Mr. President, I thank Senator Leahy, ranking member on the Judiciary Committee. I have received just this afternoon in my office some disturbing news in the form of correspondence from the Congressional Budget Office. It suggests a number of areas where the amendment we are talking about here today, No. 3424, the immigration so-called compromise, violates our budget and the rules of the Senate. Let me read from the correspondence we have received. This is something, as you know, Mr. President, as a member of the Judiciary Committee, that we never discussed at all. It is not a matter we spent any time at all discussing as we moved forward with legislation which ultimately cleared that committee and came to the floor — legislation which I thought was not good legislation and which I opposed, and so did the Senator from Texas, who just relinquished the Chair. We didn't discuss the financial impact of the legislation before us. Stand Up For America !

"We have room for but one flag, the American flag...
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...
And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

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[potlatch]

Don't know about that. This past week hackers in India, Egypt or somewhere over there caused a lot of sites to go down here!

It was the day before or the day that Free Republic had a time out in the evening.

[Smartass]

Well, we keep allowing foreign exchange students in our universities to study everything including nuclear fission. So, no wonder Iran has a bomb in the making, and India or Pakistan have hackers. Isn't globalization great or what.

[potlatch]

Is it safe for me to reply here, or will I undo the seriousness of the topic, lol.

[MamaDearest]

Regarding the illegal with the hand-painted "Land of the Free?" sign - we'd certainly like a land free of illegals!

[MamaDearest]

Gallo wines is closing tomorrow in support of the protests - for inclusion on the permanent "do not buy" list.

[MamaDearest]

The United States has an established policy of opposing restrictive trade practices or boycotts fostered or imposed by foreign countries against other countries friendly to the United States. This policy is implemented through the antiboycott provisions of the Export Administration Act enforced by the Department of Commerce and through the Tax Reform Act of 1977 enforced by the Department of the Treasury.

Just another unenforced law/policy that our government refuses to implement.

[antceecee]

LOL!!!!

[MamaDearest]

**** It's the truth though! They can't tell us who's sneaking in under the wire.****

True. MS-13, drug cartel members, coyotes, illegals with communicable diseases, sexual predators and many with criminal records.....aptly covered under the "blanket" of "good people just looking for work...(potential "unwelcome guest" workers)"

[tertiary01]

Bank of America makes Free money transfers to Mexico, no mention of this deal to any other country on the sign posted on their door.

[Smartass]

You're absolutely right. Nevertheless, they all should be screened for criminal background and disease before setting foot in the USA. Why this is being allowed just doesn't make sense.

[TheLion]

KS Employers close so workers can join Immigration protests
The Dodge City Globe ^

Posted on 04/30/2006 11:24:47 PM EDT by Will_Zurmacht

Web-posted Apr. 29, 12:40: PM Rally to advocate positive immigration reform By Pablo Candia Dodge City Daily Globe

Dodge City’s Latino community will participate in a two-day event Sunday and Monday to advocate positive immigration reform and defend immigrant worker rights.

The first part of the event has been named "A Day of Unity" and will run from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Sunday, and "A Day of Action” will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday. The Regional Latino Affairs Council of Southwest Kansas will promote these activities in Wright Park.

Organizers said they want to have a positive movement without attitudes that might be interpreted as confrontational.

"Sunday, April 30, will provide an opportunity for us to unite without having to worry about how it will affect our jobs, our paychecks, or our children’s education,” said a press release from the council. “We want to show our actions are aimed at legislators and not our people, community, businesses, school system or local economy.”

On Sunday, participants in the Wright Park event will receive updated information on the immigration reform bill that is being debated in the U.S. Senate. Also they will receive educational information on how the process to get citizenship works and how to participate more in the community.

A history of immigrants and three testimonials from Latinos in the process of legalization will also be offered. Two musical groups, "Decision" and "Diferencia," will contribute to celebrate the event.

Monday’s “Day of Action” is intended to encourage Latino immigrants to become more involved with the community by doing volunteer work.

Organizers said they are encouraging Latinos to go to work and send their children to school on Monday under the slogan "Positive action for positive change." They said Monday’s activities will be mostly for those Latino workers who have permission of their employers to take Monday off. Cargill Meat Solutions and National Beef will both close for Monday’s rally.

