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New push for immigration reform will target 9 House Republicans
Wash Post ^ | 11/7/13 | ED O'KEEFE

Posted on 11/07/2013 7:05:26 AM PST by jimbo123

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A campaign set to be announced Thursday will marry the financial and political power of the AFL-CIO and SEIU labor unions with smaller grass-roots immigrant advocacy groups, including America’s Voice, PICO National Network, Mi Familia Vota and CASA in Action, to target nine House GOP lawmakers who support establishing a way for eligible immigrants to apply for U.S. citizenship.

The campaign will target Reps. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.), David Valadao (R-Calif.), Howard “Buck” McKeon (R-Calif.), Gary Miller (R-Calif.), Scott Tipton (R-Colo.), Mike Coffman (R-Colo.), Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) and Joe Heck (R-Nev.). They represent districts with sizable Latino voting populations where President Obama won or performed well last year. They also have publicly voiced support for revamping the nation’s immigration laws.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty

1 posted on 11/07/2013 7:05:26 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

All in high Hispanic areas, a few from CA.

Even if they get all of the 9 that doesnt get a bill on floor of house unless they join the Dems discharge petition to force one.


2 posted on 11/07/2013 7:09:07 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOP warnings')
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To: jimbo123

SMOKE THEIR PHONE LINES! SMOKE THEIR E-MAIL ACCOUNTS! SHOW UP AT THEIR LOCAL,AND DC,OFFICES!


3 posted on 11/07/2013 7:13:23 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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To: jimbo123

Coffman was running ads sponsored by Zuckerberg following the same message as Rubio.
I wanted to call his office and tell him he was being used as a tool.

Guess he is going to find out the hard way.


4 posted on 11/07/2013 7:13:59 AM PST by Zathras
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To: jimbo123

This is like trying to drive over a train wreck, what a bunch of morons! Instead of trying to save the country from Obamacare, they want to wreak more havoc before the clock runs out.


5 posted on 11/07/2013 7:15:27 AM PST by Kenny (nt)
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To: jimbo123

Stay strong. This bill will not make hispanics vote for you.


6 posted on 11/07/2013 7:18:17 AM PST by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: Kenny
No kidding. We have a real dichotomy here - the only advantage to an increasingly controlling and intrusive government is it should be geared to the interests of the nation.

Our's is increasingly totalitarian but at the same time it is totally inept and working at odds with our interests.

7 posted on 11/07/2013 7:24:35 AM PST by skeeter
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8 posted on 11/07/2013 7:25:26 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: jimbo123

These nine will be among the first to be voted out of office, as the Democrats sign up thousands of newly minted voters in their districts. How stupid can they be?


9 posted on 11/07/2013 7:25:38 AM PST by txrefugee
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FINANCING RECONQUISTA WITH YOUR TAX DOLLARS The Senate immigration “reform” bill includes two "neverending slush funds” amounting to hundreds of millions of tax dollars, earmarked for tax-exempt La Raza organizations.

LA RAZA TEACHING HATE-AMERICA WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS "La Raza Studies" do not even try to sugar-coat its anti-America agenda and its bloodthirsty plans to kill off Americans: Raza Studies textbook “Occupied America,” by Rodolfo Acuña, includes a violent and blood-curdling speech given by university professor Jose Angel Gutierrez: “We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is, if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him,” (pg. 323). The following is taken directly from La Raza's Occupied America: “.......execute all white males over age 16,” (p 167--AKA the Plan of San Diego).

America-hating Raza Studies teach (1) violence, (2) undermining US ntl security, and, (3) the need for Mexico to "re- take seven states in the Southwest...in order to make the SW a Chicano nation."

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Just before the reform procedural vote, Judiciary Committee member Sen Grassley offered a simple amendment to the Judiciary Committee considering voting the immigration bill out of commmittee.

"The secretary (of homeland security) may not grant registered provisional immigrant status to an alien under this section unless the alien fully discloses to the secretary all the names and Social Security account numbers that the alien has ever used to obtain employment in the United States," said Grassley's amendment.

Grassley's amendment would not have prohibited illegal aliens from being converted into legal aliens just because they had used names and Social Security numbers that did not belong to them. It would only have required that the illegal aliens make the names and numbers they used known to DHS before they could be granted the right to legally live in the United States.

