The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
Posted on 08/11/2014 4:40:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
As Congress enters a long August recess, Republicans have shown not only that they won't address pressing issues — immigration reform or even less-controversial funding to help fight West Coast wildfires — but also that they are incapable of fulfilling their constitutional mandate to legislate.
Republicans blocked immigration reform: that much is obvious to voters, particularly Latino voters, like those in my own family. Voters also know, however, that President Obama is actually responsible for a record 2 million deportations, even though Democrats are running a pro-immigrant platform.
For Democrats, there is good news and bad news (and good news for independents): According to a recent Latino Decisions poll, if the president does nothing on immigration, 54 percent of Latino voters would be less likely to vote for Democrats, and 57 percent would be less motivated about going to the polls.
On the other hand, if the president takes bold action, more than 60 percent of voters would be more enthusiastic to support Democrats. Even more relevant, the poll noted failure to sign an executive order on immigration would "significantly depress turnout" among Latinos in 2014 and beyond.
The opportunity to pick a high-profile policy fight to motivate the Latino, Asian and independent vote around a human rights and immigration theme is clearly there for Democrats; will they take this up, or let yet another golden opportunity slip by?
In addition to an executive order being the right thing to do, the same poll found that it would be generally well received, much like the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that provided deportation relief to Dreamers — undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children.
DACA gave Democrats a huge bump among Latino and Asian voters in time for 2012, allowing Democrats to keep the Senate and sending Obama to a second term. Indeed, DACA prompted many in my family to vote for the first time.
For Latino voters, the issue of immigration is personal: Of those who know undocumented immigrants, 91 percent say these are their friends and family members. Nearly one-third of all Latino voters personally know someone who has been detained or deported for immigration reasons, and 97 percent of those deported are Latino.
Such polling is a sign that Democrats must urge bold action from the president on immigration, including expanding deportation relief to other identifiable groups who are low priority with no violent criminal records; refining prosecutorial discretion, ensuring parents who return to be with their families are not deported; updating Department of Defense policy to allow Dreamers to serve in the military; and properly reforming the Secure Communities program so that local police will focus their attention on fighting crime.
No electoral campaign can get as close to such voters as their undocumented spouse, sister or friend can. Campaign commercials or mailings attempt to inform voters, but undocumented family members can provide more direct and decisive information on a policy and politics: While undocumented immigrants do not have a vote, they do have a voice.
Right now, Obama has the potential to energize the Latino base in time for an off-year election, solidify a pro-family Democrat narrative in the Latino and Asian communities and give Republicans a difficult target to fight against politically.
There will doubtlessly be screams of tyranny from fight-right figures like Laura Ingraham or Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has become de facto Speaker of the House. At this point, however, it's difficult for the House GOP to even rationalize why they're against immigration reform, and it will be even more difficult for them to fight against modest attempts at executive reform by the Obama administration while they do nothing.
Keeping families together should be enough incentive to call for immediate presidential action on immigration. Nevertheless, the electoral equation is simple: Executive action will energize voters, particularly Latino voters, to turn out; no executive action will paint national Democrats as ineffective at leading in the face of obstruction.
They can keep all their families together in Mexico, can't they?
Isn't it fascinating that the one, the only place on Earth where Spanish speaking families can be "reunited" is in the United States?
Rather amazing. Something only a Democrat could understand.
Typical liberal bulls#!t article!!!
A goodly part of those “deportations” were simply “catch and release” who kept on coming back into the US a repeated number of times. Same guys, over and over, who made their delivery (of drugs, or human traffic, or various concealed weaponry, or whatever), and got sent back at US government expense to make ANOTHER run.
Nobody was ever sent back to STAY. Clearly, there is no penalty for repeat offenders.
That’s right!
I fail to see how ObOzO’s EO would get out the Latino vote, since they will have already gotten what the Bolshies think they want.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
Maybe they can't handle the heat they have been getting from their own supporters on other websites which still allow comments.
Even one of my favorite web-comics ran a very liberal comic on the Dreamers and he was inundated by his own supporters with comments on how irresponsible he was. Maybe the world is changing slightly.
(I know, but I can dream)
Article is written as if no one else votes.
And in Maine, Republican Gov. Paul LePage is bashing his Democratic challenger for supporting government welfare for illegal immigrants.
The current immigration crisis is reaching parts of the campaign trail closer to the Canadian border than Mexico's. Republicans cite the arrival of tens of thousands of unaccompanied Central American children in recent months to argue that Democrats are supporting bad immigration policy. A recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found 64% disapprove of the U.S. response to the border crossings.
Democrats, fighting back, say the GOP is playing politics with a humanitarian crisis and seeking to drive up voter turnout in November. Maine's Mr. LePage "has chosen to focus on an extremely divisive issue in an election year to rally his conservative base," said Lizzy Reinholt, a spokeswoman for the governor's Democratic challenger, U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud........................................."
