Posted on 12/20/2009 7:06:15 AM PST by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Luis Gutierrez, a leading congressional advocate for immigrants' rights, has introduced a bill that would allow millions of illegal immigrants to become U.S. citizens and would end a controversial program that enlists local police to enforce immigration laws.
The bill is widely viewed as too liberal to pass.
Obama administration officials have said they are looking instead to a more moderate, bipartisan immigration-reform bill to be introduced in the Senate early next year by Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
Still, the Chicago Democrat made it clear that he and his allies expect a seat at the negotiating table as lawmakers and the White House seek middle ground on the polarizing issue.
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
So, what are we going to do about this one? Oh right, call, email, fax, have a teaparty....because it’s worked so well all year.
“Communism coming hard & fast - we have little time to take back America using ANY MEANS NECESSARY!”
That’s a fact.
Both sides are to be blamed, everybody is in on this.
“Unthinkable perhaps but could Americans ever contemplate a military coup if pushed far enough?”
In a word? Yes.
I’d hate to see things come to that, but the alternative may prove worse.
“3. Illegals would get preference for jobs over citizens because they work for less money.”
They’d get preference simply because they are not Americans, and money will have nothing to do with it. Multiculturalism, political correctness and their god Diversity trump everything. An American-born, white, heterosexual man is officially on the endangered species list, but there are no laws set in place to protect or save him from eventual extinction.
By the time Zer0’s first term is up this country will be full fledged Marxist ruled.
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Tell me how a handful of people in DC can shove this Marxism down the throats of over 300 million people? The answer is they can’t unless the 300 million plus are too lazy and weak to stop them.
Exactly! Waste of time.
The elites have their men and women in every camp.
tell me how a handful of people in DC.........Lazy , Week, (Oh Tiger Woods, Ballon Boy, Octomom, American Idol)
But then, I’ve been saying that since March.
“But what if a military coup was itself hijacked or controlled by the elites? You could end up with Wesley Clark or Colin Powell as your dictator.”
Oh, I doubt very much that if there were a military coup either Wesley Clark or Colin Powell would be anywhere near it.
The acting director of the U.S. Census Bureau, Thomas Mesenbourg, told CNSNews.com that the bureau intends to work with community organizations to make sure every illegal alien in the United States is counted in the 2010 Census.
The Census is used to apportion the seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. There are 435 House seats that are divided among the states in proportion to their population, which is determined by the decennial census. States with more people get more seats in the U.S. House.
This means that a state harboring more illegal aliens can gain more House seats as long as the Census Bureau finds the illegal aliens and counts them. This also means that the illegal alien population resident in the United States during a census year has the potential to alter the regional and philosophical balance of power in Congress.
Please note this line in the following article:
“ We have the power to change the economy of this country.””
RIGHT!!! Turn it into another Mexico, you will. How do these 3rd worlders, who could do nothing for their OWN country think they can improve ours?? They’ll change it, for sure, and not for the better.
Hundreds rally for immigration reform
by David Frey, Aspen Daily News Correspondent
Saturday, December 19, 2009
GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Hundreds of immigration reform advocates gathered with candles and signs at Sayre Park on Friday night chanting “Sí se puede!” or “Yes we can!” as organizers urged them to call legislators and the White House to press for a new bill that would give illegal immigrants a path to legal status.
“This is exactly what this state needs to see,” said Julie Gonzalez, a Denver-based organizer with the Reform Immigration for America Campaign, looking out on a crowd of over 200 people, mostly Latinos, who turned out for the vigil. “[It needs to] see the depth and breadth that exists in this state for immigration reform.”
The vigil marked the International Day of the Migrant, a day recognizing migration around the world. It was one of 10 rallies taking place across Colorado on Friday in support of an immigration reform bill that in addition to providing a path to legal residency seeks to unite families divided by the border.