Grassley said, "Congress should not thumb its nose at the millions of Americans who are victims of identity theft, often perpetrated by an undocumented person who steals Social Security numbers to get jobs, govt benefits, driver's licenses and more. This amendment will simply require the person applying for RPI status to disclose any previously used Social Security numbers," said Grassley. "It's the first step to helping clean up the mess that's been created for the victim of identity theft. The amendment also authorizes certain federal agencies, upon receipt of this information, to notify individuals who were the victims."

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ON RECORD AS AIDING AND AETTING FELONIES Dismissing Sen Grassley's proposal, ranking Dem member Sen Schumer said: "When people are living in undocumented status, there are times, I suppose, when they've made up identities, made up Social Security numbers. How are they going to remember all that? (The) purpose of this bill is to bring people out of the shadows. We all know when they lived in the shadows, they had to forge documents, forge Social Security numbers, et cetera. I just don't see how, when you've lived here 10 years, and you've had many different identities, many different numbers, you're going to remember them all," said Schumer. The Senate Judiciary committee defeated Grassley's amendment 8 to 10 on a party-line vote.

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The Senate "reform" bill also absolves latinos holding US public office---from prosecution for wrongdoing while in office for stuff like government fraud, graft, bribery, selling their votes for cash....all the usual politician crimes.

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Senator Harry Reid Supports Giving Illegal Aliens Tax Credits for Kids Not Even Living in US .....Townhall.com

U.S. Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, left, wants to end the practice of giving illegal immigrants tax credits for kids, but U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., won’t let the House-approved measure H.R. 556 through the Senate.

"The System is Working Fine" says Senator Harry Reid, even though the Joint Committee on Taxation calculates that enactment of H.R. 556 would save taxpayers $24.4 billion over the next decade.

“The IRS has been doling out the credit to tax filers claiming children who do not even live in the country,” Johnson charged.

Tax preparers agree that the system is broken — and that the IRS must fix it. They say the agency has to stop disbursing ACTC refunds based on Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, which are available to undocumented residents.

Tax preparers told Watchdog they have seen clients from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua claiming Mexican children as dependents.

A 2009 TIGTA audit concluded that the child tax credit “appears to provide an additional incentive for aliens to enter, reside, and work in the U.S. without authorization, which contradicts Federal law and policy to remove such incentives.”

Johnson’s bill would impose a 10-year ban on tax filers who commit fraud and a $500 penalty on tax preparers who knowingly bilk taxpayers through the ACTC program.

Reid sad: “I just think the child tax credit is working just fine, and there’s no need to punish children,” the Democratic leader told the Associated Press in February.

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An anonymous Indiana tax consultant revealed that several returns filed by illegal aliens were successfully claiming ACTC tax refunds of as much as $1000 for as many as a dozen dependents. “Here’s a return right here: we’ve got a $10,300 refund for nine nieces and nephews,” he said. “We’re getting an $11,000 refund on this tax return. There’s seven nieces and nephews,” he added, pointing to another set of documents. “I can bring out stacks and stacks. It’s just so easy it’s ridiculous.”

A single illegal alien living at a southern Indiana home used by four more illegals who didn’t live there. Despite that reality, those workers claimed 20 children as dependents—and the IRS sent them checks totaling $29,608.

(snip) a single address in Atlanta, GA had 23,994 ITIN-related tax refunds sent to it. In another instance, 8,393 ITIN refunds were deposited into a single bank account. http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/58561

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ACTION NOW--CALL YOUR REP---The House repeatedly has passed an IRS bill that could save U.S. taxpayers up to $24.4 billion but Harry Reid’s Democratic Senate will not hear it. The Refundable Child Tax Credit Eligibility Verification Reform Act, or H.R. 556, would require tax filers to provide Social Security numbers to claim child tax credits.

Currently, the IRS allows undocumented residents to collect the $1,000 credits for dependents not even living in the country. Watchdog reported that illegal immigrants received $4.2 billion from the tax agency in just one year.

Though the GOP-controlled House has passed Rep Johnson’s measure three times, Senate Majority Leader Reid, D-Nev., refuses to allow the bill to come up for a vote in his chamber. ////Below is just a scintilla of the massive multi-billion healthcare fraud in existing programs......sap-happy O/Care's got huge pots of money and very little oversight...ready and waiting for fraudsters.

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Medicare paid millions to illegal immigrants, dead patients, probe finds
By Stephen Dinan / The Washington Times

Medicare paid $23 million for dead patients in 2011 and $29 million for drug benefits for illegal immigrants from 2009 to 2011, according to a report Thursday from the Health and Human Services inspector general.

