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Senate Democrats Block Ted Cruz Bill Revoking U.S. Citizenship of Terrorists
Breitbart ^ | 18 Sep 2014 | Matthew Boyle

Posted on 09/27/2014 5:36:40 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Thursday ripped U.S. Senate Democrats for blocking his bill that would revoke the U.S. citizenship of those who join the ISIS terrorist organization, noting that they are abandoning something Hillary Clinton supported when she was Secretary of State.

The Democrats blocked Cruz’s bill on Thursday, a bill that would revoke citizenship from Americans who join ISIS. Cruz’s bill is very similar to one that then Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA)—who is now running in New Hampshire against Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)—and then Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) offered a couple of years ago.

“As then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said concerning the Brown-Lieberman legislation — quote — ‘United States citizenship is a privilege, it is not a right. People who are serving foreign powers or in this case foreign terrorists are clearly in violation of that oath which they swore when they became citizens.’

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Cruz had made an effort to seek unanimous consent to have his bill considered, and Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii objected on behalf of the Senate Democrats on the Senate floor. Cruz said then:

It seems only prudent to address this threat, and I am therefore going to be asking for unanimous consent for the Expatriate Terrorist Act or ETA of 2014, which will make fighting for ISIS, taking up arms against the United States, an affirmative renunciation of American citizenship—and I should note here that the ETA is very similar to the bipartisan legislation proposed by Senators Joe Lieberman and Scott Brown in 2010 to address Americans who were joining al Qaida overseas, notably the radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki, or here at home, like Faisal Shahzad, who attempted to blow up a car bomb in Times Square.

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1 posted on 09/27/2014 5:36:40 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; RitaOK; MountainDad; ...
Ted Cruz Ping!

If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.

Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!
2 posted on 09/27/2014 5:37:42 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

The Democratic Party backs Muslim jihad killers. Why would anyone vote for those who back the beheaders?


3 posted on 09/27/2014 5:40:05 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee

> The Democratic Party backs Muslim jihad killers. Why would anyone vote for those who back the beheaders?

Because the beheaders control the WH now


4 posted on 09/27/2014 5:41:26 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: SoConPubbie

Ted Cruz bump for later...


5 posted on 09/27/2014 5:45:55 AM PDT by indthkr
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Rep. Jason Chaffetz told Megyn Kelly there were four terrorists arrested crossing the US border in Texas on September 10. “There were actually four individuals trying to cross through the Texas border, who were apprehended at two different stations, that do have ties to known terrorist organizations in the Middle East.” (Excerpt) Read more at shtfplan.com ...

At a hearing on the subject, Cong Jason Chaffetz questioned Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson WRT whether he is “aware of any apprehensions of suspected or known terrorists.” Johnson dodged the question.

Oops, Secy Jeh Johnson "forgot" to mention this (cackle).

Obama admin unilaterally changes law to allow immigrants
with 'limited' terror contact into US
The Daily Caller
| 2/5/14 / FR Posted by Nachum

The Obama administration has issued new exemptions to a law that bars certain asylum-seekers and refugees who provided “limited material support” to terrorists who are believed to pose no threat from the U.S.

The Department of Homeland Security and the State Department published the new exemptions Wednesday in the Federal Register to narrow a ban in the Immigration and Nationality Act excluding refugees and asylum seekers who had provided limited material support, no matter how minor, to terrorists.

“These exemptions cover five kinds of limited material support that have adversely and unfairly affected refugees and asylum seekers with no tangible connection to terrorism: material support that was insignificant in amount or provided incidentally in the course of everyday social, commercial, family or humanitarian interactions, or under significant pressure,” a DHS official explained to The Daily Caller.

Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry signed the exemptions. DHS contends that the law change is “commonsense” and that immigration procedures will remain the same in other respects. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...

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TALKING POINTS---Back in October 2011 one of the most astute lawmen in Washington ---- Congressman Louis Gohmert (Repub-TX), a former judge -----questioned then-DHS Secy Janet Napolitano about Mohamed Elibiary, a member of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with a high level security clearance who allegedly accessed, illegally from his home computer, a Texas State and Local Intelligence Community database.....(Elibiary is now out--ousted for shady activities).