“It’s time for us to be organized,” said Veronica Felix, a Roaring Fork Valley organizer with Congregations and Schools Empowered, which helped sponsor the Glenwood vigil. “It’s time for us to be united. It’s time for us to have a merry Christmas together.”
Organizers are backing a bill submitted to Congress on Tuesday by Rep. Luis Guiterrez, D-Ill. His bill received 70 co-sponsors, including Colorado Reps. John Salazar, Diana DeGette, Jared Polis and Ed Perlmutter, all Democrats.
“These comprehensive immigration reforms are much-needed to fix our broken immigration system,” DeGette said in a press release. “This bill includes the common-sense solutions that will move our immigration system towards a humane approach that will help build our economy, protect children and families, and provide for effective enforcement.”
The vigil was one of 10 taking place across Colorado on Friday, including five in Ski Country, where organizers say activists are becoming more involved because of the critical role they say immigration plays in the ski industry.
Heather Rousseau/Aspen Daily News
Over 200 people came out Friday night to advocate for immigration reform in Glenwood Springs. The demonstration was part of a larger nationwide effort to draw attention to the issue.
“This is the first time Colorado’s ski towns — immigrants and allies alike — are getting in on the discussion,” said Brendan Greene, a community organizer with the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, which organized the statewide vigils.
In addition to Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Montrose and Grand Junction, vigils took place in the high country at Dillon, Avon, Glenwood Springs, Gunnison and Telluride.
“The ski industry is Colorado’s second-largest sector,” said CIRC spokeswoman Chandra Russo. “It’s a $3 million industry, and we really see immigrants as the backbone of the industry.”
For a Latino community often seen as living in the shadows of the Roaring Fork Valley, participants in the rally were visible and vocal on a cold Friday night, with steam escaping from their lips as they chanted. Many carried religious votives. Some carried signs in Spanish and English with messages like “Please America, open your heart” and “It’s Time.”
On the edge of the park, about a half-dozen protesters carried signs opposing immigration reform. One read, “Deport wetbacks.” Another read “Stop the invasion.”
“If this is going to continue, the white man is going to have to go to Canada,” said a man who identified himself only as Tom and said he lived in Glenwood Springs.
Another man, who identified himself only as Rusty and described himself as an out-of-work welder living in DeBeque, said he believed immigrants were responsible for lowering wages and taking away jobs from citizens. He said he opposed allowing immigrants who broke the law to become legal residents.
“I did my time,” he said. “Why give a criminal a break? If I was brown, I’d get a break.”
Cell phones glowed alongside candles as Gonzalez called on the crowd to dial the White House and urge President Barack Obama to follow through on his campaign pledge supporting immigration reform.
“We have the opportunity to change our lives,” she said. “We have the power to change our communities. We have the power to change the economy of this country.”
Rifle organizer Jorge Flores said immigration reform would have a big impact on area immigrants, many of whom are unable to buy homes because of their status and have families that they can’t visit.
“The candles, the light, is the path we want to create,” he said, “so maybe Washington can see.”
http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/138229
Not a representative republic anymore, time to switch tactics.
Unemployment in his home state is over 12%, he does not care.
It turns out that Guttierez is a red, a Puerto Rican socialist. One book about Puerto Ricans in Chicago identifies him as a member of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party and a supporter of the marxist/Cuban-aligned FALN (Eric Holder’s favorite terrorist group).
Go to www.newzeal.blogspot.com for details. In the Obamafiles, about #93.
Scary.
They will shove it down our throats because they have the government in their hands. because marxists believe they are the keepers of the only truth and because we have abandoned most institutions to their takeovers. Because for 50 years we let them cheat and steal elections and the GOP RINOS did nothing all in the name of keeping peace. Because we are a bunch of saps more interested in what baseball team won what and what actress sleeps with whom. I could go on indefinitely, the reality is that this is a very different country from the one my father fought for or the one I grew up in the last 50 years. A people ignorant of their own history will buy any BS lie they are told...
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