The investigators said Medicare has safeguards to try to stop payments to dead patients, but it still ended up sending out the $23 million anyway.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) — the same agency that is struggling to fix the broken Obamacare website — acknowledged the problems and said it will try to take steps to fix them.

“We agree that in cases where the information indicates an individual is not lawfully present in the United States, that individual should not be permitted to enroll or to remain enrolled in a Part D plan during the period where he or she is not eligible to receive federal benefits,” Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of CMS, said in response to the report about illegal immigrants getting benefits.

The payouts aren’t large — they amount to just a fraction of a percent of what Medicare pays each year in benefits. Still, the investigators said the agency should take steps to crack down.

In one of its reports the inspector general said 4,139 illegal immigrants were able to make 279,056 drug benefit claims.

The investigators said that while CMS has policies to prevent illegal immigrants from getting most Medicare benefits, it didn’t have such a policy for the prescription drug program, which was added under President George W. Bush and expanded by President Obama’s health law.

As for dead patients collecting benefits, the investigators said the problems were often related to missing or incorrect dates of death.

Dead doctors also were paid $25 million over a three-year period.

Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican (a doctor), said the report was worrying because CMS had been warned of the problems five years earlier.“Every individual wrongfully awarded benefits, be it the deceased or undocumented, diverts scarce resources away from those who need it most,” he said.

SOURCE http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/31/medicare-paid-millions-dead-patients-illegals/#ixzz2jK6Gu1dx

10 posted on 11/07/2013 7:33:27 AM PST by Liz
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To: jimbo123

They will be emboldened by the new GOPe war on its base. I am sure in back rooms the GOPe is assuring these guys they will get substantial support against any primary opponents. Just so called conservatives working with the Democrats to rule against the will of the people.


11 posted on 11/07/2013 7:35:49 AM PST by Yogafist
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To: Liz

4,139 illegal immigrants were able to make 279,056 drug benefit claims.


That’s 67 per immigrant. Are they selling these drugs? Is that where the Escalades are coming from?


12 posted on 11/07/2013 7:39:42 AM PST by txhurl ('The DOG ate my homework. That homework, too. ALL my homework. OK?' - POSHITUS)
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To: txhurl

The Medicare/aid fraud is huge-—using multiple identities, they can get huge nos of prescriptions to resell-—they pocket bigtime.


13 posted on 11/07/2013 8:09:35 AM PST by Liz
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PJ Media's Roger Simon wrote that he believes Obama’s core belief — is an American form of "left-wing taqiyya" — the Muslim dictate that permits lying to non-believers to enhance their own self-preservation.

No doubt "taquiya" instructs Obama's cool predeliction for lying. Bible-believing Christian Americans are nothing more than stepping stones for his outsized ambitions.

But Obama's debased ability to lie without batting an eyelash is an aged, poisonous home-brew spilling over into our increasingly shock-proof culture:

<><> it is a trait of practiced con artists----criminals who make a living by scamming people out of their life savings.

<><> the lying syndrome is rife among Third World invaders---who routinely steal SS nos, ride the US gravy train using multiple identities, and falsify US govt documents w/ not a shred of compunction.

<><> Planned Parenthood's duplicitous "Family Life" curricula dismisses Biblical concepts of right and wrong as old-fashioned.....lying is considered acceptable, especially to parents

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Obama and those who launched him into the presidency are of the same breed---products of corrupt Chicago criminal politics (attaining political office is considered an "investment".....the "return on investment" starts bigtime once in office).

Candidate Obama's PR person, Anita "Mao" Dunn, said the O Team allowed the media (and voters) to know only what "they" wanted them to know about the candidate.

Obama is, to this day, an unknown quantity---a closed book.

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(IT IS INSTRUCTIVE TO NOTE---Taqiyya is largely the belief of the Shiite Muslim sect----Obama plans to negotiate with Shiite Iran, masters of the lie.)

14 posted on 11/07/2013 8:14:44 AM PST by Liz
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To: jimbo123

Because unemployed Americans need 10 million more competitors for the few available jobs.


15 posted on 11/07/2013 8:21:05 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: jimbo123

AFL-CIO and SEIU labor unions need dues asap they will do anything for a buck.


16 posted on 11/07/2013 9:47:48 AM PST by Vaduz
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