Napolitano managed to unglue her lips from Obama's behind---and told Cong Gohmert she knew nothing about it, and that she would "personally" do the investigation. (waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)

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Among the 5 MILLION Obama gave top security clearance to:

Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development;

Mohammed Elibiary, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council;

Rashad Hussain, the U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference;

Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC);

Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA);

Eboo Patel, a member of President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.

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Estimates range from several thousand to approximately eight million Islamic fighters inside the United States as we type. The exact number is unknown. Several thousand could create havoc if a coordinated attack was to occur. Eight Million .... anybody’s guess. Just 19 Islamic fighters killed almost three thousand people on 911. One has to believe the worst case scenario----that nearly eight million are already here.

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Cong Michelle Bachman says the FBI told her Americans who joined ISIS are allowed back in the US.

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REFERENCE: Muslim Brotherhood is Advising Obama Not to Stop ISIS (SOURCE Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert posted on FR by Rusty)

(Video) - http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/foreign-policy/war-terror/rep-louie-gohmert-claims-muslim- brotherhood-advising-obama-not#sthash.VpgL9ODz.dpuf

6 posted on 09/27/2014 5:47:20 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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Obama's half-brother Malik, in Muslim dress, holds up photo of Obama
in Muslim dress, taken on a trip to Kenya when Ohaha was about 23-24 y/o.

7 posted on 09/27/2014 5:50:02 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: txrefugee
Analyzing this event, I conclude there is no patriotic reason to block the bill except to lift up the fact of citizenship as some sort of special possession, which de-facto relegates citizenship to a less meaningful position.

Thus; by blocking any effort to strip citizenship from a traitor, the democrats lower the status of American citizenship.


It's kind'a like my coming on here and bragging I just became a citizen of Nauru

8 posted on 09/27/2014 5:54:08 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: SoConPubbie

It’s been 25 years since we last had a real president. It’s time for another.


9 posted on 09/27/2014 6:00:23 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: SoConPubbie

This should be the Pubbies’ campaign theme for the week.


10 posted on 09/27/2014 6:00:50 AM PDT by Din Maker (I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that's kept me from going insane.)
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To: knarf

TED Cruz will take the job that establishment republicrats will not do...

Go Get them TED Cruz..that is why we elected you from Texas.

TED Cruz was selected and elected against all the establishment (elected) Republicrats in Texas and

against former Gov. Huckelberry on Fox News... .period.


11 posted on 09/27/2014 6:07:26 AM PDT by DavidLSpud ("Go and sin no more"-Rejoice always, pray continually...)
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To: SoConPubbie

Harry Reid. Spit.


12 posted on 09/27/2014 6:13:35 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: DavidLSpud

DIMocRATs really love their friends, the terrorists, don’t they?


13 posted on 09/27/2014 6:13:50 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: SoConPubbie
A ready-made National Security ad for the RNC right before the midterms.

What a gift!

...most likely put away like so many unappreciated gifts.

14 posted on 09/27/2014 6:15:48 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: SoConPubbie
A ready-made National Security ad for the RNC right before the midterms.

What a gift!

...most likely put away like so many unappreciated gifts.

15 posted on 09/27/2014 6:16:03 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: txrefugee

Its seems as simple as the soldier said: “They shoot at me I shoot at them”. Time to load up and protect ourselves, families and Country. They are here to destroy all of the above and as such theymuch be addressed first.


16 posted on 09/27/2014 6:26:25 AM PDT by mcshot (Kenya now says 0 or Soebarkah born in U.S..)
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To: SoConPubbie

Senate Demonicrats, like all Demonicrats, are traitors. Such traitorous actions are no surprise from such traitors.


17 posted on 09/27/2014 6:34:59 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: txrefugee

The Dems are probably FLOCKING to Oklahoma right now to make sure the home-grown Jihadi that beheaded that poor woman is registered to vote.


18 posted on 09/27/2014 6:56:19 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: SoConPubbie
The Democrat Party supports terrorism.
19 posted on 09/27/2014 7:03:31 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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Despicable. Did our NY senators vote against this? They must be pretty sure they won’t be anywhere near the next terrorist attack if so.


20 posted on 09/27/2014 7:05:13 AM PDT by firebrand
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