“As Congress enters a long August recess, Republicans have shown not only that they won’t address pressing issues — immigration reform or even less-controversial funding to help fight West Coast wildfires — but also that they are incapable of fulfilling their constitutional mandate to legislate.”
I thought the House passed “Immigration Reform” just prior to going on recess? It is the Senate that’s having the problem.
How many bills passed by the House is Harry Reid holding? About 300 maybe.
Isn't it fascinating that the only place on Earth where Spanish-speaking families can be "reunited" is in the United States? Rather amazing. Something only a Democrat could understand.
Dam, wish we could get that on a tee shirt.
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Meeting up w/ families on the Spanish version of the Atcheson, Topeka and the Santa Fe.
No running water and flush toilets on those freight trains.
This am, 8/11, a WSJ radio news report featured some reporter with an english accent doing an analysis report on “trends” going on with teen agers. He then went on to cite “polling” results from various agenda driven sources and assumptions made on directions to take from them for the listener to use in dealing with their progenity.
Skewed assumptions do lead to skewed results.
Obama's eager lips are pressed firmly on the Turd World's unwashed behind. Money is changing hands sub rosa....foreign aid, extortion, kickbacks, money-laundering are in the mix.
Obama's engaged in wholesale collusion and conspiring w/ the Turd World to facilitate the overthrow of the US govt:
<><>sending them our tax dollars and resources to help violate our borders,
<><>chartering buses and planes to dump them on unsuspecting towns,
<><> secret WH meetings to get more new Democrat voters across the border,
<><> registering the multiple identities w/ the DNC,
<><> giving barbarians free rides on the US gravy train (in exchange for votes).
And remember, the hordes were supposed to be growing---that another 130,000 was set to arrive. That the Central American hellholes were emptying out their villages (for a price).
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TALKING POINTS----IT'S ONLY THE BEGINNING--- Cong Gutierrez (Dim-Ill) predicted" millions" (of barbarian hordes would be overrunning the US). Guttierez is a leading advocate of the Senate amnesty giveaway:
“The next day after we pass (amnesty), you know we’re not going to be satisfied, we’re going to come back,” he said. “We’re going to have a civil rights act, we’re going to have a voting rights act… Nobody is leaving this fight once we conclude this first chapter,” he said. "Hopefully, in 30 years, [we] can bring immigrants… from all over the world,” Gutierrez said.
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Chalk this up as another shady act of collusion and conspiracy perpetrated by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, La Raza, and other violent groups, to increase their political clout, conspiracies to jet-stream US foreign aid to their Third World masters. US tax dollars are then laundered, then funnelled back as campaign donations to amnesty-worshipping Obama and Dems campaign coffers.
The close-mouthed Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been much too secretive about its role in financing, and, using Congressional earmarks to finance the blood-thirsty America-hating La Raza.
Dummycrats are signing 'em up like crazy---registering parasites, welfare breeders, terrorists, mass murderers, drug lords, drug dealers, mental defectives, diseased hordes....all strolling into the US using falsified documents, and stolen SS nos. Is he a member of La Raza, or other America-hating organizations planning armed incursions, that are set to receive millions in federal tax dollars via the amnesty bill slush fund? Membership would be grounds for disqualification....or even legal action
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Gutierrez's aye vote for amnesty is summarily disqualified. As an elected official, Gutierrez has an inherent conflict of interest in the amnesty provision which protects elected latinos from wrongdoing.
A PROTECTION RACKET EMBEDDED IN US LAW the Senate amnesty bill actually protects corrupt Latino Public Officials from US laws and from prosecution.......only latino pols.
Vote-crazed Dems allow amnesty to absolve elected/appointed latinos holding US public office from prosecution for wrongdoing---for crimes like government fraud, graft, bribery, selling votes for cash....(the usual politician crimes).
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There really is a Ntl Assoc of Latino Elected and Appt Officials organized for govt fraud.
NANCY SUCKS UP at Ntl Assoc of Latino Elected and Appt Officials Gala in DC
L-R--Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ);
Dr Salomon Melgen (under scrutiny for corrupt deals w/ Sen Menendez);
Rep Nancy Pelosi (Dimwit-CAL); Francisco /
J. Sanchez, US Under Secy of Commerce for Intl Trade,
Emilio Sanchez, Pres/CEO of VOXXI.
That’s amazing considering it’s The Hill.
But then the modern Democratic party love affair with mass non-white immigration has always struck me as insane for a party claiming to represent the economic interests of the “Little Guy”.
Looks like a lot of them get that now.
Good idea. Keep them together in the country of origin of the parents. If executive action is taken it will also mobilize a sub group of Latinos to vote against the Democrats. Most Latinos that have come to our nation legally are against amnesty. My wife is from Mexico and did everything the legal way. She is very opposed to amnesty.
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