The activity will start with a tree dedication in Wright Park to symbolize that Latino immigrants also have their roots in southwest Kansas. Afterwards, the participants will be organized into groups to do volunteer work at parks, hospital, nursing homes and help the elderly, schools and the local Mexican American Ministries office. Organizers are encouraging Latino immigrants to wear white shirts during the events and carry American flags to show peace and unity, and to let others know they are also part of America.

The two-day activities, organizers said, are not exclusively for Latino immigrants, and the whole community is invited. Participants are encouraged to take lunches with them for Monday’s activity.

According to the organizers, CBS Evening News staff phoned them to indicate an interest in coming to Dodge City to cover the events.
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Debra J Saunders: The Great American turnoff (California)
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 04/30/2006 | Debra J Saunders

Posted on 04/30/2006 12:09:32 PM EDT by calcowgirl

I AM ONE American who will be moved in the direction not intended by sponsors of the May 1 National Day Without Immigrants Great American Boycott demonstrations.

(snip)

When I read, no escuela, (no school) on MAPA flyers, and that the Los Angeles Times reported that in Southern California some 40,000 students may have skipped school to join in past protests, I think of the 18 percent of Latino high-school seniors who have not yet passed the state exit exam.

When I read no trabajo (no work), I see activists who are ready to stick it to their most potent lobby, American employers, which makes them ingrates.

Then, when MAPA President Nativo Lopez calls for "no employer sanctions, and no guest-worker programs," that tells me he wants no laws whatsoever governing who can come to and work in America.

When the California Senate passes a resolution in favor of the May 1 boycott, and doesn't even bother to tell children to go to school, I am grateful for term limits and yearn for reapportionment.

When Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante and L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa go public to bemoan stupid racist threats and letters they have received, I know I can match them epithet for epithet, except I wouldn't give the nut jobs who send such missives the satisfaction.

When organizers in Mexico call for a "Nothing Gringo" boycott of American goods on May 1, I know that racism visits all sides of this debate.

The bottom line is that while these demonstrations, I am told, are supposed to make me feel better about illegal immigrants, I feel angry when I see thousands of people who knowingly break American law, yet somehow feel entitled to do so and outraged that they have not been sufficiently rewarded for it.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
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Immigrating legally not without troubles
WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL ^ | 04-30-2006 | Susan Lampert Smith

Posted on 04/30/2006 8:29:33 PM EDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

Asmeret Yosef will still be with her two young children when Mother's Day rolls around.

Until Friday, Yosef, 33, thought she would be deported to Eritrea on May 4. But a call from Sen. Herb Kohl's office assured her that she won't be immediately deported following Thursday's hearing.

"Now I can breathe," the 33-year-old Madison woman said. "It's a reprieve."

But Yosef is not in the clear.

She still could be separated from her husband, Eyobed Zerzghi, and their two girls, both American citizens born here in Madison. Eyovila is a pig-tailed darling who turns 3 in July and Hanna, who had her first birthday last month, claps her chubby hands in glee each time she toddles a few steps.

Things were looking bright for the family when one of our reporters interviewed them at the Dane County Kids Expo in March after Hanna crawled to a victory in the "diaper derby."

Zerzghi, a U.S. citizen who is also from Eritrea, in war-torn northeastern Africa, works at Brownberry Ovens, and Asmeret cares for children in her home. The couple had bought a home in the Grandview neighborhood on Madison's far East Side.

On April 13, when Yosef was summoned to the Milwaukee office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service, she thought her long-sought "green card" had finally arrived. She said she was told to bring her marriage certificate, proof of home ownership and other papers.

"I went with a good heart, I think I'm getting my green card," she said.

Instead, she was separated from her family.

"Two men with badges came in and told me I was under arrest," Yosef said, her eyes welling with tears.

She said she spent several hours in a cell-like room and was released only after signing a document saying she would report to Chicago May 4 with 19 pounds of luggage to be deported.

"I was crying, my kids were crying," she said.

Yosef's new attorney is still trying to unravel what happened.

She entered the country legally in 2000, when she arrived from Bahrain, where she worked for the U.S. Navy for six years. She hired a lawyer and applied for political asylum.

Yosef said she told her lawyer that she was moving to Wisconsin to get married, and said he advised her to apply for citizenship here, after she was married. When her political asylum request was denied, she signed a "voluntary departure" form, which her original lawyer told her wouldn't be enforced once she was married.

She and Zerzghi married in Madison in September 2002, and filled out more citizenship paperwork using the same alien identification number, the same photo and wrote that she had previously filed for political asylum. She didn't find out until she was arrested on April 13 of this year that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service considered her a fugitive.

"I asked them, When did I escape? I've been here in your files since 2002," Yosef said. "I thought America had high technology. You expect this kind of thing in Africa, not in the U.S."

Her pastor, the Rev. Rob Carlson of New Life Lutheran Church, called the situation "an injustice."

"She tried to do everything right," he said. "It seems there is no mercy in the system."

Tim Counts, an ICE spokesman in the Twin Cities, said he didn't know the details of Yosef's case, but said the "voluntary deportation" order signed by an immigration judge indicates she must have had her day in court.

He said that if the agency couldn't find Yosef, it is her own fault.

"It is incumbent on every citizen that the court is able to reach them," he said.

Amanda Gennerman, a Madison immigration attorney who is trying to win more time for Yosef to straighten out the matter, said she sees this kind of mixup often.

"The system is broken," she said, adding that recent crackdowns have made it even more difficult for people like Yosef to win a chance for rehearing. "It's an awful situation to put anyone in."

Gennerman is hoping to pack the courtroom on Thursday with Yosef's supporters, including those from her church. Both U.S. senators from Wisconsin, Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl, have written letters on her behalf. Yosef, who is still breastfeeding baby Hanna, said she was told she can't take her children with her if she is deported.

While I'm full of outrage that a government paperwork error could separate mother and children, Gennerman said she sees this kind of thing often.

"It's a cruel system," she said.

Next time you complain about illegal immigrants, remember what happened to this immigrant who came here legally, and thought she was doing everything right.
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[dixiechick2000]

Awwww...that was sweet, wardaddy.
Thank you so much.

YOU are a true blessing to this forum.

God bless you!

The ladies you pinged are very smart, enlightened patriots.
I wish God's blessings for them, too.

[thecabal]

Just wanted to give a heads-up to those keeping score. I found out that Kettle Chips here in Salem is closing down for the commie holiday to let their (apparently mostly illegal) workforce attend the large march at the Capitol. No more Kettle Chips for me...

[ExSoldier]

I just took the RNC "survey" then couldn't find it again here on FR to post my comments so I'll put them here.

The single issue in which the President will cause us to lose control of Congress and possibly the White House is BORDER CONTROL! Why are we the sole nation on the planet for whom control of the borders is a matter for law enforcement instead of the MILITARY?

We should build not a fence, but a BERLIN style WALL complete with sensors and dogs and patrols.

Don't hand me the weak rhetoric of the Democrats who (typically) whine and wring their hands that if you build a 50 foot wall somebody will find a 51 foot ladder! This is simply a lie.

When the Berlin was was operating correctly and even ONE person made it out of that area, it was international news! The Berlin Wall...worked! True, it stood for the evils of communism and for THAT reason it came down, eventually.

But in defense of this country from armed Mexican soldiers intruding on our soil over 200 times in ten years, this is a reasonable response to INVASION.

You want a stop-gap until a zone can be established? Give all the landowners along the border a military radio and teach them to use it correctly. When they spot smugglers of any sort or the Mexican military they make a radio report. Nothing else. The response SHOULD be a patrol of Bradley's (from Europe...NATO no longer needs us) and an Apache helocopter loaded fer bear.

To quote a bit from a good movie and alter that meaning: IF YOU BUILD IT...THEY WILL NOT COME!

At this point, even though I've been a loyal and active Republican for 31 years, I'm ready to support any candidate (ANY) that will secure the borders and to hell with the "feelings" of Mexican nationals and their communist government! The next time a Mexican patrol crosses onto our soil it should be taken under fire!

I am 100% against the Guest Worker and Amnesty programs, as well. I warn you, the sleeping giant is awakening. The Dems and the media called it RED STATES FLYOVER COUNTRY. Right now, it's beginning to growl. Soon, it will bite.

[JustPiper]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1624205/posts?page=26#26

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1624205/posts?page=27#27


I have yet to find a live thread, anyone?

[JustPiper]

OK I started one!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1624633/posts

[JustPiper]

The link you followed was invalid. We don't have enough information to complete your request.

It was pulled

[JustPiper]

OK after two attempts of starting a thread, this thread has now been designated as today's live thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1624433/posts?page=148#148

[nicmarlo]

bumping post 2615

[La Enchiladita]

Sorry your live thread was pulled. I guess the other one was already up? Well, I've got to get out and shop and enjoy A Day Without Illegals.

Hugs!